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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 01:03 PM Original message |
Consumer Confidence Index drops unexpectedly to 6-month low in May; gas, job worries persist |
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Kelvin Mace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 01:06 PM Response to Original message |
1. What is the Obama admin going to do |
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russspeakeasy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 01:19 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Until some pin striped asses are hauled off to jail, |
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SomeGuyInEagan (872 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 03:46 PM Response to Reply #2 |
15. +1000! n/t |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 01:34 PM Response to Original message |
3. Unexpectantly? Not again. |
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Citizen Worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 01:52 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. And we have swallowed a lot of shit and will continue to do so. |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
4. "unexpectedly" |
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BR_Parkway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:17 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. "a sign of the toll that high gas prices, a choppy job outlook and a moribund housing market are |
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Newest Reality (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:25 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. + 1 |
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Safetykitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
7. Tales of the Unexpected! It's about economists with jobs. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
9. Obama has just pushed new Trade Agreements with Korea, Colombia -- !!! |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:29 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. President Obama understands that expanding foreign trade is necessary to improve the economy |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:43 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Is that a joke? You mean like Clinton's NAFTA and CAFTA improved the economy---?? |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:53 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Bill Clinton presided over the longest ever expansion of the US economy |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 03:34 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Bill Clinton gave us NAFTA and CAFTA which have sucked jobs out of America non-stop ... |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 09:31 AM Response to Reply #14 |
18. CAFTA wasn't ratified by Congress until 2005 |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 01:37 PM Response to Reply #18 |
27. OK -- that's only 6 years of sucking jobs out of America -- |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 07:49 AM Response to Reply #27 |
32. How many jobs were lost due to CAFTA? |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 10:16 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Whatever trade agreements -- we're still lossing huge numbers of jobs every month ... more than |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 01:38 PM Response to Reply #33 |
39. How many of those job losses are due to CAFTA? How many new jobs are due to CAFTA? |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 09:33 AM Response to Reply #14 |
19. The number of jobs in the US increased in the years after NAFTA was ratified |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 01:36 PM Response to Reply #19 |
26. The trade agreements have only sucked jobs out of America -- |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 07:43 AM Response to Reply #26 |
28. So, I guess that manufacturing was booming before NAFTA, right? |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 10:17 PM Response to Reply #28 |
34. Only if you count 54,000 more manufacturing plants in operation ten years ago ... ??? |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 01:55 PM Response to Reply #34 |
43. How many closed in the 10 years before NAFTA was ratified? |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 09:37 AM Response to Reply #14 |
20. Clinton reformed welfare from a 'way of life' to 'welfare to work' |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 01:35 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. Clinton sent Welfare mothers with young children off to work for less than $5.00 an hour |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 07:44 AM Response to Reply #25 |
29. Work is better than sitting at home watching Jerry Springer |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 10:19 PM Response to Reply #29 |
35. Forcing mothers of pre-school age children to work with NO provisions for their care ... |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 01:50 PM Response to Reply #35 |
40. It was an attack on the cycle of dependency, and it worked |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 09:38 AM Response to Reply #14 |
21. Unemployment is currently 8.7%, not 15%: |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 01:32 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. According to Sen. Bernie Sanders last Friday/Hartmann ... 15% .... |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 07:46 AM Response to Reply #23 |
30. Senator Sanders needs to check his numbers with the BLS |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 10:25 PM Response to Reply #30 |
37. What you're saying is you don't like the reality of 15% unemployment -- but hey ... |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 01:52 PM Response to Reply #37 |
41. I'm saying that it is not 15%. It is currently 9.1% |
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Vinee (421 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 02:02 PM Response to Reply #30 |
44. Maybe you should too. The BLS has May unemployment at 9.1%, not 8.7%. |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 09:40 AM Response to Reply #14 |
22. Social Security COLA's are determined by a formula specified by law -- not by the President |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 01:33 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. So you're saying there's been no inflation? Or that government statistics haven't been gimmicked? |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 07:48 AM Response to Reply #24 |
31. You are blaming Obama for obeying the law |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 10:23 PM Response to Reply #31 |
36. Are you suggesting Obama should tolerate lies about inflation -- ? |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 01:54 PM Response to Reply #36 |
42. Do you think that President Obama should have ignored the law regarding COLAs? |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
13. Charlie Brown School of Economics... |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 11:57 AM Response to Reply #13 |
38. Thread winner! |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 04:52 PM Response to Original message |
16. Dang, yet another prediction failure. nt |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 04:57 PM Response to Original message |
17. No surprise here n/t |
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