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Budget details meaningless without growth
USA Today, by Heather R Higgins and William Pascoe III
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Posted By:Drive, 12/11/2012 9:51:45 AM
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| 2:18PM EST December 10. 2012 - As "fiscal cliff" talks exit the public posturing stage and real private discussions begin, this would be a good time to take a step back and look at the whole fiscal forest, instead of the trees. The biggest problem we´ve had in our economy for the last several years is a lack of job growth. We officially came out of the recession more than three years ago, but our economy is still not growing fast enough to create enough jobs for everyone
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
lancelink1, 12/11/2012 10:06:44 AM (No. 9059313)
Funny how the USA Today gets around to writing a story like this one month AFTER the election.......
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
nimby, 12/11/2012 10:07:03 AM (No. 9059315)
You are wrong! According to Drudge report,there is job growth: 107 Goobermint employees/day since Obama took office.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
noproblems, 12/11/2012 10:07:11 AM (No. 9059316)
lack of job? how can that be. Our governemnt says it is at 7.7%. I mean, our government and beloved media would not try to tell us that things were could when they are not would they?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 12/11/2012 11:08:28 AM (No. 9059494)
There will never be any growth as long as the Obama administration keeps its boot on the neck of the private sector and spends the country into ruin. Period.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
KTWO, 12/11/2012 12:39:57 PM (No. 9059750)
Headline is right but irrelevant. It links Reality with Maybe.
Job growth is the Maybe. It may place over time. It won´t be soon and may not occur. It must be real jobs, not government pretend jobs or achieved with inadequate labor statistics which mislead.
The Budget is Reality. It is Washington´s job right now. Today. Not someday if something happens and conditions make it possible. Now!
And we see Washington keeps failing to do its Reality task. The process is broken.
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Reuters, by Jason Lange
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Posted By: Drive- 4/12/2013 10:49:45 AM
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U.S. retail sales contracted in March for the second time in three months and consumer confidence tumbled in April, a sign that tax hikes early this year have stolen momentum from the American economy. Retail sales fell 0.4 percent in March, the Commerce Department said on Friday. That missed analysts´ expectations of a flat reading. The data supports the view that the U.S. economy continues to struggle
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Any moonhowler can run for office, so Anthony Weiner is fully welcome to enter the Democratic primary in hopes of convincing New Yorkers that he’s fit to serve as mayor. The one-time congressional dynamo and suicidal sexter will have a lot to prove. That his lying days are over. That he has the emotional maturity and psychic balance to lead a complex city, including in crisis. That he is interested in public service as its own reward, not to fulfill craving for attention. As a councilman and representative, as well as in a run for mayor, Weiner showed promise.
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Senators overcame a Republican-led filibuster on gun control Thursday, ensuring that the first post-Newtown legislation will reach the Senate floor and setting up bruising fights over expanded background checks and bans on some guns and ammunition. Family members of the victims of December’s school shooting in Connecticut looked on as senators voted 68-31 to defeat the filibuster.
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PJ Media, by Nicholas Ballasy
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Posted By: Drive- 4/11/2013 8:04:36 PM
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A few hours after Margaret Thatcher´s death on Monday, the snarling deadbeats of the British underclass were gleefully rampaging through the streets of Brixton in South London, scaling the marquee of the local fleapit and hanging a banner announcing, "THE B@&$! IS DEAD." Amazingly, they managed to spell all four words correctly. By Friday, "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead," from "The Wizard of Oz," was the No. 1 download at Amazon UK. Mrs. Thatcher would have enjoyed all this. Her former speechwriter John O´Sullivan recalls how, some years after leaving office, she
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LOS ANGELES — Jonathan Winters, the cherub-faced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, has died. He was 87. The Ohio native died Thursday evening at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural causes, said Joe Petro III, a longtime family friend. Petro said Winters died of natural causes and was surrounded by family and friends. Winters was a pioneer of improvisational standup comedy, with an exceptional gift for mimicry, a grab bag of eccentric personalities and a bottomless reservoir of creative energy.
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Hi. As you’ve probably noticed, I’m not the President. I’m just a citizen. And as a citizen, I’m here at the White House today because I want to make a difference and I hope you will join me. My name is Francine Wheeler. My husband David is with me. We live in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. David and I have two sons. Our older son Nate, soon to be 10 years old, is a fourth grader at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Our younger son, Ben, age six, was murdered in his first-grade classroom on December 14th.
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