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June 14, 2011 at 7:37 PM #704648June 14, 2011 at 7:59 PM #703459
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Participantno one has a plan, do they? I mean, isn’t it all just the ebbs and flow of the marketplace. if a prez catches a good wave, he takes credit for it. nobody really affects anything. It’s like taking credit for good weather. Not saying I like Obama or don’t, just saying, isn’t any “plan” doomed from the start. Not like I’m some super free market capitalist, just saying, plans are in vain.
June 14, 2011 at 7:59 PM #703555Participantno one has a plan, do they? I mean, isn’t it all just the ebbs and flow of the marketplace. if a prez catches a good wave, he takes credit for it. nobody really affects anything. It’s like taking credit for good weather. Not saying I like Obama or don’t, just saying, isn’t any “plan” doomed from the start. Not like I’m some super free market capitalist, just saying, plans are in vain.
June 14, 2011 at 7:59 PM #704145Participantno one has a plan, do they? I mean, isn’t it all just the ebbs and flow of the marketplace. if a prez catches a good wave, he takes credit for it. nobody really affects anything. It’s like taking credit for good weather. Not saying I like Obama or don’t, just saying, isn’t any “plan” doomed from the start. Not like I’m some super free market capitalist, just saying, plans are in vain.
June 14, 2011 at 7:59 PM #704294Participantno one has a plan, do they? I mean, isn’t it all just the ebbs and flow of the marketplace. if a prez catches a good wave, he takes credit for it. nobody really affects anything. It’s like taking credit for good weather. Not saying I like Obama or don’t, just saying, isn’t any “plan” doomed from the start. Not like I’m some super free market capitalist, just saying, plans are in vain.
June 14, 2011 at 7:59 PM #704653Participantno one has a plan, do they? I mean, isn’t it all just the ebbs and flow of the marketplace. if a prez catches a good wave, he takes credit for it. nobody really affects anything. It’s like taking credit for good weather. Not saying I like Obama or don’t, just saying, isn’t any “plan” doomed from the start. Not like I’m some super free market capitalist, just saying, plans are in vain.
June 14, 2011 at 9:19 PM #703474Aecetia
ParticipantWalter, you might be right, but this quote is worth repeating: “ Life’s tough. It’s even tougher if your’re stupid.” ~ John Wayne
June 14, 2011 at 9:19 PM #703570ParticipantWalter, you might be right, but this quote is worth repeating: “ Life’s tough. It’s even tougher if your’re stupid.” ~ John Wayne
June 14, 2011 at 9:19 PM #704160ParticipantWalter, you might be right, but this quote is worth repeating: “ Life’s tough. It’s even tougher if your’re stupid.” ~ John Wayne
June 14, 2011 at 9:19 PM #704309ParticipantWalter, you might be right, but this quote is worth repeating: “ Life’s tough. It’s even tougher if your’re stupid.” ~ John Wayne
June 14, 2011 at 9:19 PM #704668ParticipantWalter, you might be right, but this quote is worth repeating: “ Life’s tough. It’s even tougher if your’re stupid.” ~ John Wayne
June 14, 2011 at 11:44 PM #703509briansd1
GuestTalking about a plan for jobs that the unemployed need right now, the NYTimes has an editorial on the Republican plan. That Republican plan is reason enough to keep Obama in office.
Asked how he would start to put the 14 million jobless back to work, Rick Santorum said he would repeal health care reform and drill for oil. Tim Pawlenty was one of several making the tired-and-empty argument that more tax cutting would “get the economy moving.” Mr. Santorum actually vowed to let the “wealth really trickle down.”
Michele Bachmann had the strangest, most simplistic economic solution of all: simply close down the Environmental Protection Agency, which she said “should really be renamed the Job-Killing Organization of America.”
Mr. Romney, the presumed front-runner, provided almost no details of his economic plan, except to attack Mr. Obama for making the recession “worse and longer.” (He didn’t mention that the recession ended in June 2009.) He said the government’s bailout of General Motors and Chrysler was a waste of money and accused the administration of catering to the auto unions. He did not mention that it saved at least 1.4 million jobs and a vital American industry, which has already paid back half the cost.
The field was silent on so many things: how to cover those without health insurance, how to improve education while slashing budgets, which popular programs to cut after the onslaught of tax reductions. It is much easier, apparently, to impress Republican voters with the facile argument that President Obama has failed.
