42 months in a row: Employment over 8%

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Reuters: "[FONT=&quot]The unemployment rate has been stuck above 8 percent for more than three years, the longest run since the great depression[/FONT] ." (Lucia Mutikani, "Jobs Increase In July, But Jobless Rate Rises To 8.3 Percent," Reuters, 8/3/12

Neil Soss, Chief Economist At Credit Suisse: "This is the weakest recovery we've ever seen, weaker even that the recovery during the Great Depression … If you're not scared by that then you're not paying attention." (Catherine Rampell, "U.S. Added 163,000 Jobs In July, Jobless Rate Ticked Up," The New York Times, 8/3/12)

The Washington Post 's Neil Irwin:
"Unemployed rose by 45k, employed fell by 150k in household survey, which is not what you want to see at all ." (Neil Irwin, Twitter Feed, 8/3/12)

I love this one, which claims this looks initially like "good news." What are they smoking over at CNBC? They want to report that the economy created 163,000 new jobs and hope everyone ignores that it lost 195,000. Must be good stuff ...

"Despite the seemingly good news, the report's household showed that the actual amount of Americans working dropped by 195,000, with the net job gain resulting primarily from seasonal adjustments in the establishment survey. The birth-death model, which approximates net job growth from newly added or closed businesses, added 52,000 to the total." (Jeff Cox, "Economy Creates 163,000 New Jobs But Rate Rises To 8.3 %," CNBC.com, 8/3/12)

Since President Obama took office, the nation has lost 316,000 jobs and the unemployment rate has increased from 7.8 percent To 8.3p ercent (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, accessed 8/3/12). In July, 150,000 workers dropped out of the labor force (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 8/3/12). The real unemployment rate, including those that "are working part-time due to economic reasons," (those being, they like to eat and have a roof over theirs and their families heads) increased to 15.0 percent (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 8/3/12). In all, 23.6 million Americans are unemployed, underemployed or have given up looking for work (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 8/3/12).

The Empty Suit's economic blunders are the best campaign Romney can run.
 
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Hmm...more than 3 years. 42 months to be exact...let's count backwards 42 months. This all started just after our current president took office (roughly feb/mar 2009). It wasn't a catastrophic drop off, the symptoms had been brewing for quite a while. So, while you'd like to blame the sitting chief executive, the truth is that the start of this happened during the previous administration. Also, realize that POTUS basically doesn't have the power you'd like to impute to him to trash the economy. I would strongly suggest looking at Congress, the FED and Wall Street to get a proper perspective on the issues.
 
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Hmm...more than 3 years. 42 months to be exact...let's count backwards 42 months. This all started just after our current president took office (roughly feb/mar 2009). It wasn't a catastrophic drop off, the symptoms had been brewing for quite a while. So, while you'd like to blame the sitting chief executive, the truth is that the start of this happened during the previous administration.
While I'm sure it is "convenient" for you to attempt to blame the previous president, the fact is, this is the slowest and least successful "recovery" since Roosevelt failed so miserably to drag the country out of a massive depression. And yet he, too, gets credit from the liberal left for having done something he never actually did. It took a war footing and a wartime economy to lift us out of the economic malaise started by poorly thought-out investment strategies and too loosely controlled financial markets, much as we had four years ago, through the fault of the markets' own watchdogs rather than anyone in government. Roosevelt perpetuated the Great Depression by continually instituting and enforcing losing policies based on the illogical and disproven premise that government can positively affect the economy by increasing its own spending. By this same poorly thought-out concept, I can claim to be able to improve my savings account by collecting by force and then spending my neighbors' money. That's makes just as much sense, which of course is to say it makes no sense at all.
Also, realize that POTUS basically doesn't have the power you'd like to impute to him to trash the economy.
It's interesting, isn't it, that you first blame this economic crisis on the previous president, but then absolve your particular favorite, currently in office, by saying he has little to no effect on the economic crisis? Somewhat self-serving and disingenuous, wouldn't you agree?
I would strongly suggest looking at Congress, the FED and Wall Street to get a proper perspective on the issues.
All are equally at fault, but not by the same type of action. Congress has little say beyond being able to pass laws they cannot control the implementation of, the Fed is able to print money (and has been, liberally, at the direction of Treasury, which is under the direct control of the White House) but cannot control where it gets spent after being printed, and Wall Street is only under obligation to follow the rules laid down for it while making reasonable profit on it's endeavors while collecting investment dollars to be put into industry and business to produce products and jobs. Despite the liberal/socialist/Marxist hue and cry that all profit is evil, it is that profit that creates the jobs we don't currently have, because the administration, though printing of money at an alarming and inflationary pace while enacting unreasonable and unfair regulation that stifles productivity, reinvestment and enthusiasm, either doesn't understand business, or doesn't care about business theory and therefore only seems intent on dragging it all down to the crisis level where it can then nationalize it all "in the best interests of the country" and thereby enact the socialist/Marxist state they apparently have desired for this country since the Empty Suit, at the tender and impressionable age of 10, sat on the knee of Frank Marshall Davis and was indoctrinated in Soviet-style economics.
 
