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   On Sun, 19 May 2013 08:42:49 -0700, linuxgal wrote:   
      
   > 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.  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.   
      
   You won't get any new growth if you get your way.  The US economy will be   
   dead in the water, and your corporate masters will be begging the GOP to   
   drop the no-growth nonsense.   
      
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