Adding context (what a concept!) to economic picture
I keeps trying to tell y’all, but do you listen? No.
So maybe you’ll listen to those Marxists at the Wall Street Journal:
“Since the job market bottomed out in February 2010, the U.S. has added 3.7 million jobs, an average of about 134,000 per month. Despite Friday’s disappointing jobs figures, the pace of growth has generally been accelerating: U.S. employers have added an average of 197,000 jobs per month over the past six months, up from 106,000 in the prior six months. That performance looks paltry against rebounds in the 1970s and 1980s, but it compares favorably to the “jobless recovery” that followed the 2001 recession and the double-dip recession of the early 1980s.
The problem is that the employment hole is much deeper this time around. The U.S. lost nearly 8.8 million jobs from 2008 to 2010, more than in the previous four recessions combined.”
As the WSJ also notes, without the massive cuts in government jobs that have accompanied this deep recession, the unemployment rate would be down to 7.1 percent.
– Jay Bookman
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Janney
May 10th, 2012
7:52 am
Wonder what Thulsa Doom will say
stands for decibels
May 10th, 2012
7:53 am
without the massive cuts in government jobs that have accompanied this deep recession, the unemployment rate would be down to 7.1 percent.
In other words, if those a##holes hadn’t won in 2010. You can’t say that, Jay, but I can.
massachusetts refugee thug
May 10th, 2012
7:53 am
facts. it’s what’s for breakfast.
Hourglass
May 10th, 2012
7:55 am
Time for the spin from the Repubs!
Mick
May 10th, 2012
7:56 am
Jay, don’t you know that it’s all cyclical? The jobs would have come back anyways, it just part and parcel of our great capitalist system, cue in the austerity of the iced tea party…
stands for decibels
May 10th, 2012
7:57 am
Having read the second linked WSJ piece, entitled “Unemployment Rate Without Government Cuts: 7.1%”, wherein the Murdoch employee states:
The unemployment rate would be far lower if it hadn’t been for those cuts: If there were as many people working in government as there were in December 2008, the unemployment rate in April would have been 7.1%, not 8.1%.
…I have concluded that this creature they call “austerity” can go blow my neighbor’s dog.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug
May 10th, 2012
7:57 am
ohnoes!!! not the liberal leftist commie pinko rag, the Wall Street Journal!!!
Mad Max
May 10th, 2012
7:57 am
Note that the massive cuts in government came at the state and local level where we actually receive services because those governments, unlike big brother, have to live within their means.
carlosgvv
May 10th, 2012
8:01 am
From the day Obama was elected, the number one priority of the Republican Party has been removing him from office. Now that the election is only months away, count on them to bend and spin any analysis of the recession to make it all Obama’s fault.
It seems to me it will be many years, if ever, before the economy gets back to pre-recession status. This Wall Street article suggests that Romney as president and a large Tea Party majority in the House and Senate will be the worst possible thing for any recovery.
Mick
May 10th, 2012
8:03 am
carlosgvv
I believe you are absolutely correct sir!
Jm
May 10th, 2012
8:04 am
Good job Republicans
Recon 0311 2533
May 10th, 2012
8:04 am
Paint it anyway you want but the fact remains that the private sector isn’t adding a sufficient number of jobs and the money Obama has spent hasn’t achieved the results that he predicted. GDP growth is anemic and could fall to around 1% by the Summer. This administration hasn’t produced economic solutions only onerous regulations and that’s an indisputable fact that Obama can’t run from, although he’s trying his best to do so.
Mad Max
May 10th, 2012
8:04 am
Carlos – get off crying about how the republicans want to defeat Obama mantra please. Do you really think that is such a unique position? The opposition has always wanted to defeat the encumbant. That’s as old as civilization.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
May 10th, 2012
8:05 am
“In other words, if those a##holes hadn’t won in 2010″
Stands……
I can say it too
Mad Max
May 10th, 2012
8:06 am
Jay, what would the unemployment rate be if we added back in all those federal workers who have been laid off because of the cutbacks in federal spending?
Adam
May 10th, 2012
8:08 am
Mad Max: Do you really think that is such a unique position? The opposition has always wanted to defeat the encumbant.
