June jobs report: 80,000 new workers added

Thank you O beneficent Captains of Industry.

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Yea verily, our Galtian Overlords are merciful.

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Sign of a slowdown in China are more scary than this jobs number…was hoping for better…

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Mr. B Better? On what planet pray tell are things looking better or did you forget to add the sarcasm tag?

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Clearly, we need to cut spending. That’ll get them jerbs back.

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Yes Mr B…if you have lowered your expectations, like economists have, things are looking better.

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Oh if the Republicans would ever live up to their empty promises of jobs….. we could be replacing infrastructure (ask the thousands without electricity about that prospect) and putting thousands to work while getting the infrastructure at rock bottom prices….

But hey, them women folk need to have their vaginas controlled first by old white men.

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“The catfood will be yummy. And you didn’t really want to live well into your 80s, did you?”

–Alan Simpson

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“Thank you O beneficent Captains of Industry.”

yay!!! couldn’t have said it better

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bman: Only in the Republican mind is 80K new jobs bad news.

Gotta get the outside stuff done before it gets too hot. Check back in later.

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Employment in January 2009: 133,561,000
Employment in February 2009 (after Obama’s policies had any marginal chance of taking effect): 132,837,000

Employment June 2012: 133,088,000
Compared to January 2009: -483,000
Compared to February 2009: +251,000

Quarter of a million jobs ADDED since February 2009.

Private sector:

January 2009: 110,985,000
February 2009: 110,260,000

June 2012: 111,145,000
Compared to January 2009: +160,000
Compared to February 2009: +885,000

Almost a million private sector jobs added since February 2009.

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Work is overrated.

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Adam @ 8.41, House Republicans have been working diligently these past weeks to protect the jobs of gun dealers that specialize in bulk sales to straw buyers. So there’s that.

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80,000 new jobs is bad news for the Republicans. They were hoping for a much smaller number.

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“MY GOD! You’re RIGHT! I am casting my vote for Romney! Hallelujah! I have seeeeeeen the light!”

Welp, Romney IS all about jobs …

just not American jobs …

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Welp, Romney IS all about jobs …

just not American jobs …

I loves me some FoxConn work shifts. Please sir, may I have ANOTHER dorm roommate?

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Stands….they only sell in bulk to straw buyers who had the Dept of Justice block the background checks….or did you just forget about that little fact?

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Adam

July 6th, 2012
8:51 am

I am sure you will be voting for Obama but at least I can go to bed on election night knowing your vote was not counted in Georgia. All 16 votes from Georgia will be cast for Romney.

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Gotta love her!

Fortunately, mrs. sfd knows that my own deep, abiding love for Dr. Maddow can never be properly reciprocated.

(and there’s the whole “Susan would stomp my ass” business.)

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Gas prices and jobs. Let’s see if I am correct and drudge has this headline…

Oh, it’s “8.2%” Cleverness of you, drudge.

I await the wingnut repetition.

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I am sure you will be voting for Obama but at least I can go to bed on election night knowing your vote was not counted in Georgia. All 16 votes from Georgia will be cast for Romney.

Whatever helps you sleep at night. I can’t wait to see your reaction on the morning after election night

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they only sell in bulk to straw buyers who had the Dept of Justice block the background checks…

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/03/fast-and-furious-follow-up-the-atf-and-gun-stores/

gotta go produce. Later, maybe…

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The employment situation is not going to get any better before election day (that’s my guess).

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Adam – your champion is giving speeches stating manufacturing jobs are returning. Just where would that be?

Apparently, for Obama getting elected is more important than the truth

Don’t you get tired of defending such a complete fraud?

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Keep Up the Good Fight!

July 6th, 2012
8:56 am

Is this the Hope and Change we were looking for 4 years ago?

Well now, first let’s be honest, you were not looking for Hope and Change….you were part of the Party First group….. and your conned friends continue to use every tactic possible to block hope and change. Thankfully we continue to fight for it.

Two years of a Congress with the numbers that no President, since FDR, has had and we still have less jobs in the country today then we had the day Obama took office. No way you can blame the Republicans for this mess.

