About Those Job Losses
EmailLooking for silver linings in the storm clouds…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 651,000 jobs were cut from the nation’s payrolls last month.
That would make last month the worst single month of jobs cut since October 1949 — except for the fact that the government also adjusted the number of jobs lost in the previous two months.
Adding 57,000 to January job losses, the new number is 655,000.
Adding an additional 104,000 job losses to December’s numbers means 681,000 jobs were cut that month.
I suppose one could also see something of a positive trend line there — that there were fewer job losses in January than December, and fewer in February (at least as of now) than in January. (Though, of course, February only has 28 days — making it 10% shorter than January and December.)
Man, it’s bleak out there.
– jpt
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Posted by: bawl knee phwank | March 6, 2009, 2:55 pm 2:55 pm
PATIENCE
Posted by: Angie in PA | March 6, 2009, 3:00 pm 3:00 pm
What else would you expect with the President’s systematic destruction of the economy?
He is doing it on purpose.
Posted by: Plumber | March 6, 2009, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm
Yeah, especially in Louisianna where VP Buffoon said they’re losing 400 jobs a day.
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Well You use an old qoute so here are the facts to back up the Statement.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of unemployed people in Louisiana spiked from 109,000 in November to 122,000 in December, an increase of over 13,000 people without jobs or 430 additional out of work people every day.
Posted by: Thinking | March 6, 2009, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm
Anyone ask Rush if he’s happy about this?
Posted by: Ryan C | March 6, 2009, 3:07 pm 3:07 pm
Man, it’s bleak out there.
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It is very serious, too serious to play games with. Even for those who have jobs, just seeing their co-workers get the ax is very difficult.
Posted by: Thinking | March 6, 2009, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm
well at least you can say, when we hit rock bottom, the only way we can go is up.
Posted by: WHAT! | March 6, 2009, 3:11 pm 3:11 pm
Not a lot of confidence for certain. Seems like anyone who has money is hanging on to it, especially the investors.
I wonder if anyone has told the Whitehouse wonks that surround the President that they seem to be peeing facing the wind.
Posted by: david | March 6, 2009, 3:18 pm 3:18 pm
This is simply more deception from Team Obama and you are applauded for spotting it and reporting it.
Apparently the stock market spotted this deception, too, just before it started to tank.
Posted by: Sigmonde | March 6, 2009, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm
Obama is a joke!
This guy is either incredibly naive/stupid or a gifted obfuscator/liar!
He is a used/failed policy salesman operating like a used car salesman! :(
Posted by: aware2u | March 6, 2009, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm
Of course he’s not happy that 0bama is destroying this country. He was hoping 0bama would fail to destroy this country.
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Rush the overweight, drug addicted pansy has never done a dam thing for the country.
Posted by: Thinking | March 6, 2009, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm
Ryan C, somewhere you asked me if I would be voting for Palin in 2012.
I can’t determine whom I will vote for until I see the choices. And I would never make that determination this far in advance.
Posted by: mad | March 6, 2009, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm
Thinking: “Rush the overweight, drug addicted pansy has never done a dam thing for the country.”
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The guy has a ton of money to spend. He obviously frequents restaurants and grocery stores.
Posted by: mad | March 6, 2009, 3:34 pm 3:34 pm
Concerned in Ohio
Seems to be you Belong to The 26% Of People that Belive that!
Posted by: Angie in PA | March 6, 2009, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm
Thats not True Rush has done Stuff for this Country heres the List
Hopes Obama Fails so the Country Fails
Divides this Country Everyday
Has Caused the Republicans Ratings to Sink to an all time Low of 26%
Has Now made the Republican Party a Laughing Stock
Is Making the Democrats Stronger
I Say Keep up the Good work Rush!
Posted by: Angie in PA | March 6, 2009, 3:40 pm 3:40 pm
Oh I forgot Hes got the RNC Attacking Eachother! hahahah lolololol
Posted by: Angie in PA | March 6, 2009, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm
“”In December, Louisiana was the only state in the nation besides the District of Columbia, according to the national press release, that added employment over the month,” said Patty Granier with the Louisiana Workforce Commission. ”
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Well look it up then!
