to pad their stats Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > hmmmm? Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Why does number of people participating in the > > labor force keep shrinking week to week? > > > So they can say unemployment is lower when its > really not lower, only the number of people > look
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Infrastructure is more than just bridges, Smacky Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > From the NYT, January 27, 2009: > > "More than a quarter of the nation’s bridges are > structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. > Leaky pipes lose an estimated seven billion > gallons of clean drinking water every day. And > aging sewage systems send bill
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friskydingo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I know saying this is so cliche... but you really > need to get a blog. No shit. I'd sooner lick Satan's taint. Which probably isn't much worse than this forum come to think about it. My god! Time for another vacation.
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Maybe not! I know this flies in the face of "conventional wisdom" but that's what I do. Click on the links below and delve deeper for yourselves. The facts may surprise you. Ask yourself where are all these crumbling roads and bridges at? Why aren't thousands of people dying every day if things are so dire?! Why can I drive virtually anywhere coast to coast and not be hindered by anything other
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Put your blinders back on Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > All you need to do is look at Reagan's "progress" > on unemployment and inflation at this point in his > first term. If you hold him to the same standard > you are holding Obama, his first term was largely > a fairly until about the summer before the > election. > > Our infrastru
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I always like how liberal dullards only response is infrastructure, education/jobs programs, programs, programs and more programs. Must be a DNA thing. 1) Our infrastructure is in great shape and for the most part well maintained but for some reason we always need to "rebuild our crumbling infrastructure". Why???....answer- To feed the unions tax payers money who then feed Democrats campaign co
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The volatility of BLS stats haven't changed with their latest press release this morning. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf Another 50,000 unemployed workers were simply dropped from the work force in December alone making it almost 2 million jobs less in the active labor force than when Obama took office. Looking deeper let's take a look at table A-16. http://www.bls.gov/news.re
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Gentle people, gentle people............ These are the flailing's of a desperate man. Obama's own internal poll numbers are looking nearly impossible to overcome. This is the reason he has given up on the white working class support. His hopes now rest on the main stream press trying to convince everyone they can that we are headed in the right direction as a country, race baiting, class-ism, an
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Damn! And I even tried to put pictures in it to make it more interesting for you dolts.
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As usual I have to put this issue in proper perspective as I am the only one here who can. Obama's recent "recess appointments" are nothing more than an election year maneuver designed to triangulate himself above the "obstructionist congress" (read republicans) and advance his class warfare re-election strategy against the evil banking system,"Wall Street against Main Street" and protecting the
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Let's take a look at the Korean Peninsula since the "Dear Leader" has assumed room temperature. How has socialism worked out for the North Koreans? Picture tells a thousand stories; Korean Peninsula at night For the one fifth of the worlds population trapped in China things aren't much better. And if The environmental socialists in our country had their way we'd be the same.
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village idiot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > While I'm not sure about some of your other ones, > I agree with #7. I think at this point Romney > will get the nomination and defeat Obama. #6 and #7 are contingent upon the various states of 1 through 5.
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My annual stream of consciousness. Without doubt the paramount issues to be decided in 2012 are intertwined. The economy (global and domestic), the election and the fate of Obamacare. *The Global Economy; Structurally nothing has changed that would effect positive economic growth here or abroad. Currently our federal reserve and Timothy Geithner are working balls to the wall trying to insure
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Looking at the PDF this headline comes off as a bit optimistic. WASHINGTON (AP) — Entering 2012, President Barack Obama's re-election prospects are essentially a 50-50 proposition, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. It found that most Americans say the president deserves to be voted out of office even though they have concerns about the Republican alternatives. http://ap-gfkpoll.com
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TheMeeper Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Firrat Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > > The religious believe that we're going too far, > > and that we are crossing the line with God. > > Religious people are pretty stupid when it comes > to comprehending the real world and should be >
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Britdrnva~ Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Numbers I too don't visit this site much > anymore...occasional lurk...but that's neither > here nor there. > > McSmack - good post - though I disagree we have > reached the limits of our knowledge there is so > much we still do not know. But this is > nonetheless a profound step in science. E
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In 1982 the unemployment rate was north of 10%. I was almost done with school and needed a summer job bad. I had applied for a position that I wasn't quite qualified for but wanted to prove I could do it. The employer said he'd like to hire me but with only an associates degree at that point he thought he could find better qualified candidates. Being desperate I told him right in the first interv
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More cool stuff out this afternoon. "The concept seems to border on science fiction. It envisions a behemoth mother ship with twin, narrow fuselages, featuring six Boeing Co. 747 engines attached to a record 385-foot wingspan, plus a smaller rocket pod nestled underneath. Expected to weigh roughly 1.2 million pounds, the combination would roughly match the maximum takeoff weight of the largest
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I've asked the same question. At a cost of app $5 billion what will be our return? maybe we will find out how to manipulate sub atomic particles to some benefit? Who knows. It is possible that given enough power they may be able to create "mini" black holes. Highly improbable they'll find the answer to the modern "dark matter" theory but if they wind up bending time and space we could be talkin
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I don't know. I doubt she'll survive the enemies she automatically made by circumventing the education and experience it takes to move up the traditional journalistic ladder to success. Maria Shriver was also hired by NBC so the networks penchant for bedding down with Democrat players is well known and I'm sure part of this is to score brownie points with Bill. "Rock Center" is embarrassingly
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TheMeeper Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > mcsmack Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > We may have reached our limits of knowledge. > > I think that was the tagline from the last GOP > debate. Nice jab. Also could be the tagline for this forum. Talk about an abyss. Cary needs to clean house.0 dialogue,
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We may have reached our limits of knowledge. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203430404577096330121408786.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLETopStories
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Congress mandated purchase of 250 million gallons in 2011. Actual production: 6.6 million. "To recap: Congress subsidized a product that didn't exist, mandated its purchase though it still didn't exist, is punishing oil companies for not buying the product that doesn't exist, and is now doubling down on the subsidies in the hope that someday it might exist. We'd call this the march of folly, but
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http://poststuff5.entensity.net/120911/slayer.php
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Bill.N. Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Macky, if you actually believed that shit, you are > stupid...and that is something I have not accused > you of before. Misguided or uninformed or > allowing your self interest to influence your > judgment, yes, but not stupid. > > Giving tax breaks, be they deductions or credits, > for PERSONAL exp
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Bill.N. Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Big Dog Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I want my change back... but... at least he is > > working on getting us out of Iraq. Otherwise > it > > has been a waste of an admistration. Oh and > thanks > > for making me pay for everyone else's health
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ64HO8ksFI
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FurfaxTownie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > To be fair, nothing has been proven, so far. You are right but it's not looking good for the Godfather.
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It looks like it's over. Almost like a mini meteor. Riding high in the polls then gone in a flash. But for crying out loud. If he felt it necessary to start a 13 freaking year extramarital affair is this the best he could do??? Jesus H. Christ Herman! Fugly! You gotta do better than that bro. Take a cue from Bubba who's your age and one of his booty calls, 45 year old Canadian jet setter Bel
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Jimmy Kimmel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > While I agree with Carolla on the self-entitled, > everyone gets a trophy bullshit, I don't agree > with him on the 1% mantra. The 1% pays 40% of the > taxes, but they also control more than 40% of the > wealth. The bottom 50% pays next to no taxes. That > means the middle 49% is paying a disproportion
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