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   On Sun, 19 May 2013 11:20:41 -0500, Free Lunch wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
   Linuxgal should google "Recession of 1937" for evidence of how cutting   
   spending at the wrong time can send an economy into a tailspin.   
      
   >>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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