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Title: Eighteen Million Unemployed: Obama Blames Republicans.
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URL Source: http://skipmaclure.blogspot.com/201 ... -million-unemployed-obama.html
Published: Jul 18, 2010
Author: Skip MacLure
Post Date: 2010-07-18 06:32:49 by Skip MacLure
Keywords: unemployment, recession, great depression
Views: 6441
Comments: 31
Well, we saw this one coming. I, and other writers, have been warning the Republicrats in the Senate that their foot dragging on authorizing the sorely needed unemployment extension funds was going to come back around to bite them and, gee, what a surprise! Barack Obama made it the thrust of his entire radio broadcast to the nation today. I warned that Republican stonewalling on this would position the DeMarxists to be able to control the message, portraying Republicans once again as heartless and uncaring about the plight of millions of their fellow Americans. Indeed, that is exactly what has occurred. Hey! Guys! We’re on your side, but you’re not making it any easier for us out here. Instead of taking stands against things that would resonate with the American people, such as filibustering the nomination of the extreme leftist Elena Kagan, or, wonder of wonders, strongly opposing the ‘financial regulatory’ bill, which not one member of the House or the Senate has read or understands. Another thousand plus pages of job and business killing legislation, and the best the Republicrats can do is to oppose the only lifeline millions of Americans have, during the worst recessionary period in our history since the great depression. In fact, they would have a bunch of trouble convincing many Americans that it isn’t a depression. A company here in the Bay Area has just been forced to go through a second wave of layoffs. This time they are laying off senior journeymen and production supervisors. These are the guys that produce the money. Another company has been forced to lay off some of their best and most experienced managers. Both of these companies are in areas that before 2008 were considered to be largely recession proof. No one wants to see a European/UK system of a permanent ‘dole’ for the unemployed. We’ve seen the effects of the welfare plantation system fostered by the DeMarxists. It’s also equally true, as I’ve written here before, that with rare exception unemployment does not make for luxury living… in fact it doesn’t even cover the basics in most instances. Few people look on unemployment as a vacation, unless they are living at Mom’s. Spare us the pontification of telling us how extended unemployment benefits are an excuse for not looking for work. Tell it to one acquaintance of mine, with an excellent resume, who has sent out 400 plus resumes. Or another professional who has sent out over a thousand resumes, to generate a bare handful of interviews. There are over six point two people for every job opening out there. The Republican leadership had best do some severe soul-searching. No one wants more deficit spending. But these are not normal times. The unemployment extensions have to be considered a lifeline in a time of great need. The Republican leadership could have picked many issues to stand on that the people of America would have backed them up on. This is Barack Obama’s economy… it’s his insanely suicidal policies that are preventing job growth. His administration has not ‘saved’ (what the hell does that mean?) or generated 3.6 million jobs! The 300 ‘green’ jobs at a lithium battery factory were paid for lock, stock and barrel by your taxes. At last count, these miraculous ‘green’ recovery jobs cost Americans like you and me a bare 500,000 dollars per job. Guess what else? China now controls the world’s market on rare earth minerals. These are mineral elements used in strategic materials. We used to have one of the best sources of rare earth minerals in the world, until Senator Diane Feinstein and the late Alan Cranston locked them all away in another DeMarxist environmental hatchet job, so that her husband, Richard Blum, could make sweet business deals with the communist Chinese. The ugly truth is that well over fourteen million jobs have been lost and Americans need Conservative leadership that’s going to work for us, not against us. Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis © Skip MacLure 2010
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#1. To: Skip MacLure (#0)
Now tap your Ruby Slippers three times Dorothy and maybe you can come up even ONE of those and what The GOP would do instead...
There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted. -Carl Sandburg describing Creationists
The blame Bush stuff stopped working a few months back. And just wait til this week, when these unemployed Americans learn the Obama administration is saying in court briefs they have the right to 'tax' healthcare benefits under the new law....rotfl.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
Wrong!
The writer will not stay around to back up his royal edicts. One would think he would enjoy demonstrating his superior knowledge and analytical skills.
"See in my line of work, you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." --- George W. Bush (Rochester NY, 5-24-2005)
Actually, Senator Diane Feinstein was among those objecting to the sale of Unocal to China in favor of a US buyer for security reasons. One of those reasons was that the Moly mine, owned by Unocal, was part of the deal. In short, without the interference of Feinstein (and others), the "DeMarxist", China would now own the mine you claimed she closed. http://dissidentvoice.org/Aug05/Bliss0806.htm
Very true. Obama has been President for 18 months. This is all in his lap now. I learned something very important in business about 20 years ago -- successful people always take responsibility and unsuccessful people always blame others. Obama is a total loser.
