[Iran Press TV] Former President Jimmy Carter, ... the worst president ever... who had been transported to a hospital after an emergency landing during his book tour, is in good health, an official says.
Carter, who had become ill during the flight, was rushed to MetroHealth Medical Center Tuesday morning immediately upon his flight's landing at Cleveland Hopkins Airport due to an undisclosed medical problem, The Los Angeles Times quoted an airport spokesperson, Jackie Mayo, as saying.
Fox 8 News quoted the Carter Center Press Secretary Deanna Congileo as saying, "While on a flight to Cleveland, former US President Jimmy Carter tossed his cookies and, upon arrival, was taken to MetroHealth Medical Center for observation. He is resting comfortably and is expected to resume his book tour this week."
Carter, 85, was scheduled to appear at a book signing of his latest book, White House Diary at the Joseph-Beth Booksellers at Legacy Village on Tuesday afternoon.
MetroHealth hospital is the closest to the airport and the only level-one trauma center in Cleveland, Medpage Today reported.
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... the worst president ever...
Well, so far he is the worst ex-president ever. That may change in January 2013 after Obama leaves office.
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Nice health care you received there, Jimmy. It'd be a shame if anything happened to it . . . .
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Maledicta Press, which began as academic research into the use of profanity and curses around the world, listed as one of its favorites a curse used by Greek homosexuals: "May your hemorrhoids hang like grapes."
It is forever associated in my mind with Jimmy Carter.
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It was great health care for the elitist ex prez. They closed the emergency room and kicked all the people out so it would be empty for him when he got there.
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Are you suggesting Pan, that these people be treated as mortals?
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I certainly hope no one was put in serious risk when they were evicted from their ER. I have never cared for Carter but I wish him a speedy recovery. And for those kicked out for the elitist pig, I hope them the best as well.
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I suspect his best bet would be a morality play, with the emphasis on how men should marry women, and be good fathers, not just fool around. From there go on about how men should respect women, etc. Get the women's vote.
Jump from there to talk about setting up micro banks to help start small businesses, bringing lots of jobs to the area.
WASHINGTON--Senate Republicans voted to defeat an effort by the Democratic majority to bring up legislation that would take aim at U.S. multi-national corporations moving manufacturing jobs overseas.
The attempt by Democrats to turn to the legislation rather than dealing with the more thorny question of how to deal with the expiring Bush-era tax cuts was largely a political decision heading into the November midterm elections.
Democratic leaders had all but conceded they didn't have the requisite 60 votes to begin debate on the Senate floor on the legislation, but they said they wanted to get Republicans on record voting against an attempt to protect U.S. jobs.
"It's an important political message when the number one issue is jobs," Sen. Richard Durbin (D., Ill.) said Monday. "I want to tell you, I think [Republicans'] position on this is indefensible."
Republicans countered that the legislation would raise taxes on the largest U.S. companies, which are responsible for much of the job growth in the country.
In the end, the vote was 53-45 with four Democrats and one Independent senator joining Republicans in voting against proceeding with legislation. These included Sen. Max Baucus (D., Mont.), the powerful chairman of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee. The other Democrats were Sens. Ben Nelson (D., Neb.), Jon Tester (D., Mont.) and Mark Warner (D., Va.), along with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I., Conn.).
The bill would have used a combination of tax penalties and credits to induce large employers to retain manufacturing jobs in the U.S.
It would have ended two tax measures currently available to large corporations that Democrats argue allows firms shipping jobs overseas to benefit from doing so.
One credit that would have been ended currently permits companies that close U.S. facilities in favor of opening a factory overseas to claim the expenses they incur in doing so off their income tax burden.
Another tax break Democrats wanted to close would affect the ability to defer payment of income tax on revenue generated overseas by U.S firms.
Those companies that have moved operations overseas but continue to sell products back into the U.S. would lose the right to defer the taxes on this income. This portion of the bill has been voted on separately by Senate lawmakers before and defeated.
A third prong of the bill would reward firms that have previously shipped jobs overseas by offering a payroll tax holiday on new employees they hire in the U.S.
With the defeat, Democrats will not likely address the issue of offshoring jobs until after the midterm elections to be held on Nov. 2.
The U.S. manufacturing sector has been one of the hardest hit by the severe economic downturn, and states that have a significant manufacturing base are those with the highest jobless rates. Both parties need to get b^&*( slapped for not doing anything sooner about this.)