Yes, but at the expense of EVERYTHING ELSE, including political capital? Including helping one single solitary American? Including putting any money at all into any basic government function except the military? Including judge appointments ffs?
Mad Max
May 10th, 2012
8:09 am
Adam – wah, wah. wah……
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug
May 10th, 2012
8:09 am
“Good job Republicans”
sorry m’dear … the turnaround started before the mid-terms … they had precious little to do with it … unless you want to count the fact it could have been a lot stronger had they not stuck their oar in
Senior Citizen Kane
May 10th, 2012
8:10 am
So if I read correctly, we’re in another “jobless recovery?” Oh wait, it was only called that when Bush was in office.
Adam
May 10th, 2012
8:11 am
(ir)Rational: From yesterday: Adam – I’ll have to give that one to you, but that wouldn’t be possible WITHOUT the 2nd Amendment, so it is somewhat of a toss-up. Consider it a draw?
Not really. As 2nd amendment proponents are fond of pointing out, gun controls of any type, even strict “you can’t have any” rules mean nothing, because people will get them anyway. The abolishment or non-recognition of a government does not require the previous government to have allowed guns, in that case.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
May 10th, 2012
8:11 am
Mad Max
I think you should get off the false equivalency bandwagon.
Mick
May 10th, 2012
8:13 am
usinuk
Hey good afternoon!! We’re just getting started over here…another day in paradise!
mad max@8:04
You are also absolutely correct sir!
JohnnyReb
May 10th, 2012
8:15 am
134K jobs per month; it takes a little under twice that many just to stay even with the number entering the job market for the first time.
Plus, over three times that many have quit looking for a job and have been dropped from the numbers.
Are the calculations special for Obama? No, they calculated the same before Barry but like many things from the feds it is geared to present the best looking picture. It’s like inflation; according to the feds we dont’ have inflation. Of course, that’s BS. Anyone who purchases goods knows you get less or less for more.
Also wore out on this place previously is that many small businesses are holding back hoping Republicans will gain control. Why? Because Republicans are more friendly to business, period.
kayaker 71
May 10th, 2012
8:15 am
Meanwhile, in WV, a solidly blue state in 2008, seems that some federal Texas inmate has won 41% of the Democratic votes in the primary. Hell, he even carried a total of 10 counties. While carrying the state in 2008, Bozo’s approval rating in WV is at only 32.7%, with only Wyoming and Idaho being lower. And these were Democratic voters. It also seems that Spreading Bull, that Queen of liberal saviors is trailing Scott Brown in MA by 40 to 49%. Turns out that Scott Brown, even having no opponent in the primary, polled more votes from supporting Republicans than the combination of the two Democrats running against him. On topic, if Bozo is creating so many jobs, why is unemployment still over 8%. According to the BLS, unemployment is still at 8.1% while Bozo only added 114K jobs in April. Also why do we still have that annoying 1.6% economic growth if we are doing so well?
stands for decibels
May 10th, 2012
8:16 am
carlos @ 8.01, you mentioned the political consequences of a Gooper whitehouse/congrefs, but let’s not forget the long-term economic damage this country would sustain if Preznit Willard actually wins and poisons the SCOTUS well with a couple of Stepford Justices.
I am certain that either Stevens or Ginsberg or, yeah, Kennedy, are replaced with a stone-cold corporatist (as opposed to the slightly nicer corporatists we have with Sotomayor & Kagan), SCOTUS will simply invalidate the most significant legislation that any future President signs, and “leave it to the states” to continue this insane race-to-Galt-Gulch we’re in now, utterly unchecked.
Normal Free, Plain and Simple
May 10th, 2012
8:19 am
Hourglass
May 10th, 2012
7:55 am
I think it has begun.
What a bunch of sore losers… 
ty webb
May 10th, 2012
8:19 am
“Spreading Bull”!
kudos Kayaker.
carlosgvv
May 10th, 2012
8:20 am
Mad Max – 8:04
The Party out of power has tradionally been called “the loyal opposition”. Republican behavior during the entire time Obama has been in office makes them “the party of treason”. They are doing everything they can to wreck Obama’s administration and, in the process, show no hesitation at all in hurting the American people. Getting back in office is their one and only concern and they, figuratively speaking, will climb over as many bodies as necessary to achieve this.
