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Topic: WH: ´Employment Report Provides
Further Evidence that the U.S.
Economy Is Continuing to Heal´ |
WH: ´Employment Report Provides
Further Evidence that the U.S.
Economy Is Continuing to Heal´
Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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Original Article
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 2/1/2013 10:01:53 AM
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| Today´s unemployment rate, which states the unemployment rate has ticked up to 7.9 percent, prompts the White House to say, "oday’s employment report provides further evidence that the U.S. economy is continuing to heal from the wounds inflicted by the worst downturn since the Great Depression." " It is critical that we pursue the policies needed to build an economy that works for the middle class as we continue to dig our way out of the deep hole that was caused by the severe recession that began in December 2007,"
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Comments:
I truly don´t know whether to laugh or cry. How do we tolerate four more years of this. The only thing these pathetic morons excel in is lying, wasting our money and campaigning.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
grampagasman, 2/1/2013 10:05:01 AM (No. 9152187)
Hate is love,
War is peace,
Slavery is Freedom
Orwell is here.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
NorthernDog, 2/1/2013 10:07:01 AM (No. 9152194)
It´s normal for a growing US economy to add 250,000 or so new jobs each month. The fact that they brag about numbers substantially below that amount is sickening. But...LoFo´s seem content as long as the free goodies keep rolling in.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
big red navy cheif, 2/1/2013 10:22:56 AM (No. 9152243)
It´s all lies!
Every time they put one out, it looks good, and then a month or two later those figures (from a couple months back) get revised and they´re horrid. Yet no one seems to notice the pattern...or more accurately, the MSM refuses to report it.
Has any of our fellow Luciannites tracked this? I´m willing to guess it´s happened every other month for the last two years, if not thru-out Obama´s entire first term.
It must be made to seem his ideas or working, or people will start to evaluate them (well, maybe not the Low Info crowd - you can only work with the tools you have...)
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Pearson365, 2/1/2013 10:23:29 AM (No. 9152245)
Still "Boooosh", as evident in WH statement that "recession began in December, 2007". Same propaganda release does not mention that recession officially ended in June, 2009.
Since the recession ended in June, 2009, why has the GDP growth been so anemic? And, why has it declined each year since then? The evil Bush must still be in the Oval House. Obama surely isn´t.
If 4th Quarter´s GDP contraction is an indication, we may be in for a 4 year recession under President Blame Everyone but Me.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
mickturn, 2/1/2013 10:33:15 AM (No. 9152279)
Really, Obie´s success is measured in microns?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Cor-vet, 2/1/2013 10:41:43 AM (No. 9152303)
I was told not to accept a single months numbers, as they were not indicitive of any overall trend! Or is that only when the numbers are bad?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
aasilver, 2/1/2013 10:43:43 AM (No. 9152308)
The only thing more pathetic than the White House lies are the Low Info Voters (LIV) that believe the White House lies.
With this many stupid people in the USA, is it any wonder that Obama was elected and re-elected?
We are doomed.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Davids918, 2/1/2013 10:44:18 AM (No. 9152310)
8,500,000 people no longer work today than when Abomination was first elected.
That $800 billion supposed one-time stimulus Abomination initiated in Jan 2009 continues today without any results.
8 million new "disabled" on SSI.
And Democrats working hard to increase the price of gasoline (won´t help the little guy).
Also, closing coal-fired power plants which will increase cost of electricity for everyone too.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MisterDickens, 2/1/2013 11:00:43 AM (No. 9152368)
#1, well said. Also, black is white, up is down, women are men, and democrats care about the poor.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
horacer, 2/1/2013 11:02:41 AM (No. 9152373)
This is absolute garbage. If you look at the household survey employment fell by 1.4 million. Yes 1.4 million. That´s double the drop of last January. You expect a drop in January but not this big. 423,000 left the labor force.
The seasonally adjusted numbers, with a birth and death component tossed in, from BLS are garbage. Only fools believe them. The labor market is collapsing. We are in recession, no amount of lies can change that.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw, 2/1/2013 11:06:13 AM (No. 9152379)
Don´t worry the IRS is hiring.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Philipsonh, 2/1/2013 11:41:38 AM (No. 9152471)
How many people who want a job cannot find one. How many people who want jobs have stopped looking. How many people are under-employed. The Government data is essentially useless drivel. What good are percentages. What good are revisions. We want a HEAD COUNT for each category. How many people are working one or more part-time jobs because they cannot find one full-time job. Its about REAL PEOPLE, not numbers. Every report is plain BS.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
jalo1951, 2/1/2013 11:54:42 AM (No. 9152501)
Black is white, up is down, bad is good, happy is sad. Yeah, we get it. This administration is a steaming pile of pig do-do and they don´t have a clue what to do about it. Wait until obamacare really comes home to roost. We might end up in depression territory yet.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
wepeople, 2/1/2013 12:07:02 PM (No. 9152528)
Did our founding fathers consider the tyranny of being lied to? We still have all our amendments.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
nigella, 2/1/2013 12:16:45 PM (No. 9152552)
And another 170,000 left the work force last Month....
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
lil dotty, 2/1/2013 1:06:06 PM (No. 9152633)
Hey you, dogs heal The evidence confirms that it´s just rolled over and died.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
suziesuburbanite, 2/1/2013 1:37:39 PM (No. 9152685)
The facts be damned I say it´s getting better!!!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
rlcnutter, 2/1/2013 3:57:28 PM (No. 9152872)
Elsewhere, Baghdad Bob told media representatives that Saddam Hussein´s brilliant fake surrender will soon have American "Crusaders" running for their lives trying to escape from Iraq´s Republican Guard.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Japanorama, 2/1/2013 7:58:52 PM (No. 9153197)
Which is why the economy is shrinking.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Coy860, 2/1/2013 8:12:42 PM (No. 9153209)
To believe this president and his minions is to be certifiably insane.
The majority of Americans say they do NOT trust this government. They view it as threatening to their personal freedom.
We are in danger from our own government.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 2/2/2013 5:03:49 AM (No. 9153621)
Outright lies for 4 more agonizing years are going to be the norm now.
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