Where are the candles hiding? Are the stems carved wax?
Where is the best place to buy pumpkins this year? You might see a low price but then discover your pumpkin weighs 15-20 pounds.
It would seem a shame to carve up these pumpkins. We will just let them be.
Cargo,
Yes, the Left does believe this. They scoff at the suggestion that drilling for oil and gas will help drive an economic boon, inspite of success stories from the Dakotas and West Texas. They will claim “Global Warming is REAL!” when the data indicates otherwise. They think that the US Economy is somehow immune to simple rules of economics, despite historical examples that show where poor fiscal and monetary policy leads. They believe a single Senator filibustered a bill that lead to the shutdown of the government. They believe all this is the fault of a president who left office 5 years ago, and the current president is not to blame. Of course they believe that being able to see a doctor, get free birthcontrol, or publically funded abortions means an end to world hunger, and free beer for all.
And when you argue the other side, present verifiable facts, hard data, at a minumum they will dismiss you. More likely, they will call you names or question your intelligence.
In otherwords:
“Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people.
…The third rule is: Whereever possible go outside the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
…the fourth rule is: Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
…the fourth rule carries within it the fifth rule: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
…the sixth rule is: A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
…the seventh rule is: A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
…the eighth rule: Keep the pressure on.
…the ninth rule: The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
The tenth rule: The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
…The eleventh rule is: If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.
…The twelth rule: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
…The thirteenth rule: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
-Saul Alinsky-
Yawn. How are the Koch brothers today?
@Steve Thomas
Steve, Steve, Steve……
Don’t you understand? Everything bad is caused by the Tea Party. Ted Cruz is the devil personified, tempting those misguided House members into standing on principle instead of understanding that the Democrats know what is best for the country. And its the fight over the debt limit that kills our credit ratings no matter what the credit agencies say about our insane spending. President Obama doesn’t have any voice in this….he’s just the President. He’s not actually in charge of anything. The Tea Party shut down the gov’t in ways to specifically tick off Americans.
You need to get with the program. I’ve seen the light. The Republicans have allowed the President to have an unlimited credit rating and given up the power of the House to the President to borrow money. They must know something we don’t. So, Teddy MUST be harming the country. It’s all his fault. Otherwise, it would have been reasonable to delay ACA for just one year and open the gov’t a week ago. But the Democrats decided that it was more important that the ACA be rolled out….we MUST have all those healthy people paying for the ACA so the subsidies and waivers don’t kill it.
Cruz is the new figurehead for the bullying that the Tea Party is doing of moderate Republicans. That bullying, and the lack of spoine shown in response, is part of the problem here.
But the bigger part of the problem is the intellectual vacuity of the Republican Party in its entirety. Instead of making nuanced arguments about how big or small government should be, they are propogating this pretend view of reality where our debt has been created by “entitlements” rather than by tax cuts.
Where the government is the enemy of the people, rather than being the tool that they do control, and have in fact been directing.
@Cargosquid
cargo – no it is not called prioritization. And who has the authority to prioritize the payments? What happens when the cash flow prohibits SS from being paid because we are waiting for the cash to come in to pay it?? If Jack Lew delayed a single SS payment I am sure Issa would be issuing a subpoena.
What Lew has been doing since May is to use extraodinary measures in order to pay what is due and delay what can be delayed – and the R’s are trying to even take away that flexibility.
What do you call it if we cannot pay SS?
@Rick Bentley
Cruz is truly the Master Debater that everyone says that he is.
@Rick Bentley
Rick, since I am an intellectually vacuous Republican, perhaps you can help me out:
What is our new debt limit? How much more can we borrow, before we again hit the ceiling?
Please enlighten this poor soul with a grant of such vast enlightened intellectual prowess, you possess, and answer the question.
@Cargosquid
Yeah lets get rid of DHS. We do not need the following: Border Security, Coast Guard, ICE, FBI, TSA, Air Marshals. Yeah, that is the ticket. Why don’t we get rid of the FAA, NOAA and VA while we are at it (sarcasm). And PBS too so that we can save $445 Million per year yet the ‘savers’ and ‘cut spending’ folk spent another $2 Billion for McConnel and Boehner.
@Cargosquid
When people are seeing premiums and deductibles skyrocket?
all depends on who one talks to. I am sure that you can get a policy today much cheaper than you could have 1 year ago with all your pre-existing conditions covered and everything. And to boot – the insurance company cannot drop a person because of claims.