If anyone is in never-never land it's you war. The Democratic Congress has enacted almost all of the Obama agenda, yet still, somehow, some way, it's still Bush's fault. What a turd you and yours are.
If you voted for Obama in 2008, you're too blame for this rotten mess we're now in. You broke it, you own it.
The seeds of the financial meltdown were sown over several years. You're like the Creationists here who believe that the meltdown of the ENTIRE US financial system can be undone with the wave of a magic wand. It took years for the mess to emerge. It's not going to go away in a year.
There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted. -Carl Sandburg describing Creationists
Ironic words, eh, guys?
There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted. -Carl Sandburg describing Creationists
True 'dat.
I'm sure once the Republicans take over again, all will be well. It's not like they're subservient to the same powers that the Democrats are.
"The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is." - Rush Limbaugh
I'm mixing up some extra special pixie dust to sprinkle around. But I'm wondering what incantation will work the best.
"See in my line of work, you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." --- George W. Bush (Rochester NY, 5-24-2005)
Republicans are far to busy protecting the tax cuts for the Rush Limbaugh's of the country to have the time to worry about the little people. After all, how much money do the little people kick into the campaign coffers anyway?
"The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is." - Rush Limbaugh
Read my blog. I started it 2 1/2 years ago to hammer Bush and his demented policies. Now I'm hammering Obama and his demented policies. Both of them are total failures.
Irrelevant. Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid, etc., all said that if we enacted the Democratic agenda things would be great. They didn't say,"Enact it, but don't expect it to work." The promised us it would work. It didn't. You and the asshats who think like you are enablers of the criminal cabal which infects D.C. Sure, you're not the guy running the concentration camp, you just happen to sit in the tower and make sure no one gets out.
If you voted for Obama in 2008, you're too blame for this rotten mess we're now in. You broke it, you own it.
Is the economy still bleeding hundreds of thousands of jobs a month?
There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted. -Carl Sandburg describing Creationists
Yes. In the last two months over 1,000,000 people fell off the UE. Now, asshat, are you going to tell me they found jobs? Go ahead, Brian S and GO 65 might fall for your line of bullshit, but the country is waking up to the lies you and yours are telling.
If you voted for Obama in 2008, you're too blame for this rotten mess we're now in. You broke it, you own it.
Meaning they were unemployed BEFORE Obama took office.
There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted. -Carl Sandburg describing Creationists
Again, irrelevant. Obama said he would find them jobs if he was elected. He said, and continues to say, that the economy has recovered, thus they should still have gotten jobs. They didn't. EPIC FAIL. We know Bush was an idiot, but Obama didn't run on eclipsing the stupidity, which he has. So War, all you can say now is "he isn't Bush." Talk about a low standard. Is that the best you can do? Where are the jobs?
If you voted for Obama in 2008, you're too blame for this rotten mess we're now in. You broke it, you own it.
Obama is a total loser. Learned the same lesson, around the same time. Owe-bama isn't a 'loser' he's just in way way over his head. We are seeing what happens when you elect somebody President thats never run or managed ANYTHING. I'm willing to bet his wife did the family's check writing.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
Chuckles...if only because it spikes your argument. Obama said he would find them jobs if he was elected. That's a nice juicy lie. What he did say was that he would impliment policy that would get the economy growing again which would mean people could go back to work. BTW, 33% of businesses in America have reported that they plan on hiring over the next 6months. He said, and continues to say, that the economy has recovered, thus they should still have gotten jobs. That statement bypasses naivete and goes straight to moronics. You are clueless.
There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted. -Carl Sandburg describing Creationists
That's a nice juicy lie. What he did say was that he would impliment policy that would get the economy growing again which would mean people could go back to work. Lies, obfuscations, distortions and half-truths. The liberals stock-and-trade when losing a debate.
If you voted for Obama in 2008, you're too blame for this rotten mess we're now in. You broke it, you own it.
So big man, you care to back that up with a prediction of lower U-6 and lower U-3? Or do you just want to throw shit out and see what sticks? Come on big man, back that up with a prediction. Right now only 56% of American adults hold a job. Care to comment on that number?
If you voted for Obama in 2008, you're too blame for this rotten mess we're now in. You broke it, you own it.
Owe-bama and company guaranteed if the stimulus package was passed, unemployment would not exceed 8%. They lied. They knew it was a lie long before they uttered it, based on the history of federal stimulus packages.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
They lied. They knew it was a lie long before they uttered it, based on the history of federal stimulus packages. Agreed. But I remember War clearly stating, in classical misdirection and obfuscation in which he excells, that the fabled chart showing the Stimulus "solution" backfiring was predicated on data and information that Obama and his incompetents didn't have! BWAH! BWAH! BWAH!!! If you voted for Obama in 2008, you're too blame for this rotten mess we're now in. You broke it, you own it.