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You know, I am screamingly sick and tired of being accused of being a "lib" because I have the audacity to defend the current POTUS. Look, I'm not a lock-step neo-con nor am I a screaming left wing nutjob. I would just prefer if people would do themselves a favor and do a little research on the current economic mess before laying it all at the feet of the current POTUS. The signs and symptoms were there LONG before the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. moved in.

Therefore...go do some research, some homework.

I am not a fan of the presumptive GOP nominee...there is something about him that bothers me. I can't put my finger on it, but there's something fishy there. The current POTUS...I am not exactly a fan of either. However, around here if you ain't a flag wavin', apple pie eatin', bible thumpin, fox news watchin' true blue "patriot", you're a left wing radical....

Hey darlin...I'm dangerous...a woman with a brain, common sense, the ability to read and got an education...in ENGINEERING!!!! Yep...dangerous...and I'm sick and tired of the right-wing parroting and pandering. For heaven's sake, go read differing points of view and get your head out of the sand...Use your brain for something other than keeping your head from imploding!!!!
 
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You know, I am screamingly sick and tired of being accused of being a "lib" because I have the audacity to defend the current POTUS. Look, I'm not a lock-step neo-con nor am I a screaming left wing nutjob. I would just prefer if people would do themselves a favor and do a little research on the current economic mess before laying it all at the feet of the current POTUS. The signs and symptoms were there LONG before the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. moved in.

Therefore...go do some research, some homework.
I have. The content of my last post should have spoken loudly to you that not only have I done the research, I followed it where it goes.
However, around here if you ain't a flag wavin', apple pie eatin', bible thumpin, fox news watchin' true blue "patriot", you're a left wing radical....
Unfair and untrue, but if that makes you feel better ...
Hey darlin...I'm dangerous...a woman with a brain, common sense, the ability to read and got an education...in ENGINEERING!!!! Yep...dangerous...and I'm sick and tired of the right-wing parroting and pandering. For heaven's sake, go read differing points of view and get your head out of the sand...Use your brain for something other than keeping your head from imploding!!!!
It continually amazes me that we on the right are accused of being narrow-minded and out of touch by people who then go on to be far more narrow-minded and out of touch than what we are accused of, no offense intended and not necessarily speaking of you. We keep getting accused of not thinking, not researching, not observing, we are accused of degrading and discounting the intelligence of women simply because we disagree with them, we are accused of a politics unacceptable only because it doesn't agree with the current administration, and we are accused of not bowing down and worshiping the liberal/leftist/Marxist idols of welfare, political correctness and "tolerance" (except, of course, when it is us that expect to be "tolerated"). Many may consider themselves "centrist", but the rhetoric screams loudly of being somewhat east of there. Sorry if that offends anyone.
 
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Searching Student - I see that you are fairly new to this site so let me fill you in. The VAST majority of the people on this site are conservatives who will blame Mr. Obama for EVERYTHING. To far too many people on this site, he is even the antichrist. They would rather accept the "truth" from Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, etc, then from you.
In fact, far more people than you would think possible, will not even vote for Mr. Romney because of his Mormon beliefs. They will either vote for someone else or stay at home - giving Mr. Obama a de-facto vote instead. When Mr. Obama wins again in November, then they will have 4 more years to complain about him.
 
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Hi searching student,

I'm in agreement with you and quite frankly, while there may have been other options that may have worked out better or worse, I think the currently sitting POTUS has done a fairly good job of keeping our economy from just falling into the bottomless abyss. You are correct that this economic problem has been brewing for a long, long time. If it were just our President's fault, then why is Greece, Ireland, Great Britian and nearly every other nation that had a seemingly strong economy also failing. President Obama surely doesn't have any great effect on their economies.