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Government control of the economy is not working. The Obama mantra focuses on the Fed Govt controlling the economy, yet that formula has never worked. It is a dismal, overwhel ing failure. On top of the continuing failure of the economy to recover, we face the largest increase in taxes in the nation’s history effective Jan 1. Jan 1 the current tax rates expire for EVERYONE. Income taxes reset to higher rates, Capital Gains taxes increase, Death/Estate Taxes and rates reset to a minimal estate with nearly a 50% rate, then the ObamaCare Taxes begin. If you think the economy is bad now, and it most certainly is terrible, 2013 will be worse.

VP Joe Biden mentioned recently we were in a Depression, he’s right we are seeing the Obama Depression – higher taxes, increased government, expanding government giveaway programs, a record 8.8 million on Soc Security Disability, 38 million on Food Stamps, the lowest percentage of employable persons working in history. Yet some want to re-elect this mistake? Amazing!

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Don’t you get tired of defending such a complete fraud?

Come now, you know that I should be asking YOU that question. So nice try at projection.

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M. Mark — “when we need 250k – 300k generated a month just to keep our heads above water…..well, you guys just keep spinning for a few more months, please…..jeeze…..”

Before you go flinging that around, you should probably go check the Bureau of Labor Statistics and see how many months we reached that level in President Bush’s administration.

I believe you will be QUITE dismayed by what you find.

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“Employment started contractiing as soon as it was obvious Obama would likely be president!”

riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight … the small businessman knew that the jig was up in July 2007 …

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001?output_view=net_1mth

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“In September 2011, he told the Los Angeles Times that he was directed by ATF to sell guns — as many as possible, regardless of the legality, and that selling so many guns made him feel “horrible and sick.” This contention is the second element that backs the claim that the ATF encouraged gun dealers to sell to traffickers.”

Stands, this is the version that I have read, as reported by others…..your posting of the CNN article is the first I have seen to refute this….I will attempt to find other sources to back this article (only one I have seen of about 6 or 8 other articles I have read that take the other side of this argument. If I am reading and posting false information, I apologize in advance. But the weight of what I have seen reported is not the same as this article….

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R. Thinker — if you were a product one could buy in a store, the Federal Trade Commission would sue you for false advertising.

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My vote damn well better be counted.

No matter who takes GA.

Anybody who says or acts otherwise may have to have a meeting with the DOJ.

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Hi Granny – there is still too much uncertainty, and great concern that Obama will win. After all, Romney is not running just against Obama. He has to fight almost all media, hollywood, and the uniformed. If/when it becomes clear Obama is out, things will start getting better immediately.

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sorry, that should have read “hard for you”

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Adam

July 6th, 2012
9:01 am

Government control of the economy is not working.

It’s not even being tried!

Really? Now tell us how 14,000 pages of rules and regulations for all healthcare in this country is not control of 20% of the economy?

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JayBama’s headline screams “80,000 New Jobs Added”

Of course, if the stats showed that 80,000 jobs had been lost, JayBama’s headline would have screamed “Bush Recession Continues”

Just another day at the AJC.

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td: Two years of a Congress with the numbers that no President, since FDR, has had and we still have less jobs in the country today then we had the day Obama took office.

Actually that’s not true. January has 31 days, we lost 800k jobs that whole month, so if you average it out and assume “day one” has any meaning, then he’s only responsible for 11 of those days, meaning responsible for only 284k of the losses. So if you take away the remaining 516,000 that we still happening under Bush, you get the following:

+33,000 since January 2009 overall
+676,000 in private sector.

So nice try.

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Adam – its not who Republicans will run; its who they are running against. We don’t care that Romney does flip flops. We have one purpose – send Barry into retirement.

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Adam
July 6th, 2012
9:01 am

Government control of the economy is not working.

It’s not even being tried!

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I beg to differ. With obamacare approved, government now runs more than 50% of the economy

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td: Really? Now tell us how 14,000 pages of rules and regulations for all healthcare in this country is not control of 20% of the economy?

Government control means that government runs it. This is not the case. If you’re going to base it on rules and regulations (OH NO, NOT THOSE) then the government has control of 100% of the economy. But that’s like saying that 92% of the jobs lost under Obama are women. It’s bogus.

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its not who Republicans will run; its who they are running against. We don’t care that Romney does flip flops. We have one purpose – send Barry into retirement.

Remind me how well that strategy worked out for John Kerry?

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No way you can blame the Republicans for this mess.

