Democrat job destroyers

[tommyg]

Rufus Do you not understand Democrats took control of both houses of Congress in January 2007 and the Office of the President in January 2009. In the 6th year of President Bush's administration when the Democrats took control the unemployment rate was 4.6%. It is the Democrats' policies and agenda which have destroyed the economy and created the fear of regulations and higher taxes in employers. I refer you to view the eye opening chart linked here.http://cohort11.americanobserver.net/la ... final.html

The only way for the Democrats to stay in power is to buy votes with taxpayer money with entitlements.

[Rabbithoundjb]

TG you shouldn't cloud PMB's fantasy with FACTS. TRUTH has no place in the twilight zone.

[Pine Mt Beagles]

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[Pine Mt Beagles]

THE RECKONING
The Iraq War Will Cost Us $3 Trillion, and Much More

There is no such thing as a free lunch, and there is no such thing as a free war. The Iraq adventure has seriously weakened the U.S. economy, whose woes now go far beyond loose mortgage lending. You can't spend $3 trillion -- yes, $3 trillion -- on a failed war abroad and not feel the pain at home.

Some people will scoff at that number, but we've done the math. Senior Bush administration aides certainly pooh-poohed worrisome estimates in the run-up to the war. Former White House economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey reckoned that the conflict would cost $100 billion to $200 billion; Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld later called his estimate "baloney." Administration officials insisted that the costs would be more like $50 billion to $60 billion. In April 2003, Andrew S. Natsios, the thoughtful head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, said on "Nightline" that reconstructing Iraq would cost the American taxpayer just $1.7 billion. Ted Koppel, in disbelief, pressed Natsios on the question, but Natsios stuck to his guns. Others in the administration, such as Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, hoped that U.S. partners would chip in, as they had in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, or that Iraq's oil would pay for the damages.

The end result of all this wishful thinking? Iraq is not only the second longest war in U.S. history (after Vietnam), it is also the second most costly -- surpassed only by World War II.
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=4007=Dead U.S.men and women=

Latest Coalition Fatality: Feb 29, 2009

[Pine Mt Beagles]

Economic Leadership and a Stronger Economy

Under President Clinton's leadership, almost 6 million new jobs were created in the first two years of his Administration -- an average of 250,000 new jobs every month.

In 1994, the economy had the lowest combination of unemployment and inflation in 25 years.

As part of the 1993 Economic Plan, President Clinton cut taxes on 15 million low-income families and made tax cuts available to 90 percent of small businesses, while raising taxes on just 1.2 percent of the wealthiest taxpayers.

President Clinton signed into law the largest deficit reduction plan in history, resulting in over $600 billion in deficit reduction. The deficit is going down for 3 years in a row for the first time since Harry Truman was president.

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Annual job loss biggest since end of World War II. Unemployment rate rises to 7.2%.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The hemorrhaging of American jobs accelerated at a record pace at the end of 2008, bringing the year's total job losses to 2.6 million or the highest level in more than six decades.

A sobering U.S. Labor Department jobs report Friday showed the economy lost 524,000 jobs in December and 1.9 million in the year's final four months, after the credit crisis began in September.==2008==

The unemployment rate rose to 7.2% last month from 6.7% in November - its highest rate since January 1993.
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==END OF THE BUSH ERA=
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==PRESIDENT OBAMA FOLLOWING ===
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==FOLLOWING BUSH WITH THE HIPPOCRIT REPUBLICAN'S

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Employers slashed another 598,000 jobs off of U.S. payrolls in January, taking the unemployment rate up to 7.6%, according to the latest government reading on the nation's battered labor market.

The latest job loss is the worst since December 1974, and brings job losses to 1.8 million in just the last three months, or half of the 3.6 million jobs that have been lost since the beginning of 2008.

The loss since November is the biggest 3-month drop since immediately after the end of World War II, when the defense industry was shutting down for conversion to civilian production.

