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Well what do you know? When you take away stimulus, people stop spending.
Here's an idea: mandatory gun insurance.
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Would love to see the mandatory gun insurance item. Link goes to stimulus link.....thanks.
It's fixed. My apologies.
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When Obull$hiter took to the TV in Jan 2009 pimping his "stim-u-less" $880 billion tax payer dollars, the unemployment rate was 7.7%... Today it's 7.9%...
In fact 7 months after it passed the unemployment rate went to 10% and stayed over 9% for the next 2 years...
Now remember the "stim-u-less" was going to keep the unemployment rate under 8%!!!!!!!!!
According to maddow and the rest of the leftwingnuts it "worked"...
Less peole working today than in Jan 2009, there are fewer companies today than in Jan 2009....
When Obama took office the economy was in free fall.
Think of the next-to-last scene in the "Blues Brothers" movie. The Illinois Nazis had just driven their orange station wagon off the unfinished bridge and were hurtling toward the ground hundreds of feet below. THAT was the state of the U.S. economy in January of 2009. George Bush and the Republicans had driven the economy off a cliff, and it would fall a long time before we hit bottom. The only question was how hard we would hit when we finally got to the bottom and whether we would survive the crash.
Here in the real world, outside the conservative media bubble, the economy is slow to react and slow to respond. Businesses that were affected by banks halting their lines of credit in 2008 limped along for a few months before laying people off. Those new unemployed workers spent less at their local businesses and THOSE businesses laid people off or closed. Each wave of layoffs led to businesses cutting back with more layoffs.
Blaming Obama for the unemployment at the depth of the recession is like pulling the trigger of a gun and saying that the guy who was shot isn't YOUR responsibility because he was perfectly fine when the bullet left your gun.
Who drove the economy off the cliff???
In 2003 the republicans wanted to stop the sub-prime lending.
They wanted to put Fannie Mae & Freddy Mac under control of the fed, but the demcorats lead by barney frank who said "I want to roll the dice" stoped the republicans from slowing down and stopping the sub-prime market that was the reason the economy went off the cliff.
So get your bul$hit correct there liberal...
Are you from India? Or do you just worship cows?
In January 2009, the economy was in a free fall due to the failed fiscal policies of Bush/Cheney. Obama's stimulus push halted the free fall and the economy improved. The stimulus did work! Employment numbers are the last to improve in a down economy. Remember too, Congress would not pass Obama's jobs bill which would have brought millions out of unemployment. Republican Governors have also used austerity measures which cut jobs instead of creating jobs. Look at Scott Walker's record on jobs since he took office. He promised to create 250,000 new jobs in Wisconsin by the end of his first term. He created a little over 37,000. Better get cracking, Walker, the elections in Wisconsin are a little more than a year away!
I have been making the pitch for gun insurance for years now and every time I do it gets shot down (no pun intended) as being silly.
I agree, Dragoon. Pretty much anything else that has the potential to cause wrongful catastrophic injury or death to another person requires liability insurance (cars, swimming pools, pit bulls). Why not guns?
Because gun ownership is a constitutionally protected right. Can you imagine if you were forced to buy free speech insurance or voting insurance?
Just out of curiosity, when was the last time you heard of anyone causing wrongful catastrophic injury or death by free speech or voting, Daniel? It's not the constitutionally protected part. It's the potential for harming innocent people. [face-palm]
In GOP v. Prairie Chicken, I'll take the chicken by 5.
Problem is, how will I tell who's who?
Gun insurance makes perfect sense and Rand Paul is a complete loser. That one deserves headline status.
The problem with with the payroll tax holiday as stimulus is that we were robbing grandma for those Burger King Whoppers. The payroll tax goes only one place; Social Security. The program was designed so that benefits paid were funded in part by current contributors and any surplus was invested against future needs. Taking away the funding source hastened the day when expenses will become greater than income requiring dipping into the trust fund principal to cover the shortfall.
You can have your Whopper now and live on rice and beans every second day, if you are lucky, with nothing to eat in between when you retire. Have it your way.
The payroll tax was only temporary. It had an end date. Bush's tax cuts were also suppose to be temporary. Then we got two unfunded wars. The tax cuts went on because Bush didn't want to be like Dad and raise taxes.