Does this bother you Max? If not, you are a true blue Republican Tea Party tool.
Adam
May 10th, 2012
8:20 am
Thulsa: “Also, I am of the opinion that particular reform was not necessary.”
Adam, Are you saying that reform in Greece or in western Europe is not necessary?
I think perhaps you can answer that question yourself by rereading my statement.
“You say that the interference is the problem, but offer no real data to back that particular assertion up. While I agree the unemployment there is high, you haven’t shown a link between that and governmental interference.”
Adam,
The labor regs and laws in France for example are so stifling and its so difficult to fire someone that the end result is that less people, and particularly the youth, end up getting hired. I thought this was common knowledge when talking about European unemployment but if not here is a link.
This article offers the standard explanation
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46192
Without further review, which I don’t really have time for today, I cannot speak to this.
“Could be next,” “possible recession….” sorry, not buying it.- Adam
What are you not buying Adam? The article there states that Germany is expected to release results next week showing a second qtr of contraction. That sir is recession. It is what it is.
Ok but that hasn’t happened. It’s a projection. And what I am not buying is making hard data judgments about data that hasn’t yet been compiled.
“That depends on the time period. You guys often trot out that same line of logic here, but you seem to think we are talking about solving a multi-year problem with a one year increase in taxes. Also, taxing the rich is only one solution of a multi-pronged, multi-year approach to solve this problem without inflicting pain. Take the taxes they failed to collect due to bureaucratic issues. People may grumble, but how much pain REALLY do you have on a modest tax on your pool?”
Adam,
Perhaps tax evasion is part of the issue. Then why are people evading so much in taxes? Could it be because taxes are so high to begin with.
I was of the impression that they avoid the taxes because they CAN, due to lax enforcement. No one wants to pay taxes if they can get away with it.
Seems like your only solution is more taxes. You keep mentioning a multi-pronged approach but all I see is talk of more taxes to fund a welfare state that they simply cannot afford.
All you ever talk about with Greece is the retirement age. So I might ask the same of you – what else constitutes their welfare state, in your opinion? And why are taxes always automatically off the table in your view?
Sorry Adam but there is no magic, painless bullet here. You’re living in a dream world of denial if you think there is. Nothing like the idealism of youth. The harshness of reality is altogether different sir.
I agree there are no magic bullets. I do not agree that a multiple solution approach necessarily has to include pain in the short term or in the long term. I think the only reason to include pain, in most if not all cases, is to punish people on purpose. I just don’t agree with that as a policy platform. Now, one might argue what is pain and so on, but I think we can both agree that Greece overdid their welfare system, and a few reforms would be fine WITHOUT inflicting pain, and that is NOT the sole and only reason for their debt problems.
Hurst
May 10th, 2012
8:23 am
kayaker “Meanwhile, in WV, a solidly blue state in 2008…”
No.
McCain 55.7% Obama 42.6%
Boy do the lies start so early in the morning.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug
May 10th, 2012
8:23 am
“So if I read correctly, we’re in another “jobless recovery?” Oh wait, it was only called that when Bush was in office.”
um
no.
you don’t read that correctly.
“but it compares favorably to the “jobless recovery” that followed the 2001 recession and the double-dip recession of the early 1980s”
Keep Up the Good Fight!
May 10th, 2012
8:24 am
To the rabid Con base, the glass is never 3/4 full, its a sewer that they must pee in until they can get that froth that allows them to rise above the galss while stepping on everyone else. The 1% must simply have more.
Mick
May 10th, 2012
8:25 am
yaker
Good morning sir! Spent last evening watching a glorious sunset while kayaking through the abundant florida nature. Lots of ibis, turtles, peacock bass and many other wonders of nature. Not a disturbing political thought entered my mind, nirvana…
Brosephus™
May 10th, 2012
8:26 am
The problem is that the employment hole is much deeper this time around. The U.S. lost nearly 8.8 million jobs from 2008 to 2010, more than in the previous four recessions combined.”
Even if we recover those 8.8 million jobs, we’re still down big time due to the jobs lost with all those “jobless recovery” recessions. That said, I’ll still take slow steady growth that is built on a solid foundation over another bubble being inflated anyday.