I agree with you that to straighten this problem out, it is of much more importance that we work through our legislature than through the office of the President. It is, after all, the legislature that wields the greater power over our financial pocketbook. However, the bottom line is that this crisis was headed down the pike whether we voted in President Obama or John McCain and there isn't any evidence that his leadership or policies would really have made one wit of difference to the current unemployment rate. Everybody just thinks that their way is better.

God bless you.
In Christ, Ted
 
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Just one small correction :)

You're Title states that Employment is over 8%, as far as I can remember in my last 30+ years, employment has always been over 8%, closer to %90 ;)
Unemployment on the other hand :)
Edit, later in the day when I was awake: Doh!

Fixed now. Thanks for the heads up. Which makes the below somewhat absurd now, as a response to your post. I'll leave it, however as it can serve to support many salient points that have come up.

I believe it was fairly low under Clinton also, but only because for the last six years he had to deal with a conservative Republican Congress that wouldn't let he and Hillary raid the US treasury on a whim.

This chart of Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows the Bush years from mid-first term forward.

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Critics will note that while it broke above 7% the last six weeks President Bush was in office, it didn't skyrocket until March of '09, simultaneous to the Empty Suit's miserable poorly thought out second stimulus.

Here's the yearly rate since 1920 up through 2010.

Year/Rate: 1920 5.2 % 1928 4.2 1930 8.7 1932 23.6 1934 21.7 1936 16.9 1938 19.0 1940 14.6 1942 4.7% 1944 1.2 1946 3.9 1948 3.8 1950 5.3 1952 3.0 1954 5.5 1956 4.1 1958 6.8% 1960 5.5 1962 5.5 1964 5.2 1966 3.8 1968 3.6 1970 4.9 1972 5.6 1974 5.6% 1976 7.7 1978 6.1 1980 7.1 1982 9.7 1984 7.5 1986 7.0 1987 6.2 1988 5.5 1989 5.3 1990 5.6% 1991 6.8 1992 7.5 1993 6.9 1994 6.1 1995 5.6 1996 5.4 1997 4.9 1998 4.5 1999 4.2 2000 4.0 2001 4.7 2002 5.8 2003 6.0% 2004 5.5 2005 5.1 2006 4.6 2007 4.6 2008 5.8 2009 9.3 2010 9.

United States Unemployment Rate 1920–2010 — Infoplease.com

Beginning in Jan. 2006, data are not strictly comparable with data for 2005 and earlier years because of the revisions in the population controls used in the household survey. That tended to make the numbers lower in these latter years than they would have been before.

Critics will also note that, contrary to the story as told by liberals regarding Roosevelt "leading the country into economic recovery, he actually made things worse (sound familiar?) with his high rate of government spending and "programs" (now called "stimulus packages") during the Great Depression from the time he took office in 1932 until the first full year of a wartime economy during World War II.
 
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ItsJustMe...if you think I'm "politically correct" then you don't know me. I'm a lot of things but PC ain't on that list. I calls it as I sees it.

and...why is it that any time someone disagrees with your baloney, they are immediately labeled "Marxist"??? Why? You enjoy labeling and name-calling?

Respectfully sir, you are as much of the problem in this country as our current gov't. If you think that Mitt the twit is going to charge in on his white horse and fix everything, you are sadly mistaken. His financial policy has been proven to not work. His numbers do not work out.

Now...you may be a true-blue GOP kool-aid drinker, but there are many who are not. And, some of us have been part of that 8% unemployed for a period of time.

If I remember, you objected to the president's "you didn't build that" speech, but you didn't ever respond to the FACT that success is dependent on many factors and it's not something that happens in a vacuum. You even refused the idea that GOD is the one who would be ultimately responsible for your success or failure, in favor of doing it all on your own. Isn't that what Satan said?

The economic mess is GLOBAL. Did POTUS have responsibility for the economic debacles in Europe? If so...man, he's one potent POTUS. The "conservative" economic policies don't work. EVERYBODY needs to pay up. The higher wage earner pays more even in a flat tax scenario. As it stands, if something isn't done, the sequestration will go into effect, starting with the defense budget. BUT...neither side of the aisle would compromise on anything and an adversarial process dragged on and on and on. Too many are too enamored of their ideology to inject a little common sense into this whole mess and realize that compromise and working TOGETHER for the greater good is what is needed. (Oh wait...that might also be considered "marxist" here).

