The Obama White House is applauding an encouraging jobs report »
Posted By Newperson 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Political NewsThe Obama White House is applauding an encouraging jobs report as evidence the country has retreated from the brink of depression.
Presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters Friday there remains plenty of work to do despite the latest government report showing that unemployment went down from 9.6 percent to 9.4 percent in July.The spokesman said the report "is more evidence that we have pulled back form the edge" of a depression.
At the same time, he said President Barack Obama still thinks the jobless rate will hit 10 percent later this year.
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Charlson3 months, 3 weeks ago
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Give it a chance. You've got the mid term elections to voice your disapproval if Obama's policies don't work by then. But if the economy improves and America has universal healthcare, what are you far right wingnuts going to cry about? Oh, well, you mob of nay sayers can always manufacture some grievance.
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DarkWizard3 months, 3 weeks ago
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This is encouraging to a point. The slowdown in job losses is definitely good, but that there are still job losses adding to the already enormous total is still disturbing.
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America can't take much more of this strain. Unfortunately, until something drastically changes, we don't have a choice.
The health care reform issue could take a lot of pressure off of companies worried about hiring older employees whom have the job experience and education these companies seek and need to prosper. Yes, we circle back around to the current issue on the table. -
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jimdoze3 months, 3 weeks ago
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Jeboba3 months, 3 weeks ago
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the bubble which was accellerated by Bush in 2002 when he announced in a white house press release that he wanted credit loosened up so everyone could own a home. My wife worked in the mortgage business. She says it was THEN that all hell broke loose with the liar loans and bad mortgages. You wanta point fingers? Mr. Bush is a good one to point at!
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Jeboba3 months, 3 weeks ago
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I can't wait until November 2010. The GOP will have been proven wrong and to be detrimental to the recovery through their constant barrage of lies and hired thugs. They will go down in flames that can be seen from space. I can't wait. What a glorious day when what the once glorious Republican party has become finally dies.
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cowboygrandpa3 months, 3 weeks ago
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Well, I'm not ready ro kick up my heels and declare the recession/depression is on the mend.
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Health care will be a major help,but we must have Americans producing something. Not just servicing things.
A service economy will continually be prone to the very problems that caused this crap. We have to consume to kep the economy growing. We will consume ourselves to death.
Build things, manufacture things, invest in the future, stop looking at the instant gratification crap. It just lands ya in a deep hole of debt with no way out.
Unemployment is hurting this nation more than anything else right now !!!! People who are out of work, still need to survive. Look at the numbers of families being forced to live as homeless.
Both parties need to take off their greed glasses and see people as being worthy of an opportunity to live a decent life as long as they are willing to work for it. -
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calitennflo3 months, 3 weeks ago
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Depression-# a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
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# a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
# natural depression: a sunken or depressed geological formation
# sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
# a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
# low: an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation; "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow"
# depressive disorder: a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
# a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud"
# angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
# pushing down; "depression of the space bar on the typewriter"
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Big word to means so little that all the members of congress would have it happen again...and again! -
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flodlite3 months, 3 weeks ago
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THE ACTUAL UNEMPLOYMENT NO. IS 9.8%. THE NUMBER THE WHITE HOUSE IS GIVING YOU DOES NOT INCLUDE THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE QUIT LOOKING FOR JOBS. KNOW YOUR FACTS. READ, LISTEN, WATCH..KEEP YOU EYES AND EARS OPEN. I AM 66 YRS. OLD AND HAVE BEEN THROUGH THE GOOD, BAD, & THE UGLY. KNOW YOUR FACTS. KNOW WHO IS IN FRONT OF YOU AND BEHIND YOU. DON'T BE AFRAID TO LOOK UP BECAUSE THERE ARE PEOPLE WANTING TO TAKE AWAY FREEDOMS AMERICANS FOUGHT FOR, FOR 300 YRS. TO ATTAIN. YOUR FAMILY, THEIR FAMILY, AND THEIR FAMILIES FAMILY ARE DEPENDANT ON YOUR REACTION FOR THE WAY THEY WILL SPEND THE REST OF THEIR LIVES.