As the WSJ also notes, without the massive cuts in government jobs that have accompanied this deep recession, the unemployment rate would be down to 7.1 percent.
Nuh uh…. The government can’t create jobs, so their employment doesn’t count. //sarc//
I have concluded that this creature they call “austerity” can go blow my neighbor’s dog.
I wouldn’t even subject my neighbor’s dog to something that awful.
Jm-shedding light on jay's poor analysis daily
May 10th, 2012
8:26 am
Usinuk 90% of the new jobs have been added since the midterms
kayaker 71
May 10th, 2012
8:27 am
Hurst, 8:23,
Oops.
Doggone/GA
May 10th, 2012
8:27 am
“So if I read correctly, we’re in another “jobless recovery?” Oh wait, it was only called that when Bush was in office”
You’re entitled to your opinion. No one else would say that, but if it works for you…whatever floats your boat.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug
May 10th, 2012
8:28 am
Jm – the turnaround happened a full YEAR before they were sworn in …
sorry, bubba, but no – they’re riding the wave, they didn’t create the tide.
Mick
May 10th, 2012
8:29 am
jm
Are really going to advocate addition by subtraction? Go fly a kite…
kayaker 71
May 10th, 2012
8:31 am
Mick,8:25,
We did the upper Suwanee in April before the bugs got so bad. Mid summer is for tarpon fishing in Carabelle so the paddling will have to wait until at least October.
Senior Citizen Kane
May 10th, 2012
8:31 am
Well, USinUK, it depends on what they meant. ‘Compare favorably’ can mean better than, or:
be as good as; be up to the standard of; be comparable to.
Cheers, and mind the gap.
Mary Elizabeth
May 10th, 2012
8:33 am
“. . .without the massive cuts in government jobs that have accompanied this deep recession. . .”
=========================================
And, that was done primarily for rigid, ideological reasons. Any balanced agenda (and thinking) would have wanted unemployment to be at 7.1%, now.
Last year, state jobs were cut by .5% in states without Republican leadership, but 2.5% in states which had Republican dominated leadership. ALEC has had its impact. State workers are consumers, too, and they pay taxes for the common good, as well. Fired, they simply become part of the unemployed statistic, and then taxpayers pay more for the same services done by state workers, which are farmed out to the private sector to do. Which, by the way, is what ALEC and others of this anti-government fanatism wish to do with education, children and their teachers – farm them all out to the private, business sector.
The GMC in Suwanee
May 10th, 2012
8:33 am
For the people who have jobs and can post daily on this blog,
Jay’s comments may sound good. But for those of us who don’t
have jobs, this whole administration SUCKS!
Yep
May 10th, 2012
8:33 am
“they didn’t create the tide.” Neither side did, really.
Mick
May 10th, 2012
8:33 am
yaker
It’s been a really windy month, the bugs don’t have a chance thankfully…keep on paddling-
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug
May 10th, 2012
8:33 am
SCK – compare favorably does not equal be as good as or comparable to
“is equal to … or comparable to … ir even on par with”
but not compares favorably
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug
May 10th, 2012
8:34 am
Yep – 8:33
Nope.
stands for decibels
May 10th, 2012
8:34 am
>>Spreading Bull, that Queen of liberal saviors
>kudos Kayaker.
yep, K-71 is one original thinker.
(just fed these words – “spreading bull” elizabeth warren – to the Google. “About 2,020 results (0.23 seconds)”, it sez.)
Rick in Grayson
May 10th, 2012
8:35 am
It takes about 135,000 jobs each month to keep up with population growth (1.5 – 1.7 million each year).
Why are we still allowing more immigrants into this country when we don’t have jobs for US citizens and legal residents already here?
stands for decibels
May 10th, 2012
8:35 am
I wouldn’t even subject my neighbor’s dog to something that awful.
Awful? Mon ami, I’m fairly certain that dog-blowing is one thing Austerity is quite good at.
Senior Citizen Kane
May 10th, 2012
8:36 am
USinUK: Huh?
