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The current economic recovery is a fraud
Fox News, by Lanny Ebenstein
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Posted By:markinalpine, 12/29/2012 1:10:36 PM
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| For those who would see recovery in current economic data, there are these facts to ponder. The first is that most of the decline in the unemployment rate has been a result not of more people working, but of more people leaving the labor force. In November, unemployment went down to 7.7 from 7.9 percent in October, the lowest unemployment rate since late 2008. But at the same time unemployment declined, so did labor force participation--which fell to 63.6 in November from 63.8 percent in October. Half a million Americans have left the labor market in recent months.
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Comments: But does anybody really expect the sycophantic media to criticize obumble and his corrupt Labor Department´s lies?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Coy860, 12/29/2012 1:15:12 PM (No. 9088809)
Obama is a fraud as are those around him. We are being betrayed by our own government, and the opinionists aka msm.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
TheMotherCO, 12/29/2012 1:16:54 PM (No. 9088813)
Unemployment is up, but I am sure bammykins will just say that Americans are lazy and do not want to work. s/o
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
august9, 12/29/2012 1:19:27 PM (No. 9088817)
Remember the old saw ----
The CEO of Widget Industries tells the executive board members:
We´re losing money on each widget we sell, however, we´ll make it up in volume!
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ruready?, 12/29/2012 1:21:07 PM (No. 9088820)
If the criteria for our social welfare were based upon what gave the poorest the most income - not what provides the smallest ratio between high and low incomes, we could crush Obama and tear down his cliffs (which are not cliffs, but stair steps into demise).
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
NorthernDog, 12/29/2012 1:41:26 PM (No. 9088857)
What can you say? This is what 51% voted for. It must be what they want.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
djcdjc, 12/29/2012 1:44:33 PM (No. 9088860)
The anemic "recovery" is at the expense of $6T of deficit spending.
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otronome, 12/29/2012 2:06:19 PM (No. 9088876)
According to Keynesian economics, we should welcome disasters that can lead to the government spending even more money. Remember the magic multiplier when TARP and all the other programs were launched? Pelosi and Co. were debating whether the magic multipler was 1.3 or 1.4.
For every dollar the gubbermint would spend, the magic multiplier would turn it into $1.3 in GDP. Wow, it didn´t matter how you spent it. Give it way to fake farmers by the billions, crush perfectly good cars and give the owners money, subsidize burning our corn crop, send money to non existent entities aas part of Wreckovery Summer, food stamps, fake Medicare claims; they all grow the economy! that is why our standard of living is soaring, I guess.
The piper is at the door and wants his money.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jalo1951, 12/29/2012 2:35:52 PM (No. 9088897)
There is no recover and we know it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
TakeBackAmerica, 12/29/2012 2:37:28 PM (No. 9088900)
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." –Thomas Jefferson
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Pearson365, 12/29/2012 2:39:16 PM (No. 9088903)
"This is not economic recovery. This is long term economic stagnation."
Once again the racist Faux News is using white president standards to judge Obama. Obama has to be judged by how he has healed the planet and how he has stopped the waters from rising, and not by such petty things as stagnant GDP, sickening unemployment, increased use of food stamps, and declining family incomes. Those old measurements applied to Bush, Clinton and Reagan, and not the Messiah.
Jobs are just not that important when you can have Barack as your president. (Psst, if you do know of a job opening, let me know. I beg of you.)
All hail Barack the Magnificent.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
dman, 12/29/2012 3:01:24 PM (No. 9088930)
We´ve known this for a while. This is one reason while NerØbama is desperate to pin blame on the Republicans, using the fiscal cliff Kabuki theater as the vehicle.
He will blame the Pubs regardless. In that case, just do what´s best for the country and not worry about the blame. Go over the cliff, and no more debt ceiling hikes or CRs. No more $$$ without a proper budget out of Dingy Harry. The military and conservatives will share the pain, but they know how to get through it. Those depending on unemployment, disability, Medicaid, AFDC, food stamps, the "Obama-stash", and "Obama-phones": not so much. This is as far as we´ll get from the next election. Plenty of time to wake up the electorate.
If not now - when?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Heraclitus, 12/29/2012 3:10:02 PM (No. 9088948)
And people fall off the employment rolls into the loving --delete that-- into the suffocating, crushing embrace of the government, which tumesces, burgeons, foams and bubbles like the Witches´ brew into an increasingly fetid totalitarian swamp.
