XPost: alt.society.liberalism, alt.atheism, talk.politics.guns   
   From: lunch@nofreelunch.us   
      
   On Sun, 19 May 2013 15:27:06 +0000 (UTC), Zepp  wrote in   
   alt.atheism:   
      
   >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.   
      
   It doesn't really matter whose idea it was, the problem is that Obama   
   was willing to sign the law because he assumed the GOP wasn't stupid   
   enough to let it happen. When it pinched the rich (FAA), that part of   
   the sequester was immediately repealed.   
      
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