Employment in Nov. 1992668
Employment in Dec. 1994434
Net gain of about 2,000 jobs, but:
Unemployment in Nov 112500
Unemployment in DEC 116350
Net gain in unemployed about 4,000
These are revised numbers.
So who did you cut and paste from?
Posted by: Thinking | March 6, 2009, 3:45 pm 3:45 pm
Even if Bush was still in power, this could have happened. People do not understand that the situation is shaky and grim throughout the world!
Posted by: RS | March 6, 2009, 3:47 pm 3:47 pm
Thinking: “Rush the overweight, drug addicted pansy has never done a dam thing for the country.”
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The guy has a ton of money to spend. He obviously frequents restaurants and grocery stores.
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LOL
Posted by: Thinking | March 6, 2009, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm
“I can’t determine whom I will vote for until I see the choices. And I would never make that determination this far in advance.”
Fair enough.
Posted by: Ryan C | March 6, 2009, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm
the real positive sign will be when jobless calims start to decline-watch for claims to break below 600,000.
Posted by: john in NC | March 6, 2009, 3:59 pm 3:59 pm
Rush the overweight, drug addicted pansy has never done a dam thing for the country.”
Thats not very bipartisan and uniting of you. I guess you’re just doing what you see 0bama doing.
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Well like I said there is a lot there , but nothing that I sure want to be bipartisan with!
Posted by: Thinking | March 6, 2009, 4:00 pm 4:00 pm
as an fair, unbiased, Independent voter, I need to shed some light on the Concerned/Thinking spat. “Thinking”s numbers are spot-on. However, “Concerned in Ohio” is right, and Joe Biden is a liar. Louisiana is the only state in the union right now adding jobs. unemployed people from across the country are flooding into Bobby Jindal’s Louisiana to find jobs. Obviously, of the 6,000 people that bum-rushed Louisiana for work, not all of them can immediately be employed. Only 2,000 of them found work within the month (extrapolated, in another two months, they will have all completely been employed). Joe Biden has a weird way of knocking a red state for doing so well that people go there to find work, thus despite actually hiring most of them, their unemployed numbers swell a smidgeon. Sarah Palin would not have committed such willful partisan deception.
Posted by: indePalin | March 6, 2009, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm
Yeah, this is why President Obama needs to be careful that flying to OH to celebrate 25 jobs doesn’t become his “Mission Accomplished” moment.
Posted by: MayBee | March 6, 2009, 4:05 pm 4:05 pm
Concerned in OH posted “Thats not very bipartisan and uniting of you. ” Please tell us all when Rush has EVER been bipartisan or uniting? He’s a divider.
Posted by: SamTyler1973 | March 6, 2009, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm
Please tell us all when Rush has EVER been bipartisan or uniting? He’s a divider.
Posted by: SamTyler1973
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I don’t agree. Rush unites the people who despise him and everything he “stands” for.
Posted by: Willem van Oranje | March 6, 2009, 4:24 pm 4:24 pm
as an fair, unbiased, Independent voter,
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Sarah Palin would not have committed such willful partisan deception.
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You mean that candidate who saw small towns as “the real America” and “pro-America areas”?
Yeah right, “fair, unbiased, Independent voter”
Posted by: Willem van Oranje | March 6, 2009, 4:29 pm 4:29 pm
Obviously, of the 6,000 people that bum-rushed Louisiana for work, not all of them can immediately be employed. Only 2,000 of them found work within the month (extrapolated, in another two months, they will have all completely been employed)
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You assume a lot the numbers do not tell us how many of those jobs are part ttime and how many part time jobs were created out of full time jobs..
2nd the numbers are revised numbers. The article I quoted had the link to the numbers I have given what they looked like when the article was written I can not say, but I am sure the artical would not have given false numbetrs with a link to the correct numbers.
3rd it does not tell us how many unenployed wetre turnd down because they had not worked the required amounts of months to count as umemployed.
4th it does not tell us howm nay people mrelocated or found work in other States, nor how many fell out of the statistics because the unemployment ran out.