Yes, in your fantasy world, no way….. in reality, every way… but I am sure things like the filibuster and the election of Scott Brown are just not part of your reality just as the concept that Bush drove us into the greatest recession this country has ever faced is also not part of your “reality”…..

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CNN: unemployment rate including discouraged workers: 15%

Actually it’s 14.9%, down from 17.1% at its peak. But don’t let facts get in the way of poutrage.

Do I need to give you MORE evidence that CNN is conservative media?

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The degree to which you liberals will spin lousy news to protect Obama is just pathetic. This report is a disaster for all of us. It indicates the already slow recovery has stalled.

But you just go on kissing his arse and he’ll keep blaming Bush and pretty much anybody else he can deflect blame to.

Geez. Remember when men of honor held that office and had the guts to proclaim “the buck stops here!” and meant it? Regardless of party. Man up or move on already.

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td

Really?

Do you mean all votes will be counted and a winner declared and the elctoral votes thereby awarded?

Or

Are you aware of some scheme whereby no votes for President Obama
will be talleyed?

And

Do you know the difference?

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Geez. Remember when men of honor held that office and had the guts to proclaim “the buck stops here!” and meant it? Regardless of party. Man up or move on already.

That might hold more water if your current candidate would own up to anything he said ever. Obama HAS owned up to much of what he has said, and yet you guys ignore that and focus only on the stuff he hasn’t, OR you ignore it when he owns up. Like that whole deficits and unpatriotic thing, when Obama has repeatedly said he made a mistake in opposing the debt ceiling increase the one time he voted against it.

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RB — “Geez. Remember when men of honor held that office and had the guts to proclaim “the buck stops here!” and meant it?”

Well, you sure won’t get that from someone like Romney.

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It is true that unemployment figures have been bad during Obama’s term. What’s really funny, in a pathetic sort of way, is how many of you cons actually believe things will get better under Romney. You just don’t have either the intellect or education to know that this problem is extremly complex and it’s causes go far beyond the White House.

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I think RB got a little ahead of himself. Perhaps it was giddiness at the jobs number…

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Sen Rob Portman op-Ed, good read

http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/07/obamas_policies_are_stifling_t.html

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“You just don’t have either the intellect or education to know that this problem is extremely complex and it’s causes go far beyond the White House.” Apparently neither does Obama.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXz5ZDrzX-w

Where is the plan Isakson? Jay, if you ever get a chance, I wish you’d grill that SOB on his “plan” until he bleeds from the eyes.

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Obama should thank James Buchanan daily for keeping him out of the cellar.

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A dad — “Huh? What’s that? A little louder please. Oh, Of course. It’s Bush’s fault. Gotcha.”

If you had any honesty left in you, you’d admit that no liberal here said any such thing.

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“TAX youuuuu and uh…. TAX her tooooo and….”

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We don’t need free trade, we need FAIR TRADE. Bring back tariffs! Why do you think a Jeep costs $189,750 in China; Tariffs on our products.

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Don’t ask for links and proof – think of it similar to the Farmers Almanac.

More like the Farmer’s Fertilizer…

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they only sell in bulk to straw buyers who had the Dept of Justice block the background checks

Background checks wouldn’t matter if there is no crime being committed and the person isn’t a convicted felon. The straw purchases are still legal in Arizona. Why haven’t Arizona lawmakers changed the laws that allowed straw purchases of guns that led to the death of BP Agent Terry?

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“2 pages and I’ve only seen conservatives make that case.”

You will hear Obama say the same thing.

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More taxes on the way to “stimulate” the economy….

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@td…”Is this the Hope and Change we were looking for 4 years ago?”

The Change is that now we add 80,000 jobs a month instead of losing 750,000.

The Hope is that some of the Tea Partiers will get unelected and the Do Nothing Congress will actually Do Something to stimulate the economy.

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DANNYX

Good question…If I were GOP, I’d simply state that our intent is to stop the bleeding….Sans making business dedicated to the state versus shareholders and practicing economic isolationism per trade, there is nothing government can do to get us out of any cyclical downturn…President Trillions Robin Hood approach is at best, neutral to the economy and at worst, making us economically weaker than when he came to power..

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If you had any honesty left in you

JHM

I hope you realize that you jumped the shark with that statement right there…

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Egypt and Libya are now controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood….

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Gas prices are now at $6 a gallon.

