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Economist Joel Naroff, president of Naroff Economic Advisors, however, appeared skeptical about the swift corporate announcements. "It's hard to see immediately, two seconds after the bill, that they have to take these charges," he said.

This guy is asinine in his comments. Don't you know the corporations have figured this all out months before they made they came out with their remarks! Asinine remarks!

[Doogle]

NOVEMBER 2010

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“Economist Joel Naroff, president of Naroff Economic Advisors, however, appeared skeptical about the swift corporate announcements. “It’s hard to see immediately, two seconds after the bill, that they have to take these charges,” he said. “

How on God’s green earth is this man qualified as an economist? I am no where near an ‘economist’ and I can tell you how! They know the tax break will disappear, so they total up (and yes, they can do this fairly quickly with this new fangled thing called COMPUTERS) how many employees they are getting the tax credit for and multiply that times the amount of credit they received. Wala, they have a total of money they will lose this year because it’s not in their projections earlier made based on RECEIVING the now GONE tax credit.

Moron.

[Oceander]

Any paper publishing this crap should be immediately demoted from the ranks of journalism to the ranks of yellow-dog propaganda. Here's one crystal-clear example why: The reform "applies only to heavily unionized companies," Wyss said, where employees enjoy contract-protected benefits.

Pure b.s. The issue that's creating all this ruckus applies to any company that provides current retirees certain types of drug benefits, which includes both union and non-union companies. So, right there, we have a clearly calculated politically motivated lie.

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“MAY”????? If your are considering retirement....forget it. If this health care sticks, you’ll never be able to retire.