Jm-shedding light on jay's poor analysis daily
May 10th, 2012
8:37 am
Mick addition and subtraction are two sides of the same coin
Usinuk go look at the stats not the average cited above. Very few jobs added prior to Jan 2011
And I subscribe now to the bookman school of causality which simply involves saying one thing causes another to make it true
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
May 10th, 2012
8:38 am
The GMC in Suwanee
How can it suck?
The opposition is the one telling us you are lazy, shiftless, no account and glad to be the government dole.
You welfare queen you!
Is the sofa becoming uncomfortable suddenly?
Sell your computer and pay your damn bills.
I bet you even have a freakin’ refrigerator and a damn microwave!!!!
Michael
May 10th, 2012
8:38 am
Mad Max, wah, wah, wah. Get your hanky son.
ty webb
May 10th, 2012
8:38 am
“(just fed these words – “spreading bull” elizabeth warren – to the Google. “About 2,020 results (0.23 seconds)”, it sez.)”
thanks magnum.
stands for decibels
May 10th, 2012
8:38 am
note to self–do not even in jest fiddle with the “name” field on this here blog and hit “enter.”
stands for decibels
May 10th, 2012
8:39 am
thanks magnum.
only Mrs. sfd’s permitted to call me that.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
May 10th, 2012
8:43 am
“FORWARD” (campaign slogan) Socialism/Marxism !
martin the calvinist
May 10th, 2012
8:45 am
Jay, you’re not painting the entire picture when you mention the unemployment rate, I believe a University of Maryland economist recently came out stating that 4/5 of the drop in unemployment can be directly tied into the Dept. of Labors deliberate dropping people off of the work force. Again, companies aren’t doing as well as you think as they continue to look for ways to cut spending, wages aren’t going up, this economic recovery is quite the joke!
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
May 10th, 2012
8:45 am
………….. and continuing from yesterday:
“WASHINGTON – On the same day that President Barack Obama declared his support for same-sex marriage, the House Armed Services Committee backed measures prohibiting the practice on U.S. military bases.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/10/house-panel-votes-to-ban-same-sex-marriages-on-us-military-bases/#ixzz1uTDrRSPh
JKL2
May 10th, 2012
8:45 am
-The U.S. lost nearly 8.8 million jobs from 2008 to 2010
Good job Democrats!
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
May 10th, 2012
8:46 am
“A Florida pastor considered to be President Obama’s spiritual adviser says he was disappointed by the president’s decision to publicly announce his support for same-sex marriage.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/10/obama-spiritual-adviser-disappointed-by-gay-marriage-endorsement/#ixzz1uTEGlu7A
stands for decibels
May 10th, 2012
8:47 am
the House Armed Services Committee backed measures
Scout, that and two-fitty will get you a one-way ride on MARTA.
stands for decibels
May 10th, 2012
8:49 am
Poor Scout. He’s losing Teh Kulture Warz and it hurts!
Maybe Austerity can kiss your boo-boo and make it all better?
anyway, this dirty effing hippy gots to produce. Later, rational people.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug
May 10th, 2012
8:51 am
Jm- 8:37 – you’re forgetting 6 months of those stats were skewed by the census effect – both in jobs gains and jobs losses
Jay
May 10th, 2012
8:53 am
It’s amazing, really. Kayaker just never fails to fail.
“Meanwhile, in WV, a solidly blue state in 2008 ….”
Which is true, if by “solidly blue state” you mean a state that John McCain carried by 13 percentage points.
kayaker 71
May 10th, 2012
8:56 am
Bookman, 8:53,
Already apologized for the error.
TaxPayer
May 10th, 2012
8:57 am
I see the Republicans are still on here complaining about how miserable they are. Poor things. Can’t get jobs. No marketable skills. No retirement prospects. Don’t worry. President Obama will make it all better for you if you say please.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
May 10th, 2012
8:58 am
“Already apologized for the error.”
..and the earth moved.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug
May 10th, 2012
9:01 am
GG – 8:58 – well, it did for me, anyway
ByteMe - Political thug
May 10th, 2012
9:01 am
Usinuk go look at the stats not the average cited above. Very few jobs added prior to Jan 2011
I know facts are terrible things to some people, but employment and unemployment lag the general economic times by about 6 months… it takes a while for employers to want to downsize or upsize when the economy changes direction on them. So employment gains/losses today generally come from economic gains/losses 6 months in the past.