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Gas prices coming down…but Obama doesn’t control that according to the Almighty Intellect…Adam.

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there is nothing government can do to get us out of any cyclical downturn…

Based on previous cycles, if this were just a cyclical downturn, wouldn’t businesses already be pushing upward?

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Many of us have lost a significant portion of our retirement savings…

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@markie…”Joe,. I know this is hard for your….but BUSH ISNT IN OFFICE ANYMORE. Any arguments you have about what bush did, died when he left office. ”

You are right it is no longer about what he did…its about what he LEFT and making sure NO ONE EVERY DOES THAT AGAIN…ahem Romney for example.

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Well, at least that’s 80,000 lazy bums that won’t be on the dole and robbing my paycheck. Now if we could lay off about 500,000 guvmint workers we’d have some real job growth—maybe even get up to 100,000 a month.

Hauling and lugging, hauling and lugging. I just hate Fridays.

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“you’re forgeting the name Bill Clinton”

Lol! Our last president is a four letter word that can’t ever be brought up, but Clinton is fair game!

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I am sure you will be voting for Obama but at least I can go to bed on election night knowing your vote was not counted in Georgia. All 16 votes from Georgia will be cast for Romney.

Yes an Georgia ranks around the mid-40’s in education level.

Coincidence. Nope.

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The only reason you guys keep wanting Obama not to blame Bush is because you’ve puckered up yourselves. Luckily, the majority of Americans understand EXACTLY what got us into this mess:

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/polls/232719-poll-most-americans-blame-bush-for-poor-economy

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Obama vehemently supports Tim “Tax Cheat” Geithner and Eric “Above the Law” Holder….

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BRO,

Nope…not with so much uncertainty given the rising cost of doing business here….The banks still won’t lend…heck, we could have paid off a ton of mortgages for all the wasted cash we threw at the source of that particular debacle…Banks freeing up cash will stimulate demand, which will stimulate all these manufacturers et al to invest the hoards of cash they currently maintain…

We continue to waste trillions of dollars without improving a thing which makes us weak. Of course, if someone could provide 3 million W-2’s as evidence of saved jobs and created jobs, I would change my tune…

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Romney supports the Ryan plan, which DIVIDES the nation between the haves and the have nots.

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Tax you….and the horse you rode in on
~ Thomas Jefferson

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I do not judge anyone…just because you live in a tent downtown

uh huh.

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Me and my business are doing just fine.

Why do republicans always blame the government for all their problems ?

Take some personal responsibility.

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Steve Atl

Obama is a spineless democrat politician

But I’m being redundant….

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@Stevie Ray…”I’d say the change is the geometric rise in the deficit and show stopping commitment of money we haven’t made yet. ”

Of course even McCain’s Top Campaign Adviser says Record Deficits Would Have Happened Under McCain, Too
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/01/mccains-top-campaign-advi_n_444458.html

But please don’t let any facts get in the way of that Republican Fantasy life you got going on.

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Moonbats have an explanation with chart for almost all of Obama’s failures. To the contrary, small business has been almost destroyed by the receission, yet TaxPayer provides a chart with text that claims private sector employment is consistent with past receissions.

Forget the chart, open your eyes. Drive around and look at all the small businesses who have gone out of business.

Until the Left drops their constant companion “denial,” there will be no truthful debate or real improvement. That goes for National politics and this blog.

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Jay:
The jobs number of 80k is “disappointing”, that is disappointing for the bigots, racists, and assorted Obama-hating clowns on the Right. They would prefer job losses to strengthen their cause. Where were these people, and their noise, during the months of job losses during Bush/Cheney?
I’ve said it before, if McCain would have been elected and the job numbers were as they are now (the probably would have been worse), the Right would have been chanting, “He’s doing the best he can, considering the mess he inherited.”

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JDW,

I agree McCain would fare not better that President Trillions except I don’t think he would have allowed deficit to meteorically explode.

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JAY,

Can you go back another 30 years of so on your graph?

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Still improvements over the last 3.5 years, cannot be denied. Its hard to get ahead when you start in a hole, I mean canyon.

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It’s my hope that a few conservatives still actually have some principles, and that they’ll recognize when they’re being asked to put aside truth and honesty in order to raise the party’s banner.

I think you’ll have a much better chance at teaching English to a cinder block wall.

