purchasing private insurance? What do you think? Off topic.
I thought you wanted less debt?
Is that money being spent in the private sector?
Is this the guy that forgets the time frame? employment was in free-fall, nobody made accurate projections on job loss from the Bush Recession.
We have gone over this time and again, taxes are on profits, demand is holding back investment. Profits are way up without investment, there is little incentive to invest in such an environment.
Wow, 2 swings at the same topic, neither of which gets to the heart of the matter. You change the topic to Congress, but we all know how the minority blocked nearly everything, it has been and still is a matter of obstructing anything by this administration. I keep asking you where are the GOP job programs, we have nothing, but then that is entirely because anything improving the situation make the President look good.
How would I know? I haven't asked them.
Yes, but they're not trying to get one. When Obama took office, the number of discouraged was 734,000, went up to 1,318,000 in Dec 2010 and is now back down to 835,000. An improvement from the worst, not as good as it had been.
I claimed no such thing. I wrote: "the number of people not in the labor force who want a job went up 0.7 million" That's not saying only 700,000 people want a job.
Whoa - I took a glancing look at your post (I did not actually read it).Why? Because he had been an office for 8 months? Surely you're not going to tell me you also believe the economy is a light switch. You have to look at trends, and the trend is that the longer Obama is in office, the better things are getting.
That's what I said. We went from 14.2% and rising (all the way up to 17.1%) to 13.9% and dropping. That's a positive trend.
Your claim was:
It seemed you definitely suggested all the added debt was due to money spent to better the economy/unemployment.
I don't care what percentage is inaccurate, merely that your statement is inaccurate.
No, this is false. First of all, the increase in federal spending has been minimal. Most of the debt incurred is from the lost tax revenue. Second of all, most of that spending WASN'T towards stimulating the economy, it was towards the things we were already committed to spending.
And, once again, I don't think it's bad we're making sure people get food. This isn't really that difficult to understand.
To address what I'm sure your larger point is, I do not like how the income inequality gap has increased over the last several decades, including under Obama. But from where I sit, I've seen many things Obama has proposed to combat this, so it's hard for me to blame him when Republicans actively work against him.
Too late.
What does that say about you, Con? You claimed 9 million jobs were lost during Obama's presidency, yet there is no chart which supports such ludicrousy. Can't you read a chart?
False representation, faulty premise.
You are so confused, govt spending as a component of the economy and on a per capitia level has declined, the idea that govt should shrink as the country increases in size is silly, a false premise. In the 90's we had higher rates, increased revenues, declining deficits, lowered spending to gdp levels.
I'm not in the short term.
Complete falsehood, employment levels had stabilized in 2010.
Finally a concession!
So this is what your rant is about?? Because you're not happy since Obama has lowered the unemployment rate more than every single Republican president going back as far as BLS data shows??
I have no opinion on the matter.
They're not unemployed at all because they're not trying to get ajob...they're Not in the Labor Force.
How are you getting that from what I wrote? I'm giving you the actual numbers, not the false numbers you were claiming. I've said nothing about good or bad.
It's not. Everyone in the labor force wants a job. That's kind of the definition of the labor force: Wanting a job and doing something about working. And the labor force has gone up 1 million.
Yes they do...and they are in the labor force.
LOL...yeah, that is what we want! That is a "normal" we seek! FFS, the absolute dishonesty you need to ascribe to your adversary while ignoring your sides intransigence. Again, the GOP refuses to push ANY jobs programs, to restore public employment, to help in pushing ANY economic stimulation that might make the President look better.