Whatever...I got nothing left to lose...
 
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42 months in a row: Employment over 8%:clap::clap:^_^^_^ that's so funny!

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maybe he meant 42 months in a row, Employment above 90%
.................or maybe he meant 42 months in a row, No New Wars.
...still yet, he could have meant 42 months in a row, Taking Care Of Bizness!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCIUf8eYPqA&feature=related
 
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why is it that any time someone disagrees with your baloney, they are immediately labeled "Marxist"??? Why? You enjoy labeling and name-calling?
have labed no one but Obama and those who support his Marxist ideas as Marxists. Reread my posts, please. Obviously, from your previous post in which you said you aren't that supportive of our Empty Suit in the White House (my words, not yours) you shouldn't take offense, since you don't support him "that much."
Respectfully sir, you are as much of the problem in this country as our current gov't. If you think that Mitt the twit is going to charge in on his white horse and fix everything, you are sadly mistaken. His financial policy has been proven to not work. His numbers do not work out.
Who proved that, please? Where? Statistics, charts, graphs and a PowerPoint presentation would be helpful if you can provide them. I've been hearing that for months, "It's been proven Romney's economic policies don't work" but I've seen no one offer one iota of proof that is true, particularly in light of the fact his economic agenda mirrors the one forced on Bill Clinton by a Republican majority for six years, and continued by George Bush for six more, until the Democrats gained control of the House and started stalling everything. Both Clinton and Bush spent too much money, though I can hardly say Bush didn't have an excuse with two wars going on -- a discussion I'm not going to get into because the justification of those wars (my perspective) versus your view they were unjustified, is a non-productive revisitation to a subject that, for good or bad, has already been resolved and would be pointless to take up space rehashing.
Now...you may be a true-blue GOP kool-aid drinker, but there are many who are not. And, some of us have been part of that 8% unemployed for a period of time.
And since it didn't go above 8% until the first Obama stimulus and hasn't come down yet, I'm sure you're regularly writing letters of protest to the White House about it's economic policies and over-regulation and over-taxation of small business, the driving force for jobs and a healthy economy, are you not? By the way, how is it proper to criticize my naming Obama and his supporters "Marxists" but it is perfectly reasonable to call me a "kool-aid drinker" which, as you may recall, is comparing me to the most deluded, naive groups of people in history? Surely you can do better than that.
If I remember, you objected to the president's "you didn't build that" speech, but you didn't ever respond to the FACT that success is dependent on many factors and it's not something that happens in a vacuum.
On the contrary, I acknowledged the contributions of teachers, coaches, parents. Certainly they have a hand in establishing the character it requires to build a successful business. Interestingly, you never mentioned the likes of Bain Capital, without which AMC Entertainment, Aspen Education Group, Brookstone, Burger King, Burlington Coat Factory, Clear Channel Communications, Domino's Pizza, DoubleClick, Dunkin' Donuts, D&M Holdings, Guitar Center, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), Sealy, The Sports Authority, Staples, Toys "R" Us, Warner Music Group and The Weather Channel would not exist. Funny, neither did Obama. I guess they're only willing to credit approved types of assistance that really don't build the business at all, because if they credit Bain and other venture capitalists, it kind of makes the rest of their economic theory look dumb, doesn't it?
You even refused the idea that GOD is the one who would be ultimately responsible for your success or failure, in favor of doing it all on your own. Isn't that what Satan said?
One, I never said that and I would never fail to give glory to God, and if you bothered to read people's profiles and look beyond the labels you have chosen to attach to them, you might find out how seriously they take their relationship with God. Simply because they don't fit your idea of a Christian doesn't mean their faith should ever be discounted to the extent they would not give Him all the glory due Him, which is an infinite amount. Two, stooping that low seems to indicate you have more than a political agenda against me. It would be interesting to know what that is. After all, you go out of your way to confront me when you obviously know full well I will respond with reasoned and intelligent refutations, and will never change my mind.
The economic mess is GLOBAL. Did POTUS have responsibility for the economic debacles in Europe?
I've said nothing of the international economic crisis. The Empty Suit is incapable of understanding business, or he simply doesn't care about business. There is no other excuse for his efforts to systematically dismantle the free enterprise system. However, since you've brought the subject up, perhaps you are not knowledgeable of the fact that European nations are debtor nations ... to us? Which means that if they don't keep up their loan payments to us, they are threatened with default, just as we are if we don't keep our loan payments up to China, which has no one to be beholden to, but is printing money so fast and artificially propping up their yuan through foreign market manipulation that no one realizes everybody owes everybody else and there is no money to pay it. The world has been bankrupt for at least four years and doesn't want to admit it.
If so...man, he's one potent POTUS. The "conservative" economic policies don't work.
4% unemployment, low-cost loans across the consumer and business landscape, productivity at an all time high, welfare at an all-time low. No, they didn't work at all, did they?
EVERYBODY needs to pay up. The higher wage earner pays more even in a flat tax scenario.
Dead-on-arrival liberal rhetoric. I thought you said you think for yuorself? The top 1% of wage earners in this country pay 10% of total tax revenues. The top 10% of wage earners pay 70% of total tax revenues. Meanwhile, the bottom 46% of wage earners pay no tax at all. How could that be more fair? The tax increases the Empty Suit proposes would raise an additional $8.5 billion next year. We spend that as a nation once every eight days. Does that still sound like a reasonable plan to you?
As it stands, if something isn't done, the sequestration will go into effect, starting with the defense budget. BUT...neither side of the aisle would compromise on anything and an adversarial process dragged on and on and on.
One side of the aisle will not compromise. The Republican House has passed four budgets since last November, the Democratic Senate hasn't voted on one in three and a half years. The Obama budget went to the House, which starts all tax revenue bills and budgets, and it was voted down unanimously!That means that 197 Democrats voted against it, too. They don't like their own president's fiscal policies -- at least not in an election year. Seems to me all that needs to be done is Harry Reid gets off his posterior and puts the bill the House passed Thursday on the Senate floor and extends the Bush era tax cuts for another year, and get a compromise in place. Sorry, but your contention the Republicans have done nothing is simply untrue. They've written four bills, to varying degrees making the ffort to attract Democratic support. Apparently Reid et al care no more for being the cause of a financial crisis world wide that Reid himself cares for the truth.
 