In other words, gains in employment that started in late 2009 can be related to the stimulus spending that started that spring.
Of course, that won’t make some people blame a particular party more or less for something.
Normal Free, Plain and Simple
May 10th, 2012
9:02 am
Off topic but, my gawd, more g’ddamned governmental medicine BS goin’ on…
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2012/05/ap-military-helps-bring-health-care-rural-south-05091/
What IS the military thinking?
kayaker 71
May 10th, 2012
9:05 am
Forward….. Bozo’s new campaign slogan. However, if you are standing on the edge of a cliff, forward is the last thing you want to do. Seems that Wiki pulled it’s spread of the word Forward when Bozo came out with the slogan earlier this month. Their previous picture denoted a German Socialist publication called Vorwarts, where Marz and Engles were frequent contributors. Also, Lenin started a similar publication in 1905 called Vpered (Forward) in what was called Russia. Bozo is right on track. All of you socialists out there can take comfort in the fact that the plan is moving Forward.
Moderate Line
May 10th, 2012
9:05 am
In all likelihood we are headed into another recession according to the Economic Cycle Research Institute. The growth in jobs is where it was in July 2007 prior to the recession which started in Dec 2007. In fact our March and April job growth this year was 269 thousand vs 262 thousand for 2007 in the same months.
Putting it into context doesn’t help. If a football team goes 0-16 and goes 2-14 maybe you don’r fire the coach but if they the go 3-13 the next year it maybe time to look for another one.
http://www.businesscycle.com/reports_indexes/reportsummarydetails/1091
Talking Head
May 10th, 2012
9:06 am
“Since the job market bottomed out in February 2010, the U.S. has added 3.7 million jobs, an average of about 134,000 per month”
That’s great, but it’s still less than the 150-160k jobs needed per month to keep up with population growth.
Context.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug
May 10th, 2012
9:07 am
ByteMe –
babbee, I’m digging you with BOTH shovels
Normal Free, Plain and Simple
May 10th, 2012
9:10 am
Kayaker,
You certainly do connect the dots like no other person I know…:roll:
Why are you so angry? And what is your alternate plan since you don’t like President Obama’s? And why are you so disresp4ctful to the President? Do you need a laxative or something? double
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug
May 10th, 2012
9:11 am
Forward …
… beats the hell out of Backasswards … which is what Mittens wants to do … economically AND socially
Normal Free, Plain and Simple
May 10th, 2012
9:11 am
ByteMe,
Your 0735 below. I totally agree.
Brosephus™
May 10th, 2012
9:12 am
Awful? Mon ami, I’m fairly certain that dog-blowing is one thing Austerity is quite good at.
I don’t even think austerity is that good. For all I care, austerity could go blow week old possum roadkill.
jconservative
May 10th, 2012
9:13 am
Pardon the change of subject but I could not resist.
“(Michele Bachmann) is an American citizen and always has been. She has a United States birth certificate and a United States passport,” Bachmann spokesperson Becky Rogness told POLITICO on Wedneday evening.
Interesting. This is the same thing Obama has always had, a US birth certificate and a US passport.
Where is Orly Taitz when you need her?
Peadawg
May 10th, 2012
9:14 am
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-calls-romney-auto-bailout-claim-etch-sketch-110702571–abc-news-politics.html
Gotta love Obama’s comments on this one.
Peadawg
May 10th, 2012
9:15 am
On topic – yes we are recovering…even at a slow pace. But can anyone here say w/ a straight face that a Republican can do better?
*crickets*
Didn’t think so.
JKL2
May 10th, 2012
9:15 am
Normal- What IS the military thinking?
Good training. Kind of like how they send their medics to Detroit, DC, and LA so they can get practice treating stab and gunshot wounds.
Brosephus™
May 10th, 2012
9:17 am
Peadawg
There are some here that could say it with a straight face. That wouldn’t make it a fact, but I don’t think that’s ever stopped them before.
JKL2
May 10th, 2012
9:19 am
peadawg- But can anyone here say w/ a straight face that a Republican can do better?
