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On 5 Aug 2005 07:35:54 -0700, "DICK White"
wrote: they joined freely- and believed in their cause- so do their families- and they are keeping terrorists away from our shores, and protecting YOU too snip From WHAT? Even the puppet "9/11 Commission" said that Iraq under Hussein was NO THREAT TO THE US. Soldiers in Iraq have NO way to "protect" us from the sleeper cells that Bush has activated because of his "war for oil" going on over there. I know EXACTLY what's going on over there...my kid just got done with his FOURTH TOUR. I get my info right from the action. You get yours from deluded right wing trash. Why don't YOU go over there, Noodles? You ****ing fool...I hope someone takes you apart soon. |
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no matter- you lost the election and both houses !
(falling over laughing at DoucheBob's liberal party...) |
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On 5 Aug 2005 13:39:02 -0700, "DICK White"
wrote: no matter- you lost the election and both houses ! (falling over laughing at DoucheBob's liberal party...) snip Keep laughing. It'll look funnier when your ass gets kicked. |
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how did it feel when Bush was elected twice in a row ?
how did that hurt ? that was due to me, and people like me... BWWAAHAHAHAHAHA !! you lose, Hollow Threatborough... |
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On 6 Aug 2005 05:33:39 -0700, "tracker from hell"
wrote: how did it feel when Bush was elected twice in a row ? how did that hurt ? that was due to me, and people like me... snip Yes...clueless morons like you, who are ****ing our country up into a disaster area run by corporate pigs and who want a christian taliban. You're gone soon, though. |
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Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Democrat in Congress. But then I repeat myself. Mark Twain I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. Winston Churchill A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. G. Gordon Liddy Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. Ronald Reagan (1986) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free. P.J. O'Rourke In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. Voltaire (1764) Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. Pericles (430 B.C.) No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the Democrat legislature is in session. Mark Twain (1866) The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. Ronald Reagan The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. Mark Twain There is no distinctly native American criminal class...save a Democrat in Congress. Mark Twain |
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"DICK White" wrote:
Some interesting quotes......but that Mark Twain musta got up on the wrong side of the bed. |
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The Great American Jobs Machine
August 8, 2005; Page A10 We would like to take a moment to pause and marvel at the U.S. economy. Friday's Labor Department report of more than 200,000 new jobs in July, and two million over the past year, provides the latest bullish details. But the larger story of American job creation, and its causes, is even more impressive. First, more Americans have jobs today than at any other time in history. Second, over the past two decades or so, the U.S. has created more than 40 million jobs -- twice as many as Europe and Japan combined. And third, the U.S. has one of the lowest jobless rates of all developed nations. It was only a year ago that John Kerry was blasting the "jobless recovery." Lou Dobbs was flogging "outsourcing" every night on CNN as a sign of peril for the American workforce. That criticism now looks wildly off base. The 5% jobless rate today is almost a percentage point below what it was during the same stage of the business cycle during the vaunted "Clinton expansion." In the past 24 months 3.5 million more Americans have found work, which is the equivalent of a new job for every worker in the entire state of Indiana. Every single job that was lost during the bursting of the technology bubble and stock market collapse of 2000-01 has been matched by a new job, often in a new industry. As the nearby chart shows, the bottom of the jobs recession hit in mid-2003 -- and the recovery began at the very point that the Bush marginal-rate tax cuts were enacted into law. But just when it seemed there was reason to celebrate, a new study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston warns that the low U.S. unemployment rate is a "false signal" of prosperity. Why? Because American workers are allegedly becoming discouraged in their quest to find work, and this surge in drop-out workers brings the real jobless rate to between 6% and 8%. The evidence for a surge in discouraged workers is that the percentage of working age Americans in the labor force has fallen from an all-time high of 67.3% to 66.0% today. If this seems worrisome, it isn't. The average labor force participation rate for the post-World War II period is 63% -- well below today's rate. Labor economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Hudson Institute has thoroughly refuted the Boston Fed study. She finds that "most non-participants are out of the labor force by choice -- in school, parenting their children, or retired early." Since one's future wages and employment opportunities are highly correlated with years of education, this trend toward kids staying in school longer augurs well, not poorly, for the next generation of workers. Ms. Furchtgott-Roth also discovered that the decline in labor force participation for women is mostly a reflection of good economic times and rising incomes. With median family income now above $52,000 a year, more families can maintain a comfortable lifestyle with one spouse working rather than two. Ironically, for years critics of the U.S. economy have complained that Americans are "overworked" and that "it now takes two incomes to produce the living standard that once required just a working father." To the U.S. bashers, it is a sign of decline if more people are working, and it is just as bad if fewer people are working. Workers do get discouraged from finding a job when they are unemployed for a long stretch of time. But the percentage of "long-term unemployed" workers is about two percentage points lower than it was in the same stage of the Clinton expansion. In Japan and France the share of long-term unemployed workers is three times higher than in the U.S. Germany's rate is four times higher. If America's unemployed are "discouraged," French and German workers must be feeling absolutely suicidal. None of this is meant to ignore the reality that the rapidly evolving American economy has created turmoil for many workers. In particular, older Americans in declining blue collar occupations are feeling the sting of global competition. We are undeniably losing some manufacturing jobs over time (although manufacturing output has risen as a result of new technology and productivity gains). But those positions are being rapidly replaced with information, technology and service jobs -- most of which pay more than factory work and are less physically grueling. For a quarter century the U.S. has demonstrated an unrivaled capacity to transition into the information age with record numbers of jobs gained, not lost. And we have done so while absorbing millions of baby boomers, women, and immigrants into our workforce with no increase in unemployment. Part of the explanation for this success is that, especially compared to Europe, the U.S. has imposed fewer taxes and regulations (even though we have plenty) that make it onerous for employers to hire and fire workers. A unique feature of the U.S. economy is that Americans move in and out of jobs -- usually to rise up the income elevator -- at a rapid and persistent pace. This is the key to the Great American Jobs Machine, and it explains why Europe and Japan should be more like us, and not the other way around. |
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On 9 Aug 2005 05:58:19 -0700, "tripping28track"
wrote: The Great American Jobs Machine August 8, 2005; Page A10 snipping all the right wing propaganda There IS no "job recovery." The Bushies fail to tell their sycophants that 80% of the NEW jobs added since he took over have been LOW PAYING SERVICE INDUSTRY JOBS. That's a fact, not BS, like Noodles posts. The US is going down a big, big toilet...thanks to George ****ing Bush. |
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On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 01:38:23 GMT, "William W Western"
wrote: "DICK White" wrote: Some interesting quotes......but that Mark Twain musta got up on the wrong side of the bed. snip A quick check shows that more than half of these "quotes" are fabrications, a favorite new thing the right wing does to bolster their untennable positions. Figures Noodles would fall for it. |
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