@Pat.Herve
“What do you call it if we cannot pay SS?”
Answer: The inevitable future, according to the Social Security Trustees
http://www.ssa.gov/oact/trsum/
The reason for this is the Federal Government has been using the money paid in to fund other government spending. Remember Al Gore’s “lock-box”? Entitlements, without reforms (raising the retirement age, means-testing, raising rates) are unsustainable. This is what the trustees are saying. To date, the only workable plan put forth has been the Ryan Plan. The far right opposes it because it involves tax increases (mostly through the elimination of certain exemptions), and the Left hates it because it will limit their ability to scare the hell out of seniors or use the the money for more biscuits to hand out. If both sides hate it, it must be good.
Actually its rather simple. We raise the FICA tax. For starters, lift the ceiling significantly. Secondly, Hit everyone up a little more. There is no free lunch. I got hit up for more money in the past. Today’s youngers will get hit up for more. It needs to happen now though, not when it gets to be an emergency.
Do you have the details of the Ryan Plan?
Anything collected for social security should stay in that fund.
@Pat.Herve
Notice…I didn’t say get rid of the FBI, etc.
Bush set up the DHS. What has it done other than add another level of bureaucracy? It’s REDUNDANT.
But…that was a good attempt at putting words in my mouth and exaggerating what I said.
As for “all depends….” We were told that our premiums would not go up. That our insurance would not change. That we would not lose doctors. That people would not lose jobs. And even by your statement…that shows that all those ARE going up for some people.
I guess that “depends” upon which version of Obama’s promises you listen to.
In the wake of 9-11, I believe government leaders felt that it was beneficial to have all the components of DHS under one umbrella. The huge complain was that agencies didn’t share information. (like FBI and CIA for starters)
Perhaps 12 years after 9-11, some of those agencies and departments can come out from under DHS. Maybe the new guy will propose just that. See new thread.
I didn’t claim to have all the answers, Steve. I just claim to know that we the people had a balanced budget, had an America that we could sustain and grow well in the Clinton era, and we deliberately moved away from those tax rates. I don’t doubt that, should we ever care enough about our country to give Grover Norquist a heart attack and consider paying higher tax rates, we could get our debt under control as we did 15-20 years ago.
So, in that context :
“What is our new debt limit?” We could borrow more, though if we choose to borrow less we will have a stronger country.
” How much more can we borrow, before we again hit the ceiling? ” There is no ceiling. the more we borrow, the more we devalue the money we have in our hands now, which is bad for most of us, and the more we give companies like China an opportunity to compete with us. However, even if we undertake more borrowing, we will not be collapsing into a heap anytime soon. And, the day that we want to start paying down our debt, we can do so. We’ll need to start paying more realistic tax rates though.
As to all the doom and glom about Obamacare, I remember the same rhetoric being used in relation to Clinton’s 1993/94 budget. It was going to usher in full-blown socialism; it was the end of America; it was careening us onto an unsustainable course. But in point of fact it laid the groundwork for an era of debt reduction, and subsequent growth.
Remember the conspiracy theory about Clinton going to Moscow as a young man to cut a deal with the Ruskies? Bwaaahahahahahah
Same folks.
@Cargosquid
My mistake – yes the FBI is part of DOJ. It is just the other departments that would be gotten rid of if we get rid of DHS. How else would one interpret your statement? Is it just the bureaucracy that you want to get rid of? You need to go back and look at the Homeland Security Act – enacted after 9/11. Bush made it a cabinet level position – but I would be blaming bush – you are correct and Obama is to blame for all the spending associated with it. Or the EPA – created by that RINO Nixon.
Nixon also signed off on Title X. Goo man, that Tricky Dick.
@Cargosquid
cargo – for the MAJORITY of people – their plan does not change. There costs do not go up because of Obamacare. The doctors do not change because of Obamacare. Doctors go in and out of plans all the time. Costs have been increasing over the years.
What did the R’s do since Hilarycare to try and reign in rising healthcare costs?? Nothing. Where is the replace part of Obamacare – no where. Doing nothing will solve nothing. Mandate – Republican Idea.
@Pat.Herve
Actually, I didn’t blame Obama for any spending for DHS. I merely mentioned the DHS. We already have security agencies. We don’t need another one. The FBI, NSA, CIA, DIA, etc aren’t enough? I didn’t like it when Bush created it. I do blame Bush for that one and the Patriot ACt and the Homeland Security Act. They are being abused.