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I wonder if Republicans will ever feel the highs they feel right now with a failing economy. If they are elected depression will set in or easy credit that covers their lies which somewhere in their makeup you hope does not give them the euphoria they feel right now. These are heady times for people who live off failure for their livings, enjoy your failure GOP it won’t be this way forever.

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Brosephus — “If I had my way, TARP funds would have went directly to taxpayers for the purpose of paying mortgages. That way, the people would have still had their homes, we could have stemmed the foreclosures, banks would have fewer toxic mortgages on their books, and the banks would have still ended up with the money anyway.”

Abso Fecking LUTELY. I said the same thing myself at the time.

Bail out the homeowners and require the banks to renegotiate a workable mortgage, with the banks owing money back to the Fed. That way, homeowners get saved, banks get saved and the taxpayers get bailout money repaid over time.

Instead, banks got saved and we got screwed. At one point, Bank of America’s market cap was LESS than what we had lent them, but they were gladly hosing their customers. Seems to me they should have been kissing our collective hiney, not looking for ways to extract more cash from us.

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“Who is gonna be the VP pick?…… Hmmmm” I betting on his third wife.

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Obama: “If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition.”

So who do y’all think the Democrats will nominate?

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BRO,

So your answer is to spend 2 trillion instead of 1 trillion that we don’t have? Where were all those shovel ready jobs…and no, businesses rely on cash flow, R&D, and capital improvements in addition to demand….the large banks should have been broken up and returned to rules of Glass Stegall…….No businesses, GE being good example, are not betrothen to the good of the people…Gov’t being only one who can pour that much money into economy is poor argument in my book as no evidence, beyond a reasaonble doubt, exists to validate efficacy.

Agreed on states thingy…I’d be all for a stimulus that took advantage of “shovel ready” jobs but for various reasons not the least of which is the EPA’s tough standards, the timing on BO’s package oouldn’t have been worse.

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Welp, Romney IS all about jobs …just not American jobs …

Exactly. He’s already picked 2 econ advisors from the Bush team. Both are big believers in outsourcing jobs.
I’m not one of them thar economilists, but I guess they know what they’re doing. The way to prosperity is to
Outsource our GDP
Outsource our tax base
Outsource those pesky good-paying jobs
Yep, the Cayman Islands rep is the Man with the Plan!

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R. Danneskjold — “And so the anemic recovery continues. ObamaCare, and its new expenses for employers, is the largest wet blanket smothering jobs growth.”

Single-payer would have solved that problem overnight. Too bad y’all didn’t want it.

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This real disaster is not so much the devastation wrought by a hopelessly broken and injust economic situation. It’s that we really don’t even bother being outraged by it. To be outraged might require actually having an idea or two – which we don’t.

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Jay Bookman barely chums the water with his vanilla commentary and his little sharks still have a feeding frenzy.

Ok boys and girls. It’s time to get out of your jammies and go to work instead of hanging around all day long like Occupy types carping and moaning. Ain’t got no work? Take it up (carp & moan) with your elected leader. Your voices won’t be heard? That’s right…he’s on a bus ride telling you all that everything is ok and he is available for more fund raising.

Quite a magical mystery tour we have been on since you all elected this community organizer. How’s that Hope & Change jingle working out for you?

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“As bad as the 80,000 new jobs number is, and it’s pretty bad”

No, 750,000 is pretty bad.

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“As bad as the 80,000 new jobs number is, and it’s pretty bad”

No, 750,000 is pretty bad.”

750,000 LOST that is.

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What is up with all of the new construction in Gwinnett near Lawrenceville? I guess they don’t know how bad things are?

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give Jay a little credit for even broaching this subject…he could’ve just thrown up a “global warming” post in light of such dismal news.

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JAY,

Thanks for the interesting data…I’m guessing given our indebtedness and what’s happening in Europe, we are looking at another (double dip) recession in the next few years…I’d hate to be occupying the Oval Office when that occurs….No amount of government spending or revenue raising will prevent this….

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“capitalism that can no longer generate jobs as normal.”

Wonder why that is? Obviously nothing to do with government policies…. /sarc/

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“If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition.”

Have you any idea what the word proposition means?

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If you voted for the guy who presided over job losses upwards of 200,000, why would anyone take your carping seriously? I don’t take car-buying advice from anyone who bought a Pinto either.

