Replies to post #169793 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[BOREALIS]

What a bunch of LOSERS !!

[Alex G]

(1) Obama does NOT appreciate the Private Sector... BULLSHIT

(2) He has already added an obscene $5-Trillion to the national debt in just 3 years... BULLSHIT

(3) He has lowered the UN-EMPLOYMENT RATE by mysteriously removing 1.5 million workers from the US work-force... BULLSHIT, private sector employment has been trending higher since the end of the Bush depression... public sector workers are now less due to facists such as Koch Bros and plutocrats like Olympia Snowe

(4) He allowed Congress to be focused on ObamaCare during his 1st year in office, instead of properly giving the US economy the highest priority... Anyone with morals or at least half a brain knows we need healthcare reform... facists and plutocrats caused healthcare reform to be watered down... still, it's a step in the right direction

(5) His clumsy rescue of GM blah blah... BULLSHIT

(6) He refuses to accept the fact that SHALE OIL makes the USA #1 in the WORLD in oil/gas reserves; he continues to push alternatives to Oil/Gas as if there is a CRITICAL oil/gas shortage.... WOW,, you are totally clueless how markets and capitalism operates... once again, BULLSHIT

(7) He speaks out when hate-crimes are committed against Blacks in the USA, but ignores Black hate-crimes against Whites; ... TOTAL FUCKING BULLSHIT

[StephanieVanbryce]

I'm getting to you .... one by one .........hold on.

[StephanieVanbryce]

This is what you have based your 1st proclamation on?

Obama does NOT appreciate the Private Sector and the genius of private enterprise, that has given the USA a very high standard of living;

he has even admitted that that he did NOT enjoy working in the private sector and called it ... "working behind enemy lines" ... .

So the proof of your first sentence is that Obama has even admitted that that he did NOT enjoy working in the private sector and called it ... "working behind enemy lines"

I thought you would be half intelligent about this but maybe that's impossible for you ... I thought you would put up some figures .. you know, showing how OUR corporations, stock market, private sector business have suffered due to Obama ... BUT of course, you didn't do that ... because it would be impossible for you to do BECAUSE they have FLOURISHED since our President Obama took over ..money is sloshing in their businesses so much so that they have been buying back their own shares ...that's right, NOT opening a new business not putting Americans back to work BUT buying back their shares because they are AWASH in cash! ....I've been looking at all of the companies that have announced buyback plans in the past two months, and most of the stocks in question are trading near their 52-week highs. Considering that the S&P 500 has more than doubled in the past three years, companies are conducting major buybacks because they have too much cash, and not because their shares are necessarily bargains. [ http://seekingalpha.com/article/350101-4-companies-buying-back-their-own-cheap-stock ]

Your (1) proclamation is incorrect, in more ways than one.

Now I will provide you with the ENTIRE statement where President Obama did NOT say working for the private sector was like working behind 'enemy lines' ...

And so, in the months leading up to graduation, I wrote to every civil rights organization I could think of, to any black elected official in the country with a progressive agenda, to neighborhood councils and tenant rights groups. When no one wrote back, I wasn’t discouraged. I decided to find more conventional work for a year, to pay off my student loans and maybe even save a little bit. I would need the money later, I told myself. Organizers didn’t make any money; their poverty was proof of their integrity.

Eventually a consulting house to multinational corporations agreed to hire me as a research assistant. Like a spy behind enemy lines, I arrived every day at my mid-Manhattan office and sat at my computer terminal, checking the Reuters machine that blinked bright emerald messages from across the globe. As far as I could tell I was the only black man in the company, a source of shame for me but a source of considerable pride for the company’s secretarial pool….

…[A]s the months passed, I felt the idea of becoming an organizer slipping away from me. The company promoted me to the position of financial writer. I had my own office, my own secretary, money in the bank. Sometimes, coming out of an interview with Japanese financiers or German bond traders, I would catch my reflection in the elevator doors-see myself in a suit and tie, a briefcase in my hand-and for a split second I would imagine myself as a captain of industry, barking out orders, closing the deal, before I remembered who it was that I had told myself I wanted to be and felt pangs of guilt for my lack of resolve.

