I guess these folks are bored, so they make their jobs more interesting and themselves superior by thinking that we can't handle the truth. Thanks for the vote of confidence! Next time, just ignore the lowest common denominator, OK? They'll always be there no matter what you do.
"People are very sensitive to remarks like that, so I had some real grave concerns about us stepping out and I wanted to make certain that we were right to message the State Fair events that way." Nothing to see here folks. Move along.
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# 2, Yes and color on color. I've seen it all. We all have but sphinx it all. Age, sex, height, wealth, education, doesn't matter what race anything to gain an upper hand or advantage.
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I think Dale has a point. It's just one group of folks finding a common denominator to make themselves special or get a leg up by whatever is available. Skin pigment is the most visible, next to sex and age. Scary thing is, if some one stabbed me and some one of anothe race, no one would know whose blood was whose. We all bleed red.
[Dawn] President Barack B.O. Obama promised a fresh slew of measures to boost the ailing US economy on Friday after fresh data showed unemployment was again on the rise.
Obama said he would outline a fresh helping of boodle next week, after a keenly awaited Labour Department report showed the economy lost 54,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate edged up to 9.6 per cent.
Although the job losses were much better than the 120,000 slump expected by Wall Street economists, hiring was not substantial enough to return millions of crisis-hit Americans to work.
Obama acknowledged the report was "not nearly good enough" but focused on news that the private sector created 67,000 jobs in August, many more than expected.
"That's positive news and it reflects the steps we have already taken to break the back of this recession," he told reporters at the White House.
But it was not enough to offset the government releasing around 114,000 temporary census workers, which helped nudge up the unemployment rate. Still, the figures were also greeted positively on Wall Street. The figures were "hardly great news but could have been much worse," said Ian Shepherdson of High Frequency Economics.
Stocks surged on news that the report had cleared rock bottom expectations.
But the still-high headline unemployment rate and slow hiring presented a stiff challenge for the White House as it struggles to help the jobs market to its feet.
Tackling one prong of that challenge Obama on Friday redoubled efforts to reassure Americans that the economic outlook, although bleak, would improve. "I want all Americans to remind themselves there are better days ahead," he said. That's right, by Gum! There's an election coming this November, and another one in 2012.
"Even after this economic crisis, our markets remain the most dynamic in the world. Our workers are still the most productive."
In a bid to make good on that promise Obama pressed Republican foes to stop blocking tax cuts for small businesses and hinted at a new package of measures, which are rumoured to include an income tax holiday and a permanent extension of the research and development tax credit.
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Hey! I got an idea! How about you extend the Bush tax cuts?
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permanent extension of the research and development tax credit.
Hmmm, just what is this item paired with, I wonder?
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Throwing money at the problem won't work. Americans were burned by the stock market, and are resisting re-entry. Until confidence is restored, the President should have promoted a well regulated corporate-bond financing system, to ensure secure payroll and inventory financing. As it is, next generation techonlogy initiatives - Nanotechnology, Semantic Web, etc applications remain as business plans in dormant files. Leaving entrepreneurs broke, won't stimulate the economy.
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Why is the First Succubus suggesting another stimulus (or is it "tickle-me") package. Was not the first one sufficient to buy enough votes?
Heard that the First Chupacabra will be on campaigning trail. Where the First Succubus works in campaigns as a run of the mill poison, the First Chupacabra may be a vitriol or even cyanide. I'd suggest she starts as soon as possible.
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Thankfully, we are already fully aware of the worth of "promises" from the great Impi Warrior King. Now if the lazy bugger and his famished, two-chairs bride were to announce their early retirement......
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Give more credit to the founding fathers.
The checks and balances built into the system (e.g. the November elections) will allow us to survive BO's administration.
BO wasted his chance at history by pursuing a health care reform that nobody wanted. The dems wasted their chance by backing home ownership for people that shouldn't own homes.
The republicans can cement their place in history by trusting the wisdom of our founding fathers.
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"I want all Americans to remind themselves there are better days ahead," he said.
Yes, President Shit-for-Brains, and the start date is November 2, 2010!
1st. All of the original stimulus dollars isn't spent from what I am aware of. So now he want's to get money from where that doesn't exist to try and stimulate an economy he is destroying with his policies?
2nd. 67,000 jobs were created in August. Okay, how many were lost? In order for unemployment to go up, doesn't that imply we lost more than we gained? Also, how many of these were temp jobs? What of careers for people?
3rd. Making governemtn jobs better than any private job is competing with private industry. All you will do is make the problem worse. Of of course, knowing the great autocrat, maybe this is what he wants in order to create his beloved kingdom with he at the head.
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If Bammo, Biden, Pelosi and Reid all dropped dead tomorrow (or did the honorable thing and off'ed themselves) I'm confident the stock market and jobs market would recover almost immediately.
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I believe that. This bunch doesn't have a clue about how to create jobs. They have a disdain for the private sector. They believe that they are smarter and more talented than 10s of millions of people in the private sector.
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I'm confident the stock market and jobs market would recover almost immediately.
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If the pubs win big in November, look for a big market rally. If the pubs chase our exhaulted Impi King and the dems, Hildebeast, whomever, from office in 2012, look for a huge market rally.
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They believe that they are smarter and more talented than 10s of millions of people in the private sector.
Yeah, we'll let the smart people run things. The only problem I see with that is historically you end up with either trashed economies or mountains of corpses. Or both.
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