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Title: Is Obama the Biggest Dumbass Who Ever Lived?
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URL Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol ... verseas_to_create_jobs_in.html
Published: Nov 13, 2010
Author: Sean Alfano
Post Date: 2010-11-13 17:29:51 by no gnu taxes
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Comments: 16
President Obama is getting defensive about his attempts to play offense for the U.S. economy. The President, who is winding up a tour of Asia this weekend, told an economic conference in Yokohama, Japan Saturday that his mission is to bring jobs to America. "For America, this is a job strategy," Obama told the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference. The President added that he makes "no apologies" for trying to pump up employment in the U.S. The unemployment rate in the U.S. is currently 9.6%. In his speech, Obama promoted the idea that economic competition between the U.S. and Asian countries would be a "win-win for all of our nations." "We are invested in your success because it's connected to our own. We have a stake in your future because our destiny is shared," Obama said. He claims that every $1 billion dollars in exported goods helps support 5,000 U.S. jobs, The Associated Press reported. The President is desperate for good economic news. The stagnant U.S. economy fueled voters' anger in last week's elections, costing Democrats a majority in the House of Representatives. Obama suffered a pair of diplomatic defeats Friday at the Group of 20 summit, failing to ink a new free-trade agreement with South Korea. The President also was unable to convince world leaders to take a tougher stance against China's currency rates. The U.S. says the Chinese yuan is undervalued and that gives China an unfair advantage for its exports. Political scientist Doug Muzzio tells the Daily News that Obama's trip and the midterm elections marks the "worst 10 days of his political life." The President, however, remains positive that he can still deliver jobs and denied to reporters Saturday that his political defeats at home lost him clout abroad. "People are eager to work with America, eager to engage with America," he said. In addition to Japan, President Obama has visited India, Indonesia and South Korea during his Asian tour. When he returns next week, the President will face a contentious debate with Republicans over whether to extend tax cuts for both middle class and wealthy Americans.
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#1. To: no gnu taxes (#0)
He got what he wanted being a dumbass or not, the honor of the "biggest dumbass who ever lived" goes to those who voted for him....jmo~
"I really wanna care. I wanna feel somethin'. Let me dig a little deeper:. No, My give-a-damn's busted"~ Messina Jo Dee
The entire world knows that Obama and the Federal Reserve are headed in the wrong direction. Even Cuba is laying off hundreds of thousands of government workers. Why should the Asians listen to Obama when Obama is doing everything wrong?
So are we.... NWO mumbo-jumbo. Your buddy Bush buys into the same crap.
(sneakypete)DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Mad Dog's reply) I don't know or F ing care. Pete, MD doesn't know or care what Palin says or writes, he'll support her no matter what.
Yes, local governments are laying off workers and trimming budgets. The Federal Government with the support of the Kenyan is not.
The Federal Government with the support of the Kenyan is not. You have point - the last time the federal government reduced employees Bill Clinton was President. The federal payroll rose under Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II. Here's a tidbit from January of 2004: ----- Maybe your complaint with Obama is that he hasn't added federal government jobs as fast as your heros?
Bush slashes federal workers’ pay raise By Kate Randall (One of your fellow Commies) 5 December 2002 With its November 29 executive action slashing pay raises for 1.8 million federal workers, the Bush administration has once again revealed itself to be the political representative of the most rapacious sections of the American corporate and financial elite. A 1990 law requires across-the-board raises of 3.1 percent for civil service employees as well as a “locality pay” adjustment to compensate for the disparity between federal workers’ pay and that of workers in the private sector. A clause in the law allows the president to declare a “national emergency” in order to withhold the full amount. While both the House of Representatives and the Senate had proposed a 4.1 percent hike, approximately the same amount the military is to receive, Bush rejected the principal of civilian-military parity, limiting the raise for civilian workers to the 3.1 percent minimum. At the same time he barred any “locality pay” raise. Workers in more than 30 metropolitan areas will be affected by the locality pay freeze, including New York, Boston, San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, Cincinnati, Orlando, Kansas City and Washington DC—cities where the cost of living is particularly high and the disparity between civilian and federal workers’ pay is greatest. By the White House’s own estimates, the overall pay gap between private and government workers nationwide is about 18.6 percent. Bush’s invocation of a “national emergency” to slash the federal workers’ pay raise was a fraud. He announced his decision without any serious explanation of how cutting workers’ pay would aid the “war on terrorism.” The timing of the announcement—in an email to reporters late Friday on the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, when it was likely to receive minimal press coverage—underscored the contempt for the working class that pervades this extreme right-wing government. Bush faced little resistance. His cut in the federal pay raise evoked barely a whimper of protest from the Democratic Party and the unions representing federal workers. Bush claimed the pay increases “would threaten our efforts against terrorism or force deep cuts in discretionary spending or federal employment to stay within budget.” But the same rationale was not applied when it came to rewarding his political cronies. In a decision announced just this week, but implemented earlier this year, Bush restored cash bonuses for several thousand of his political appointees, a practice begun under the first Bush administration and barred under Clinton. These awards can total $25,000 or higher for senior political appointees, on top of salaries of $115,000 to $140,000 a year. The cutback in the raise for federal workers is the latest in a series of government measures targeting the working class. On October 8 Bush invoked the anti-union Taft-Hartley law against West Coast longshoremen, imposing a “cooling-off” period and banning any type of work action against the shipping companies. The law establishing the Department of Homeland Security, drawn up by the administration and passed last month with the support of a majority of Democratic lawmakers, will strip 170,000 federal workers of civil service protection and collective bargaining rights. The government will have the unrestricted power to hire, fire and transfer workers in the new department. In another recent move with devastating implications for federal workers, Bush announced an initiative allowing private companies to compete with federal agencies presently employing nearly half of all federal employees. Last month the Bush administration refused to broker a compromise between the House and Senate to extend unemployment payments for nearly 1 million jobless workers who will run out of benefits by the end of the year. Finally, the White House announced this week that it will repeal a Clinton-era rule that allows states to use unemployment insurance money to help families whose wage-earners take time off to care for a newborn or newly adopted child, a move that could adversely affect as many as 1.9 million working women. These anti-working class actions take place under conditions of rising unemployment, with massive job cuts announced almost on a daily basis, and growing signs of social distress among broad sections of population. They are an essential component of the general attack on democratic rights carried out by the Bush administration in the wake of September 11, including the secret detention of alleged terror suspects, the indefinite jailing, without trial, of individuals as “enemy combatants,” and mass arrests of Arab and Muslim immigrants. The latest attack on federal employees demonstrates that the essential target in Bush’s “war on terrorism” is the working class. The extreme-right forces represented by the Bush administration aim to strip working people—citizens and non-citizens alike—of their basic democratic rights and all means of resisting the attacks of the corporate elite. By contrast, when it comes to big business and the rich, the Bush administration is a source of almost limitless largess. Only a few days before the attack on federal workers’ pay Bush signed into a law a “terrorism insurance” measure that amounts to a huge windfall for the insurance and construction industries. The law guarantees up to $100 billion in federal funds for the insurance industry in the event of a terrorist attack. The Homeland Security Act was similarly tailored to corporate interests, with provisions shielding drug companies and arms makers from liability suits.
