Boeing Boing: Obama Visits Plane Maker to Push US Manufacturing

This is an insult. After bullying Boeing to abandon their production plans in SC, this pompus, arrogant little man has the audacity to actually show up at the plant to promote US manufacturing? His totalitarian iron fisted approach to Boeing in SC means that every manufacturing concern in the US will think twice about expanding within the US. Better to build a new plant in a foreign country than face the gestapo tactics so favored by the Obama Administration.

“If there are any new jobs, it is in spite of Obama, not because of him.” …and if there were any lost jobs they would be because of Obama, not in spite of him. I’m beginning to get it now.

So how much do you guys get paid? I could use some extra cash.

It looks like Boeing is happy with our Phi Beta Kappa,summa cum laude President.He is intelligent enough to know how to grow our economy-the great news over the last month shows that he has fixed our economy,despite having a Congress run by Republicans.It is too bad Rafe’s racism will not let him see the great job Mr. Obama is doing.I just hope he doesn’t let the Catholics off the hook for dening women birth control.Stand fast,Mr President-the people are with you.

Stock market loves all this hype about mfgr therefore I love all the hype also. You should be making serious money these days. Now, when does it stop? Keep an eye on GM. From Cheat Sheet: “Analysts appear increasingly negative about GM’s results for the next qtr. Average estimate has moved down from 97 cents/share to 86 over the last 90 days.” If you are more interested in your money rather than hype, you can read other comments about GM’s stiff competition, etc, in the near future. Do we have another Solyndra on our hands? Will see.

gobama wrote:”Anyone have a extra pair of Depends super absorbent?”
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They have all been bought up by all the so-called “news” reporters covering the oBama 24×365 campaign…. you never know when you are going to get a tingle down your leg.

If there are any new jobs, it is in spite of Obama, not because of him.

Posted by: Rafe | February 17, 2012, 7:47 am 7:47 am

Exactly right!

Lizzie, I doubt that FIGDAR will respond to the GE outsourcing dealio.

Posted by: Lizzie | February 17, 2012, 9:33 am 9:33 am

Forrest doesn’t know the first thing about how to create a job. He prefers whining about Bush and letting others do the hard work.

I like Obama. My life has gotten 10,000 times better since 2009…FACT. Before that I was attacked by our own banking systems increasing their rates nilly willy for no reason but pure greed. Didn’t get a solution until Obama passed a bill & I was able to pay it all off at sane interest rate. In 1 year it will be paid off. If we still lived in the Bush era of things it would of taken m,e 99 years to pay off. That’s huge. It means everything to me. To go back to GOP thinking would be insane! At least I’ll have the credit card debt paid off by that time & won’t use them & just watch the GOP run the country into the ground JUST LIKE 2000-2008….remember those years? I do & a black cloud appears …..All GOP does is lie & fill people full of fear. It’s a good strategy I guess, but it’s something that works better in the past then the future. Thank you Obama. Let’s drink a beer. You’re good for the people. CEOs might differ, but this Engineer thanks you from the bottom of my heart. My life is less stressful with the huge debt gone. You probably saved me from a heart attack … that’s huge. THANK YOU!

What’s really happening is since the government is gridlocked, the economy is simply crawling back all on its own, as usually happens after a sharp downturn, and as many economists predicted it would. The problem is at this rate of growth we won’t be back to full employment until about 2019, and with more pressure on government services and lower revenues the debt is going to skyrocket. The Republicans are determined to block any further stimulus efforts while their own proposals, spending cuts and austerity, have killed economic growth and exacerbated high unemployment wherever they’ve been tried, and all their proposed further massive tax giveaways to corporations and the wealthy can never be paid for, running up even higher deficits and debt.

S: What causes increase deficits? LESS tax revenues, increase spending, higher proportion interest rates, this Potus first budget , he spent 61 billion less than GWB’s last budget but deficit his first deficit higher, you’re assuming the rest of us don’t have 3rd grade math skills. One can remove safety nets (OWS would triple and one can say good bye to this democracy), remove education, but for this economy to operate, infrastructure technologically and physically needs upgrades, they haven’t been upgraded to keep up with the 21st century and many bridges are lacking safety. Military becomes increasingly expensive for upkeep and technology advances in it require an extremely educated loyal to the U.S. American citizens to maintain our superpower status. Manufacturing is also leaving China because of corporate espionage, they can make start up companies stealing technology from these companies.

ROY BEAN: “I’ve seen plenty of posts that counter his argument with documented facts” I don’t see any on here, I rarely see them, and if so, they are usually from a conservative site instead of a direct the source FDSYS, BLS, or CBO.

I don’t see any on here, I rarely see them, and if so, they are usually from a conservative site instead of a direct the source FDSYS, BLS, or CBO.

POSTED BY: EMERALD_SPARKS—So you are saying that you are in here ALL THE TIME? Thats all I need to know…

Same small group of right wing whiners in here again. All the while the economy improves, the President’s approval ratings rise and the Republicans embarrass themselves.