The rise in the unemployment rate also was worse than the 7.5% rate economists expected. The unemployment rate is now at its highest level since September, 1992.
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== IF HE WASN'T CARRING THE WHOLE REPUBLICAN PARTY ON HIS BACK =THE NUMBER'S WOULD BE BETTER=AS THE ECONOMY HAS STARTED TO IMPROVE==

[Rabbithoundjb]

President Clinton signed NAFTA into law which is still costing americans their jobs. President Clinton deregulated the community reinvestment act promoting years of bad loans to pile up on banks and thus collapsing the housing industry and the banking system, collapsing wall street and so on. President Clinton deregulated the futures investing guidelines driving gas among other things out of the ceiling, YEP HE DID A GREAT JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Pine Mt Beagles]

: Bill O'Reilly falsely claimed that "[m]ost Republicans didn't want" the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which was signed by the United States, Mexico, and Canada. In fact,

in both the House and the Senate, congressional Republicans voted overwhelmingly in favor of the agreement.
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[Rabbithoundjb]

WHO SIGNED NAFTA INTO LAW, doesn't matter about congress without that signature. Typical attempt to steer the discussion in a different direction, NOT working.

[Pine Mt Beagles]

Recovery Act success stimulates the push for job creation
by: John Wojcik
February 18 2010

Reports released this week show that Republican claims that the stimulus was a failure are dead wrong and the labor movement is losing no time by demanding even more government spending on jobs to break the neck of the Great Recession.

"The fact is that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is still working," the AFL-CIO said in a statement late yesterday, "generating more than 2 million jobs and laying the foundation for future economic growth." The federation said the positive results indicate that the government must continue spending heavily to create millions of additional jobs.

In a report also issued yesterday, Ross Eisenberry, vice president of the Economic Policy Institute, tracked monthly job losses before and after the Recovery Act.
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"With unemployment at 9.7 percent today, it’s hard to appreciate how much more damage the stimulus investments prevented," he said, adding, "Without the more than 2 million jobs generated by the Recovery Act, the unemployment rate would now exceed 11 percent."

Another indication that the recovery package is working, some economists say, is that the economy grew 5.7 percent last quarter – the largest gain in six years. These economists are saying the growth is largely due to the Recovery Act and that those who say President Obama’s stimulus plan didn’t work are just plain wrong.

"The fact is that the Recovery Act did work," declared EPI President Lawrence Mishel, "precisely as it was designed to work and it has helped to produce roughly 2 million jobs that wouldn’t exist if it hadn’t become law." …

One union leader said the Recovery Act impacted on much more than just the critical area of job creation, as essential as that is to an economic recovery. AFT President Randi Weingarten called the stimulus a "life preserver."

"Kids don’t get a second chance to get a good education. The Recovery Act was the help they needed, ensuring that schools continued to receive resources so that teachers could teach and students could learn."
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==Look's like the recovery act is still going ===

[Rabbithoundjb]

What a load of BULL$HIT, MORE PEOPLE BELIEVE ELVIS IS STILL ALIVE THAN BELIEVE THE STIMULAS IS A SUCCESS but you keep hope alive. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Pine Mt Beagles]

A LOT OF FORD EMPLOYEE'S WANT AGREE WITH THAT=========

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A LOT OF FORD EMPLOYEE'S WANT AGREE WITH THAT=========

WANT AGREE??? WTF does that mean???

[Chief Long Hair]

RIGHT ON Pine Mt Beagles. As always, you've hit the nail on the head.

[Newt]

You can give Clinton credit if you like. Clinton was in the White House just after the "Cold War' and before the Radical Muslims had ramped up. He was so busy making sure his zipper was fastened that he ignored the attempt by the Radicals to bring down the WTC. Once their attempt was successful most clear thinking Americans knew we had to take action. Interesting that about seventy percent of Americans agreed with Bush at the time, including the Demorcrats in the Congress. Typical Democrats, once the struggle started they bailed and used it as political tool to take over the Congress and the White House. They can cut and run in a police action but they can't run from their record of taxes and unemployment.