The Obamanation

[Shawnee123]

Oh gee, in context we can see it was nothing. Quelle surprise.

[TheMercenary]

Ah yes, butt the beauty of the visual (sound) bite.

[sugarpop]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

I wonder how old that girl is. She looks like she is half his height.

She looks to be the about the same height as Sarcozy.

And clearly he is looking at her SHOES! :p

[TheMercenary]

So were are the frigging jobs OBAMA?

[Urbane Guerrilla]

The jobs that WERE are no more. Not so?

[Shawnee123]

Don't be dumbasses.

[TheMercenary]

I am no Dumb ass. Where are the job he and the Demoncrats promised with the spending bills that are nearly bankrupting this nation?

[sugarpop]

I imagine all the people whose jobs were saved would say, "right fucking here." :p

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Don't be dumbasses.

That's super easy. C'mon, try demanding more! If you can bear the result -- for we can be smarter than you can, and we are ready to show it off.

Sugarpop, I haven't heard any such reply. Unemployment in my county is presently 10.4 percent, though there has been a 600-job increase in the nonfarm sector of late. From over here, doesn't look like anybody could say "Right here!" yet. But it is being read as a hopeful sign.

Recessions and depressions seem to me to come and go on their own cycle and their own pace, regardless of anything Government does -- except for cutting taxes and expenditures.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by sugarpop

I imagine all the people whose jobs were saved would say, "right fucking here." :p

Cool, show me how the stimulus money saved you a job. What is your full time job anyway?

[Shawnee123]

There's a big sign on the interstate on my way here and home: project funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. There are like, orange cones and everything.

Sounds like jobs to me.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

I am no Dumb ass. Where are the job he and the Demoncrats promised with the spending bills that are nearly bankrupting this nation?

Here.

[sugarpop]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Cool, show me how the stimulus money saved you a job. What is your full time job anyway?

I didn't say it saved ME a job. I was talking about some state governors who have said, on TV, that the stimulus money stopped them from laying off people.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

There's a big sign on the interstate on my way here and home: project funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. There are like, orange cones and everything.

Sounds like jobs to me.

Obama said, "This plan will save or create 3.5 million jobs. More than 90 percent of these jobs will be in the private sector, jobs rebuilding our roads and bridges, constructing wind turbines and solar panels, laying broadband and expanding mass transit."

3.5 million jobs... Where are they?

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Here.

Nope, not 3.5 million jobs...

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: JUNE 2009

Nonfarm payroll employment continued to decline in June (-467,000),
and the unemployment rate was little changed at 9.5 percent, the Bureau
of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today.
Job losses were widespread across the major industry sectors, with
large declines occurring in manufacturing, professional and business
services, and construction.

Unemployment (Household Survey Data)

The number of unemployed persons (14.7 million) and the unemployment
rate (9.5 percent) were little changed in June. Since the start of the
recession in December 2007, the number of unemployed persons has increas-
ed by 7.2 million, and the unemployment rate has risen by 4.6 percentage
points. (See table A-1.)

In June, unemployment rates for the major worker groups--adult men
(10.0 percent), adult women (7.6 percent), teenagers (24.0 percent),
whites (8.7 percent), blacks (14.7 percent), and Hispanics (12.2 per-
cent)--showed little change. The unemployment rate for Asians was
8.2 percent, not seasonally adjusted. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)

Among the unemployed, the number of job losers and persons who com-
pleted temporary jobs (9.6 million) was little changed in June after
increasing by an average of 615,000 per month during the first 5 months
of this year. (See table A-8.)

The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or
more) increased by 433,000 over the month to 4.4 million. In June, 3
in 10 unemployed persons were jobless for 27 weeks or more. (See
table A-9.)

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm