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There have been a lot more hot dog carts on the street.
Chihuahua must be staying busy.
BronkOH!bama has found a way to lower unemployment
LESS PEOPLE!
U.S. Birth Rate Plummets To Lowest Level Since 1920…
Welcome to Obamaland.
(WaPo) — The U.S. birth rate plunged last year to a record low, with the decline being led by immigrant women hit hard by the recession, according to a study released Thursday by the Pew Research Center.
The overall birth rate declined by 8 percent between 2007 and 2010, with a decrease of 6 percent among U.S.-born women and 14 percent among foreign-born women. The decline for Mexican immigrant women was more extreme, at 23 percent. The overall birth rate is now at its lowest since 1920, the earliest year with reliable records.
The decline could have far-reaching implications for U.S. economic and social policy. A continuing decline would challenge long-held assumptions that births to immigrants will help maintain the U.S. population and provide the taxpaying work force needed to support the aging baby boomer generation.
The U.S. birth rate — 63.2 births per 1,000 women of child-bearing age — has fallen to just over half of what it was at its peak in 1957. The rate among foreign-born women also had been declining in recent decades, according to the report, though more slowly.
But after 2007, as the worst recession in decades dried up jobs and economic prospects across the nation, the birth rate for immigrant women abruptly plunged.
The fall is not because there are fewer immigrant women of childbearing age, but because of a change in their behavior, said D’Vera Cohn, an author of the report, adding that “the economic downturn seems to play a pretty large role in the drop in the fertility rate.”
I totally agree. Didn't Obama run on C-SPAN televised negotiations at one time?
Nobody has to paint the GOP as unreasonable obstructionist ideologues, they've done a fine job of that all by themselves for years, dragging their heels on every piece of legislation to go through congress, even those with which they agree.
Nobody has to paint the GOP as unreasonable obstructionist ideologues, they've done a fine job of that all by themselves for years, dragging their heels on every piece of legislation to go through congress, even those with which they agree.
I see that some GOP congresscritters are coming to their senses and abandoning the insane pledge to Grover Norquist and considering some tax increases in order to deal with the deficit and national debt. It simply is not possible to address this issue through cuts in spending alone, despite what Mr. Norquist may believe. It also can't be addressed trhough tax increases alone, but a combination of the two.
Perhaps now the House GOP will attempt to negotiate in good faith rather than submit bullshit proposals that they KNOW will be rejected in the Senate.
One can hope.
Right on!
Krauthammer On Fiscal Cliff Negotiations: "Republicans Ought To Simply Walk Away"
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: It's not just a bad deal, this is really an insulting deal. What Geithner offered, what you showed on the screen, Robert E. Lee was offered easier terms at Appomattox, and he lost the Civil War. The Democrats won by 3% of the vote and they did not hold the House, Republicans won the house. So this is not exactly unconditional surrender, but that is what the administration is asking of the Republicans.
This idea -- there are not only no cuts in this, there's an increase in spending with a new stimulus. I mean, this is almost unheard of. What do they expect? They obviously expect the Republicans will cave on everything. I think the Republicans ought to simply walk away. The president is the president. He's the leader. They are demanding that the Republicans explain all the cuts that they want to make.
We had that movie a year-and-a-half ago where Paul Ryan presented a budget, a serious real budget with real cuts. Obama was supposed to gave speech where he would respond with a counter offer. And what did he do? He gave a speech where he had Ryan sitting in the front row. He called the Ryan proposal un-American, insulted him, offered nothing, and ran on Mediscare in the next 18 months.
And they expect the Republicans are going to do this again? The Republicans are going to walk on this. And I think they have leverage. Yes, for Congressional Democrats it will help them in the future if Republicans absorb the blame because we will have a recession. But Obama is not running again unlike the Congressional Democrats. He's going to have a recession, 9% unemployment, 2 million more unemployed, and a second term that's going to be a ruin. That is not a good proposition if you are Barack Obama.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi...ns_republicans_ought_to_simply_walk_away.html
Nobody has to paint the GOP as unreasonable obstructionist ideologues, they've done a fine job of that all by themselves for years, dragging their heels on every piece of legislation to go through congress, even those with which they agree.
I see that some GOP congresscritters are coming to their senses and abandoning the insane pledge to Grover Norquist and considering some tax increases in order to deal with the deficit and national debt. It simply is not possible to address this issue through cuts in spending alone, despite what Mr. Norquist may believe. It also can't be addressed trhough tax increases alone, but a combination of the two.
Perhaps now the House GOP will attempt to negotiate in good faith rather than submit bullshit proposals that they KNOW will be rejected in the Senate.
One can hope.
I stopped there, one only has to recall the towering ramparts Harry Reid has erected to interdict the proper flow of bipartisan legislation from the House in order to put the lie to your whole premise.
Right on!
Krauthammer On Fiscal Cliff Negotiations: "Republicans Ought To Simply Walk Away"
You're such a hypocritical tool.