But there have been recent of positive growth, with employment growth in the sector outstripping that in the wider economy in recent months.
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Reverse 50 some years of inflation, repeal the minimum wage and maybe we could keep some of those jobs here.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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Trending now: Americans bitch slap Bill Clinton and at least repeal every asskneed thing he did with tariffs. And Nafta, flush twice,please because this country is about to have a facking midlife crisis if some more jobs and shite don't materialize.
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The Chinese "stole" nothing. The sell out of Americian manufacturing has been going on for nearly 50 years, perhaps longer. Since Nixon went to China it has accelerated dramatically. Kissinger picked up on the potential after seeing the Post-War recovery of Japan. Remember how we used to laugh at cheap, Japanese cameras and other imports? Well, the laugh was on us. Ross Perot saw it coming as did many others. Remember his quote about a "Giant Sucking Sound?" Anyone think former Kissenger & Assoc. employee Tim Geithner speaks Chinese because it was an easy college language elective? This is all about cheap labor and Wall Street, Walmart junk marketed to fly-over country making minimum or near minimum wage. Schwinn bicycles and Studebaker cars are not gone because no one rides a bike or drives a car any longer. The "New Reality" is we're headed to Buenes Aires folks. Is everyone on the bus?
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Germany is the world's biggest exporter of manufactured goods.
Of course, anyone calling for measures to stop Germans stealing American jobs would sound like an idiot.
The reality is that high added value, high skill, high wage manufacturing still prospers in the developed world. It's the low added value, low wage jobs that have gone to China. And it's mainly the rent seeking unions that want them back.
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"It's the low added value, low wage jobs that have gone to China"
That is wrong too, Chinese build everything. You Americans will not know by what will be hit. Starting with this stupid protectionist WSJ piece. It seems free market is good when only suits WSJ.
Your crap schools, your socialist media... in past America achivement was most important now Americans are enamored of Process: Red Tape and Governement.
The only solution that you have is to extend the Republic beyond the People: In Protecting the people stuff :property, income, public dept from ravages of State.
Limit of Taxes and Debt in Constitution is the only solution for Western World.
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With respect to businesses manufacturing overseas:
what kind of environmental impact study do you need for your plant in China vs. here in the states?
Posted by: Grenter, Protector of the Geats ||
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WWI destroyed Europe, physically, intellectually, and financially. It was in the unserviceable debt that they spent to win at all costs that lead eventually to part II, aka WWII. This was in the minds of the American leadership in the 70s. One of the objects was to avoid a major WWIII, not just a nuclear exchange but the costly grinding conventional engagement as well. We'd had a taste in Korea in the 50s. The Beltway boys decided to move China not by war or force but by trade, to make the linkage so dependent as to avoid a conflagration. That was a long strategy. So far it has panned out. While so many here will hand wring and bemoan the loss of low skill high paying manufacturing jobs and the current economic situation, none will ponder the uglier what if of a massive war in confrontation that would have consumed lives and society on the scale of the first half of the 20th century. Or to paraphrase Orwell, "We were always at war with Eastasia."
The real problem is the lack of focus, or ability, to insure that the market really is free. When China refused to float their currency by the late 90s early 00s to allow the natural adjustment of value of labor and trade, the Beltway [of both parties] refused to press the point. That's when the issue should have been pushed. You can throw in the limp wrist response to infringement of intellectual property as well. When the dollar does collapse, the value of labor in the US will compete with any other nation. It'll also impact those holding Treasury paper [can you say China], devaluing dramatically that which should have been permitted to adjust slowing and naturally in an open market system. Their loss will be just as much of their own action in refusing to 'play by the rules' of free market.
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You may have a small point there Phosing Big Foot3922 but you'd be starving, Japanese Unit 731, upright primate medical experiments if it were not for the US, so you and your Communist Chinese masters can go collectively phuech yourselves.
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I don't really understand why the bulk of those low skill manufacturing jobs were never created in Mexico. Yeah now it would be stupid but a decade ago... The transport costs all around would have saved a bundle and the science and leadership could have come out of the US directly. Is it because of Mexican law against foreign ownership?
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"It's an important political message when the number one issue is jobs," Sen. Richard Durbin (D., Ill.) said Monday.
The underlying bill was intentionally written with very broad language. It was then introduced under rules for limited debate or amendments and therefore had no chance for passage. Even some Democrats conceded the bill would do very little to address outsourcing and that some of the tax language may actually hinder job growth. IOW, it was another political charade intended as a talking point for the Union saps to blather about at their upcoming commie rally.
