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SeeHopeWin Donating Member (649 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 08:18 AM
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Important point: Good employment report today: A drop in unemployment = Health Care reform
If we are showing some excellent signs that our economy is coming back, they nay sayers can't argue that we can't afford it!

With America healed (by President Obama) and a healthy economy, we can afford anything!!!

Spread the word....!

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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 08:20 AM
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1. which, if history is any indication ...
(drop in unemployment ...)

Dow crashes ...

but then, hear the "liberal media" repeat the mantra (that they refused to do under W) of "the drop reflects people who have quit looking ..."
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rve300 Donating Member (140 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 08:20 AM
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2. 247,000 fewer tax payers
How is that healing America and a sign that the economy is coming back?
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SeeHopeWin Donating Member (649 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 08:24 AM
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3. The two previous months were revised up, and we were losing 700K per month early in the year...
Today's report is very very positive, all indicators said that people worked more, average hours worked per week went up, income per hour went up...Again, we were dropping 700K+ per month!

Obamanomics is working BIG TIME!
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Coyote_Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 08:34 AM
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4. The official numbers
don't reflect millions of folks who want jobs and can't get them.

The last two or three recessions were followed by jobless recoveries. There is not a dman thibng to indicate this one will be any different. Simple fact is that there are still many folks who haven't recovered from the last recession six or seven years ago.

Recoveries are Wall Street measures that have little to do with employment and the well being of flesh and blood citizens.

We are well able to fund a single payer system. What we lack is both the humanitarian desire to care for others and political will to enact such a system. The citizens are as lacking as the bastards they've elected. Otherwise they would collectively demand a single payer system.
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tritsofme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 08:40 AM
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5. An economy that loses 250k jobs a month is not healthy.
People should be careful with this report, it seems likely that the unemployment rate edged down only because discouraged workers left the labor force.

We need to create 150k new jobs each month just to keep pace with population growth, things are turning around, but we have a long way to go.
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SeeHopeWin Donating Member (649 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 08:48 AM
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6. Agreed, see # 3
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