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Harleyquinn
said, 2 months ago
I will tell you where some of the jobs are. They are in a holding pattern till the "we have to read it to find out what is in it, tax/penalty Obamacare gets the act together and decides what it is going top do now that it is three times the size of what was promised. A fast food place like Five guys, will not build another store till what was to be written out by March 1st is now pushed back till Oct. then maybe they will know what MORE will be their responsibility on top of the extra 60,000 it will cost to say run a few stores.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2523934
Radish
said, 2 months ago
Looks like Mitt’s vulture capitalism.
olfart said, 2 months ago
@ Harleyquinn
Take deep breaths. Count to ten.
Ms. Ima said, 2 months ago
The donkey has turned into a vulture.
Harleyquinn
said, 2 months ago
Sure, I will count to ten, that is about how much Obama has inflated Wall Street. This toon is a big of a farce as the monopoly money Obama is printing in order to inflate the wall street numbers. Those idiots can sit there and complain and demand jobs and min. wage hikes and he like but all they are is noise. Wall Street for one owes them nothing. For two Wall street is not where that money comes from, and three those on wall street know they are playing with inflated numbers and pop will go the Obama wall street bubble. So idiots can protest all they want but with things like Obamacare looming over small business like a vulture, no jobs will be created, min wage will just kill jobs and why change with “financial reform” when Obama has “changed” business in the USA to a losing proposition!
The Wolf In Your Midst said, 2 months ago
@ScottPM
Now imagine how much simpler hiring would be if the employer didn’t even have to worry about health-care costs. And imagine how many new businesses could get started if your average work-a-day person didn’t have to worry about losing health care coverage if they left their job to start a new entrepreneurship.
Starting to see the allure of the single-payer system now?
Bruce4671 said, 2 months ago
So it seems that the only people getting a boost out of the economy Obama Policy has built are the fat cat 1%. How ironic is that. Wall Street and the finance crowd don’t create jobs. The only thing “wall street” investors create is personal wealth. We need the person that has an idea to create a tangible product, or make a current product better, or expand a market (like five guys) and open stores in new places to “borrow” that cash and “build” infrastructure (stores, restaurants or service industry) and “hire” workers to provide to the public. Instead we have Obama policy keeping that effort to a minimum while the “fat cat 1%” turns low interest rates into wild profit.
Don;t blame the wall street people. They are just playing the game by the rules written by Obama (and every other preceding administration).
DavidGBA said, 2 months ago
The lobby to make the rules they want.
Adrian Snare said, 2 months ago
@Harleyquinn
Your parents must have written the tax code, Harley…
Or, why use 3 words when 10 will do just as well !
in truth, unemployment is shrinking by one-tenth of a percentage per month, despite the efforts of the conservatives.
Adrian Snare said, 2 months ago
@Harleyquinn
More conservative rhetoric( a nicer word for lies), Harley..Fewer and fewer people (including me) are buying this line of BS.
And speaking of inflation, Harley , remember inflation ?
Where is it ?
As to “idiots” – another conservative shortfall in considering the people to be idiots….
IMO, the real idiots are those with a bad attitude.
Dycel
said, 2 months ago
@Bruce4671
Actually the policies are hold overs from the cheney/Bush reign of terror, deregulations that allowed the banks to become “investment” brokers and their creation of the derivative bundling scheme that has monopolized the commodities futures.
Pick one!
https://www.google.com/search?q=derivative+casino&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari
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The current filibuster flunkies refuse to allow any policy revisions or changes that would end the debauchery of the middle class.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/record-breaking-senate-conservatives-use-filibuster-for-62nd-time-in-this-session-of-congress-58789162.html
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Your spot on with your observation of the decline of VOC in the product marketplace but to blame one side for this is ludicrious. Both sides are shills for the real profiteers who sit in the balcony pulling the strings.
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My fav on derivatives-
http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/derivatives/bank_exposure.html
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But then whats a little $228.7 Trillion in taxpayer insured risk going to do tothe TBTF banks again!
I Play One On TV said, 2 months ago
Our Wall Street problem is easy to fix. Place a distinction between investment banks and commercial banks. One cannot function as the other. (This was the backbone of Glass-Stegall.)
If the investment banks make stupid investments, they can fail, and no one will suffer except the investors themselves. The rest of the banking system cannot collapse under those circumstances, making investment banks less willing to lose billions in one deal.
mickey1339
said, 2 months ago
@Adrian Snare
“unemployment is shrinking by one-tenth of a percentage per month,”
That’s not quite the path, because it’s been very bouncy for the last few months. Read beyond the headlines and you will see that one of the reasons the unemployment percentage rate has been declining is people quit looking for work, i.e. drop out of the “labor pool.”. Add to that the “quality” of the jobs is not been consistently improving. We are generating a lot of part time and lower grade service sector jobs. Read the Bloomberg business web site “calendar” section for a little more detail. Last month was good, but there has not been a pattern of strong improvement.
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/economic-calendar/
ConserveGov said, 2 months ago
The number of people actually working continues to drop, household income continues to drop and people taking food stamps is at an all-time high.
Yep, things are great!
ruff
said, 2 months ago
@ConserveGov
And all the people that managed to get us into this mess are still enjoying their ill gotten gains, at miniscule tax rates.