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If Romney wins it means the following:

1. People put jobs as #1
2. The voters were super sick of Obama

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Jm: “Wonder why that is? Obviously nothing to do with government policies…. /sarc/”

Well, as Keynes understood as well as anyone, capitalism has nothing to do with generating jobs — it’s just not its purpose. It only creates them very grudgingly.

That’s why it has to be FORCED to do it, with a knife to its neck. But when the beast gets to big, kind of hard to find a knife big enough.

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Romney gets the right policies. Renewal if he wins.

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Aquagirl — “If you voted for the guy who presided over job losses upwards of 200,000, why would anyone take your carping seriously? I don’t take car-buying advice from anyone who bought a Pinto either.”

Agreed. At this point, taking advice from Republicans on how to fix the economy is like entrusting your stock portfolio to the homeless d00d who hangs around outside the convenience store, trying to cadge your spare change.

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Adam – 9:18

Your lack of both intellect and intelligence is the stuff of legend here.

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“It only creates them very grudgingly.”

Based on the Trotsky scientific method of course.

Eye roll. What a bunch of pablum from “welcome”

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LHU — “Romney articulates what he will do”

Let’s see him start doing that, then. Enough with the pizzing and moaning about Obama; let’s see him trot out some specifics.

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Which part of lost decade of job growth from the collapse do you not understand?

There are consequences silly.

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CARLOS,

When you start the namecalling and the like, you are conceding the debate…you can do better…we all have the utmost confidence in you!

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So your answer is to spend 2 trillion instead of 1 trillion that we don’t have?

The stimulus spent about $500 Billion. The total amount was less than $800B with 1/3 of it as tax cuts. I have no idea of where you’re getting the $1 Trillion number.

That said, you’re damn right my answer is to spend $2T on infrastructure.

http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail.php?n=237812

One in nine of the bridges and overpasses American drivers cross each day – including many in northeast Georgia – is rated in poor enough condition that they could become dangerous or be closed without near-term repair, according to a report released recently by Transportation for America.

Nearly 70,000 bridges nationwide are rated “structurally deficient” and are in need of substantial repair or replacement, according to federal data. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) estimates that the backlog of potentially dangerous bridges would cost $70.9 billion to eliminate, while the federal outlay for bridges amounts to slightly more than $5 billion per year.

or, if you want local context…

http://www.ajc.com/news/107-metro-atlanta-bridges-1181501.html

Every day 32,850 drivers cross Big Creek on Windward Parkway and 27,760 cross Lullwater Creek on Ponce De Leon Avenue.
What they almost certainly don’t know is that the two bridges, along with 105 others in 10 metro Atlanta counties, were rated structurally deficient, according to an analysis of the National Bridge Inventory by The Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Sixty-eight of these bridges have structural components rated poor or worse. Some won’t be repaired for years.

Now ask yourself, do you really want to risk the lives of your family or yourself driving over any of those bridges? Remember the I-35W bridge collapse in Minnesota? Do you think that was a freak accident or simply a sign of things to come if we don’t address our infrastructure? Infrastructure repair and maintenance can be done rather quick as opposed to trying to build new infrastructure. That’s why I stated infrastructure only. The $2T would be more than enough to get projects going in all 50 states and put thousands and thousands of people to work. When people work, they pay bills and spend money. You go that route, you can say F**K the banks.

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And there’s Moosa, right on time.

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TROLL,

Right on! Heaven forbid a GOP controlled White House pulls a Holder hold-back or the likes….same shoe, different foot….

Private cash out of politics until such time, nothing will change….

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3.Romney articulates what he will do, how it will improve this country, and voters like it better.

THIS!!

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“1 million private sector jobs added.
3,033 counties in the US.
41 months in office.

Jobs per county per month added: 8.04″

Now why don’t you put your statistical acumen to use and get us the same set of data for the W years? (just for comparison sake…)

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TM,

Hope is not a strategy….only real change is poorly timed massive spending of money we don’t have….results sure didn’t change.

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Comical indeed to read all the PFC Gomer Pyle comments about Captains of Industry, like you have a flippin’ clue about anything business. If you are a democrat and thus your mascot is a donkey, then you are clearly a dumba$$$

The economy turd is stuck to the bottom of “O I’m So Great’s” boot. No amount of shucking and jiving will shake it off before election day. The stink of this administration is intensified because the boot on the neck is just below the nose.