2 years later No. That would be King Bernanke. Great QE2 Vid. Explains it exactly: www.creditwritedowns.com/...ive-easing-explained.html "So in the recession, it's good for prices to increase on the things we need." 8D
www.creditwritedowns.com/...ive-easing-explained.html
Obama and his administration claim the "right" to murder anyone in the world, wherever he or she may be, for whatever reason they choose -- or for no reason at all. Obama and his administration recognize no upper limit to the number of people they can murder in this manner: they can murder as many people as they wish. And they claim there is nothing at all that may impede their exercise of this "right." This is the game entire. Understand this: once Obama and his administration have claimed this, there is nothing left to argue about. They can murder you -- and they can murder anyone else at all. What in the name of anything you hold holy remains to be "debated" once a vile, damnable "right" of this kind has been claimed? No wonder the Chinese fired that missile. Obama/US have claimed that Violence is all they understand.
Neither Bush nor his Administration was responsible for Federal Governement Civil Service policy that has long been established.
And that's just NumbNuts Bullshit. So now you, O wise one, will tell us just who can or cannot kill anyone they want at anytime they want. And how the LONG EST. FGCService Policy will prevent same. And if you cannot, whicvh you can't, that means that bush43/obama are war criminals. CinC or not. U're call. "Mr. President your base would appreciate it if you actually did a bit more than "go through the motions" especially since you seem to be reluctant quite often to seemingly even go through that. Administration aides spoke of scaling back expectations. Obama, who is already showing a willingness to compromise, bristles at suggestions that he is caving in to the GOP. Well then maybe, goddammit, you should not have Axelrod out there acting like you'll cave in on the Bush Tax Cuts.
for any of the Bad Things that you're feeling right now. That's what you're trying to say. 8D Those two kinds of examples demonstrate the vise which is being closed upon us, as we’re crushed between employer abdication and insurer predation. If the bill works as intended, we’ll end up having to buy worthless policies on the individual market at extortionate rates. TSA/Gestapo treating you like cattle. Taking your SS/Medicaid away while they can't stop the Chinese from Launching ICBM's in front of our second largest city. 8D Giving $900 billion(out of thin air;} to your fave bankster/gangster.
While OMFGPalin and bush43 can't be missed on MSMMedia: POLL WATCH Sarah Palin's Unfavorability Numbers Hit New High, Survey Finds 1 day ago And I'm SURE that bush43's #'s are still in the teens/low 20's. But Obama can't compromise enough. LMFAO
The absolution is the austerity, the extortion is the bailout.
Is Obama the Biggest Dumbass Who Ever Lived?
#2. To: no gnu taxes (#0)
"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical." -- Thomas Jefferson
#3. To: jwpegler (#2)
. Even Cuba is laying off hundreds of thousands of government workers.
On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.
#4. To: no gnu taxes (#0)
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"We are invested in your success because it's connected to our own. We have a stake in your future because our destiny is shared," Obama said.
#5. To: go65 (#3)
#6. To: no gnu taxes (#5)
(Edited)
Yes, local governments are laying off workers and trimming budgets.
Since President Bush took office, the federal government's domestic civilian workforce has increased by more than 79,000 jobs, nearly a 5 percent increase. And the number of government workers paid at least $130,000 annually has tripled.
including 10,623 new jobs at the Veterans Affairs Department, 6,501 positions at Agriculture, 1,649 new jobs at the State Department and 3,562 additional workers at the Interior Department. Even the departments of Labor and Housing and Urban Development _ federal agencies historically disliked by many conservatives _ grew slightly in the last three years.
http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=FEDSIZE-01-22-04
On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.
#7. To: go65 (#6)
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/dec2002/bush-d05.shtml
#8. To: no gnu taxes (#7)
Since President Bush took office, the federal government's domestic civilian workforce has increased by more than 79,000 jobs, nearly a 5 percent increase. And the number of government workers paid at least $130,000 annually has tripled.
On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.
#9. To: no gnu taxes (#0)
(Edited)
#10. To: go65 (#8)
#11. To: no gnu taxes (#0)
#12. To: go65 (#8)
#13. To: no gnu taxes (#12)
Neither Bush nor his Administration was responsible for Federal Governement Civil Service policy that has long been established.
#14. To: no gnu taxes (#12)
Neither Bush nor his Administration was responsible
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