Thank you...
Unfortunately your point is lost in all of the current election back and forth. If you read the comments at the Daily Beast where this execrable diatribe sits, there seems to be two viewpoints: 1)...
View Article2010 ...
The electorate kicked out the Dems who failed to support a larger stimulus, and then got a bunch of do nothing Republicans in their place, who put a deliberate drag on any further progress on the job...
View ArticleBrooks alert
Silly old Brooks over at NYT is pushing his politics under the guide of economics once again. - Jerry
View ArticleEnough Is Not Enough When It's Not Enough: Spending Never Creates Jobs, Period
The claim of stimulus deniers is clear, that the associated spending simply does not and cannot create new net jobs. This is like claiming for cars designed to withstand a head-on collision of 30mph...
View Articleobama, romney, ferguson & others
the economy is going nowhere. obama promised much, produced little. but romney especially with his vp choice will only make a very bad economic situation worse. speaking of vp choices, wasn't it...
View ArticleYet another misleading Niall statistic
Niall wrote: "Meanwhile, since 2008, a staggering 3.6 million Americans have been added to Social Security’s disability insurance program. This is one of many ways unemployment is being concealed."...
View ArticleNot necessarily a bad stat
@andrewdover, it's possible that his stat is correct. It's safe to assume a certain number of ss recipients died during that period of time. If that were the case, then niall's number could be right....
View ArticleMatthew is correct.
The number reported was the additions, not the growth in the total number of people in the program. About 2.7 million people left the disability program from 2008-2011....
View Article'Correct' but deliberately misleading
If within 3 or 4 years 2.7 million people either were cured of disability or died or otherwise left the program, would you expect [i]zero[/i] people to join it? I don't think so. Reporting the number...
View ArticleKiss-Arse Insanity
There can't really be any doubt about Ferguson's desperate struggle to become the new Kissinger for McCain, can there? If you doubt it, please watch this particularly insane piece of kiss-arsery by...
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