XPost: alt.society.liberalism, alt.atheism, talk.politics.guns
From: lunch@nofreelunch.us
On Sun, 19 May 2013 08:42:49 -0700, linuxgal
wrote in alt.atheism:
>Zepp wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 May 2013 08:28:36 -0700, linuxgal wrote:
>>
>>> >Free Lunch wrote:
>>>> >>On Sun, 19 May 2013 07:47:48 -0700, linuxgal
>>>> >>wrote in alt.atheism:
>>>> >>
>>>>>> >>> >Free Lunch wrote:
>>>>>>>> >>>> >>A recession is over when jobs are freely available.
>>>>>> >>> >
>>>>>> >>> >A recession is over when there is at least one quarter of GDP
growth.
>>>>>> >>> >Words mean things, as El Rushbo often says.
>>>> >>I understand that technical definition, but we have been seeing this
>>>> >>growth for a long time with minimal growth in private sector jobs and
>>>> >>decreases in public sector jobs. What good is it to have millions of
>>>> >>people twiddling their thumbs when there are things that they could do
>>>> >>as government employees?
>>> >
>>> >And who's gonna pay for it? Your own President Obama and Senator Patty
>>> >"Taliban Day Care Center" Murray rammed through the Sequester and now
>>> >I'll be twiddling my thumbs when there are things I could do as a
>>> >government employee.
>> Still buying that nonsense peddled by Woodward that the sequester was
>> Obama's idea?
>>
>> Pitiful. It was something the GOP forced on him. "We got 98% of what we
>> wanted" -- Boenher, on the sequester agreement.
>
>Make no mistake, cutting spending is always a good thing.
Economists know that is not true.
>You better
>believe the GOP got 98% of what they wanted, and thank you Mr. Obama.
>Next year they should budget at the new lower baseline and avoid a
>sequester in the middle of the fiscal year. This is austerity and your
>team is largely on board. That's what I meant when I asked who would
>pay for new growth in the public sector.
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