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   Tigger said, 8 months ago

   The Recession is far from over
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   ARodney said, 8 months ago

   Talk to the GOP. This is the first recession in 75 years where the congress has blocked all jobs bills. They passed a jobs bill for Bush, they did it for Clinton, they did it for Reagan; but after the worst depression since 1929 no help at all, because the GOP hopes that kicking the unemployed and making them suffer will somehow hurt Obama. The solution is simple, but it requires removing the GOP from power.
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   DaSharkie said, 8 months ago

   @ARodney

   You, ummmmmm, you might want to actually check the facts on the matter. The House of Representatives has passed jobs bills……the Democratically “controlled” Senate has not move forward on them.

   I know that ideologues hate facts, but they only make you look ignorant.

   Next time, do a little research.
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   DaSharkie said, 8 months ago

   @Tigger

   Bt…….but………The Vice President said we were in the middle of “The Summer of Recovery.” Oh wait, that was 3 years ago.

   Instead, our nation wallows in a morass, no one gets jobs, and more people go on disability every month than file jobless claims. The percentage of citizens that work is going lower by the month.

   Some recovery.

   Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that it is all Bush’s fault. Funny how the current administration has been in office for 4.5 years, and has taken no blame for anything that has happened.
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   mickey1339 said, 8 months ago

   @olfart

   “I have a couple facts for you. Not “facts” provided by some pudgy, ink-stained agenda pusher, but facts that are visible to anyone who will see.”
   

   
   I assume from your dialog you come down on the liberal side of this discussion. So I posted some data from liberal sources. Your generalization based on your personal observation may be satisfying to your limited outlook, but it doesn’t hold up to information from many sources, both government and business. I would suggest that many of the people (I know people myself) unemployed longer than 6 months are neither addicts or lazy. This recession officially ended in 2009 and the employment gains henceforth have been some of the worst in our country. Aside from all else, your comment is based on two short term examples and shows that employment is available, but it doesn’t address the problem of hiring of long term unemployed versus short term.

   http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm
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   http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/15/companies-wont-even-look-at-resumes-of-the-long-term-unemployed/
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   http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gao-6-fold-increase-americans-55-or-older-unemployed-6-months-or-longer
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   TheTrustedMechanic said, 8 months ago

   @PAJ

   As usual you don’t have a clue beyond what you pay-per-troll propaganda masters tell you. Calling it a “no s bill” doesn’t make it a JOBS bill. I recall the HoR calling one of their waste-of-time repeals of the PPACA a “job creating bill.”. Loading a bill with 90% partisan wants and 10% real beneficial job creating legislation does not make it a “jobs bill”. Passing a partisan wish list of poison pills and calling it a “jobs bill” does not mean the Senate, under REAL leadership, didn’t vote on republicans “jobs bill.”. Because it was no JOBS bill.
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   Rad-ish said, 8 months ago

   25 states have seen unemployment decrease.
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   TheTrustedMechanic said, 8 months ago

   @mickey1339

   Thank you for your (mostly) civil reply. I agree, two short term examples a trend do not make. I agree the recession has officially been over for awhile. But that distinction only exemplifies the disconnect between the rich and powerful who run our government and the average citizen. Until the corporate interests get their sense of social obligation back we won’t get past this obstacle. Both parties pander to the rich & corporate interests, but there is no denying the republicans are almost single-mindedly focused on protecting them from any monetary responsibility to society.
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   An Unscented Flower said, 8 months ago

   Hope and Change, it appears as though that within this current administration nothing upon nothing has changed..
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    flake-67121 said, 8 months ago

    it can’t start getting better until the government stops making it worse
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    denis1112 said, 8 months ago

    @ARodney

    The house has sent several jobs bills to the Senate where Harry Reid won’t let them on the floor of the senate.Obama has threatened to veto any republican bills that get passed.Try cspan sometimes.
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    dtroutma said, 8 months ago

    House Republicans haven’t passed a single true “jobs bill”, they’ve all been bills to deregulate corporate abuse even further, and falsely CLAIM to be jobs bills.

    
    Last jobs report wasn’t fantastic, but we did get 20,000 more private sector jobs than anticipated. Any growth after the disaster of “Reaganomics” and “W”, is an improvement from 2008.
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    Overtaxed said, 8 months ago

    @ARodney

    Living in that alternative reality socialist universe again? Last time I checked, conservatives want to get big fat overweight socialist government out of the regulation business so companies can start growing again. It’s your loser socialists unable to do anything for themselves constantly whining about how government isn’t screwing over the rich fast enough. Rich people create jobs. Not deadbeat loser socialists or big government.
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    Jase99 said, 8 months ago

    @Overtaxed

    " Last time I checked, conservatives want to get big fat overweight socialist government out of the regulation business so companies can start growing again."
    
    Travel to West, Texas and take a good look at what effect government deregulation can have on industry. You can also look at your history books and see what life was like during the unregulated days of the industrial revolution. Pay particular attention to food quality, or lack there of.
    
    Rich people create jobs. Not deadbeat loser socialists or big government.
    
    They’ve been creating jobs in under regulated China, which allows virtual slave labor and is now home to some of the most polluted real estate on Earth.
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    Tigger said, 8 months ago

    @ARodney

    Harry Reid is Blocking Jobs Bills
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