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To respond to Richard's question. Albeit, something akin to introducing Cheech and Chong to a bong. The scripted, 'for consumption' Washington policy justification for Chinese outsourcing was an attempt to introduce capitalism and free market interprise to a impoverished communist regime in the hopes it would see the light and adopt a more collegial attitude toward the West. How altruistic no?
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I don't really understand why the bulk of those low skill manufacturing jobs were never created in Mexico.
If you compare Mexico and South Korea, you'd have to ask the same thing. SK doesn't have the abundant natural resources, vast arable lands, as large population, or an immediate large neighboring market willing to consume products 'made in'. South Korea arose from literal war devastation in the 50s, to around number 13 in national GDP while Mexico is around number 11.
The reason is the ruling class in Mexico operates the place like a fiefdom. Both, by written and social law, foreign firms have to take a 'family' member to operate the Mexican investment. It's family like the Godfather. The caste maintains its social and economic position at the expense of the rest of the population. That's why they've dumped 10 million of their mestizos y indios on the US to avoid the potential for revolution or reform when they can't keep them in place with the usual nationalistic jingoism. Corruption takes that much out of a society. Raising the standard of living for the population would endanger their control over that fiefdom. Cause nothing smells more like a threat to a ruling caste like a large prosperous middle class. Why do you think they seek to destroy it here? /rhet question.
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Procopius is dead on as usual. To add a bit, the Mexification of US labor brings along with it the added plus of part-time work, lower wages, and benefits. No need to export, just permit time and immigration to resolve the issue by themselves.
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"You may have a small point there Phosing Big Foot3922 but you'd be starving, Japanese Unit 731, upright primate medical experiments if it were not for the US, so you and your Communist Chinese masters can go collectively phuech yourselves."
Why do you think i am Chinese?
I am Portuguese, we are bankrupt and America is going our way.
To do anything in America there is need of a battalion of lawyers, paperwork to the top of a room, and political cover.
In my country the Political Cover and Subsidies are essential.
So more and more people choose Employmenism: Protest low salaries say business is made by incompetents but don't want anything to do with entrepreneurship.
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Those low-skill manufacturing jobs that were not shipped abroad (China is only one of many countries eagerly accepting what to them are very high-paying jobs) have been replaced at home by robots. This is because the manufacturing unions priced their people so high that it was worth spending an awful lot of money and effort to replace them. Bottom line, those jobs are gone, whether to foreigners or machines.
The only source of new, low-skill jobs is small businesses coming on line, which will not invest either in overseas manufacturing or in robots until the venture is proved out and profitable enough to afford those costs. The unions really, really blew it.
Not. The stated rate is high, but none of the corporations are paying that. Profits are offshore just like our financial system has been moved offshore.
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The Beltway boys decided to move China not by war or force but by trade, to make the linkage so dependent as to avoid a conflagration. That was a long strategy. So far it has panned out.
What an amazingly devious and cunning strategy. Let me think, we'll sell our nuclear technology to China so they can target us perfectly, sell them our high speed computers which are used for nuclear purposes, ship all our manufacturing jobs to a giant slave-state, ship our thinking jobs to India, bring in a vast immigrant slave workforce to undercut our own workforce here in the states.
Get rid of all our health benefits to employees who cannot compete with the slaves and put them on gov't programs, plunder our financial system so there is NOTHING left.
And somehow expect that our country will survive with just a few elite at the top not paying taxes to support it all. And somehow afford to be cop to the world.
And then declare ourselves winners. Remarkable!
Posted by: Black Charlie Chinemble5313 ||
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The "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" looks better and better as the decades pass. The Japanese made something out of nothing on their overpopulated rocky islands. The Chinese have made nothing out of something given their rich natural resources: check out your local ubiquitous $Stores, Walmart and etc. When Nixon "opened" China he opened Pandora's Box...The heirs of Mao - the greatest mass murderer in history - must be chuckling.
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The caste maintains its social and economic position at the expense of the rest of the population. That sounds like another country, the one I'm currently living in.
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Black Charlie, one should also consider the problems the other guy's facing as well. They're playing a balancing game as with significant trade offs and dangers. The bets may really be who falls first.
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[Iran Press TV] Former President 
WASHINGTON--Senate Republicans voted to defeat an effort by the Democratic majority to bring up legislation that would take aim at U.S. multi-national corporations moving manufacturing jobs overseas.
