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   MortyForTyrant said, 7 months ago

   It’s getting better. It has to. People haven’t stopped eating. Hair is still growing. People die and need to be buried. People are born and need education. Life goes on. The recession already ended, the recovery is slow, but unavoidable. The trick is to prevent the next bubble.

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   Somehow the U.S. is very bubble-prone, maybe because you’re all so easily excitable and jump onto any new trend (or fad) that’s on the horizon. I would recommend caution, restraint and clear thinking. This way you may get a steady growth instead of an endless cycle of booms and busts…
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   Chillbilly said, 7 months ago

   Well, at least he’s okay with women working outside the home.
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   Respectful Troll said, 7 months ago

   @MortyForTyrant

   The recession is slowly receding, but it is not unavoidably doing so. Failure to come up with a budget agreement or overreacting to financial problems overseas could have horrible repercussions on our economy. Failure to deal with trading partners respectfully could result in trading embargoes effecting imports and exports. Continuing frosts and droughts can cause food prices to rise further taxing our economy. We are in a delicate place and we need that man and woman depicted in the toon to get to work and we need our legislators to work in a bipartisan manner with who ever is in office to bring this country back to where it should be.
   This can only happen if they take your advice and act with caution, restraint, and most of all….clear thinking.
   Respectfully,
   C.
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   DGF999 said, 7 months ago

   Laughed out loud when I saw this cartoon! Thanks, Steve!
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   ARodney said, 7 months ago

   Fortunately, he’s been able to bring unemployment down despite GOP obstruction. Imagine if we didn’t have a tea party blocking infrastructure, jobs, the military, and education!
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   Captain Colorado said, 7 months ago

   Equal misery for everybody!
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   frogman0628 said, 7 months ago

   @ARodney I presume mean tea party obstructing from obama’s cutting infrastructure, jobs and military further. After all that big stimulus project for infrastructure (which only 2% went to infrastructure) was no use to anyone but the puppet theater’s and loopy idea factories heaven forbid they actually fix roads (might scratch a bird) make a dam, or heaven forbid a new powerplant or 20 to keep us from brown outs (using nuclear which is the safest and cleanest option currently)… just saying
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   Bruce4671 said, 7 months ago

   http://blog.heritage.org/2012/10/18/president-obamas-taxpayer-backed-green-energy-failures/
   
   http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/7-eleven-presidency_654846.html
   
   http://www.cnbc.com/id/49460659
   
   http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/18/welfare-spending-jumps-32-percent-four-years/
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   denis1112 said, 7 months ago

   @ARodney

   13,000,000 out of work in Jan.2008.23,000,000 unemployed today.Imagine if Harry Reid wasn’t blocking everything that comes out of the house.Imagine if the news nerds actually reported on everything the senate dems block.Imagine if the dems had control of both houses,wait they did and PO’d the country with Obamacare, so they were thrown out at the mid term elections.Yea it’s getting better.But only if you believe in fuzzy math
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    Archimedes said, 7 months ago

    @ARodney

    Unemployment is NOT down. Look at the number of jobs not the"number" of unemployed. the number of jobs today is less than in May of 2009
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    Dredpiraterobt$ said, 7 months ago

    @Bruce4671 Heritage.org

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    “The Heritage Foundation is an American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. Heritage’s stated mission is to “formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense”.² (From Wiki)
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    No, thank you!

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    The Weekly Standard
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    Link to the weekly standard dot com

    “The Weekly Standard is an American neoconservative²³⁴⁵ opinion magazine⁶ published 48 times per year. Its founding publisher, News Corporation, debuted the title September 18, 1995. Currently edited by founder William Kristol and Fred Barnes,” (From Wiki)
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    No, thank you!
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    CNBC. No, thank you! (Those liberals at NBC donchaknow)
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    Washington Times.
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    “The political views of The Washington Times are often described as conservative.⁴⁸⁴⁹⁵⁰ The Washington Post reported: “the Times was established by [the recently departed, Reverend] Moon to combat communism and be a conservative alternative to what he perceived as the liberal bias of The Washington Post.”⁵

    Conservative commentator Paul Weyrich has called the Times an antidote to its liberal competitor:" (froem Wiki, [ ] mine
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    No, thank you.
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    Multiple sources are worthless when none of them are of varried bias.
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    Dredpiraterobt$ said, 7 months ago

    @denis1112

    “13,000,000 out of work in Jan.2008.23,000,000 unemployed today”
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    there you are ladies and gentlemen, the intended result of deliberate distortion of the numbers.
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    NO credible person says that there are 23million unemployeds (and in the group I include Mitt Romney when he said it during the town hall meeting)
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    The 23Million number was supposed to be people on the unemployment rolls, plus people who" aren’t looking for a job" because they “gave up” and decided to stop eating and living indoors! PLUS the people who are working part time jobs (i.e. full time jobs that the employer classifies as part time so as not to have to pay benefits) PLUS the people who have jobs but would rather have a better one (because that demographic never existed before Obama!).
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    But Denis1112 says that they are all the "unemployed’ Americans.
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    Fuzzy math indeed.
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    Dredpiraterobt$ said, 7 months ago

    As to the cartoon…. Didn’t this joke strike you when the college boy asked “How are you going to get me a job?” and then the girl near him asked “How are you going to make sure I get equal pay?”
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    “Same pay as that guy? No problem!”
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    M Ster said, 7 months ago

    Republicans campaigned on job creation and won control of the House in 2010. And in these last 2 years, they put most of their effort into right-wing social issues, not jobs. And they have the nerve to criticize Obama. No wonder their approval rating is 11%.
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    Michael wme said, 7 months ago

    @Archimedes

    Excellent point. In May, 2009, there were fully 140,294,000 employed. In Sept, 2012, there were only 142,974,000 employed.

    
    I don’t have my calculator handy, but anyone can see that’s a big drop in jobs. (Data from Current Population Survey by US Census.)
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