The EPA is also being used as a political tool…this time by Obama. CO2 is not a pollutant.
@Pat.Herve
What did the R’s do? Why should they DO ANYTHING? That is the point. Adding the feds into the mix makes it WORSE.
And any other solutions were always shot down by people like yourself, that apparently thinks that the feds can lower health care costs when they’ve never lowered the cost of ONE SINGLE PROGRAM. Ever.
We need more free market solutions that increase supply, lower costs, and lower overhead regulation. Or do you think adding more regulations and costs are going to lower anything?
@Cargosquid
If you think the Fed’s should do nothing to reduce the cost of healthcare than you really do not know how healthcare functions. Who is the biggest healthcare payer? Medicare. Look at the healthcare programs – Medicare, VA, MHS, TriCare, CHIPS – should the Fed not be trying to get these costs reduced? What about the free riders – should they not be paying into the system?
What has the free market done to reduce costs – nothing because of the way employer based insurance works today. Long term Obamacare and other legislation will try and get costs back to a market based system. What is more market based than the exchanges?? A one stop shop to buy insurance from a private insurance company – why didn’t the free markets create an exchange by themselves?
@Pat,
Do I get to guess? Could it be that they are greedy and looking towards profit only. Anthem paid its CEO 10 million dollars a year about 5 years ago. Its probably much more now. Why do private insurance companies dislike “Obamacare?” Because they now have to go by one set of rules that protect patients. Patients can chose the policy that best fits their needs.
@Pat.Herve
But they should not interfere with PRIVATE medical business. Medicare is a gov’t program…and its one driving UP the cost of healthcare. Enough that some doctors refuse to take it.
You say that they should reduce those costs while saying that Obamacare isn’t part of that.
The freeriders are still riding free…that’s what the subsidies are for.
We are not in a free market for health care and it hasn’t been tried. Why didn’t free markets create an exchange? Really? When state and fed’l regulations prevent a free market? How’s that supposed to happen?
These exchanges are about as “free market” as a soviet era supermarket. The gov’t limits which companies can operate, mandates what must be covered, and who is allowed to buy from them…while mandating that everyone MUST buy from them or be “taxed” for breathing.
@Cargo,
Yes, calling Medicare and social security entitlements offends people. Sorry. You cannot tell me whether I am offended or not. That just goes beyond the pale to think that you can decide that for someone else. A little history lesson: Back in the 60s, 70s and 80s the term ‘entitlement’ emerged into popular use and code for welfare and subsidies ie: government handouts to people who had put nothing into the system. Entitlements from the Great Society.
I obviously know what the general term ‘entitlement’ means. You obviously aren’t aware or don’t want to admit that you know the political term refers to. it is highly insulting to imply that people who have paid into programs their entire careers are in any way on the dole and that is what entitlement means, like it or not. You don’t get to decide the connotation of the word.
There is a huge difference in “Susan has a strong sense of entitlement stemming from her family’s wealth” and “Susan ran to the mailbox to see if her entitlement check was in so she could go buy groceries.”
@Cargo…again….
Yes, Medicare is a govt program. No doh. Its driving UP the cost of health care? well…let’s see why that is. Could it be that you have to be 65 to go on Medicare and that older people have more ailments than younger people? Doctors who don’t take Medicare patients don’t for a number of reasons. Most of the time its because they don’t want to get the government’s puny reimbursement for Medicare when they can gouge their younger insured patients for more. I believe most have to take a certain percent of patients or lose tax write offs. Not positive how that works. Most fill their quotas earlier in the year so by Nov. and Dec. they don’t take new patients until Jan. I remember this from when my mother moved up there.
Do you think that all of Medicare is free? It is not. And there is limited means testing for Medicare. Wealthier people pay more per month for Part B.
Cargo said:
Are you going to tell Ken Cuccinelli and Bob McDonnell that about the new TRAP laws in Virginia? In other words, all PRIVATE medical business except those providing abortion services?
One reminder about Medicare: the baby boomers are the first to pay Medicare taxes their entire careers. Their parents only paid about half of their careers. The workers are always paying for those no longer working. That’s just how it works.
Same with social security except in fairness, the parents of the baby boomers did pay in to that program their entire careers, if they worked. Something else to think about…many women of the greatest generation didn’t work outside the home. However, they are cashing in on the husband’s social security. I guess they didn’t pay into medicare either. Contrast that to the baby boomers were many of the women worked outside the home.
