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2013-04-07 Home Front: Politix

Back from fundraising, Obama says the economy is still his top priority

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Posted by Fred 2013-04-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 What is he running for now?

Posted by newc 2013-04-07 01:02|| 2013-04-07 01:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Third term.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-04-07 06:12|| 2013-04-07 06:12|| Front Page Top

#3 His top priority is ruining those parts of the economy that he hasn't ruined yet, and, squeezing as many tax dollars as he can to give to his sychophants to carry on the work.

Posted by AlanC 2013-04-07 08:11|| 2013-04-07 08:11|| Front Page Top

#4 He has to improve the economy so fundraising won't take so much time from his golf game.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-04-07 08:32|| 2013-04-07 08:32|| Front Page Top

#5 What is he running for now?

Another Pelosi-Reid Rubberstamp Spendthrift Congress in 2014.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-04-07 09:30|| 2013-04-07 09:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Now, the truth is, our deficits are already shrinking. That's a fact

Nothats not a fact. Its like your wife telling you her butt has gotten smaller because next year shes going on a diet. Outside of Obamaland projected reductions in the rate of growth are not the definition of shrinking. But you knew that.

Posted by DepotGuy 2013-04-07 09:46|| 2013-04-07 09:46|| Front Page Top

#7 "It's like your wife telling you her butt has gotten smaller because next year she's going on a diet."

Perfect description of this entire "Administration," DG.

How do you spell "Bambi"? "Lying Sack of Sh*t." >:-(

Posted by Barbara 2013-04-07 09:54|| 2013-04-07 09:54|| Front Page Top

#8 It would be better if he stopped hurting it.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-04-07 12:35|| 2013-04-07 12:35|| Front Page Top

#9 The premise of his "rising, thriving middle class" idea is that we can pay for a continuing lavish level of government expenditures by taxing the "rich" (whoever they are) and not the middle class. In other news, 2+2=5. There is no way we are getting out of this hole without defaulting on our debt, either formally on by inflation (default on the installment plan), or substantially raising taxes on the middle class. Dave Burge (Iowahawk) amusingly dismantled the tax-the-rich idea here.

Another phrase I found interesting is that we need to expand the economy "so that everybody who wants a job can find one." That makes it sound like feeding your family by hard work is a quaint hobby that conservatives are unaccountably fascinated with, instead of the foundation of the American economy.

But what's the use?

Posted by Matt 2013-04-07 13:21|| 2013-04-07 13:21|| Front Page Top

#10 the only reason the UE rate is even 7.8% is that so many have quit looking for employment

Posted by Frank G 2013-04-07 13:38|| 2013-04-07 13:38|| Front Page Top

#11 Surely the President of the United States of America would never quote data from a biased, partisan, dubious, or unsubstantiated source.
/sarc.

Posted by junkiron 2013-04-07 15:41|| 2013-04-07 15:41|| Front Page Top

#12 That's about 500,000 new jobs this year, and nearly 6.5 million new jobs over the past three years
Not a word about the jobs that have been lost and most importantly the bifurcation between young and old.

Posted by tipper 2013-04-07 15:47|| 2013-04-07 15:47|| Front Page Top

#13 US economy adds just 88,000 jobs in March

Posted by tipper 2013-04-07 16:14|| 2013-04-07 16:14|| Front Page Top

#14 "so that everybody who wants a job can find one."

Ah.... young legal eagle catches a key phrase.
I don't want a job, but sadly I have one.

Posted by Shipman 2013-04-07 17:14|| 2013-04-07 17:14|| Front Page Top

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