%th how many of those jobs added in Dec were for hopefull Xmass employment? Temorary part time work?
Posted by: Thinking | March 6, 2009, 4:37 pm 4:37 pm
Obama could instill a lot of confidence by vetoing this Omnibus spending bill.
By pooh-poohing it as “old business”, he is demonstrating to the taxpayers how frivolous he is willing to let Congress be with our money. These are the same people he’s going to let write the national health care plan.
Those who are going to be asked to pay for that will remain skeptical of him until he demonstrates some respect for the breadth of financial insecurity out here.
Posted by: MayBee | March 6, 2009, 5:01 pm 5:01 pm
“Obama could instill a lot of confidence by vetoing this Omnibus spending bill.”
That is not a bad suggestion though I don’t think it will happen.
Actually come to think of it who many times has a President vetoed a budget that came from a Congress that was the same party?
Posted by: Ryan C | March 6, 2009, 5:13 pm 5:13 pm
“Rush Limbaugh had chronic backpain, he was PRESCRIBED pills that are highly addictive!!”
Rush Limbaugh has been very hard on drug users over the years.
So the drug addict was hard on other drug addicts.
There’s a word for that and its hypocrisy.
Posted by: Ryan C | March 6, 2009, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm
Got it. Liberal bloggers and board commenters have received marching orders from Obama:
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
When Obama is criticized bring up Joe the Plumber, Palin, Bush, Cheney, Limbaugh, Santelli…
Cause a distraction and avoid the topic or debate that makes Obama look bad.
And, add heavy doses of ridicule and derision. Got it.
Does anyone else feel like the numbers are being shuffled like a deck of cards. Obama and company stacking the decks? Why would they do that?
Posted by: Ruh Oh | March 6, 2009, 5:18 pm 5:18 pm
If Obama is to be compared to Lincoln, then we have to assume that Geithner is his General McClellan. The sooner he goes, the better.
Posted by: Mr. Block | March 6, 2009, 6:41 pm 6:41 pm
Is the watchdog press, whom the people depend on to hold government accountable and guard democracy, acting at all as a check on this government?
Where are the tough questions and the demands for straight answers, not giggles or evasions? Why do away with the successful charter school program? Why remove the tax credit for private charitable contributions? Why spend on second tier issues like healthcare, education and climate change when the heart of the financial system has yet to be addressed? How is the card check program going to assist in economic recovery?
Obama is talking down the economy enough that a chairman of business conference centers today said his hyperbole and rhetoric has cost cancellations worth millions of dollars. He has trashed our future prospects (it’s going to get worse before it gets better) so that anxious businesses cut jobs or stop hiring EVEN IF THEY ARE HEALTHY AND CAN AFFORD IT, but are uncertain about what will happen in the future. Wealth and job creators are so vilified they are simply pulling out of this economy.
Where is this taking us, and do we want to go there? The days when the people were sovereign, and the government only had that power granted to it by the people, is so over. We have creeping state control into every aspect of life on dubious or no constitutional grounds.
They can tell you to pay your taxes. But on what constitutional authority do they penalize you for your carbon footprint or the car you drive? On what authority are all these social initiatives being taken that will control personal life choices, income level and wealth redistribution? No one will ask, except a free man.
Posted by: emjay | March 6, 2009, 6:47 pm 6:47 pm
On the theme of a silver lining
Gallup
Americans’ satisfaction with the state of the nation remains low — at an average of 21% for the past week, including 20% in the most recent data, from March 1-3. But this measure has shown a slight but steady improvement from 14% in early February.
Posted by: Ryan C | March 6, 2009, 7:01 pm 7:01 pm
Ryan C:Actually come to think of it who many times has a President vetoed a budget that came from a Congress that was the same party?
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I’m too lazy to google it right now, but I know it’s what got Bush in trouble, and I know it was Clinton fighting with Republicans that brought discipline to the 90′s.
What are the chances that Obama would veto whatever health care bill Pelosi will bring him? What can he threaten Congress with to make sure a health care bill is more responsible than they’ve been so far?
