Posted on 08/03/2010 9:35:04 AM PDT by Nachum
When the Commerce Department reported Friday that the economy had grown at a humble 2.4 percent in the second quarter, even the liberal Washington Post suggested President Barack Obamas policies were not leading to the sort of economic growth necessary to reduce unemployment, which has risen from 7.7 percent to 9.5 percent since Obama took office.
The recovery is fading, and a troubling pattern is setting in: economic growth that is too slow to put Americans back to work, said the first paragraph in the Posts report on the new GDP numbers.
But in the worldview presented in an early environmentalist manifesto co-authored by Stanford Universitys Paul and Anne Ehrlich and John P. Holdrenwho is now director of Obamas Office of Science and Technology Policy--sluggish growth would not be seen as the troubling pattern the Post perceives it to be. In fact, it might be viewed as a positive.
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Great idea! Yep starving people will make them happier! Who wrote this fiction?
if Paul Ehrlich was right then jobs would not be getting outsourced to India (since he predicted that they would all starve to death by 1985)
Earth to morons -Lead by example. You cut your work week down, take the pay cut that comes with a 20-hour work week (and the loss of benefits that go with part-time work) and tell us how that works out for ya!!
I never cease to be amazed at the idiot ideas that looney leftists cook up for everyone . . . . but THEM!!!
Astonishing that Paul Ehrlich even has a job. He has been wrong so many times before. Whatever he says the opposite is probably the truth.
Will Obama's green advisers, Holdren and the Ehrlichs, lead by example?
in other words when the USA looks like Haiti
I’m with Abe! :)
America is looking more like France every day!
My Democratic relatives still have their hands out waiting for Obama to pay for the college education of their little darlings. For which they have not saved nuttin.
I can see all Of Hollywoods elites going for these ideas,Hey Bill Gates start dishing it out pal,time to give it up ,all you Millionare PUBLIC SERVANTS give it back and join our Obamacare plan,Jump in the waters fine.
You have to love these people ,First question to these paragons of Virtue,Sir When do you plan to turn over the deed to YOUR property ,your Bank accounts,your Automobile etc?
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