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Social Justice wrote:

Obama's Administration promised unemployment would not go over 8.0% if we passed the situmulus.
What did we get for our Trillion dollars? Unemployment up to 9.5% and rising.
Socialism does not work- and no, Obama hasn't nationalized the whole economy yet, try as he might. So the economy will eventually get a sluggish, "jobless" recovery.
But we will not see low 5% unemployment again under Obama like we saw in Clinton-Bush years. Just wait until Obama is done nationalizing health care. Get used to scarce jobs at least through 2012. That is the change you voted for.

Social Justice wrote:

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Right, you only think Bush is retired in Texas! In reality he is hiding under a desk in the White House. Bush spends his days calling businesspeople demanding that they make Obama "fail" by laying people off. Millions have lost their jobs under Obama already. Yup, it sure is Bush's fault every time a company CEO looks at the Obama future and says "uh oh" and issues a couple hundred pink slips.

Alz wrote:

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Dev, you are 100% correct.
To learn WHY liberals are like they are, watch the and absorb the video "How Modern Liberals Think". I'll put the link in at the end.
To liberals, their ideas are helpful!
They think they are are helping humanity! How?
...Because they want everything "equal". Normal people want things better, but Modern Liberals reject this.
They have to tear at success to make things "equal." This is why they never apologize or change course when their ideas create and foster hopelessness, despair and death.
Look at the inner cities: over 40 years of intense liberalism and they won't change course. In the mean time, how many lives have they ruined??? Remember, you can't blame Bush or "the last 8 years" as they have been running things in the inner cities since the 60's - not coincidentally when the problems really started getting bad.
So what we are dealing with is people who have an entirely different belief system than normal people. Once people understand this, it gets easier to deal with them.
Here is the link. This talk is very, very good:
youtube.com/watch...

Morton mike wrote:

Why wouldn't Opie call for some help from somebody like.....say Jimmy Carter. Jimmy had experience in blowing apart the economy.

doubtful wrote:

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Do you get paid for plugging this silly "Modern Liberal" stuff? You have 2200+ posts and a very large number of them, the ones that can be read at all, just repeat these cliches over and over again without explaining anything or offering any points on the stories you presume to be commenting upon. I wouldn't be surprised if you thought that "Modern Liberals" were behind Michael Jackson's death!
So what is it, the you are selling franchises?
Or is it just that you have nothing else to say about anything?
What would you do to get employers to start hiring?
What would you do to improve the lot of the minorities in the inner cities - the people that you so despise?
Do you have anything to offer besides hawking your treasured ML clips? What is it that you think about anything - or does everything refer back to one of your five video clips or CNBC programs?

moreofthesame wrote:

Get enough people to be dependent on the goverment, they will vote for who ever promises them the most.
That's the democrat's game plan, and the main reason that democracies are always temporary by nature.
Pretty soon this country will be divided between people that work vs.
the poor and unions. It'll be interesting how the battle lines will be drawn, and what the end result will be.
barry was right, WE WON, it's a shame that the USA lost.

Economist wrote:

One of the main problems in this country can be observed in this thread. Too many people want to sit around assigning blame and nobody wants to talk rational solutions.
The division between political parties within the populus of this country is a huge issue.
But like most Americans, you would all rather post on anonymous message boards complaining than offer a solution to the very real and dire issues this country is currently facing.
Policitcians didn't kill this country. The American people and their lazy consumption based lifestyles are what ultimately will change the way of life for generations to come.