Fox reports on these things. This is why the Left is constantly trying to undermine with the aim of eliminating Fox.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
janylou, 12/29/2012 3:48:30 PM (No. 9088992)
When W was in office, the pressitutes did everything they could to talk the economy down even with the unemployment at 5%. Now with the economy tanking, they are doing everything they can to paint a rosy picture.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
pickle1, 12/29/2012 3:49:50 PM (No. 9088993)
That´s because they have stolen our money. It´s there; but they have it hidden.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DCGIRL, 12/29/2012 4:16:38 PM (No. 9089016)
Thank you Fox News. I thought I was losing my mind. I was talking to my husband today about the unemployment benefits. Why are they extending the benefits when everyone is saying that the economy is improving.....the unemployment has fallen and there are jobs to be filled. I knew that something smelled. This administration is a big fraud.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Theeo, 12/29/2012 4:33:40 PM (No. 9089032)
O why can´t we see That bankrupt are we America´s broke And that´s no joke.
$666,666 PER PERSON IN THE RED.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
jackburton, 12/29/2012 5:07:10 PM (No. 9089065)
FTA: If the labor force participation rate were now at its January 2009 level, unemployment would be 10.7 percent.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
nonsense, 12/29/2012 6:31:53 PM (No. 9089144)
We have been in a Depression since the One took office. The only thing he has managed to grow is the Misery Index.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
grounded, 12/29/2012 6:40:53 PM (No. 9089157)
Six-seven years ago, the Sunday help-wanted classifieds took up an entire eight to ten page section in the local fishwrap. These days there might be four pages and will include commercial advertisements as well. Private construction is at a near standstill, and the people who design projects for construction, engineers and architects, are hanging on by their fingernails. Yet they tell us that unemployment is below the national average. Then why do I see so many EBT cards being swiped everytime I am in line at the local supermarket? And why do ten to fifty people show up for each opening when somebody announces job fair? Its´ still true that figures lie and liars figure. Stagnation indeed.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
bob913, 12/29/2012 7:27:23 PM (No. 9089204)
My older sister has been out of work for about 1 year. She is 57 and was an executive secretary at a home building company for over 20 years. The company was started over 40 years ago and shut down due to the economy. Why buy a new house when there are thousands of homes in foreclosure around you.
She should be able to get a job but no one is hiring.... at least older workers.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Butch, 12/29/2012 7:43:24 PM (No. 9089217)
Once we do get an actual recovery, we´ll see huge inflation caused by the wildly excessive growth in the money supply. If businesses and individuals weren´t sitting on some $5 trillion in cash, we´d be seeing 20-30% inflation.
The Great Inflation is coming. No one knows exactly when, but at this point it is unavoidable absent drastic measures such as 20% interest rates and huge, immediate budgetary cuts.
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The deputy Prime Minister said it risked "undermining public confidence" to let illegal immigrants stay if they have been in the country for more than 10 years. In his first major speech on immigration, he abandoned the controversial proposal, which was championed by the Liberal Democrats at the last election. Mr Clegg previously supported the idea of "earned citizenship" for illegal immigrants. (snip) "Despite the policy´s aims, it was seen by many people as a reward for those who have broken the law," he said.
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NEW YORK - A long-forgotten piece of America´s military history is going up for sale. The original smaller statue of the iconic raising of the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima in 1945 is expected to fetch up to $1.8 million later this month at a New York auction dedicated to World War II artifacts. That such a statue even exists is news to all but the most ardent history buffs. Most Americans are familiar with the 32-foot-tall Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Va. (snip) Less well-known is the 12 1/2-foot-tall statue created soon after the event.
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Posted By: markinalpine- 1/30/2013 11:25:06 AM
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A report from the Social Security Administration Inspector General (IG) found 4,317 instances where a non-citizen was able to obtain two Social Security numbers, including 542 instances that happened since 2001. “We identified 4,317 instances where the Numident record of 2 SSNs assigned to noncitizens contained matching first, middle, and last names; dates and places of birth; gender; and fathers’ and mothers’ names,” the IG reported on Dec. 10, 2012. Numident – which stands for Numerical Identification System – is the master file of applications for social security numbers.