Since I filter him, I didn't have that unique experience....(chuckle)
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
I've been saying for the last half year, that we'd be around 9% end of this year and around 8% end of next. With Europe playing Three Card Monty with their banking system, I might be a tad optimistic. But, since the export economy is doing well and that has been driven by manufacturing, that might be a saving grace. The age demographics of manufacturers tends towards the older segment of the boomers and we know that they are getting to retire. You'll have two dynamics there: A) People retiring and leaving the workforce and b) people leaving unemployment.
So you say 9%. I'll say 9.8%. Fair?
If you voted for Obama in 2008, you're too blame for this rotten mess we're now in. You broke it, you own it.
Fair? 2 months ago, I would have said fair. You might be closer than I am tho when all is said and done. We may only get down to 9.5 or 9.4. It's obvious we lost some momentum from the last elements of the stim expiring. I need to see some actual evidence that this is nothing more than a pause. I'm not sure that it is.
Um...are you agreeing with me about you? You claimed Obama promised that he would "find people jobs" when, in fact, he said that the unemployment rate WOULD still rise as his stim was taking affect.
That's a lie. What I did state was what they stated in the white paper and that the projectsions were based upon current assumptions which they were. The assumptions were too optimistic. Unemployment was over 8% BEFORE the stim was passed.
...it’s his insanely suicidal policies that are preventing job growth.
#2. To: Skip MacLure (#0)
#3. To: Skip MacLure (#0)
China now controls the world’s market on rare earth minerals. These are mineral elements used in strategic materials. We used to have one of the best sources of rare earth minerals in the world, until Senator Diane Feinstein and the late Alan Cranston locked them all away in another DeMarxist environmental hatchet job, so that her husband, Richard Blum, could make sweet business deals with the communist Chinese.
#4. To: war (#1)
(Edited)
Now tap your Ruby Slippers three times Dorothy and maybe you can come up even ONE of those and what The GOP would do instead...
#5. To: Skip MacLure (#0)
#6. To: Badeye (#2)
(Edited)
The blame Bush stuff stopped working a few months back.
#7. To: war (#1)
Now tap your Ruby Slippers three times Dorothy and maybe you can come up even ONE of those and what The GOP would do instead...
#8. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#7)
The Democratic Congress has enacted almost all of the Obama agenda, yet still, somehow, some way, it's still Bush's fault.
#9. To: jwpegler, Skip Intro, go65, Fred Mertz, mininggold, Brian S (#6)
-- successful people always take responsibility and unsuccessful people always blame others...
#10. To: war (#9)
#11. To: Skip MacLure (#0)
#12. To: war (#9)
Ironic words, eh, guys
#13. To: Skip MacLure (#0)
Well, we saw this one coming. I, and other writers, have been warning the Republicrats in the Senate that their foot dragging on authorizing the sorely needed unemployment extension funds was going to come back around to bite them and, gee, what a surprise! Barack Obama made it the thrust of his entire radio broadcast to the nation today.
#14. To: war (#9)
Ironic words, eh, guys?
#15. To: war (#8)
The seeds of the financial meltdown were sown over several years. You're like the Creationists here who believe that the meltdown of the ENTIRE US financial system can be undone with the wave of a magic wand. It took years for the mess to emerge. It's not going to go away in a year.
#16. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#15)
#17. To: war (#16)
Is the economy still bleeding hundreds of thousands of jobs a month?
#18. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#17)
(Edited)
Yes. In the last two months over 1,000,000 people fell off the UE.
#19. To: war (#18)
Meaning they were unemployed BEFORE Obama took office.
#20. To: jwpegler (#6)
I learned something very important in business about 20 years ago -- successful people always take responsibility and unsuccessful people always blame others.
#21. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#19)
(Edited)
Again, irrelevant.
#22. To: war (#21)
That statement bypasses naivete and goes straight to moronics. You are clueless.
#23. To: war (#21)
BTW, 33% of businesses in America have reported that they plan on hiring over the next 6months.
#24. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#22)
#25. To: Badeye (#24)
Owe-bama and company guaranteed if the stimulus package was passed, unemployment would not exceed 8%.
#26. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#25)
#27. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#23)
So big man, you care to back that up with a prediction of lower U-6 and lower U-3?
#28. To: war (#27)
#29. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#28)
So you say 9%. I'll say 9.8%.
#30. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#22)
Lies, obfuscations, distortions and half-truths.
#31. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#25)
But I remember War clearly stating, in classical misdirection and obfuscation in which he excells, that the fabled chart showing the Stimulus "solution" backfiring was predicated on data and information that Obama and his incompetents didn't have!
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