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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:00 PM Original message |
It's the JOBS stupid! |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:01 PM Response to Original message |
1. There's only so much the government can do to create jobs |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:03 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Not so - there's a LOT more they can and should do - as FDR did in the 1930's |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:12 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. You're absolutely right. n/t |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:21 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. build solar panels in the u.s., install them on people's homes and commercial buildings... |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:37 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. yup but i would add one, look to the stars and start to build a space program |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 12:22 AM Response to Reply #11 |
24. that's about the last thing we need to spend money on at this point. |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 12:25 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. says you, personally i would rather we spent money on looking to the stars than just about anything |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 02:38 AM Response to Reply #25 |
33. then buy yourself a nicer telescope- i'd rather see people put to work. |
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Mind_your_head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 01:11 AM Response to Reply #2 |
27. + 1000 |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 02:13 AM Response to Reply #2 |
31. I used a poor choice of words, meant to say... |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:17 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. They Could Fund Jobs Instead Of Funding Banker Bonuses |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:19 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. They can do both. |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:33 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Obama: "Too Late, Money's All Gone." |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:57 PM Response to Reply #1 |
20. Wrong. There is a lot the gov can do. Obama needs to take a cue from FDR. |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 01:48 AM Response to Reply #1 |
30. WPA, look it up. nt |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:16 PM Response to Original message |
4. too late..we jumped that shark..but it swam after us and well you know... |
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MarjorieG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:18 PM Response to Original message |
6. With China holding our debt, free to also put 3.5 trillion to their infrastructure, how do we spend? |
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FVZA_Colonel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
8. It seems like they may have finally realized this. |
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janedum (374 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:39 PM Response to Original message |
12. Too bad Obama thinks everything's fine. His TARP money made stock market go up. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:41 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Obama's created and saved hundreds of thousands of jobs. |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:43 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. But He Spent Heavily On The Bankers, Less So On The Middle Class |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:45 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. If he hadn't bailed out the banks, we'd have another great depression. |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:48 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Obama Did The Least-Best Thing |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:51 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. What's silly is blaming Obama for high unemployment. |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:55 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Do you disagree that the same money could have saved far more jobs |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:57 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. I'm thinking if you don't do both we'd be in much deeper shit. |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 12:02 AM Original message |
So the banks couldn't be saved without paying many billionS |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 12:29 AM Response to Original message |
26. Sure they could. |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 07:42 AM Response to Reply #26 |
34. One Of Us Is Living In An Alternate Reality nt |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
17. Unemployment is at 17.5% when you add in those who have been out of work a long time |
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flyarm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 12:02 AM Response to Original message |
22. Foreclosures and Housing price declines also reflect job loses.. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 12:11 AM Response to Original message |
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Mind_your_head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 01:16 AM Response to Reply #23 |
28. lol |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 01:47 AM Response to Reply #23 |
29. More of the Bangalore spam, again? n/t |
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