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It almost sounds like you're complaining, which is strange because this is what you voted for.If business has less money to invest in shipping jobs overseas, that is A Good Thing.
Right now, corporate america has record-setting profits, but they're not investing in american jobs. There is insufficient demand for goods and services for business to get businesses to invest in creating jobs no matter what the income tax rate is. Cutting taxes does not create jobs and never has
It almost sounds like you're complaining, which is strange because this is what you voted for.
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The more things change
yup, you're gonna have to extend that Y AXIS, alright
LOL!
Yes, because if history has taught us anything, it's that all of the real problems are fixed when one party controls all three branches of government so it no longer has to bother with partisan politics. Better yet, perhaps we should go back to that point in our history where there was no partisanship - nodisagreement in government whatsoever.So long as we remain blinded by partisan politics, we'll never fix the real problem.
Yes, because if history has taught us anything, it's that all of the real problems are fixed when one party controls all three branches of government so it no longer has to bother with partisan politics. Better yet, perhaps we should go back to that point in our history where there was no partisanship - nodisagreement in government whatsoever.
After all, the founders designed the system so that it would be easy to get things done. This is best exemplified by their elegant decision to create a separate house and senate consisting of delegates from each state to assist the executive -- no doubt recognizing that hundreds of minds could more quickly reach a solution to a problem than just one.
Nearly two years after the economic recovery officially began, job creation continues to stagger at the slowest post-recession rate since the Great Depression.
The nation has 5% fewer jobs today — a loss of 7 million — than it did when the recession began in December 2007. That is by far the worst performance of job generation following any of the dozen recessions since the 1930s.
In the past, the economy recovered lost jobs 13 months on average after a recession. If this were a typical recovery, nearly 10 million more people would be working today than when the recession officially ended in June 2009.
the obama "recovery" is the slowest---by far---in modern american history
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We compared the unemployment rate at the end of the 23-month period to what it was at the beginning of the period.
By this measure, too, the current recovery is not the weakest. Three recoveries actually saw an increase in the unemployment rate after 23 months (ones under George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush and Carter/Reagan), while another (under President Richard Nixon) produced a smaller decline in the unemployment rate than the current recovery has. (Because a budding recovery can entice discouraged workers back into the labor force, it’s not unusual for the unemployment rate to rise in a recovery.)
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Where does this leave us? Romney has a point that the current recovery is relatively weak by historical standards. But it’s inaccurate to say that "it’s the slowest job recovery since Hoover." Depending on what yardstick you use, it’s either the third worst or the fifth worst recovery since World War II. That’s not a great accomplishment for the Obama Administration, but we’re checking Romney here, and he chose to make his point in a way that isn’t accurate. So we rate the claim False.
What is it about the word 'promise' that you don't quite understand?
ppp is a dem pollster (out of south carolina)
quinnipiac (from connecticut) has been famously wrong in florida for years, at least since crist whalloped jim davis in 06
for example, qn had crist beating rubio (who won his 3 way by 20) as late as august
fyi
Across a wide range of measures—employment growth, unemployment levels, bank lending, economic output, income growth, home prices and household expectations for financial well-being—the economy's improvement since the recession's end in June 2009 has been the worst, or one of the worst, since the government started tracking these trends after World War II.
Payroll employment today is 5% lower than it was before the recession began 41 months ago. That places the current economic recovery far below all other recessions dating back to the 1960's.
"By far", as well?
it means unemployment is a full FORTY PERCENT higher than the white house SOLD it
hey, how bout the time he PROMISED to cut the deficit in half
Obama: I Promise To Cut The Deficit In Half By 2013
LOL!
Thank you for this, although I'm a little worried as to why you keep leaving Obama off these charts. I hope it's not because he's black.
That's the thing about democracy -- it's all about comrpomise. Don't dare overstep.