Posted on 10/06/2012 2:11:18 AM PDT by granada
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday hailed a drop in the U.S. jobless rate to the lowest level since he took office, saying the country had "come too far to turn back now," as he sought to recover from a lackluster debate performance against Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
A decline in unemployment to 7.8 percent in September, announced just more than four weeks before Election Day, gave an unexpected shine to the most vulnerable part of Obama's record - his economic stewardship - and offered him a chance to reset his re-election bid. The rate dropped from 8.1 percent in August.
The much-needed dose of positive news for the Democratic president came two days after he was widely judged the loser in his first presidential debate against Romney, who breathed new life into his own campaign.
Reinforcing a sense of momentum for Romney coming out of the first of three face-offs on the national stage, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll of likely voters showed Obama's lead narrowing to just 2 percentage points - 46 percent to his rival's 44 percent. Obama had a 6-point advantage in Wednesday's poll.
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“These co-worker ‘professionals’ of yours sound more like Architects.”
No, we are a medical devices company (yes! the very type of company who gets the 2.3% Obamacare tax on REVENUE!!), and we build heart assist products. That 2.3% we start paying next year will be about $3 million off the top ... can you say good buy to some R&D projects. But it will be the Cambridge kids who will get cut first ... the ones who love Zero.
Nope, just heart stuff. Blood pumps and ventricals.
I always wonder if I get a employee discount if I drop from a heart attack.
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