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VocalOp3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Well, when the experts out there, not Bush nor Limbaugh, nor Palin or other "publican talking heads, say that our economy is making progress and headed in the right direction, I'm more willing to believe those in the know. Doing otherwise, would indeed be a sign of embracing stupidity. So in answer to you question. It's not whether the President thinks you're stupid; it's a matter of whether you're acting "stupidly."
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flodlite3 months, 3 weeks ago
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OBAMA & STAFF WENT UP THE "HILL" TO BRIBE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE..
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BUT AS AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE, THEY COULDN'T BE FOOLED, OBAMA CRAWLED BACK TO HIS STEEPLE....................................
OBAMA TRIED & TRIED WITH PALOSI'S HELP. IT HAD TO GET DONE OR GO BUST.
OBAMA TALKED & BRIBED..BUT OBAMA FORGOT..WITH AMERICANS IT'S IN GOD WE TRUST................................................ -
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flodlite3 months, 3 weeks ago
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OBAMA & GRANDMA IN THE USA, GRADNMA'S KICKED UNDER THE BUS.
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THAT NICE OLD LADY NEVER KNEW AS ALL NICE OLD LADYS MUST.......
THAT LITTLE BOYS TEND TO GROW..& GROW & GROW.
SO GRANDMA UNDERSTAND WE SHARE YOUR PAIN 'CAUSE HE'S LOWER THAN LOW.................................................. -
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Icantwait3 months, 3 weeks ago
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My Fellow Americans: Those naive and gullible Damocrats will believe anything their President and his Media will tell them.
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Ladies and Gentlemen it is not possible to lose almost 300,000 more jobs and have the unemployment figures drop. Well, I stand corrected it is possible because evidently a great number more people ran out of unemployment benefits. When a persons' benefits run out then he or she is no longer counted as one of the unemployed. They still are out of work but are not counted. Now, this can only mean one thing these individuals are now more desperate than ever before and probably headed for homelessness.
The Administration has become experts at lying to the American Public but only the Totally Insane can not see through their lies at this point.
It is Humiliating to Witness the President of the United States standing on a Podium in front of Millions of Out of Work American Tax Payers and Prefabricating such Untruths. Just standing there, with no shame, and making up erroneous facts that do not exist.
We know the facts, his naive followers do not, we know his lies from the actual truth, his followers want to believe him no matter what. So, who will actually suffer in the end if Obama succeeds?
Every single one of Us. Only we won't suffer any Heart Break at the realization that Obama and his Criminal Support Group betrayed the American People. Sleep Tight Liberals and when you hear your Children and Relatives Crying in the Night, Remember you and your naive fellow followers did it to them. The Real American-
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DarkWizard3 months, 2 weeks ago
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dxxy4u3 months, 3 weeks ago
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It's a proven fact, if you want coverage of your story, just add the word "OBAMA", and it WILL get coverage. It doesn't even has to be about Obama. Just his name SELLS. Where ever the name "Obama" is, money is being made. It doesn't matter rather you are Praising him, or Deriding him, you make money. "Your name will also be Blessed, and will be a Blessing to the masses", says the Lord.
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dxxy4u3 months, 3 weeks ago
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When things get turned around you pundits are going to try to give credit to Every one except Obama, the mastermind of it all.
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Look, Obama is running the show, it's his show. If it fails you are going to say, "it was Obama's fault". If it's successful, will you likewise give him the credit? It's only fair. Or is it that being fair is not in you? -
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VocalOp3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Thank you, Mr, President and no Republicans. You prepared us for what was to come, and with honesty and sincerity. You also showed how wrong it is of the Republicans to be the obstructionist that they are - and for political reasons. However, many of us are not surprised by this show of ignorance. Many members within the GOP are still looking for that darn birth certificate. Hopefully, they'll find it when they find the weapons of mass destruction. Keep doing the great job that you're doing. The debate on health care will continue - as it ought. Lynch mobs should not deter your resolve to make this nation the great nation that it can be. Forward moving and forward thinking, God bless you!
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chevydog3 months, 2 weeks ago
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It's just one month. Every prez since the dawn of reliable statistics has seized at one time or another on one month's data and tried to promote it as "success". If the trend continues, it could be defined as a turning point. But otherwise it could just be a fluke.
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