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   On Sun, 19 May 2013 13:07:10 -0500, RD Sandman wrote:   
      
   > Free Lunch  wrote in   
   > news:lluhp85g3kif7t96604nfkip4tv414d4p4@4ax.com:   
   >   
   >> On Sun, 19 May 2013 08:28:36 -0700, linuxgal    
   >> wrote in alt.atheism:   
   >>   
   >>>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.   
   >>   
   >> The sequester was one of the dumbest things that Obama ever agreed to.   
   >> He sometimes has no sense of history. When the GOP shut down government   
   >> in the '90s, they hurt only themselves. Obama does two foolish things   
   > in   
   >> negotiations: he pre-compromises (taking RomneyCare as the template for   
   >> PPACA and getting rid of the public option are good examples) and he   
   >> doesn't let the GOP commit political suicide (compromising on the debt   
   >> ceiling, sequester, etc.). If he and Harry Reid had backbones, the GOP   
   >> would be dead right now.   
   >>   
   >>   
   > The sequester idea was broached by Obama and the White House.  He didn't   
   > think that the GOP would accept it.  Oooooops.   
      
   According to right wing hack Bob Woodward--and nobody else.  When the   
   White House press liaison called him to set the recorded straight,   
   Woodward squealed that the WH had "threatened him".  Unfortunately, there   
   was a recording of the call...   
      
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