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WH Senior Advisor: Unemployment Stimulates the Economy
Fox News ^ | Insanity in the form of Valerie Jarrett

Posted on 02/22/2012 7:57:35 AM PST by Lazamataz

This evening, speaking at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina, White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said that folks getting and spending unemployment checks is a healthy thing . . . because it stimulates the economy: "Even though we had a terrible economic crisis three years ago, throughout our country many people were suffering before the last three years, particularly in the black community," Jarrett said. "And so we need to make sure that we continue to support that important safety net. It not only is good for the family, but it's good for the economy. People who receive that unemployment check go out and spend it and help stimulate the economy, so that's healthy as well."

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To: Lazamataz

PLEASE GOP (whoever is the nominee), use statements like this in the campaign. Normal people will see this as what it is: doubletalk to explain away persistent, unacceptably high unemployment.


61 posted on 02/22/2012 8:54:20 AM PST by PghBaldy (Bart Stupak. Onece again, Obama proves he is not an honest broker. He can't be trusted.)
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To: andy58-in-nh

They already are there....Glenn Beck played clips of the press touting how good for the environment $5 gal gas was...yesterday!


62 posted on 02/22/2012 8:55:22 AM PST by goodnesswins (2012..."We mutually pledge our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor")
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To: Lazamataz

Unemployment. Its a good thing! /s


63 posted on 02/22/2012 8:55:34 AM PST by Hang'emAll (Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Lazamataz

If we go out and break every single window in every public building, just think how prosperous life would be for those who repair windows, manufacture glass, transport the glass, sell glass, etc.

Life would be great! Only idiots like us conservatives seem unable to grasp that concept.


64 posted on 02/22/2012 8:55:38 AM PST by rlmorel ("A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." Winston Churchill)
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To: Lazamataz
"WH Senior Advisor: Unemployment Stimulates the Economy"

Is this one of those satires I usually fall for?

65 posted on 02/22/2012 8:56:59 AM PST by NoGrayZone (Jim "Firebrand" Robinson endorses Newt...with EPIC call to action!!)
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To: Lazamataz

Hell, checks for everyone! We’ll have unemployment down to 0 percent by Nov! woohoo! Vote Obama! /sarc


66 posted on 02/22/2012 9:00:44 AM PST by corlorde (Drone strikes: the preferred method of killing by Nobel peace prize winners since 2009)
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To: denydenydeny

Isn’t it amazing how over 50% of America will be utterly stunned when the country goes bankrupt and there’s anarchy in the streets? ‘How did this happen’, they’ll ask. Democrats will say the dastardly republicans did it and there will be civil war.


67 posted on 02/22/2012 9:01:18 AM PST by bigdirty
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Awesome. All we need for a full recovery is 100% unemployment.

Reminds me of the old joke about the four engine airliner. The pilot comes on the speaker and announces they just lost engine #3 and would therefore be arriving 15 minutes later than planned.

Ten minutes later the pilot comes on the speaker again and announces that they just lost engine #2 and would be arriving 45 minutes later than planned.

15 minutes later the pilot comes on the speaker and announces that engine #1 was lost and they would now be arriving 1 1/2 hours later than planned.

The business traveler in seat 5A leans across the aisle and says to his traveling companion: "Dang, if we lose the 4th engine, we'll be so late, we'll miss the meeting."

68 posted on 02/22/2012 9:02:11 AM PST by Go Gordon (President Poverty - President Downgrade - President Food Stamp - President Pantywaist - B. H. Obama)
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To: Former Proud Canadian
Obama did not cancel the Keystone pipeline.

zer0 must be quite proud of cancelling the economic de-stimulative Keystone project. By Cancelling it, he was SAVING the economy - all the 20,000+ folks that would have been employed are now helping us all by being unemployed, and spending their unemployment checks, and stimulating the economy! Yayyyy!

69 posted on 02/22/2012 9:20:57 AM PST by C210N
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To: goodnesswins; LUV W

70 posted on 02/22/2012 9:21:56 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Lazamataz

Let’s STIMULATE THE ECONOMY by sending O-Jackass and the twits working for him to the UNEMPLOYMENT LINE!


71 posted on 02/22/2012 9:22:12 AM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Lazamataz

“These people are completely bat-shit crazy.”

Laz, you said it all!


72 posted on 02/22/2012 9:26:27 AM PST by Batman11 (Obama's poll numbers are so low the Kenyans are claiming he was born in the USA!)
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To: C210N
zer0 must be quite proud of cancelling the economic de-stimulative Keystone project. By Cancelling it, he was SAVING the economy - all the 20,000+ folks that would have been employed are now helping us all by being unemployed, and spending their unemployment checks, and stimulating the economy! Yayyyy!

But wait, didn't he try to blame Republicans for cancelling Keystone? Doesn't this mean he shoud be crediting the Republicans for a great economy?

The mind loops and knots.

That is the intent of the Big Lie technique.

73 posted on 02/22/2012 9:29:24 AM PST by Lazamataz (If you only think about a diet, only your brain loses weight.)
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To: rlmorel
When the Broken Window Fallacy has been effectively institutionalized by your government, economic disaster is only a matter of time.
74 posted on 02/22/2012 9:29:41 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Lazamataz
I would dearly love to believe these people are bat-shit crazy. But I do not. What I believe is that they are bat-shit hungry for power.
75 posted on 02/22/2012 9:31:34 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Lazamataz
So it logically follows that the higher the unemployment and the more unemployment checks issued, the better the economy will become. So why not put everyone on unemployment and then the economy will really be great?

Question: Where does the money come from to fund those unemployment checks? Just asking....

76 posted on 02/22/2012 9:33:28 AM PST by kabar
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To: Babba Gi

“We are part of the one percent who like to work.”

I’m sorry for your wife’s job loss but isn’t it great to be part of the 1%?


77 posted on 02/22/2012 9:33:28 AM PST by rhubarbk
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To: Lazamataz

WH Senior Advisor: Obummer Being Unemployed Will Stimulate the Economy


78 posted on 02/22/2012 9:33:42 AM PST by bunkerhill7 (jobless Obummer- Great! - who knew?)
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To: Lazamataz

Laz,

They are far from crazy. Libs are willing to tell any lie, break any law, destroy any people to stay in power

The fools/crazies are the ones who believe them!

Be well


79 posted on 02/22/2012 9:35:16 AM PST by MindBender26 (New Army SF and Ranger Slogan: Vengeance is Mine, sayeth the Lord.... but He subcontracts!)
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To: Lazamataz

How do you deal with such utter stupidity??
Especially when such stupidity isn’t reported, or ridiculed by the media, but in fact, CHEERED by that same media?


80 posted on 02/22/2012 9:35:30 AM PST by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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