But, at some point, those voters are going to want these candidates to start making some distinctions among themselves, and that will require far more truth-telling than was evident on Monday.
But more seriously, on jobs for the unemployed, we need another stimulus bill — a real stimulus bill that hire people and put them to work.
State and local goverment budget cuts are slowing down the economy. The Federal government needs to step in.
Paul Krugman has a good plan. I believe that it would be Obama’s plan if he could get it through Congress.
Have People in Power Turned Their Back on Job Creation? (12:07PM)
US unemployment is back up to 9.1 percent and 45 percent of the jobless have been out of work for more than six months, 30 percent for more than a year. Joblessness has become chronically high on both sides of the Atlantic, but “policy makers are sinking into a condition of learned helplessness on the jobs issue. The more they fail to do anything, the more they convince themselves there’s nothing they could do.” That’s according to Nobel-Prize winner and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who insists it’s time for governments to take action. Is stimulus spending the answer? What about the deficit? Are both Democrats and Republicans failing to govern? In the meantime, what are the consequences of chronic unemployment? Will the US go the way of Spain? We talk with Krugman and others.
How does cutting spending now and immediately paying down the national debt help the unemployed right now? That’s the question we should be asking of the Republicans and Tea Party.
June 14, 2011 at 11:44 PM #703605GuestTalking about a plan for jobs that the unemployed need right now, the NYTimes has an editorial on the Republican plan. That Republican plan is reason enough to keep Obama in office.
Asked how he would start to put the 14 million jobless back to work, Rick Santorum said he would repeal health care reform and drill for oil. Tim Pawlenty was one of several making the tired-and-empty argument that more tax cutting would “get the economy moving.” Mr. Santorum actually vowed to let the “wealth really trickle down.”
Michele Bachmann had the strangest, most simplistic economic solution of all: simply close down the Environmental Protection Agency, which she said “should really be renamed the Job-Killing Organization of America.”
Mr. Romney, the presumed front-runner, provided almost no details of his economic plan, except to attack Mr. Obama for making the recession “worse and longer.” (He didn’t mention that the recession ended in June 2009.) He said the government’s bailout of General Motors and Chrysler was a waste of money and accused the administration of catering to the auto unions. He did not mention that it saved at least 1.4 million jobs and a vital American industry, which has already paid back half the cost.
The field was silent on so many things: how to cover those without health insurance, how to improve education while slashing budgets, which popular programs to cut after the onslaught of tax reductions. It is much easier, apparently, to impress Republican voters with the facile argument that President Obama has failed.
But, at some point, those voters are going to want these candidates to start making some distinctions among themselves, and that will require far more truth-telling than was evident on Monday.
But more seriously, on jobs for the unemployed, we need another stimulus bill — a real stimulus bill that hire people and put them to work.
State and local goverment budget cuts are slowing down the economy. The Federal government needs to step in.
Paul Krugman has a good plan. I believe that it would be Obama’s plan if he could get it through Congress.
Have People in Power Turned Their Back on Job Creation? (12:07PM)
US unemployment is back up to 9.1 percent and 45 percent of the jobless have been out of work for more than six months, 30 percent for more than a year. Joblessness has become chronically high on both sides of the Atlantic, but “policy makers are sinking into a condition of learned helplessness on the jobs issue. The more they fail to do anything, the more they convince themselves there’s nothing they could do.” That’s according to Nobel-Prize winner and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who insists it’s time for governments to take action. Is stimulus spending the answer? What about the deficit? Are both Democrats and Republicans failing to govern? In the meantime, what are the consequences of chronic unemployment? Will the US go the way of Spain? We talk with Krugman and others.
How does cutting spending now and immediately paying down the national debt help the unemployed right now? That’s the question we should be asking of the Republicans and Tea Party.
June 14, 2011 at 11:44 PM #704196GuestTalking about a plan for jobs that the unemployed need right now, the NYTimes has an editorial on the Republican plan. That Republican plan is reason enough to keep Obama in office.
Asked how he would start to put the 14 million jobless back to work, Rick Santorum said he would repeal health care reform and drill for oil. Tim Pawlenty was one of several making the tired-and-empty argument that more tax cutting would “get the economy moving.” Mr. Santorum actually vowed to let the “wealth really trickle down.”
Michele Bachmann had the strangest, most simplistic economic solution of all: simply close down the Environmental Protection Agency, which she said “should really be renamed the Job-Killing Organization of America.”