From the Book - "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance."

now let me ask you something bitch! what would you feel like if you were the only white dude working for a company in a sea of BLACK?

To BE CLEAR! Obama did NOT SAY He did NOT enjoy working in the private sector! Actually he was concerned about enjoying it TOO MUCH!

[StephanieVanbryce]

(2) He has already added an obscene $5-Trillion to the national debt in just 3 years (the debt now stands at $16 Trillion); this is a record in terms of both percentage and raw numbers. The interest payments on this debt will kill us when rates get back up to 5% or higher.


.........This is the debt that your texas freak caused.



NOTICE "RECOVERY MEASURES" ......that would be President Obama.

Iraq is OVER, thanks to President Obama.

NOW, the bush tax cuts should expire. But 'you' don't want them to .. so stfu! .......about it. as a matter of fact 'you' want more unfunded tax cuts... all of your 'candidates for president' WOULD INCREASE the debt IMMEDIATELY if they did what they say they will do, which is MORE tax cuts, which results in HIGHER DEFICITS .... and then .......what are gonna do? ... again! .. YOU WILL STFU! You know, a suggestion, it's always a good idea when you make statements to have something that proves them .. something reliable and something that is respected as being reliable ... IF NOT, it's BEST to STFU!

[StephanieVanbryce]

(3) He has lowered the UN-EMPLOYMENT RATE by mysteriously removing 1.5 million workers from the US work-force; if
these workers were added back into the work-force, the un-employment rate would still be close to 10%.

Prove it.

I believe that presidents have nothing at all to do with the unemployment figures in the reports that are released
... you might check out what agency does, that would help clear the gnats out of that brain of yours.

NOW PROVE that Obama meddled with the unemployment report .. OR

again.

STFU!

One more thing ..YOU do NOT give one DAMN thing about our unemployed people.... IF you did ... YOU would have been FOR President Obama various JOB BILLS throughout the past three years .. AND 'you' weren't for them .. YOU were AGAINST them, you considered job plans to be communism! or socialism marxism or some other such nonsense

[fuagf]

kozuh, strike a faulty match? .. the head falls off, yet again .. on reading yours last night, guess what ..

that's what i saw .. then .. yup .. i thought ..

they will come, and responsible people did .. seriously there is a
thing such as responsibility here, too. Re one of the other comments ..

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Bureau of Labor Statistics .. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

========

History

The Bureau of Labor was established in the Department of the Interior by the Bureau of Labor Act (23 Stat. 60), June 27, 1884, to collect information about employment and labor. It became an independent (sub-Cabinet) department by the Department of Labor Act (25 Stat. 182), June 13, 1888. It was incorporated, as the Bureau of Labor, into the Department of Commerce and Labor by the Department of Commerce Act (32 Stat. 827), February 14, 1903. Finally, it was transferred to the Department of Labor in 1913 where it resides today. The BLS is now headquartered in the Postal Square Building near the United States Capitol and Union Station. The current Acting Commissioner of the BLS is John M. Galvin. .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Labor_Statistics

[StephanieVanbryce]

U.S. Extends Its Run of Strong Job Growth Another Month


Job candidates at an employment fair this week in Portland, Ore.

By SHAILA DEWAN March 9, 2012

In yet another sign of a strengthening recovery, the United States added 227,000 net jobs in February, the third consecutive month of gains over 200,000. The unemployment rate was unchanged from 8.3 percent in January, the Labor Department reported Friday, [ http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm ] as nearly a half million people who had been staying on the sidelines rejoined the search for work.

The strong job growth numbers could bolster President Obama’s effort to make the case to voters that his economic policies are working. The Labor Department also said job gains in January and December were stronger than previously reported, revising them upward to 284,000 and 223,000 respectively.