Posted by: MayBee | March 6, 2009, 7:02 pm 7:02 pm
“I’m too lazy to google it right now, but I know it’s what got Bush in trouble, and I know it was Clinton fighting with Republicans that brought discipline to the 90′s.”
Chances are likely it would be a Democrat given their long time hold on Congress.
Maybe FDR?
“What are the chances that Obama would veto whatever health care bill Pelosi will bring him? What can he threaten Congress with to make sure a health care bill is more responsible than they’ve been so far?”
I want the health care bill to be mostly his plan while accepting input as he stated.
But he has to control the agenda.
It won’t work if he just hands it over to Congress.
Posted by: Ryan C | March 6, 2009, 7:10 pm 7:10 pm
Sidney Morning Herald:
“If anyone in the US media had thought to ask a former Australian prime minister for his assessment, they would have heard a different view. And they would not have been so surprised at Geithner’s performance since.
In a speech to a closed gathering at the Lowy Institute in Sydney on Thursday, Paul Keating gave a starkly different account of Geithner’s record in handling the Asian crisis: “Tim Geithner was the Treasury line officer who wrote the IMF [International Monetary Fund] program for Indonesia in 1997-98, which was to apply current account solutions to a capital account crisis.”
In other words, Geithner fundamentally misdiagnosed the problem. And his misdiagnosis led to a dreadfully wrong prescription.”
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This is not encouraging.
Posted by: mad | March 6, 2009, 7:23 pm 7:23 pm
This is encouraging. Can you provide more information about which sectors and companies lost these jobs? The numbers don’t seem real. I suspect all the non-jobs are being shed from the books while the frauds have cover. See Satyam for example.
Posted by: Common Sense | March 6, 2009, 7:37 pm 7:37 pm
The One is like a yammering kid when you’re ill and have a really bad headache. The more you plead for him to stop, the more shrill and louder his voice becomes, and you get sicker.
Posted by: RR GOP | March 6, 2009, 8:42 pm 8:42 pm
I have all the confidence that with a foundation in place, the President and his team will work it out. I am Patient because I know this was a process getting us here, Now it’s going to be a Process to getting us out. In the Mean time….Are we there yet!!!!!! (the bottom)
Posted by: sngeorgia | March 6, 2009, 9:00 pm 9:00 pm
Did Nero really play his fiddle while ROME burned????
Posted by: socialism101 | March 6, 2009, 10:45 pm 10:45 pm
Oh Yeah….
Change is going to Happen In [[One Month]]
Change is going to Happen in this Nation’s Economy in [[One Month]]
Change in Bi-Partisanship will also Happen in [[One Month]]
Jobs will Increase in [[One Month]]
Change will Happen to the [[Housing Industry]]
Change will Happen in the Corrupt Banking Industry, in [[One Month]]
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The Man has only been in Office for [[One Month]]
And the Republican Low Life’s are trying in Vain, to Stick this Economic Down Turn, on President Obama…
It won’t Stick….
Keep Trying, It won’t Stick !!
This is an 8 Year Economic Mess and it will take some Time for an Economic Up Swing…
Tough It Out…
You Weaklings and Whiners.
Posted by: O. | March 7, 2009, 1:17 am 1:17 am
JG…
Oh Yeah, The Republican [[Cure-All]]
“Tax Cuts”
When Obama’s Stimulus Plan is Laced with “Tax Cuts”
The Stimulus must consist of a Diversed Plan and have Diverse Components to it.
This Plan is not a One Trick-Pony Plan.
Bush used Reagan’s “Tax Cuts Strategy” and it Did Not Help.
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All the Damn Stimulus Checks have gone Out and Guess what…
All those Grandstanding Republican Governor’s in opposition to the Billions being sent to their State’s have Miraculously [[Cashed Them In]] !!
1. Ga: Sonny Perdue
2. Texas: Rick Perry
3. Louisiana: PiYush Jindal
And others as well.
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As Presidnet Obama has said, Numerous Times…
“It will get WORSE, Before it gets BETTER”
That’s Sobering
“It did’nt take over Night to get in this MESS and it will take some TIME to get out of this MESS”
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But we will get out of this MESS
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Toughen Up and Deal with this Crisis..
