What a load of pure hogwash! First you had the GOP contesting Frankin's election, then you had a sick Ted Kennedy who was too sick to vote most times before he died. Plus they needed Arlen Spector to cross over. Then Scott Brown won Kennedy's seat, so 2 years was only a few months in reality with 61 votes in the Senate, but you knew that already.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5213 Just follow the money. - - - Updated - - - http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977 Look for yourself.
Geezzz, neither link says Pew is financed by Soros, in fact it says this, "The Pew Charitable Trusts (PCT) are comprised of seven individual funds established between 1948 and 1979 by the four children of Joseph N. Pew, founder of the Sun Oil Company, and his wife Mary A. Pew." In fact the only mention of Pew was that one of its leaders, Sean Treglia, was a former program officer of Pew. From your own radical Right-wing source a complete list of Soros funded organizations in alphabetical order: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1237
I get it, republican Congress good. Democratic President Bad. You have a very sophisticated and nuanced political out look. Do you have a degree in poli-sci?
How many times are you going to re-post the exact same post? Don't you have any valid arguments? Are you trying to break your record of re-posting the RW housing bubble video? Reagan inherited a booming economy and a tiny deficit he promptly triple. Obama inherited a deficit running at $1.2 trillion and the worst recession in 90 years. Of course the debt will go up more under Obama, though it almost tripled under Reagan, hardly a good example of budget conservativism. Reagan dramatically increased spending and 800,000 government jobs were added. The Republicans under Obama cut spending and over half a million government jobs were eliminated. Instead of re-posting the same thing over and over, why don't you explain how, in your view, cutting federal spending during the recovery instead of increasing it 40%, and eliminating more than 1/2 a million government jobs instead of increasing it by 800,000, helped the current recovery. - - - Updated - - - People who are institutionalized are not included in the work force, but everyone else is, including retirees, students, stay at home spouses, and trust fund babies. Claiming these folks have been "idled by the current sick economy" is simply false.
As I said earlier corporations have shown profit on paper as they cut cost with layoffs and benefit reductions in order to cope with this crappy economy.
IOW, you suggestion that "grannies" in "old age homes" were included was not accurate. Then why did you try to evade my direct question? Again, how many of the nearly 100 million American workers now idled do you think should be engaged in productive work?
The Right says all of them! 39 million retirees - no one should retire they need to be forced to work until they drop dead on the job. 21 million college students - no one needs a college education, it is just Liberal indoctrination. 10.4 million stay at home moms - it is more important that moms work than raise children. 9 million high school students over 16 - Gingrich says they should at least be scrubbing the toilets in their schools. 9 million disabled - nobody is really disabled, they are just a bunch of lazy slackers sucking off the government teat. 2 million family caregivers - let sick and aged family members fend for themselves. 2 million stay at home dads - children do not need a dad to raise them any more than a mom.
It depends on whether they are in institutions. I answered. I depends. I don't know. But I do know that your claim that 100 million American workers have been "idled by the current sick economy" is simply false RW propaganda bull(*)(*)(*)(*).
And all were workers "idled by the current sick economy." It never ceases to amaze me the amount of misinformation out there and how many are deceived by RW propaganda. Propaganda is powerful stuff.
Well, I have asked for an accurate figure. Still waiting. Are are you suggesting that no one has been idled by current economic conditions?
I gave you an answer. Do you own research. edthecynic gave the the figures anyways. Never claimed or suggested that. I just pointed out your claim that 100 million American workers have been "idled by the current sick economy" is false RW propaganda bull(*)(*)(*)(*). - - - Updated - - - Please explain why they are "obviously wrong" in your view. Thank you.
I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. I asked you to explain why you claim they are wrong, not just repeat your baseless assertion that they are. The fact that you did not or cannot do so gives me the answer I was expecting. Your claim is bull(*)(*)(*)(*), just like your claim that 100 million American workers have been "idled by the current sick economy".
And that less than 100 million includes the 80+ million "idle workers" passed from Bush's sick economy to Obama which the Right say belong to Obama because Bush never really was president as long as there was at least one Democrat in Congress to blame.
I did the math. Your figures add up to the ~93 million out of the labor force. But he heard Sean say it was 100 million workers "idled" so that is what he believes. He has no evidence so other than smarmy insults he has nothing to support his bogus claims.
You did the math. Your numbers eliminate this as an issue. Your numbers indicate that the nearly 100 million figure is an incredible fabrication. Is that what you have discovered?
So, is it your position that the nearly 100 million not working numbers that have been published over the last decade are just a right wing fabrication and of no real concern?