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Boston Scientific plans job cuts, 4Q tops St. view
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Posted By: markinalpine- 1/29/2013 11:52:08 AM
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Boston Scientific is cutting up to 1,000 more jobs as it deals with a new medical device tax from the U.S. health care overhaul, limited growth prospects in certain markets and pressure to cut prices on its products in other countries. Still, the Natick, Mass., company´s shares jumped Tuesday after the maker of pacemakers and heart stents reported fourth-quarter results and a 2013 profit forecast that exceeded Wall Street expectations. In a push to trim costs, Boston Scientific Corp. plans to cut 900 to 1,000 jobs this year, which will include layoffs as well as the elimination
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Posted By: markinalpine- 1/26/2013 1:23:29 PM
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Getaway donkey ruins robbery
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Posted By: markinalpine- 1/20/2013 1:42:52 PM
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Django Unchained and Titanic star Leonardo DiCaprio says he is planning to take a significant break from filming and concentrate on his environmental campaigning. In an interview with Germany´s mass circulation daily Bild, the 38-year-old American actor said: "I am a bit drained. I´m now going to take a long, long break. I´ve done three films in two years and I´m just worn out.´´ "I would like to improve the world a bit. I will fly around the world doing good for the environment,
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Harry Reid´s Great Disappearing Act
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Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise. Interestingly enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing, there is little to no trend in the number of those who express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People aren’t saying they don’t believe in God. They’re saying they don’t believe in religion. They are not rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church. This begs the question, “Why are we losing our religion?”
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Los Angeles — Some people have had it with TV. They´ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don´t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They´re tired of $100-plus monthly bills. A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don´t even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. (Snip) Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from
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Annette Funicello, the dark-haired darling of TV´s “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s who further cemented her status as a pop-culture icon in the ´60s by teaming with Frankie Avalon in a popular series of “beach” movies, died Monday. She was 70. Funicello, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1987 and became a spokeswoman for treatment of the chronic, often-debilitating disease of the central nervous system, died at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Walt Disney Co. spokesman Howard Green said. Funicello and her husband, Glen Holt, had moved from
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Chelsea Clinton has raised her profile in the last few days, which sparked the inevitable question about the former first daughter´s future: Will she ever be like Mom and Dad and run for office? Clinton, 33, essentially said "maybe" in an interview that aired Monday on NBC´s Today show. "Right now I´m grateful to live in a city, a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative," said Clinton, whose father, Bill, was president from 1993-2001 and her mother, Hillary
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Special ops veterans’ group calls for select probe of Benghazi attack
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Fox News, by Catherine Herridge
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 7:00:09 AM
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More than 700 Special Operations veterans are urging members of Congress to back a select committee to investigate last year’s Benghazi terrorist attack, according to a letter first obtained by Fox News. The letter from the group, “Special Operations Speaks,” supports the appointment of a special committee tasked with the single mission of investigating the attack that left Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead, and shut down the CIA operation in an annex of the Benghazi consulate, in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack. “Congress must show some leadership and provide answers to the public
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Obama flying 11 relatives of Sandy Hook victims to D.C. on Air Force One so they can back gun control in person
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/8/2013 4:05:18 PM
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President Barack Obama is bringing 11 relatives of those killed in the shooting at Connecticut´s Sandy Hook Elementary School to Washington on Air Force One on Monday so they can personally encourage senators to back gun legislation that faces tough opposition. A nonprofit organization that works with the families, Sandy Hook Promise, said that after Obama´s speech on gun control in Hartford, he is flying with relatives of seven children and one staffer killed during December´s massacre at the school. The White House says Obama is going to argue that lawmakers have an
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Updated: White House, McCain blast Cruz for threatening filibuster over guns
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Houston Chronicle, by Joanna Raines
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 4:55:05 PM
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There was growing buzz over the weekend that a bipartisan agreement on gun control — a deal that would expand background checks — could hit the floor as early as this week. However, any deal could be derailed by the looming threat of a Republican filibuster involving Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. With Cruz standing proudly in the way of any gun legislation, Democrats are trying to make him pay a political price — and even a couple of high-profile Republicans are questioning his tactics.
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North Korea´s Army Is Full of Jumping, Leaping, High-Kicking Martial Artists
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Atlantic, by Connor Simpson
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/8/2013 5:48:23 AM
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Amid all of the very real threats of war and stuff from North Korea, you´d think American intelligence officers want as much video footage of the enemy as possible. Well, here is one video featuring North Korean exercises and Kim Jong-Un holding a gun, and we´ll say this: they certainly get points for presentation. Remember the clap-happy report from Dennis Rodman´s diplomatic basketball vacation? This video comes courtesy of the same Youtube channel that gave us that Rodman video. It appears to be the same state news channel.(Snip for video)This latest dispatch from North Korea´s state television
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Gay Connecticut couple accused of raping adopted children will face trial
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New York Daily News, by Erik Ortiz
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Posted By: Drive- 4/8/2013 8:52:23 AM
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The case of a same-sex Connecticut couple accused of repeatedly raping and abusing two of their nine adopted boys is headed for trial. Married couple George Harasz and Douglas Wirth of Glastonbury were supposed to be sentenced Friday in Hartford Superior Court under a plea deal, but instead withdrew from their agreement with prosecutors. The men had already pleaded no contest in January to one felony count each of risk of injury to a minor — a reduction from even more serious charges related to sexual assault....
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