What happened to all of the doom and gloom economic threads?

[Dribble]

I know, how silly me to work hard and work lots of hours when I could just take it easy like you guys.

See the degrees on my wall? That makes life a shitload easier. Anyone can do it if they really wanted to. I hired 4 people this week. Need a job?

 

[RightField]

See the degrees on my wall? That makes life a shitload easier. Anyone can do it if they really wanted to. I hired 4 people this week. Need a job?

Why don't you show any intelligence then?

 

[RightField]

This file shows the overall % of employed Americans over the age of 16 over the last several years. Notice the giant dropoff after the Dems took power and then also notice how it's stayed at that low level....the dems are getting a few people back to work, but not enough to budge the overall % employed up from it's dismal level.

http://blog.american.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/040612emppop.jpg

 

[Sean Renaud]

Seriously Rightfield. You're smarter than this.

Your chart shows employment plummeting in 2008 or the start of the recession. Which started with all those big banks failing. Unless you truly believe that the Democrats by simple virtue of having a majority in the House and Senate caused the collapsing banks then it had to be something that was in place PRIOR ot their arrival or you'd be able to point at the smoking gun.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Meanwhile, we're chugging along and the economic outlook is improving daily.

What's the timeline on the inevitable economic crash you keep predicting or do you just plan to sit tight for a few years and launch into celebrations if and when it happens?

*chuckle*

I'll bet the White House was damned glad that Friday was an evil Christian holiday; it'll give the weekend to calm the markets and get the talking points out about how a negative is still a positive.

Over in Ellie's thread, perg is lecturing us on why rising gas prices don't mean anything to anybody.

In another thread, merc was trying to pretend tat the EPA wasn't shutting down coal plants.

Steven Chu is trying to tell us that he no longer wants gas to reach European levels, but somehow, I just don't believe him...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Seriously Rightfield. You're smarter than this.

Your chart shows employment plummeting in 2008 or the start of the recession. Which started with all those big banks failing. Unless you truly believe that the Democrats by simple virtue of having a majority in the House and Senate caused the collapsing banks then it had to be something that was in place PRIOR ot their arrival or you'd be able to point at the smoking gun.

Well, let's couple it with the fact that all those Wall Street types are heavy Democrat donors and whenever Bush went to them to reform Freddie and Fannie and the shit hit the fan from Frank, Dodd, Waters and others and then look at the stunt Corzine pulled and it gets kind of hard for people paying attention to not begin putting two and two together when you see people from the financial world going in and out of government and contributing so much money to Democrat politicians.

Now, let's remember that it was Schumer who began the run on Indy Mac instead of quietly trying to resolve the issue behind closed doors.



What was it Rahm said, never let a crises go to waste?

If you can create a crises,

You can make hay.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

See the degrees on my wall? That makes life a shitload easier. Anyone can do it if they really wanted to. I hired 4 people this week. Need a job?

I'll bet you didn't ask for ID...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Which brings us to another aspect of government that Obama apparently finds a frightful bore: budgets. In free societies, the executive is subject to the creative tensions of popular restraint, legislative restraint, judicial restraint, and fiscal restraint. All these the president has artfully sidestepped. In the last three years, the United States has ceased to have any meaningful budgeting at the national level, with the consequence that Washington piles on roughly a trillion dollars of new debt every seven or eight months. This week, before the fawning toadies at the Associated Press luncheon, Obama attacked Congressman Paul Ryan’s plan to prevent America plunging into the debt abyss and at least keep its fingernails clawing at the clumps on the cliff edge for a couple more decades. Don’t believe him, sneered the president. “Hundreds of national parks” will close. Parts of the country will see “complete elimination of air-traffic control.” We will be unable to “combat violent crime.” Two million mothers and young children will wind up without “access to healthy food.” Anything else? You bet. The Ryan plan will doom everything everywhere — “the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food that we eat.”

“This is not conjecture,” said the president. “These are facts.”

Speaking of facts, in the last year the federal government has added the equivalent of the GDP of Canada in new debt. Who’s buying it? The Chinese? Not so much. They’ve got pretty much all the Washington IOUs they need. Sixty-one percent of debt issued by the Treasury is bought by the Federal Reserve — which is to say the left hand of the U.S. government is lending money to the right hand of the U.S. government. That’s one reason the dollar is in steep decline against every major currency. Indeed, had it not been for the French and Germans et al. inaugurating the new century by inventing a currency for an artificial jurisdiction with even less connection to economic reality (the European Union), it’s likely that the markets would have yanked the rug out from under the dollar by now.

Nonetheless, in a land where every mewling babe in the American nursery is born with a debt burden of just under $200,000, the president brags that only his party is “compassionate” to have no plan whatsoever even to attempt to do anything about this, no way, no how, not now, not ever.

Last week, the head of the General Services Administration, the federal agency that picks out the office furniture for the other federal agencies, had to resign after a bureaucrats’ junket to Vegas that included a lavish party with clowns and a $3,200 mind reader. The clowns seem surplus to requirements, but I’d love to know what that mind reader found. Obama-sized government ends nowhere good, and in his Chicago-style contempt for checks and balances he’s telling us that, if you enjoyed the first term, you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.

Mark Steyn, NRO

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

See the degrees on my wall? That makes life a shitload easier. Anyone can do it if they really wanted to. I hired 4 people this week. Need a job?

Was that money you earned, or government largess?