Cue up the melody to Don McLean’s big hit…one; two; three; four:

And it’s bye, bye, failed Indonesian guy.
You promised hope and change,
but not a stick in our eye.
You got in over your head,
and then you started to lie.
Singing Jimmy Carter was a better guy,
yes Jimmy was a better guy…

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Your lack of both intellect and intelligence is the stuff of legend here.

Legends just ain’t what they used to be….

Seriously though how much more do I have to add to a post to make it obvious when I’m being sarcastic?

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The paradox of course, Jm, about capitalism is that it is one hell of a wealth-creation machine, and that explains part of its incredible staying power. But it contains the seeds of its own destabilization, if not destruction, as there is no way to eliminate its destabilizing, excessive characteristics.

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Steve — “If you are a democrat and thus your mascot is a donkey, then you are clearly a dumba$$$”

Thanks, Steve!

I always love it when a con gives me flat-out justification and reason to ignore their posts going forward. Well done!

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I can’t believe people are crowing about this jobs report, how delusional can people be. It was pathetic.

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Yo Mama,

But I am a progressive. Ignore that dumba$$.

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‘Now why don’t you put your statistical acumen to use and get us the same set of data for the W years? (just for comparison sake…)”

Because I can’t vote to take Obama out of office this November.

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Because I can’t vote to take Obama out of office this November.

Of course I meant Bush. Someone I am pleased to say I never voted for,btw.

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Slow job growth vs a global economic collapse.

No brainer.

Slow job growth.

Okay, so the new rules are no lying, no drama Obama, no talking about willard’s religion and if Jay warns you to stop personal attacks, he means it.

Anything else?

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What an total joke that chart is when you look at the numbers. So the jobs are stuck between 129,000 and 133,000 for 2 1/2 years. That chart was designed to be deceptive to the Kool-aid crowd and they are drinking it up with both hands.

Job growth has flat lined for 2 1/2 years and people think that is awesome.

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JHM: http://weknowmemes.com/2012/05/conquer-the-earth-they-said/

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Steve, but the line goes up?

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down line

up line

flat line?

perception?

or lack thereof?

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“As bad as the 80,000 new jobs number is, and it’s pretty bad”

No, 750,000 is pretty bad.”

750,000 LOST that is.
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750,000 jobs lost was at the height of a severe recession. Recessions happen and are supposed to happen, even severe ones. We’re now in the recovery and have been since 2009. A severe recesion historically is followed by a correspondingly strong recovery if the policies pursued are working. Yet the current recovery under Obama has been absolutely abysmal, about the worst on record by many measures. At this stage of the business cycle from a baseline of such high unemployment and low workforce participation rate, a healthy economy should be generating 300,000 – 400,000 new jobs per month and this should go on for several years on end. Yet for all intents and purposes, we’re losing jobs when weighting for natural population growth. If we’re losing jobs relatively speaking during what should be the height of the economic recovery, then that’s atrocious news and it shouldn’t be spun otherwise.

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“I could care less what the Republican plan is.”

No logic???? You know what no logic is?

No logic is losing 750,000 jobs a month at the end of Bush’s term, then sitting back and blaming Obama for not fixing the Republican disaster fast enough with no plan of their own to fix it.

That’s nutso.

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“…a healthy economy should be generating 300,000 – 400,000 new jobs per month”

And just how does Mitt Outsourcer Romney and his job, jobs, jobs Republican buddies plan on fixing the mess they created?

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Guess I’ll be hanging here for a bit longer since I’m having problems with my flight simulator…

Mark in mid-town

At this stage of the business cycle from a baseline of such high unemployment and low workforce participation rate, a healthy economy should be generating 300,000 – 400,000 new jobs per month and this should go on for several years on end.

Have you stopped long enough to realize that what worked 20-30 years ago does not always work today? We don’t have the job infrastructure to create that many jobs per month anymore. Where are we going to create those jobs, Wal-Mart? In order to create those kind of jobs in the past, we had a robust manufacturing industry. We benefitted due to world demand for US products. That’s what created those jobs. Now that we are a net importer and net consumer, there’s no way to create demand in this country to create that many jobs in a month.

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Granny you just lack the honesty to acknowledge that these numbers suck. I have been pulling for better job growth for month after month. If that job growth had occurred your hero would be re-elected in a landslide.