Mr. Romney, the presumed front-runner, provided almost no details of his economic plan, except to attack Mr. Obama for making the recession “worse and longer.” (He didn’t mention that the recession ended in June 2009.) He said the government’s bailout of General Motors and Chrysler was a waste of money and accused the administration of catering to the auto unions. He did not mention that it saved at least 1.4 million jobs and a vital American industry, which has already paid back half the cost.
The field was silent on so many things: how to cover those without health insurance, how to improve education while slashing budgets, which popular programs to cut after the onslaught of tax reductions. It is much easier, apparently, to impress Republican voters with the facile argument that President Obama has failed.
But, at some point, those voters are going to want these candidates to start making some distinctions among themselves, and that will require far more truth-telling than was evident on Monday.
But more seriously, on jobs for the unemployed, we need another stimulus bill — a real stimulus bill that hire people and put them to work.
State and local goverment budget cuts are slowing down the economy. The Federal government needs to step in.
Paul Krugman has a good plan. I believe that it would be Obama’s plan if he could get it through Congress.
Have People in Power Turned Their Back on Job Creation? (12:07PM)
US unemployment is back up to 9.1 percent and 45 percent of the jobless have been out of work for more than six months, 30 percent for more than a year. Joblessness has become chronically high on both sides of the Atlantic, but “policy makers are sinking into a condition of learned helplessness on the jobs issue. The more they fail to do anything, the more they convince themselves there’s nothing they could do.” That’s according to Nobel-Prize winner and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who insists it’s time for governments to take action. Is stimulus spending the answer? What about the deficit? Are both Democrats and Republicans failing to govern? In the meantime, what are the consequences of chronic unemployment? Will the US go the way of Spain? We talk with Krugman and others.
How does cutting spending now and immediately paying down the national debt help the unemployed right now? That’s the question we should be asking of the Republicans and Tea Party.
June 14, 2011 at 11:44 PM #704344GuestTalking about a plan for jobs that the unemployed need right now, the NYTimes has an editorial on the Republican plan. That Republican plan is reason enough to keep Obama in office.
Asked how he would start to put the 14 million jobless back to work, Rick Santorum said he would repeal health care reform and drill for oil. Tim Pawlenty was one of several making the tired-and-empty argument that more tax cutting would “get the economy moving.” Mr. Santorum actually vowed to let the “wealth really trickle down.”
Michele Bachmann had the strangest, most simplistic economic solution of all: simply close down the Environmental Protection Agency, which she said “should really be renamed the Job-Killing Organization of America.”
Mr. Romney, the presumed front-runner, provided almost no details of his economic plan, except to attack Mr. Obama for making the recession “worse and longer.” (He didn’t mention that the recession ended in June 2009.) He said the government’s bailout of General Motors and Chrysler was a waste of money and accused the administration of catering to the auto unions. He did not mention that it saved at least 1.4 million jobs and a vital American industry, which has already paid back half the cost.
The field was silent on so many things: how to cover those without health insurance, how to improve education while slashing budgets, which popular programs to cut after the onslaught of tax reductions. It is much easier, apparently, to impress Republican voters with the facile argument that President Obama has failed.
But, at some point, those voters are going to want these candidates to start making some distinctions among themselves, and that will require far more truth-telling than was evident on Monday.
But more seriously, on jobs for the unemployed, we need another stimulus bill — a real stimulus bill that hire people and put them to work.
State and local goverment budget cuts are slowing down the economy. The Federal government needs to step in.
Paul Krugman has a good plan. I believe that it would be Obama’s plan if he could get it through Congress.
Have People in Power Turned Their Back on Job Creation? (12:07PM)
US unemployment is back up to 9.1 percent and 45 percent of the jobless have been out of work for more than six months, 30 percent for more than a year. Joblessness has become chronically high on both sides of the Atlantic, but “policy makers are sinking into a condition of learned helplessness on the jobs issue. The more they fail to do anything, the more they convince themselves there’s nothing they could do.” That’s according to Nobel-Prize winner and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who insists it’s time for governments to take action. Is stimulus spending the answer? What about the deficit? Are both Democrats and Republicans failing to govern? In the meantime, what are the consequences of chronic unemployment? Will the US go the way of Spain? We talk with Krugman and others.
How does cutting spending now and immediately paying down the national debt help the unemployed right now? That’s the question we should be asking of the Republicans and Tea Party.
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