Posted on 10/24/2010 4:41:44 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Airing right now...said the real unemployment is at 17.5%...showing tons of people with masters, bachelors, phd's, you name it...unemployed for 2 years...can't even get jobs at Target.
I agree....once the Republicans get in....it will ALL be because of the party of NO. Obstructionists who didn’t let the progressive agenda play out....yada, yada.... My guess...they, the Obamaites, will rally for Hillary, but not the GOP.
That would be strangely delicious to watch...
Sure they do - Pence, Boehner and others have said time and again: let them fail. The reason you see companies massively screwing up (and the taxpayer over) again and again is because Congress bails them out. Stop bailing them out. The rest will get the message.
2. They have no clue how to increase employment (and just implementing “more tax cuts” and “slashing regulations” isn’t going to do it).
Ever run your own businesses? I have, and still do so. Cut my taxes and stop new regulations, and promise both will stay that way for 5 years, and I'll hire right now. As will a lot of businesses. You don't hire now because you don't know what the tax situation will be, or what new regulation will be dropped on you as well. So you bunker down and just get along, for now.
3. They have no plan on how to deal with China.
Unfortunately, they did at one time: ignore them. Focusing on China means not focusing on the US. If the Chinese want to cut the market on plastic cups and electronics production, so be it. Most of those jobs were lost in the US not from being shipped overseas but from productivity and robotics. We build more than anyone else, but use fewer people to do it because we're much more productive per hour.
Ignore China's "trade problem" and focus on just making it competitive for business to operate in the US. We'll win, I know we can, I know the Chinese business mindset - it's an easy win if we just focus on improving our own business culture, rather than tearing down another country's economy.
4. They have no real intent on repealing Obamacare.
Pence, Boehner, and others who WILL BE in leadership in a few months have been at the forefront of calls to defund Obamacare. You know why they won't repeal it? Because THEY CANNOT. Obama will veto any repeal, and unless the GOP has 2/3rds of the House AND Senate, it's dead. So rather than tilt at windmills (repealing), they're focusing on what they CAN do - defunding. Not putting funds in the budget will get by Obama because he cannot add to a bill.
5. They have no credible plan on how to deal with the entitlement train wreck.
Never mind the 4 years of the GOP and Bush trying to push through reform of Social Security and Medicare... Now they have the economic numbers - and a scared electorate - to make it even easier.
You know, one of the biggest problems the GOP will face in the next 2 years are negative conservatives who refuse to look at reality, what's happened in the past, and what can realistically happen in the next two years. It'll be a ton of carping from the right, which is EXACTLY what is NOT needed...
Get behind and SUPPORT the GOP when they make progress; if they don't go far enough, tell them why we're disappointed in their coming up short, we're excited they went as far as they did, and they really REALLY need to keep coming. Let's try the carrot rather than always the stick...
I always believed people should have a background in some kind of trades jobs such as welding or steel work or a hundred others incase the big job you went to college for does not appear.
I joined the ranks of the unemployed last Friday.
Are you able to relocate?
Seek only the best person for the position, now. For this now, and not for any possible furture you may invent for the candidate.
Make it ten years, and repeal some of those old regulations; then we'll talk. :-)
wow, miracles never cease!
Both.
700 Rooms unsure about number of people. I’m hoping that the jet....nevermind
“Can’t believe 60 Minutes/CBS is airing this a week before the election. This is incredible. People picking from trash who had full time careers.”
Maybe these azzclowns finally realize that an unemployed society can’t buy or pay for TV’s and cable that air their garbage and pay their salaries....capitalism sure has a crazy way of doing that for ya if you let it work.
At the risk of looking like a dope I am going to post this again.
There may be others out there that don’t watch TV at all. This is well worth watching.
60 Minutes video: Unemployment Benefits: The 99ers.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6987699n&tag=mg;60minutes
You'd be surprised... One of my classmates and close friends during college earned his BSEE with me, and then he went and got an MSEE as well. Worked for 7 years before he realized it wasn't for him.
Last 10 years he's been a line cook at a greasy spoon in Portland, OR, is as happy as he's ever been, wife, 3 kids, loving life. And he makes a MEAN chicken fried steak to boot!
People change. Give them a chance!
I expect to see a big bump in economic growth if Republicans take the House and Senate next week.
Let’s hope the magic negro does not take credit for it. You know he will...
That jet and its crew are valuable national assets.
The passengers...not so much.
I absolutely agree on the spending.
This is the single biggest area of disagreement I have with the GOP right now. They like to say “We’re going to cut spending!”
I reply “Sounds good! How much?”
If the number they quote back to me doesn’t end in “trillion” I’m not impressed.
If a chainsaw-wielding politically heartless monster (eg, moi) were loosed upon the budget with a chainsaw, I could hack and slash a cool trillion out of our budget... and we’d STILL be running a deficit in the 300 to 500 billion range.
As for the defense budget: Time for the toy-shopping to come to an end. When I see the thread after thread here on FR about the latest money being pissed down ratholes on “what is the next evolution of infantry rifles?”, I wanna spit nails. Those programs are chump change in the big picture, but the point is, we gun nuts have been reading of one instance after another of these idiotic programs for, what, the last 10 to 12 years? And we’re still using a M-16 derived weapon, and 5.56 NATO ammo, blah, blah. The foreseeable future shows us that we’re going to be involved in nasty, dirty wars in dungheap countries with names like Bakalaka-lakastan with no air power of their own, and we’re spending billions on JSF and other fighter platforms? Uh, why?
After 65 years, I reckon the Krauts are pacified pretty well. Can’t we finally pack up and leave them to go back to pissing at the French?
On and on and on. Yes, we need a military. We don’t need a $800B+/year military if we would decide that we’re not the world’s traffic cop and we’re done subsidizing other countries who then use their budgetary freedom from military spending of their own to develop export markets to the US, which then cost us jobs. My attitude on Germany, for example, is that if they’re rich enough to prop up the EU and Euro, then they’re rich enough to defend the stupid thing too. Defending the EU ain’t our problem.
But we never hear the GOP (or Democrats, who like to pose as doves) talk about real cuts in defense spending.
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I am fine
but I know a lot of people who arent
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