Not even drawing conclusions here. Just pointing out some differences.
@Cargosquid
These exchanges are about as “free market” as a soviet era supermarket. The gov’t limits which companies can operate, mandates what must be covered, and who is allowed to buy from them…while mandating that everyone MUST buy from them or be “taxed” for breathing.
cargo – you are not a stupid person but you can really be ignorant at times. How is the Gov limiting which companies can operate – because insurance companies are regulated?? Yes, I want insurance companies to be regulated so that they are there to pay when I need to claim.
Mandates what needs to be covered – Yes. Have you ever tried to compare two healthcare plans? Do you know what coverage you really need? And what plans would prohibit. Most people (including me) get very confused trying to figure out what is actually covered in a plan. Every try to figure out where the better deal is on FIOS or Comcast?
YOU (yes, YOU) do not have to buy from an exchange. I do not have to buy from an exchange. No person MUST buy from exchange, but the exchange does provide a one stop shopping area to see what plans are available. Other valid plans are available directly from the insurance companies. Did you know that in 1790 – the very first Congress mandated that certain companies provide medical insurance for their employees? Or that in 1798 Congress mandated employees of a certain profession to obtain medical insurance?
Show me where there has been any attempt by the R’s to reign in the spiraling costs of healthcare over the past 20 years.
Let me add a little to what Pat has informed us of…When Medicare D came out or shortly thereafter, my husband went shopping. He does take a fair amount of medication. He had no clue what he needed in the way of insurance. He called the same company his gap policy was with. They sold him a policy in the neighborhood of $80 bucks a month. He did that for a couple of years. Enter George Harris who told me he didn’t need to be paying that much.
So…I looked and compared the one down plan which was about $50 less at the time. I could see no difference other than he wasn’t paying an additional $50 bucks. The same doughnut hole was there. Now that is even with the standards in place…they duped my husband. Its corporate nature to try to sell the most expensive plan. Why sell the mid-priced plan when some dumbo will pay for the high end plan and use the same services?
Medicare has been streamlined in recent years. All the plan A’s must have the same coverage. What varies is the cost. Same with plan B, plan C, etc. Not all companies will offer the same plan. For instance, Anthem might not offer a plan C. (not true, just an example) But if it did, it would have to provide specific coverages. It makes shopping around a lot easier. It is a difficult task that has been made simpler.
FYI- Over 700 people joined this morning’s
Virginia Tri-Counties Walk to End Alzheimer’s
in Old Town Manassas. Good people coming
together for a good cause.
That’s great. Thanks for letting us know, Steve.
That’s a horrible, nasty disease.
Plus a well attended Children’s Wellness Fair at Metz
today.
“Remember the conspiracy theory about Clinton going to Moscow as a young man to cut a deal with the Ruskies? Bwaaahahahahahah”
Yes, and I remember the Department of State, having just been run by GHWB’s campaign manager Jim Baker, hiding Clinton’s personnel file so as to attempt to give credence to the rumor – supposedly the work of one rogue individual. Of course the Democrats are no better than that these days, using the IRS to harass opponents.
I know several liberal groups who also went through the same thing as the tea party. Frankly, I think the entire group of rules need to be shored up. There’s way too much loosey goosy being played with all the special interests, liberal and conservative.
I am not sure why any of them should have tax free status. I would do away with all of it if I were king. The biggest bullcrap of all is the for the common good clause. None of them are doing any common good. It is all for political gain.
The tea party would whine about the sun rising in the east. I have never heard a more put-upon group unless of course it is the Christians-are-picked-on crew. I have never felt picked on as a Christian. Maybe its because I feel my religion is personal and I don’t go around shoving it down everyone else’s throat. I can tell you this though…I have seen kids coerced by others and almost bullied to join the crowd. I have personally felt bullied by others to participate or play lip service to brands of Christianity that aren’t really my own. Today I can turn it off but as a kid and a young person, it isn’t so easy.
I think some of what they (people like O’Reilly) might be feeling is blow back when they get tired of being harassed by others.
@Pat.Herve
Any time there is an attempt to deregulate the health insurance industry, allow across border purchases, or resistance to mandates by the feds as to what MUST be offered to EVERYONE…..
It gets shot down. Those are the efforts to rein in health insurance costs.