Watching Rachel Maddows is just so fascinating and unbelievable to hear the Truth about America. No matter how loud some People scream "We are the gratest Country on Earth" it used to be, no longer and I guess never again can you claim this. Really sad
Beyond Hubris: Wes Clark discusses the "Policy coup" that led to the Iraq debacle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGAOJDtkzJU
As Rand Paul demonstrates. legislation proposed by republicans is written by ghost writers such as big business or aides trained by Liberty looniversity. It might be worthwhile for these true bill writers to brief the person they want to attribute the bill to.
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(How much I've skewed my google search results just to do bad photoshops for TRMS is just plain hilarious....)
Gen. John Allen to the president:
On track to what? Weren't the Russians saying the same thing in the 80's?
"Groups representing gun owners oppose efforts to make insurance mandatory, arguing that law-abiding people should not be forced to buy insurance to exercise their constitutional right to bear arms." Gosh, I wonder if those same people oppose putting people in a position where they have to spend money to secure their ability to VOTE?
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gun insurance if you want some - fine. mandatory - hell no.
re the prairie chicken note that the senators want fish and wildlife to violate a court order. "rather than simply hold fast to arbitrary court-mandated deadlines ..."
rand paul by the time he has to run again is going to be in a really deep hole of absurd quotes. and i love it that he screws over his constituents by not providing services then brags on it.
Why not mandatory gun insurance? Other insurance is mandatory and it protects both you and the person that is injured or killed.
late reply, sorry.
i have had a gun since the late 60s. have yet to injure or kill anyone. if my guns are in public it's at an established range which has insurance which i help pay for through range fees. if part of the requirements for CCW were insurance and it was modest, ok. my concern re mandatory for all owners insurance is it's nothing more than a tax and a high one at that. will the insurance pool cover people injured in drive-by shootings? do you really think that gang bangers will get insurance? who has to file for and pay for insurance for the guns bought in straw purchases? will you have to have proof of insurance when walking from the gun store? if not how long until you have to have it? what will be the length of the policy? if it lapses what are the remedies? oh and btw what about deductibles? you shoot your friend in the foot they get full coverage but if you shoot yourself in the foot you have a $500 deductible? will there be "no fault" laws? how about uninsured coverage?
mandatory insurance is a smoke screen for throwing another hurdle in front of people who want a legal gun. the bureaucracy involved in my questions above means lots of new fees or taxes to pay for it.
Look there's chicken!!
You would think the right would be more appreciative of the mascot for fear and laying eggs!
I would hope the mandatory gun insurance ONLY applies when you take the gun off your property. If you are buying it solely to use on your own property, you should not have to register it or insure it. Kind of like a car, if you want to use it on your land you don't have to register or insure it. It's only when you take it on public roads that you have to.
Gosh I feel sure that mass murderers who entice the victims onto their property would agree.
Gun insurance? Is that like an armored car with quad fifties?
Regarding the story that most of the Government job losses being in education. It is easy to make a mistake with BLS data on where they list education jobs. If you think it is under "elementary and secondary school teachers" which is a sub category of education jobs, then you would be wrong. These are numbers for private schools. For anyone interested in which tables I refer to and the figures, read on. The source that confirms this interpretation is from NCES.gov. (see tables)
Background details: Yesterday, I was talking about how the huge number of job losses in government were at the local level and how most of those appeared to be in education from the BLS data Will linked to (more details in that note).
To recap, nearly all the 500K drop in government employment during the Obama administration was at the local government, as shown in BLS series CES9093000001 "Local Government including education". The employment loss from Jan 2008 (14,502K workers) to Jan 2013 (14,033) is 469,000 workers. Series CES9092200001 excludes education, but the loss is 162,700, so the education loss represents most of the decrease : 306,300 education jobs.
There are 7,760K jobs in "Local Education". This figure is calculated by comparing the difference for Jan 2013 in the two local government tables.
There is a separate series for education. I presume this is private sector education, because the total for all "education services including universities, junior colleges, vocational and sports training (series CES6561000001) is 3,351K jobs. The figure for just elementary and secondary teachers is 924K, (series CES6561110001) and this conforms to the range for private school teachers listed in the NCES article linked to above.
If companies are concernned that the increase in payroll tax is hurting their sales, they should raise their employees' pay. That would cause a stimulus & increase sales.
Aren't we waiting for the private sector to do their part in this recovery? They have plenty of profits...now it's time to see some of that trickle down!
What's about all of this garbage that started showing up on facebook this afternoon.... http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/02/the_feds_want_your_retirement_accounts.html