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   dtroutma said, 12 months ago

   Doing far better than the public sector, especially those in the 1% who aren’t exactly what I’d call “labor”. (and neither would they!)
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   russell5419 said, 12 months ago

   bingo !!!
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   zoidknight said, 12 months ago

   How can the private sector be doing fine when you are trying to drive more and more of our jobs overseas?
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   SwimsWithSharks said, 12 months ago

   Corporate profits are up, why do they complain? Oh, yeah, they want their own guy in the White House.
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   ARodney said, 12 months ago

   Zoid, your corruption is showing, or maybe you’re just an idiot, though I doubt it. Private sector profits are the highest they have ever been under Obama, but the GOP decided that they had to concentrate on the first six words Obama uttered, because the remainder of his speech laid bare the cynical GOP plan to fire cops, teachers, and firefighters during a time when America desperately needs jobs AND more teachers, cops, and firefighters.
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   Bruce4671 said, 12 months ago

   Let’s look at some facts:
   
   23 million Americans are unemployed, underemployed, or have altogether abandoned the workforce. Further, , the economy grew a mere 1.9 percent in the first quarter, home foreclosures remain at record numbers, and median family incomes have dropped precipitously (40%) under Obama’s tenure.
   
   According to Investors.com, “Private-sector jobs are still down by 4.6 million, or 4%, from January 2008, when overall employment peaked. Meanwhile government jobs are down just 407,000, or 1.8%. Federal employment actually is 225,000 jobs above its January 2008 level, an 11.4% increase. That’s right, up 11.4%.”
   
   So is the economy growing? Well, yes. Is everything just peachy? No.
   
   And adding jobs that are 100% paid for with funds made in the private sector and saying that will improve the economy is fantasy.
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   dtroutma said, 12 months ago

   Most of the businesses in my town and my region, went bust, from 2003 to 2009, it wasn’t Obama, my friends. The federal resources, and jobs, are the only thing that maintains any economic base. If the “corporate folks” were actually paying fair market value for those resources, the taxpayers would be getting their money’s worth. But when fees haven’t gone up since 1872 for minerals, or 1932 in the case of grazing, one COULD assume they’ve not seen those “corporate costs of doing business” affected by inflation?
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   indieme said, 12 months ago

   …and Romney wins in Nov. (A really Grimm Fairy Tale)
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   bobwinners said, 12 months ago

   The private sector…. what exactly does that mean anymore? Oil? Defense sector? Health sector? All seem to be doing quite well. Retail? But we need to save!

   Geez, the cartoonists are being repetitive today… so I’ll follow suite.
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    Matt Berg said, 12 months ago

    It all depends where you stand, I guess. Personally, and among the people I know, we are way better off now than we were 10 years ago. I realize it might not be that way across the board though. I agree w/ Obama, but based solely on my perspective.
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    mikefive said, 12 months ago

    It is not the function of government to create jobs. It is the function of government to create the conditions under which jobs can be created.
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    indieme said, 12 months ago

    @Sharuniboy

    How about GREED?
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    mikefive said, 12 months ago

    @Sharuniboy

    The concept is indeed very simplistic. The implementation very difficult. Power, greed, desire for recognition, perfidy and more become the coin of politicians. The ethic of representing the people exists to them only in presenting themselves as representing the people, not the actuality of that representation.
    ¶
    To make a specific industry successful, the representatives would have to study it in great detail to determine what regulations (minimal at first) to institute, What level of taxation would be appropriate to that industry or service to allow a profit and allow the owner (corporation?) to be able to pay decently. (This precludes abject greed on the owner’s part.)
    ¶
    I’m going to stop here in hopes that you can see where it’s going. My concept is extremely idealistic and completely ignores the venality of corporate management, union leaders, politicians and people in general. It probably also gets so complex that implementation would be nearly impossible as it would be industry or service specific.
    ¶
    Good Grief! You still have a PS2 port?
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    Wabbit said, 12 months ago

    I think he meant wall street is doing fine. The Wall street crooks and gamblers are doing just fine.
    I don’t think he was talking about modest gains, like my Son Got a Job that he had lost during the last part of Bush’s mess.
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    mikefive said, 12 months ago

    @Wabbit

    Recent financial news is that (many, massive, large-take your pick) layoffs are coming to Wall Street soon.
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