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So, 80,000 jobs and 8.2% unemployment rate holds...

Better than Bush, and better than the Hoover policies of RMoney. Why wont the Wingers pass the treansportaion bill that will create a million new construction jobs?
 
OldGaffer said:
Better than Bush, and better than the Hoover policies of RMoney. Why wont the Wingers pass the treansportaion bill that will create a million new construction jobs?
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Because it is just more (Marxist) redistributionism. That is what has CAUSED the economy to stagnate. Time to try something else (say, capitalism?)...
 
You missed it.

While everyone was ranting about the Supreme Court, and the GOP as pandering to its base while burying Daryll Issa's little "Fast and Furious" game, Congress DID pass the Democratic transportation bill, minus the demand for the Keystone XL pipeline, which they quietly forgot about when they though no one was looking.
 
Bluedog said:
I would be curious how many Presidents won re-election with unemployment numbers that high.
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Not many. The left likes to point to FDR and that is certainly consistent with the Obama philosophy - "the economy is bad, capitalism failed and you need me to regulate and tax and spend or you will starve." The problem I see with that is how long will it take for the independents to put two and two together and figure out that this "philosophy" is starting to look like the cause of the (long term) economic stagnation.
 
But, but...the private sector is doing just fine. What we need to focus on is government jobs and then the 3 or 4 private sector jobs needed to support 1 government worker will....uh...uh....just happen....I guess?
 
I wasn't aware that maintaining the nation's infrastructure was "Marxist redistribution".

GOP policy and anti tax mania has led to us seriously underfunding infrastrure maintenance for years.

I guess folks like you can bask in your ideological purity while the US falls apart and drops down to second class statues. (Of course, wingnuts would rather wave their flags and exist in denial than admit any of that).
 
Boca said:
But, but...the private sector is doing just fine. What we need to focus on is government jobs and then the 3 or 4 private sector jobs needed to support 1 government worker will....uh...uh....just happen....I guess?
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So you got nothing. No surprise. Maybe if Obama would produce his real birth certificate.....
 
TomFitz said:
I wasn't aware that maintaining the nation's infrastructure was "Marxist redistribution".

GOP policy and anti tax mania has led to us seriously underfunding infrastrure maintenance for years.

I guess folks like you can bask in your ideological purity while the US falls apart and drops down to second class statues. (Of course, wingnuts would rather wave their flags and exist in denial than admit any of that).
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What has led to us "seriously underfunding infrastrure maintenance for years" is the explosion in spending on bureaucratic bloat and welfare transfer payments that the left's "ideological purity" has wrought.
 
Nonsense.

Sorry, but that's nothing more than a stereotype, albeit one cherished by the right.

Gasoline taxes have not been raised in teh US for nearly thirty years. THAT's what funds highway maintenance. In 1983, a ton of liquid asphalt sold for $125. Today it sells for $650, and we're still paying for it with 1983 dollars.

We ended "welfare as we know it" in 1996. Yet you wingnuts still rant about it as if nothing changed.

The GOP let the transportation trust fund fall into defecit (after borrowing against it to understate the size of Mr Bush's borrowing) for the first time in history.

Rampant deregulation took us from the world's leaders in air transportation to a system where the average plane in service is 17 years old. I don't know if you've been on a plane lately ,but shabby and dirty are normal.

The GOP did everything it could to block investments in universal high speed internet access (another area where the US went from number on to way down the list), and the smart grid (the coal industry didn't want it).
 
TomFitz said:
Nonsense.

Sorry, but that's nothing more than a stereotype, albeit one cherished by the right.

Gasoline taxes have not been raised in teh US for nearly thirty years. THAT's what funds highway maintenance. In 1983, a ton of liquid asphalt sold for $125. Today it sells for $650, and we're still paying for it with 1983 dollars.

We ended "welfare as we know it" in 1996. Yet you wingnuts still rant about it as if nothing changed.

The GOP let the transportation trust fund fall into defecit (after borrowing against it to understate the size of Mr Bush's borrowing) for the first time in history.

Rampant deregulation took us from the world's leaders in air transportation to a system where the average plane in service is 17 years old. I don't know if you've been on a plane lately ,but shabby and dirty are normal.

The GOP did everything it could to block investments in universal high speed internet access (another area where the US went from number on to way down the list), and the smart grid (the coal industry didn't want it).
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Wingers have a sad and dismal record on technology, science, infrastructure and American jobs. And yet, they are proud of their record and want to double down on their failed policies.
 
I'm still wondering why anyone with at brain would quote something called weaselzippers as if it were a real news source....... much less expect anyone else to take them seriously!
 
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