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If "conservative" policies worked so well, then this whole economic crisis would never have happened. The roots of it go back to the Bush administration. It did not magically happen on 1/20/08.

The problem is we have not had many conservative policies in place for the last 100 years. We have had mostly progressive, one worlders, elites crap in place..

The last 2 years of Bush , the congress was in the hands of Dems. and that includes a Senator Obama.

I agree it did not start with Obama, but he has done every thing that can and will make it worse.

Obama thinks he knows it all while in fact he knows very little. Has he releasted his college transcripts yet ? ( if he has , I missed it)
 
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The problem is we have not had many conservative policies in place for the last 100 years. We have had mostly progressive, one worlders, elites crap in place..

The last 2 years of Bush , the congress was in the hands of Dems. and that includes a Senator Obama.

I agree it did not start with Obama, but he has done every thing that can and will make it worse.

Obama thinks he knows it all while in fact he knows very little. Has he releasted his college transcripts yet ? ( if he has , I missed it)
I thought Obama graduated from college and has a birth certificate too. Has Romney released those questionable tax returns yet, I haven't heard.
 
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If "conservative" policies worked so well, then this whole economic crisis would never have happened.
A pleasant enough generality with no supporting evidence as proof. Anyone can write a sentence that says "he did it." That's not evidence. That's an accusation. And accusations have no standing unless their is accompanying proof. Again, 4% unemployment, low-cost loans across the consumer and business landscape, productivity at an all time high, welfare at an all-time low all speak far more loudly of proof conservative economics work than any accusation does to the contrary.
The roots of it go back to the Bush administration. It did not magically happen on 1/20/08.
No one can blame government or political philosophy of any stripe for the housing bubble, which was pure greed that used loopholes in oversight to sneak billions of dollars of worthless electronic transactions through the system until someone, ultimately, wound up holding the bag. Had we not panicked, elected an economic moron and his liberal/Marxist cronies to office in reaction, the right people would have been arrested, tried and imprisoned and Wall Street would have righted itself in less than six months, absorbing the losses and moving on while everyone cluck-clucked about the housing correction. Instead, Idiot-in-Chief mismanaged the government's end of the economy, saber-rattled by immediately starting his wealth-redistribution talk directed at small business and thereby scared 31 million corporations out of market expansion and job creation. As a result, unemployment remains above 8% for the 42nd straight month and thankfully, Idiot-in-Chief will be sent packing to Chicago in short order.
 