“Recently in Washington, unfortunately, we have seen examples of the wrong kind of leadership, when politicians choose scorched earth instead of common ground,” Clinton said at another point, bemoaning “when they operate in what I call the ‘evidence-free zone,’ with ideology trumping everything else.”
This at the McAuliffe rally.
Heck..this describes the Obama/Pelosi/Reid style PERFECTLY.
Interesting article in the WaPo this morning about Coles District being the bellwether district of Virginia.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/in-bellwether-district-va-governors-race-stews-in-aftermath-of-federal-shutdown/2013/10/19/d0283e20-35d4-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html
For those holding out on how right the tea party was from Oct 1-Oct 16, you might want to take serious note of the damage done.
For those who have laughed at Elena and me over our continual reference to the war on women…read it, pay attention and weep. It is what it is. You were warned.
Some clown on Faux News who is a regular contributor is calling for Civil War to end the tyranny of Obama. Weren’t 600,000 deaths from 1861-1865 enough?
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/erik-rush-civil-war-needed-overthrow-obama-he-imposes-cruelest-totalitarianism
I think that’s a red state vs blue state…..lines up pretty close.
@Moon-howler
http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/we-the-people-are-winning/
Actually he did NOT call for a civil war.
He stated that he thinks that if the political course we are on does not change, it will necessitate a civil war or end in totalitarianism.
He’s predicting one in the future…not calling for one NOW.
@Cargo, I can read. You are nit-picking. Necessitating civil war sounds like a solution suggestion to me.
What I find ironic and hypocritical is that whatever this clown’s name is whines about inflammatory rhetoric and name calling from the left. Meanwhile he calls the President of the United States a ruthless dictator and describes him as a traitor.
He really doesn’t get it, I don’t think.
Those are the same articles are they not? WND is several rungs lower than the National Inquirer, in my opinion.
Why would anyone, regardless of how stupid, want a civil war. The first one was horrible…immorally horrible.
The question was asked earlier …or perhaps it wasn’t a question but a statement that lefties thought the ACA would make health care less expensive. Isn’t that the basic objective? Why else would it matter?
If it isn’t less expensive then Congress needs to kick the insurance industry in the ass. The is one of the most gluttonous, arbitrary industries in this country, right under the pharmaceutical industry. CEOs are paid 10 million dollars annually. Why? Name me one that is worth that kind of money.
We shall see. I plan on insisting that it is cheaper than what we have now. There are also lots of misunderstandings about the ACA. I got in a roaring fight with an out of state friend on the phone last night who was insisting that companies and everyone had to get their insurance through the exchanges.
That simply is not true. My friend also thinks that defaulting on a hospital bill won’t hurt. the hell it won’t. Hospitals get judgements on people all the time. Judgements are credit killers. Doctors go to the collection agencies fairly quickly also.
People might be bitching about “Obamacare” but a lot of that is to just fit in. While bitching they are clomping at the bit to sign up if they don’t have insurance. As for young people not having it, there is just no reason to not have it. If it cuts into one’s walking around money, tough. Drink less beer. I cannot believe anyone would make up an excuse for a young adult not having health care coverage. Life is just too uncertain.
Let’s find out the gliches and get them fixed. That’s what sane and responsible people do.
WND = World Nut Daily? The screamy website that keeps its readers in perpetual turmoil? Ten or twenty years from now when its readers are on their deathbeds, they’ll wonder why they wasted so much angst over every little fear-mongering article they read on the internet instead of taking a walk, or learning a new skill, or taking up a new hobby.
@Moon-howler
The Coles district residents that I’ve talked to on my morning walks are generally moderate Republicans and they are pissed about the shutdown, partial wages (or in the case of contractors, lost wages), and are ready for a third party that is moderate and middle-of-the-road.
I would be happy with third party locally that is moderate. Hell I would be fine if the Democrats actually ran for office. Ann Wheeler ran a tough race but I question how much help she got from the local party.
I haven’t really figured out what the local Democrats do other than not post candidates on the website. I usually have to call up and ask who is running where.
All these problems with the Obamacare rollout makes me wonder why folks who suggested delaying it aren’t getting any credit for perhaps being right. Well, at least you can’t blame Americans for the development debacle since it was farmed out to a Canadian outfit. So much for American job creation I guess. Can anyone name a project developed by any American company which cost the equivalent of over half a billion dollars? I would imagine very few that weren’t subsidized by the government. Apple developed the original iPhone for less than 200 million dollars of its own money. If you’ve got to spread the wealth, then at least you should get something for it, but then I guess that’s the old way of thinking.
