XPost: alt.society.liberalism, alt.atheism, talk.politics.guns
From: dead@gone.com
On Sun, 19 May 2013 11:20:10 -0500, Free Lunch wrote:
> 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 the sequester was immediately repealed.
That's the problem with Obama vs the Republicans: it's the weak against
the evil.
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