Stop Whining, you had no Problems, when Bush was Screwing the Economy Up !!
Posted by: O. | March 7, 2009, 5:06 am 5:06 am
Obama needed a much larger stimulus bill, but the Republicans and some Democrats do not have a clue. The Republicans would rather let the entire economy crash to say, “See I told you the liberal would run the economy.”
What does financial collapse mean?
Posted by: Jim W | March 7, 2009, 5:13 am 5:13 am
Obama’s stimulus bill is not working. The Wall Street show that the markets is down just about everyday and the Wall Street know that Obama’s plan is not working. How he going to fix the problem? The White House and the Democratic Congress are playing ‘game’ and ‘politic’. Just like they are going after Rush Limbaugh last week, for example. They should leave Rush alone. The Democratic are not doing their job for the America people. They like to ‘complaining and whiny’. It is a wasting of time. If they keep continue to ‘complaining and whiny’, the Democratic Congress will lose the election big in 2010.
Posted by: anonymous | March 7, 2009, 6:43 am 6:43 am
Human nature can be amusing. How does it feel to be under the microscope? The Democrats have been playing the game for years and it has paid off.
Now put your money where your mouth is.
I really dislike politics..but it exists everywhere. Now folks lets get together and fix it!!! The blame game has never worked for anyone. Take responsibility…put on your big boy pants Mr. Obama and do what you said you would. The American people are waiting.
Posted by: Betty Arnold | March 7, 2009, 7:03 am 7:03 am
The Stock Market has been in a [[Tail Spin]] for at least 7 Months.
The Global Economy is Downward and it will be some Time, before it gets Better.
Keep Looking at the Stock Market…
It will continue to be what it is..Dismal.
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The Government should not have Bailed Out, these [[Zombie Banks ]]
They should Nationalize the Banking System.
The Government should not have Bailed Out [[Wall Street]]
The Government should not have put Money in the American Auto Iindustry, they should have…
[[Nationalized]] the American Auto Industry…
Or let them go Bankrupt !!
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The Government Nationalized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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All of You Whiners, Detractors and Nay Sayers….
Tough this Thing Out or Move to Western Europe !
My Bad…
Their Economy is also [[Bottom Side Up]] as well !!!
Go to Japan or China…
My Bad Again, these Two Asian Countries Economies are also [[Under-Water]]
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Deal With Reality !!
Posted by: O. | March 7, 2009, 7:56 am 7:56 am
anonymous,
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Obama’s stimulus bill is not working. The Wall Street show that the markets is down just about everyday and the Wall Street know that Obama’s plan is not working.
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You should watch the dailyshow vid “The Dow Knows All”.
Posted by: Common Sense | March 7, 2009, 8:29 am 8:29 am
The foreclosure rate is also trending down (fewer foreclosures and fewer mortgages under water) since December 2008. The news constantly compares the year ago statistics to make things seem worse than they are. To see the improvements, you have to look at what is happening from December 08 (Bush regime) to present (Obama administration).
Posted by: Common Sense | March 7, 2009, 8:35 am 8:35 am
One Month and a Week in Office and the Stock Market has been [[Down]] for 7 Months….
Global Markets of Western Europe and Asian Marrkets are [[Down]]
An in One Month and 5 Days…
Obama is to [[Blame]] !!
The Stimulus Checks have just been sent from Washington, to Governors across the nation and it is President Obama, who is to be…
[[Blamed]]
What a Lame Brained Excuse and what a Pitiful Fault Finder, to Point Fingers at President Barack Obama…
Two-Three Years it will take
Posted by: O. | March 7, 2009, 9:44 am 9:44 am
Having a job is nice, but there’s more to life than supporting a family.
All that matters is that the masses have love of Dear Leader.
Posted by: RR GOP | March 7, 2009, 4:39 pm 4:39 pm
I wonder where self-employed people like me whose main client has decided to bring their outsourced jobs back in-house (or overseas?) after they laid off 500 employees fits within the unemployment data?
