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Obama: Extending Unemployment Benefits Will "Create Jobs Right Now"
RealClearPolitics ^ | August 5, 2011 | RealClearPolitics

Posted on 08/05/2011 11:16:38 AM PDT by Hoodat

PRESIDENT: "So, when Congress gets back in September I want to move quickly on things that will help the economy create jobs right now. Extending the payroll tax credit to put a thousand dollars in the pocket of the average American worker. Extending unemployment insurance to help people get back on their feet. Putting construction workers back to work rebuilding America.

"Those are all steps we can take right now that will make a difference and there is no contradiction between us taking some steps to put people to work right now and getting our long-term fiscal house in order. In fact, the more we grow the easier it will be to ease our deficits."

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KEYWORDS: economy; obama; unemployment
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So if we leave the equilibrium of unemployment benefits unchanged, then there will be a change in the number of jobs.

The truth simply is not in these people.

1 posted on 08/05/2011 11:16:44 AM PDT by Hoodat
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To: Hoodat

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2759133/posts


2 posted on 08/05/2011 11:17:39 AM PDT by RockinRight (If we're "teabaggers" then they're "d-baggers.")
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To: Hoodat

He is such a moron.


3 posted on 08/05/2011 11:17:54 AM PDT by KansasGirl
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To: Hoodat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Kh7nLplWo


4 posted on 08/05/2011 11:21:06 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Mr. Weiner...Don' t Tweet your meat. It's too late to delete!)
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To: Hoodat

So when all of us are unemployed.....?


5 posted on 08/05/2011 11:21:08 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Hoodat

All of the freeloaders will cheer the news of continued unemployment benefits, but I don’t think it has a chance in hell of passing in the House...


6 posted on 08/05/2011 11:21:27 AM PDT by Beaten Valve
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To: Huskrrrr
Leftard solution:We should all just be born with a permanent unemployment check.
7 posted on 08/05/2011 11:22:47 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (My mind is like a steel trap: rusty and illegal in 37 states.)
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To: Hoodat

Obama’s back to smoking the crack pipe.


8 posted on 08/05/2011 11:23:42 AM PDT by RickB444 (Worry about and distrust anyone who fears a lawful person owning a gun.)
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To: RockinRight

As a rule, when good things happen, Obama gets the credit. When bad things happen, it’s someone else’s fault.


9 posted on 08/05/2011 11:24:48 AM PDT by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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All of the freeloaders will cheer the news of continued unemployment benefits.

I wonder what percentage of this bunch do want a job??


10 posted on 08/05/2011 11:24:54 AM PDT by True Grit
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To: Hoodat; Admin Moderator

This is a RealClearPolitics story. Not Politico.


11 posted on 08/05/2011 11:25:02 AM PDT by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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To: Hoodat

I’d like to ask him if he can hear himself when he’s talking. However, he’s just reading what’s on the ‘prompter, so it has no meaning to him, anyway.


12 posted on 08/05/2011 11:25:22 AM PDT by edpc (Ruck Famadan)
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To: KansasGirl

You know, at least when Biden gaffes he usually knows what he said is silly. This idiot BELIEVES the crap he says! Unemployment benefits are not JOBS!


13 posted on 08/05/2011 11:25:29 AM PDT by politicalmerc (The whole earth may move, but God's throne is never shaken. I think I'll stand by Him..)
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To: Hoodat

That’s an easy one:

We extend UB for 1 year.
We reduce the corporate tax rate to 15%.
We exempt overseas profits to the 15%.
We eliminate capital gains taxes completely.

DONE FREAKING DEAL !!

That’s a one page bill right there boys and girls.


14 posted on 08/05/2011 11:26:53 AM PDT by onona (I stand with SARAH !)
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Obama: Extending Unemployment Benefits Will "Create Jobs Right Now"

This guy and the people around him have a severe mental disease. It's called STUPID.

The quicker we get rid of this turd in a punch bowl, the better off we will all be.

15 posted on 08/05/2011 11:28:31 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: Danae; Admin Moderator

Oops, you are correct. I apologize profusely for my egregious error. I will gladly accept ‘posting probation’ for the next 30 days.


16 posted on 08/05/2011 11:28:41 AM PDT by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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To: Hoodat

Speaking of equilibrium, as an old sailor, I learned very quickly if I had a leak in the bottom of my boat, I could very quickly bail water INTO the boat in an attempt to equalize it to the water outside my boat, then bail more water into my boat to push it out the bottom, back into the gulf. Problem was I just couldn’t bail fast enough!!!


17 posted on 08/05/2011 11:30:26 AM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: Hoodat
1. Extending the payroll tax credit to put a thousand dollars in the pocket of the average American worker.

We've been doing that and its had no discernible effect on job creation - we've been shedding jobs for 3 years.

2. Extending unemployment insurance to help people get back on their feet.

Another existing program that adds debt and encourages non-productivity, but does not create jobs.

3.Putting construction workers back to work rebuilding America.

Well now, how do you plan to do that Merlin, since it takes an expanding economy, housing/commercial demand, and cash or credit...that is unless you plan on them being union workers for government construction jobs. Stimulus 3; another bankrupt idea.

I can't wait for this disastrous bus tour.

18 posted on 08/05/2011 11:32:50 AM PDT by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
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To: Hoodat
The truth simply is not in these people.

John 8:44
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

19 posted on 08/05/2011 11:33:13 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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You know, when he meets with foreign leaders, and talks to them in a casual way, he must say things even more ridiculous than this.

Our friends must worry that he's an idiot who cannot understand their problems and will not provide help, and out enemies must think he's an idiot and that they can use that to their advantage.

20 posted on 08/05/2011 11:34:56 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
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