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   Tigger said, 5 months ago

   The Recession is far from over
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   ARodney said, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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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   olfart said, 5 months ago

   @ DaSharkie
   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.
   My son in law went back to work after being unemployed for a month. A friend just took a better job and gave notice to his former employer on good terms. There are “help wanted” signs up and down the street where I work. I do a little work on the side, and I am turning away work. The only people I know who are long-term unemployed are addicts or lazy. If you need a job, perhaps you should deal with your electronics addiction. There aren’t many openings for comics commenters.
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   mickey1339 said, 5 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, 5 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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   Radish said, 5 months ago

   25 states have seen unemployment decrease.
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   TheTrustedMechanic said, 5 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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    lookinside said, 5 months ago

    What passes for GOP approved ‘jobs bills’ look a lot like tax cuts for the 1%. The GOP is playing politics. They’ll pay the price in November, 2014.
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    Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! How I wonder where you're at! Up above the world you fly, like a tea tray in the sky. said, 5 months ago

    Hope and Change, it appears as though that within this current administration nothing upon nothing has changed..
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    SkepticCal said, 5 months ago

    Thank unions for the 40 hour week.
    .
    Thank ObamaCare for the 20 hour week.
    .
    Thank Progressives for the 0 hour week.
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    ahab said, 5 months ago

    GOP whiners have too much time on their hands. Why don’t you go help someone, and quit your sniveling! www.soldiersangels.org
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    ahab said, 5 months ago

    www.dvnf.org
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    flake-67121 said, 5 months ago

    it can’t start getting better until the government stops making it worse
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