Yes. My cat would be better than obama. She at least loves this country.
Tundra Dude
May 10th, 2012
9:20 am
“(just fed these words – “spreading bull” elizabeth warren – to the Google. “About 2,020 results (0.23 seconds)”, it sez.)”
whoopee! 2,020 hits!
Does Fox fake the news?
Web Results 1 – 20 of about 985,795 for does fox fake the news?
Ixquick
the world’s most private search engine
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug
May 10th, 2012
9:23 am
“She at least loves this country”
Don't Tread
May 10th, 2012
9:25 am
You don’t suppose the “most favored nation” status we gave to China in 2000 would have anything to do with this massive hole, right? Wonder what China’s unemployment rate is?
The bottom line is: Obama can’t fix it. The horse is already out of the barn, and he’s a lot harder to catch.
kayaker 71
May 10th, 2012
9:25 am
Normal, 9:10,
I am angry because this empty suit is remaking this country into his own image. I don’t like his image. He is an arrogant narcissist who lies, cajoles, bribes and dodges to get his way. He was supposed to have the “most open administration in American history”, but he has fallen far short of that. He spends money like it was his and not the property of the American Taxpayer, without regard for the future consequences of this actions. His “stimulus” has produced absolutely nothing except provide money for his political friends. It was supposed to create 2 million jobs. Now we are in the tank for over 6T and our economic growth is stalled at 1.6% without hope of rising until he is removed from office. Those evil corporations on one of Bookman’s earlier threads, you know those people who were really not sitting on all of that money….. they are scared to death for the future of American business and are putting their money in a sock and hiding under the bed for a reason. The trust for this clown is in the bucket. He is so anti free enterprise that and anti business that they won’t hire, won’t invest in infrastructure, won’t do anything which commits them until he is gone. Normal, I’ll bet you the coldest beer in Atlanta that the unemployment rate drops to 7% or below if Romney is elected. Other than that, he is great American, a magnetic personality and could talk the socks off a rooster but I don’t want him as my President. Not on your life.
Erwin's cat
May 10th, 2012
9:27 am
Where are the jobs Mr. Boehner?………………………..what’s that?
Adam
May 10th, 2012
9:28 am
“FORWARD” (campaign slogan) Socialism/Marxism !
Two people saying this today. Must be listening to the same radio show or reading the same blog right now. But you’re a bit late.
Forward was the campaign slogan used by Nixon. THAT COMMUNIST!
JKL2
May 10th, 2012
9:28 am
tundra dude- Does Fox fake the news?
Dan Rather says,”What?”.
I think you’re looking in the wrong place.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=51267
Don't Tread
May 10th, 2012
9:31 am
Oh, and you can’t blame Bush for the China trade deal…Clinton was the architect of that one. Thought I’d get that out of the way.
Paul
May 10th, 2012
9:31 am
“I keeps trying to tell y’all, but do you listen? No.
So maybe you’ll listen to those Marxists at the Wall Street Journal:”
“What’s facts got to do, got to do with it
What’s facts but a second hand emotion
What’s facts got to do, got to do with it
Who needs a fact when a mind’s not in motion”
Dedicated to the Usual Suspects on the Radical Right.
JKL2
May 10th, 2012
9:33 am
Erwin’s cat- Where are the jobs Mr. Boehner?………………………..what’s that?
Too busy trying to fix all this crap Nancy Pelosi passed. Rome wasn’t built in a day, but at least it’s been going in the right direction since he took over.
Brosephus™
May 10th, 2012
9:37 am
I am angry because this empty suit is remaking this country into his own image. I don’t like his image. He is an arrogant narcissist who lies, cajoles, bribes and dodges to get his way.
Sounds like every other politician that we’ve elected thus far, so what’s the true reason???
Erwin's cat
May 10th, 2012
9:38 am
JM…The “where are the jobs Boehner” was posted on here regularly the day after he was made speaker, but now that some jobs are coming back the left credits Obama…I guess they borrowed Mitts etch-a-sketch
Erwin's cat
May 10th, 2012
9:39 am
JM=JKL2…my bad
barking frog
May 10th, 2012
9:39 am
You shouldn’t cut public
jobs during a recession.
Right?