Average wages, which many economists were watching closely, ticked up as well, from $23.28 an hour to $23.31 an hour, but still trailed inflation. If growth in hiring is accompanied by stronger growth in wages, it could be a sign that unemployment among qualified workers is dropping and that more of the remaining people looking for work are not well-suited for current vacancies.

The report followed a flurry of positive economic reports about the American economy, including a continued rise in consumer confidence and growing strength in the manufacturing sector.

“We’re at what I think we could characterize as escape velocity,” said Patrick O’Keefe, director of economic research at J. H. Cohn, an accounting and consulting firm. “The jobs recovery will finally have achieved the momentum that is necessary.”

Signs of a recovery have been here before — last February, March and April saw net gains of more than 200,000 jobs each month. But then the effects of high gas prices, the earthquake in Japan and the resurgence of the fiscal woes in Europe kicked in, slowing job growth to a crawl.

“Everyone got burned last year, from being elated over the better economic data only to have their hopes dashed come spring,” said Ellen Zentner, an economist with Nomura Securities International. “If we can get past April and these trends continue, I’ll breathe easy.”

This year, the economy appears to be somewhat less vulnerable to shocks. There were 1.4 million more jobs in January than there were last April, and they were spread across more industries and more cities. Consumers have paid down some of their debt and begun to make large purchases, particularly cars. And so far, gas prices have not risen enough to dampen spending.

February’s growth was in manufacturing, professional sectors like law and accounting, hotels and restaurants, and mining. The construction industry was flat after two months of gains.

Economists cautioned that growth needed to be much stronger, and for much longer, before the unemployment rate declines significantly. But even among the long-term unemployed, some people were beginning to sense a difference.

Martin Okekearu, 58, an engineer in Kansas City, Mo., with a master’s degree, has had long dry spells in his eight-month search for work. But in the last two weeks, he said, he has received two promising leads from manufacturing firms in the area. One found his résumé on the local employment center’s Web site. It had been posted there for six months.

Mr. Okekearu was relieved that either job would make use of his skills. “My younger son says, ‘Daddy, they talk about somebody educated — you are one of them. They talk about somebody experienced, you are one of them,’ ” he said. “The job market is improving.”

Others said it had become easier to find work, but only temporary or freelance work. “My feelings are mixed about the recovery,” said Pam Sexton, 45, also of Kansas City, who was laid off by Sprint in 2009. “So far, I’ve managed to find work, but a full-time, permanent job is somehow elusive to me.”

Some economists cautioned that the jobs report might be inflated because of the abnormally warm winter, which has allowed for more construction than usual and a change in consumer spending habits, meaning that in essence February may have robbed April of its normal boost in activity.

“Because of the warm winter, there’s a question of how much consumption got pulled into the winter months — hence, you don’t get the normal uptick in spring activity,” said Steven Blitz, the chief economist at ITG, a research firm.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/business/economy/us-added-227000-jobs-last-month-rate-at-8-3.html?ref=business

[StephanieVanbryce]

For an Alinsky-loving Kenyan Marxist radical, Obama sure has a weird definition of socialism

Jed Lewison Fri Mar 09, 2012 at 06:54 AM PST



If socialism means more private sector jobs and fewer government ones, then President Obama is a socialist.
But if that's the case, then what does that make President Bush?

Oh, by the way, in the wake of today's jobs report showing 227,000 jobs were added to the economy in February and
that growth in December and January was even stronger than originally believed, it's important to remember:

David Leonhardt: The economy just had its best 12 months of job growth in more than five years.
— @DLeonhardt via TweetDeck

And lest I forget to mention:

Scott Paul: Worth noting: durable goods #manufacturing jobs up 444k since January 2010. Longest
and deepest period of #mfg jobs growth since 1993-5.
— @ScottPaulAAM via Twitter for iPad

Sorry, wingnuts. Your dream of American failure is being dashed before your very eyes.


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