Frankly wrote:

We need to hold our elected officials (both Republican and Democrats) responsible for not fixing this unemployment mess. I understand that we foolishly based our economy of American citizens spending instead of us producing products for the world. That model is no longer working and needs to be changed. We changed to that model, we certainly change from it. With us nearing officially 10% unemployment, also include in the underemployed, banks not wanting to give loans and cutting credit card limits, and a another complete mess in the housing market - how exactly are Americans going to spend ourselves out of this mess?
Like it or not, it is time to start up the NRA (no, not that one, The National Recovery Administration) and start putting people back to work. People digging ditches and other people filling them back in is better then 10% of Americans sitting at home.
As for those who own companies and are dependent on Americans to keep your company profitable by buying your products, how is every company cutting labor costs working out for you? All you all are doing is eliminating money from your employees that they would be spending at other companies. Other companies are doing the same to you. Slowing you are putting each other out of business. This business model has a major flaw in it
It doesn’t matter who started this mess, who is charge of it or who wants to blame somebody else for it. Start acting like adults and fix it.

Bob wrote:

Can't fight statistics but.....if 14.7M people are out of work and they make up 9.5% of the workforce, this means 140.03M people are going to work each day. It also means of the over 304M people we have in the US only roughly one out of two works for a living. So if you really want to get headlines you could point out that over 50% of the amercian population is out of work. How's that for fearmongering?

Just an Observation wrote:

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Yes, but the trillion dollar question - who and how will we pay for such a recovery? If $787,000,000,000 was not enough to even make a dent, how much WOULD it take? And are we just going to shoulder it onto the next generation? If so, I'll let my kids know when they come that they should save as early as possible to retire in another country - they certainly won't be able to here!
The works projects were supported by both parties and I do believe they work to a certain degree. But without responsibile funding for such programs, it's only robbing Peter to pay Paul.

AEM wrote:

Look no further than the inner city of Chicago, Democratic bought and sold, the state of Illinois is broke the City is broke and all the Democrate politicians cry we need more taxes or we have to cut SOCIAL (wellfare) SERVICES !!! We pay our bills each month BARELY, don't want more than we earn and ask for nothing free (social services) We want the American Dream , but we want to EARN IT OURSELVES no be given it by the GOVERMENT !!! Wake up people the goverment wants us all dependent on them , this will become a nation of HAVES AND HAVE NOTS if we allow these politicians to go through with all these Social Reforms !!!!
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moreofthesame wrote:

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It's the other way around, Barry will be a liability for his congressional buddies. You'll see these guys jumping off the obaama band wagon once they see that the tide has turned. It'll be like rats running from a sinking ship.
479,000 are enjoying the Change today!

Social Justice wrote:

Get ready: an unemployment keeps going up and it is increasingly obvious the trillion dollars of stimulus failed, how much do you want to bet that Obama will want to double down and say we need another stimulus? And if you oppose another failed stimulus, you will be part of the "party of no".
The questions are will the Chinese will keep advancing Obama the money? And at some point do Americans figure out that every extra trillion dollars Obama spends that we do not now have, is another trillion that YOU or your descendents will someday have to pay back plus interest!
Obama talks a lot about dependence on foreign (Saudi) oil... when will Obama wise up to depedence on foreign money (Saudi, Chinese)?

Danaidh wrote:

I think the Bush administration was not responsible for this recession--which began in December 2007--but their actions during their final months were not helpful to the economy. He may have made things worse.
The same goes for Obama, who inherited this awful recession. I do not want to see him fail (even though I didn't vote for him), but I believe he has completely mishandled everything.
Policies, such as the global warming legislation (the one that cuts quality of life for Americans) and health care (driving out of business the system that has worked so far for so many of our citizens and replacing it with a one-size-fits-all costly government program), are simply the wrong direction for the country to take.
I don't want to wait until 2013 for the country to start heading in the right direction. It may be too late by then.

Get Real wrote:

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Don't be silly, if the Chinese stop lending us money we will just print more. This happened recently (most news sources did not report this besides the WSJ). We "printed" $400 Billion. This infuriated all of the countries with large USD reserves, i.e. China, Russia, Japan, etc. They are all calling for a basket currency for global trade instead of the USD. Remember when the EUR/USD jumped from 1.26 to 1.38 practically overnight? Policies like these make other countries uncertain about the dollar's ability to store their wealth, and therefore unwilling to purchase additional assets (i.e. treasuries). Next time he wants money these countries are more likely to flip him off instead of write him a check.