Perg let the cat out of the bag in the other thread, that you are coastal boy...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

This was the worst jobs report since last October. The economy added 120,000 jobs in March, about half the pace of the previous three months. The futures markets are responding as if this report is extremely disappointing, but that seems like an overreaction. The fact is, the weather has been about as good as it has been in a century. Warm, dry weather in January and February meant that a statistically typical number of weather-related disruptions didn’t occur, inflating those jobs numbers. March weather was great too, but weather starts to get better that time of year anyway, so a mild March is less of a plus than a mild January. At times like this, the right signal to draw from a report is the three-month moving average, which smooths out the seasonal effects. That is currently at 212,000 jobs created per month, and that feels about right to me. A reason for confidence is the continued strength in manufacturing still looks strong, which is consistent with the capital spending data we have been seeing.

That said, one reason that the markets seem to be disturbed about this disappointment is the weakness in Europe which, combined with high oil prices, raises at least the specter of a recession this year. Southern Europe is probably in recession right now, and fears that this will spread are legitimate.

One trend to watch: Retail employment is moving in the wrong direction given the overall strength in the economy. It may well be that the “Amazon Prime” effect is gaining steam. As more commerce switches to the Internet, brick and mortar retailers are clearly struggling.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/295467/march-jobs-report-worst-october-kevin-hassett

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Obama Funds the Egyptian Government
By Andrew C. McCarthy
April 7, 2012 4:00 A.M.

In October 2010, on the eve of the Islamic revolution that the media fancies as “the Arab Spring,” the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood called for jihad against the United States.

You might think that this all but unnoticed bombshell would be of some importance to policymakers in Washington. It was not. It is not. This week, the Obama administration quietly released $1.5 billion in foreign aid to the new Egyptian government, now dominated by a Brotherhood-led coalition in parliament — soon to be joined by an Ikhwan (i.e., Brotherhood) luminary as president.

It is not easy to find the announcement. With the legacy media having joined the Obama reelection campaign, we must turn for such news to outlets like the Kuwait News Agency. There, we learn that, having dug our nation into a $16 trillion debt hole, President Obama has nevertheless decided to borrow more money from unfriendly powers like China so he can give it to an outfit that views the United States as an enemy to be destroyed.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Don't go crazy on me now!

In a new Gallup survey, 9 of the top 10 U.S. markets with the highest job creation are in red states, states with a Republican governor. While 7 of the lowest 10 markets in job creation are in blue states, those with Democratic governors.

Gallup surveyed workers in the 50 largest metro areas about whether employers were hiring or letting people go during 2011. The spread is what Gallup calls their Job Creation Index.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog...n_best_in_red_state_cities.html#ixzz1rMCaJhE9

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Tidequistadors In Search of Sound Money
A laundry soap has developed as much legitimacy as the dollar to serve as currency. What's going on?

http://reason.com/archives/2012/04/06/tidequistadors-in-search-of-sound-money

 

[NeverEndingMe]

See the degrees on my wall? That makes life a shitload easier. Anyone can do it if they really wanted to. I hired 4 people this week. Need a job?

do share, where do you work? is this a private or public entity?

when you say 4 people, for those like Merc, Richard Daily, UD, are imaginary people in his head. Are your people real or fictional?

Now for those like Thetrobbe, the only people he knows are those he reads in books while working in the library basement.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Seriously Rightfield. You're smarter than this.

Your chart shows employment plummeting in 2008 or the start of the recession. Which started with all those big banks failing. Unless you truly believe that the Democrats by simple virtue of having a majority in the House and Senate caused the collapsing banks then it had to be something that was in place PRIOR ot their arrival or you'd be able to point at the smoking gun.

are you still under the fantasy that obama is making this better?

 

[Beco]

Obama Funds the Egyptian Government
By Andrew C. McCarthy
April 7, 2012 4:00 A.M.

This is just such a total waste of money! Talk about flushing money down the drain.....god sakes! I'd rather build the Bridge to Nowhere...

 

[NeverEndingMe]

This is just such a total waste of money! Talk about flushing money down the drain.....god sakes! I'd rather build the Bridge to Nowhere...

well this is the mindset of obama, total fuck up

 

[phrodeau]

I'll bet you didn't ask for ID...

Have you never seen the I-9 form?

 

[mercury14]

Seriously Rightfield. You're smarter than this.

Your chart shows employment plummeting in 2008 or the start of the recession. Which started with all those big banks failing. Unless you truly believe that the Democrats by simple virtue of having a majority in the House and Senate caused the collapsing banks then it had to be something that was in place PRIOR ot their arrival or you'd be able to point at the smoking gun.

That's exactly what he believes.

I don't think he's smarter than that. He's a religious thinker that believes more than he thinks. And then he'll turn around and deny being partisan, insisting he's objective.

 

[mercury14]

In another thread, merc was trying to pretend tat the EPA wasn't shutting down coal plants.

Vette's very own article says they're not - only that starting in 2022 new plants being built will have to cut their emissions.

Why do you say such stupid things?

 

[The_Trouvere]

Vette's very own article says they're not - only that starting in 2022 new plants being built will have to cut their emissions.

Why do you say such stupid things?

Wingnuts have difficulty with reading comprehension.

 

[semen4her]

I gave up on wingnuts.

They become too stupid to bare this close to an election.

 

[mercury14]

Wingnuts have difficulty with reading comprehension.

His article also says that any plants built after 2022 are exempt from the new regulations as long as their planning and construction process gets underway in the next ten years. The regs only apply to coal plants conceived after 2022.

And AJ is outright lying, no coal plants are being shut down by the EPA. He wants it to be true though, so he created his own private land of make-believe.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Dribble]

do share, where do you work? is this a private or public entity?

when you say 4 people, for those like Merc, Richard Daily, UD, are imaginary people in his head. Are your people real or fictional?

Now for those like Thetrobbe, the only people he knows are those he reads in books while working in the library basement.

I'm sorry Jen...it must really suck that a liberal like me with my beliefs and level of education is doing so well when your conservative friends are finding it so difficult. I own my own company. There are several Litsters that have been given the tour. Ask them what is real and what isn't.