The southwest Florida eagle cam is back up and running. The parents are preparing the nest for the baby eaglets now. Last year the mother laid 2 eggs around Thanksgiving. The eggs hatched in January. It was a great watch, until the little eagles left the nest in late spring.
http://www.ustream.tv/SouthwestFloridaEagleCam?utm_source=crowd-live-backend&utm_medium=visit-channel&utm_campaign=notifications
You might be lucky enough to see the parents readying the nest. I saw them about 10 minutes this morning.
http://www.ustream.tv/SouthwestFloridaEagleCam?utm_source=crowd-live-backend&utm_medium=visit-channel&utm_campaign=notifications
@Second Alamo
The international company is here in America. I have a friend who works for them and I know he doesn’t commute as far as Canada. The media needs to be more accurate. Canadian owned company is not the same as a Canadian company.
There are offices in Prince William County and Fairfax County, for example.
The media is making it sound like all the work was outsourced to Vancouver or Quebec. That simply isn’t true.
@Moon-howler
The local Democrats are good at manning booths at some local events and….
They need to support the candidates that they recruit and start upping their game. People want a choice.
The walkers are even madder and the political signs fewer since the shutdown. The peeps who have lost jobs since the sequester and shutdown have been Republicans.
The state and national democrats are good at running a campaign. Locals…not so much. I found it difficult to even find out who was running against Robb Wittmann last congressional election.
I totally agree that local democrats need to support the candidates that they recruit. I would also suggest that they need to vet some of the candidates better, looking back on some past elections.
Currently the Atif Qarni campaign in the 13th has been very outgoing. I wish I had been more responsive to their calls. That is MY fault, not theirs. Ann Wheeler ran a great campaign last supervisor’s race. I guess from an outside perspective, it appears that the candidates and their supporters work like hell but the local county party is mired in the old ways and doesn’t do as much to help local candidates as they should.
I welcome readers to change my mind and offer up examples of why my opinion is misguided and probably just wrong.
So…let’s think about words that have sprung into existence because of political battles. Are we going to Bork potential appointees? Are we going to swiftboat candiates again? Will political parties Cruz the other guys to get their way? Time will tell.
The challenge is on…..to those who dare.
Why does Ted Cruz remind me of Joe McCarthy?
There similarities that I think will become more and more apparent.
Shooting at a middle school in Sparks, Nevada. Teacher and student/suspect dead.
Two boys hurt. Seems like there’s no end.
@punchak
Very upsetting. Do we know why?
@Moon-howler
I’ve got a swiftboat with Cruz missles to Bork the (insert choice of persons) with…
@Ray
bwaaahahahahahaha! Good one!
ACA website fixed. Now Open!
http://rexharrisonshat.com/healthcare/
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Unemployment dips to 7.2, down from 7.3 a month ago.
US economy adds 148,000 new jobs.
The rating is dropping due to an increasing number of people dropping out of looking for work.
148,000 jobs doesn’t even meet the increased need due to population growth.
And you know this because?????
The doom and gloom does no one any good. If you want your country to grow and prosper, you have to try to be a good cheerleader.
@Moon-howler
Because the Bureau of Labor Statistics says so.
If you want your country to grow and prosper, you have to actually support programs that grow the economy instead of spinning bad news, as the administration keeps doing.
You are spinning bad news it looks like.
How about providing a link regarding the the BoLS statement on the job market.
Did you bitch this much about George Bush?
Just found this by Brit Hume.
He nails it.
http://youtu.be/Eg_SsaP-9V4
You forgot to plant it.
@Cargosquid
You have to drill all the way to paragraph 5 of the Post article to see that the growth is in construction jobs. I don’t see how we can sustain an economy on just building more and more houses. It seems we’ve been here before…
The devil is also in the details, and the low-info crowd crowing about the 7.2 figure in the Post comments section is unlikely to look at the actual Bureau of Labor Statistics report that verifies what you said in #62. The BLS reports:
Businesses that shift jobs overseas to reduce labor costs should not get a tax break for doing so or to defer paying until the money comes back.
The gap between profit and wages just continues to grow. There’s a social issue for someone to latch onto.
Cargo, you are overlooking how deep of a recession we were in. It isn’t going to snap back overnight.
I am going to cheer for whatever little bit things improve.
I was just reporting what was on the news. I wasn’t trying to make a controversial statement.