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And it was 9 million lost jobs.

If you can’t tell the truth mark, you will be called out.

How about a correction to your lies mark?

Didn’t think so.

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“Read the Mark in Midtown post @10:40 to get some basic understanding.”

Hogwash! As Brosephus pointed out times have changed. Our whole economic infrastructure went through drastic change. We lost manufacturing jobs to China, outsourced to India, cut the public workforce and lost jobs due to technology advances. The Bush recession was unique.

The stock market did recover, the job market didn’t.

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Would Romney break the sides of said cheerio is the real question.

Only if he could buy his way out…

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Donovan at least Jay has a personality, your man Romney has gone into hiding because he knows how dull he is. He sends, like his Mormon roots, a pair of surrogate politicians to Ohio yesterday to do his work for him. There are photos of MR looking Kennedyist in his boats and leisure while the governors of Louisiana and some Midwestern state tear at Obama. The debates will kill Romney, he wasn’t very good before and now he hasn’t had a unfiltered comment in weeks. He won’t be in game condition while O is slugging it out on the front lines every day, getting sharper and sharper. Strangest strategy I have ever seen, but if I had Romney weakness for getting tongue tied I would be hiding is a closet too.

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Listening to our President speaking the truth about the collapse.

Pay attention mark.

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I wonder if the gop party fighting against our recovery for this election has anything to do with it.

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Occupation

jconservative frequently posts the jobs creation numbers by decade that would back up exactly what you’re saying. Each recovery is weaker and weaker. Now, we’re left with what we have which is diddly squat. I’m often amazed at how people continuously recite the “jobless recovery” stuff without actually stopping long enough to realize exactly what a jobless recovery really means. That means that the jobs that were lost are not replaced. After a few of those, you have lost the basic foundation for any type of recovery because there is no job structure to fuel a recovery.

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@Steve…”If you see a 300 pound guy he is fat, he doesn’t become unfat because you then see a 320 pound guy.”

Fair enough but it you have have to choose the skinniest between the two you got to go with the 300 pounder. Obama is indeed average…Romney wants to do more of the same stuff that got us here to begin with…easy choice.

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[...] June jobs report: 80000 new workers added June jobs report: 80000 new workers added Professional and business services added 47000 jobs in June, with temporary help services accounting for 25000 of the increase. Employment also rose in management and technical consulting services (+9000) and in computer systems design and related … Read more on Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) [...]

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DannyX

July 6th, 2012
9:55 am

Republicans vow to fix the job market was quickly aborted, “Jobs, jobs, jobs,” turned into “Abortion, abortion, abortion.”

How many jobs bills, passed by the Republican house since 2011, are sitting on Harry Reid’s (D) desk collecting dust because he refuses to bring them to the floor of the Democratic controlled Senate?

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td thinks the city of Decatur schools are full of right wing spawn.

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is it just me, or does it seem to others the closer we get to the election the more vicious the left on here becomes?

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markie mark: is it just me, or does it seem to others the closer we get to the election the more vicious the left on here becomes?

Why would we? It’s not like we really have a dog in that fight really. In all seriousness ..

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How many jobs have trickled down from MItt and his billionaire pals last month??

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which states are the swing states?

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The reality!

“That we Bookman latches on to these modest positives speaks to the bias of low expectations,” Greenhaus said.

“If nothing else,” she said, “I will end up on Social Security, more fit, more intelligent and worldly — and broke.”

http://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=AP&date=20120706&id=15302424

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I listened to Obama’s speech yesterday where he went on and on about how middle class was an attitude, etc. The message I undrestood was he was telling us to get used to what we have, it’s not going to get better. Rely on family, friends and help each other out. The best statement was success can’t be measured by money. In other words, under his administration don’t expect employment, don’t expect financial success, just get used to a lower standard of life style because it will not get better.

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Milo83, true enough about the misery, as there’s no shortage of that. But your focusing on Obama implies that he is distinct from the corrupted political ruling elite of which he’s a part. The current American two-party system gives us a fake choice between a corpo-Dem and a corpo-GOPer trying to assuage a proto-fascist right wing of his party. Both parties are bought and paid for by various offshoots of Wall St. power. Under NO possible scenario is the Nov election going to change that basic fact one iota. So what’s your thinking given that hard cold fact?

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