Posted by: dada | March 7, 2009, 7:32 pm 7:32 pm
Ah yes, Rush is the issue here. It couldn’t possibly be the lack of confidence in Obama’s leadership abilities and the total incompetence of the Democrats running Congress, who are quickly spending us into oblivion! It’s all Rush’s fault! LOL.
As the weeks roll on and the economy continues to unravel, the Obamabots will try their best to blame conservatives for this mess, but to no avail. Obama, Pelosi, and Reid own it.
Posted by: Stacey | March 8, 2009, 1:14 am 1:14 am
Rush who? Oh, that pompous idiot that Michael Moore shred to pieces for two election cycles straight.
Posted by: Common Sense | March 8, 2009, 5:43 am 5:43 am
End the nightmare called the H1B program and stop forcing Americans to train foreigners to take Americans’ jobs.
Posted by: Common Sense | March 8, 2009, 5:57 am 5:57 am
Over 4 million Americans have lost their jobs since the recession started. There over 1.5 million H1B visa recipients WORKING in the U.S. They are doing the work that employers claim they can’t find Americans qualified to do — like answering the phones. What is wrong with this picture?
Posted by: Common Sense | March 8, 2009, 8:52 am 8:52 am
RR GOP….
You should’ve Had Concern over the last 8 years of a Republican President and his then Majority Republican Senate and Congress…
George W. Bush Never, Ever Vetoed a Spending Bill, in his 8 Years as President of the USA…
I said NEVER in his [[8 Years]] as President of the USA !!
George W. Bush has left this Nation in this Condition and it will take some time, to get out of this Situation…
Now Shut Up and Tough it out and while you are at it…
Grow a Damn Back Bone….
Your RNC Fear, Hate and Dread Rhetoric will Not Work !!
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Big Note: George W. Bush, Your Former Beloved Commander and Chief for [[8 Years]] has left this New President & Nation’s in Dire Straits !!
Posted by: O. | March 8, 2009, 11:21 pm 11:21 pm
Michael Steele: “I’m Trying To Move An Elephant, That’s Become Mired In Its Own Muck”
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Describes Rush Limbaugh [[Elephant]] Perfectly and the Republican Party as a Whole !!
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Rep. Conservative, David Brooks says….
“GOP Spending Freeze Idea Is “Insane,” Party Too Stuck On Reagan”
He’s Correct in that Description of how the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh & Sean Hannity, are Constantly Replaying Ronald W. Reagan Speeches and Desiring the Same Ole Reagan Answer to Crisis…..
[[More Deregulation and More Tax Cuts For The Rich]]
The Trickle Down Theorist, In Action.
Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are Lost in the…… 80′s
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Notice how they NEVER Revert to George W. Bush’s Speeches or Decisions and he just left the Oval Office after [[8-Years]]…
Limbaugh and Hannity have to Delve Way Back to the [[80's]] to the Ronald Wilson Reagan Era…
Which wasn’t that Good.
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Newt Gingrich: Became the Highest profile Republican yet to push back against Rush Limbaugh, saying on “Meet the Press” that it’s “irrational” to hope for the President of the United States to fail.
“You’ve got to Want the President to succeed,” said the former House Speaker.
“You’re Irrational if you don’t Want the President to Succeed.
Because if he doesn’t succeed the country doesn’t succeed…
I don’t think anyone should want the President of the United States to Fail.
I want SOME OF HIS POLICIES TO BE STOPPED….
But I don’t want the President of the United States to FAIL.
I want him to learn…. NEW POLICIES.”
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Now that’s Fair, Reasonable and Rational Thinking.
Opposed to Hate Mongering and Un-Patriotic Rhetoric
Posted by: O. | March 8, 2009, 11:24 pm 11:24 pm
When you cut off people’s livelihoods, you cut off their lives and future generations. End the genocide of American workers. End the H1B visa program so that Americans can survive.
Posted by: Common Sense | March 9, 2009, 4:18 am 4:18 am
Where I live in Central Florida..it is hard to tell that there is a recession.
Posted by: DontGet818OnMeNow | March 9, 2009, 12:54 pm 12:54 pm