It’s amazing; the President is out there pushing manufacturing and jobs. The republicans are holding hearings on contraception. Do the American people think that women’s contraception is more important than jobs?

It’s amazing; the President is out there pushing manufacturing and jobs. The republicans are holding hearings on contraception. Do the American people think that women’s contraception is more important than jobs?

Posted by: tmferretti | February 17, 2012, 1:46 pm 1:46 pm

Is that the hearing on contraception where the Republicans aren’t having any women testify? There’s some fair thinking for you.

When Right Wingers can’t deny the facts, they attack the messenger. “Obama is a fraud.” In light of our improving economy, what the heck does THAT mean?

Just look at Republicans in Congress and Republican Governors – no way they can convince the Middle Class that a decade of Trickle Down economics was good for all of us, so instead we watch hearings on Birth Control and a veto on same sex marriage. The Republican message to women of America: use aspirin for birth control. Vote them gone.

Michelle, the “largest debt ever” is completely due to President Obama? Absolutely, completely WRONG.

In 2001, President George W. Bush inherited a surplus. Then, starting in 2002, the budget went into deficit due to Republican policies. Seven years later, just before President Obama took office, the budget office projected a $1.2 TRILLION deficit for that year alone..

Yes, President Obama’s stimulus in 2009 and 2010 added to the deficits in those years, but they are mostly temporary. The Obama administration’s spending was designed to boost demand and create jobs, even though doing so worsened the deficit in the SHORT run. What is more important right now is a healthy economy – JOBS. Recessions are killers for tax revenue.

Meanwhile, spending cuts alone will not close the gap. The revenue shortfalls from a decade of Bush era tax cuts are simply too deep to fill with spending cuts alone. Interest alone on the debt accumulated during the Bush years is HUGE. President Obama is right – our tax revenues need to go up, including the wealthiest paying their fair share.

Watching Right Wingers define this as “fraud” is one more reason why they will lose the White House.

“In 2001, President George W. Bush inherited a surplus.”

Posted by: green.goddess | February 18, 2012, 1:11 am 1:11 am

No he didn’t. If you ever bothered educating yourself by visiting the US Treasury Department website instead of mindlessly repeating leftist propaganda you’d know the “Clinton surplus” is a myth. The national debt never decreased under Clinton. Even in Clinton’s best year there was a $17.9 billion deficit, and it was only that low because a lot of fiscal conservatives were in power at the time.

LIBS ARE HYPOCRITES | FEBRUARY 18, 2012, 11:04 AM posted: “…the “Clinton surplus” is a myth.”

To be clear, I described Clinton’s BUDGET SURPLUS, not the national debt. According to the Congressional Budget Office and Fact Check, a BUDGET surplus was reported between the years 1998 and 2000, the last three years of Clinton’s presidency. I know this first hand because my company benefited from the booming economy and big gains in the stock market from capital gains and new salaries.

No matter which President presided over adding to the national debt, there’s only ever been one way out of the ditch: higher employment. Economies don’t function when people are unemployed. Higher employment means higher GDP.

Right Wingers need to worry less about Obama’s short term budget deficits and more about unemployment and underemployment to bring down the national debt. By the way, what exactly is the Republican big picture plan for creating jobs? More tax cuts for the wealthy?

So the question, once again, comes around to why do Republicans refuse to increase taxes for the wealthiest Americans after a decade of these policies clearly resulted in revenue shortfalls?

Posted by: green.goddess | February 18, 2012, 9:58 pm 9:58 pm

In December 2009, Obama had Democratic majorites in both chambers of Congress. He didn’t need Republicans to do anything. He renewed the Bush tax cuts and happily took advantage of them himself to save $100,000. He could have led by example and voluntarily sent the money back to Treasury, but he didn’t. He’s a hypocrite just like his supporters.

History has shown us that it doesn’t matter how much tax revenue collected. Government ALWAYS spends more. The problem is excessive spending beyond tax receipts and a total lack of receipts from millions of Americans who get government benefits but don’t pay any federal income taxes (the leeches). You could confiscate all of the wealth of the top earners but it wouldn’t amount to much and you’d only get a chance to do it once because I guarantee you they’ll all stop working after that. What would be the point? Then where would your precious tax revenues come from? Obama’s Stash?

I’d prefer a simpler tax system and the elimination of all tax deductions. That would be fair. Today it’s not fair that Americans who live in apartments and mortgage-free homes pay for your mortgage interest deduction. Everyone needs to pay into the federal income tax system. Everyone needs to feel the sting of taxes and question if they are getting their money’s worth. Everyone needs to demand that government be fiscally responsible. Only then will this insane debt problem get resolved.

mary @ 11:27 pm
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First thing I would do is outlaw withholding. Let everyone receive their full pay. Then write a check at the end of the month. Mortgage/rent payment, electric bill, car payment, FEDERAL TAX payment!!!! I guarantee the federal government would snap to being fiscally responsible in a very short time when people actually have to write a check themselves to fund the federal government. Everything else is just window dressing.