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An incumbent President inherits what his predecessor left behind.
And with Obstructionist Republicans in the House, Obama can't hope to change history and move forward against a wall of opposition like that.

U.S. Unemployment During 2nd term Bush43 (Both parties charted)

What What can't be forgotten also about the deficit under Obama is that when Bush43 entered the office for his first term he arrived after Clinton left the nation with a surplus.

So, Obama inherited the deficit Bush43 had 8 years to accrue.
But everyone always tries to make it appear as if everything now is Obama's fault. When it's both sides of the aisle that govern this nation.

And one side diametrically opposed to anything Obama proposes isn't going to get U.S anywhere fast.

Certain of the Republicans have said their goal in taking back the Presidency in 2012 is to return America to Bush43 style politics and policy.

And when Obama takes the election in 2012 it's going to get worse because the Republicans won't have a chance to unseat him then,so it's not a matter of biding their time till the next election that could oust him. They'll just have to bear him for another 4 years no matter what.

And as bad as they are now hoping to throw him out of office in his bid for a second term, it's going to be a nightmare when he wins reelection in November.

I pray for our country. That partisan politics would rather 8% than a united government for America.Rather than against a President. :(
 
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An incumbent President inherits what his predecessor left behind.
Bush's economy was going great guns for seven and a half years. It was the same economy left him by Bill Clinton, though Clinton can't claim total credit because he had a Republican House and a Republican Senate dictating his economic policies to him. All Empty Suit had to do was right the ship. He wasn't capable of doing so and has instead seemed intent on dismantling the free enterprise system and instituting redistribution of wealth. Not surprising since he was indoctrinated by none other than Frank Marshall Davis in Marxism when he was only 10.
And with Obstructionist Republicans in the House ...
Oh, isn't it fun to throw around labels? Too bad they aren't accurate. The Republican House has passed four budgets since last November. The Republican House has attempted to adopt Simpson-Bowles, the president's prize commission he appointed to rid the nation of the deficit. The Republican House has sent invitation after invitation to the Senate and to the White House to get together and talk about finding solutions. What has Empty Suit and his cronies in the Senate done with these pieces of legislation and these overtures?

Nothing.
Nada.
Zip.
Zero.
Diddly.

So what have they done proactively?

Tried to raise taxes at a time when even Bill Clinton says it's not smart.
Tried to redistribute wealth through health care and taxation.
Tried to lay the blame for what could have been a mere three-month glitch in the economy at the feet of the man who built an economy that had 4% unemployment (not rising above 7% until the last six weeks of his presidency) and jobs creation from the 31 million small businesses the Empty Suit is now trying to tax into oblivion as the "rich" of this country.

Who's obstructionist??
 
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Ah, Partisan bias. :) Label fondness continues.

Do back up your statements with fact links please. :)





Bush's economy was going great guns for seven and a half years. It was the same economy left him by Bill Clinton, though Clinton can't claim total credit because he had a Republican House and a Republican Senate dictating his economic policies to him. All Empty Suit had to do was right the ship. He wasn't capable of doing so and has instead seemed intent on dismantling the free enterprise system and instituting redistribution of wealth. Not surprising since he was indoctrinated by none other than Frank Marshall Davis in Marxism when he was only 10.Oh, isn't it fun to throw around labels? Too bad they aren't accurate. The Republican House has passed four budgets since last November. The Republican House has attempted to adopt Simpson-Bowles, the president's prize commission he appointed to rid the nation of the deficit. The Republican House has sent invitation after invitation to the Senate and to the White House to get together and talk about finding solutions. What has Empty Suit and his cronies in the Senate done with these pieces of legislation and these overtures?

Nothing.
Nada.
Zip.
Zero.
Diddly.

So what have they done proactively?

Tried to raise taxes at a time when even Bill Clinton says it's not smart.
Tried to redistribute wealth through health care and taxation.
Tried to lay the blame for what could have been a mere three-month glitch in the economy at the feet of the man who built an economy that had 4% unemployment (not rising above 7% until the last six weeks of his presidency) and jobs creation from the 31 million small businesses the Empty Suit is now trying to tax into oblivion as the "rich" of this country.

Who's obstructionist??
 
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