Remember Election time is getting closer!!!!

Todays AP
The unemployment rate held at 9.6 percent last month, the Labor Department said Friday. The jobless rate has now topped 9.5 percent for 14 straight months, the longest stretch since the 1930s.

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Of course if you pick and choose which stories to post it's going to look like the economy is getting worse but there was an article yesterday that said the number of jobless claims fell and the number of open positions increased.

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The person who wrote that article HAS a job.

Twenty million other Americans don't!

Arjay

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casino stocks are up because Las Vegas tables have had a few improving months this year, somebody is still hav'n a good time

Yes......tourists from mainland China.

Arjay

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Good that you have it all figured out!

It continues to suck. We need more stimulus. ....Mike

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Where was that in China? With the unemployed receiving benefits those that have run out and those that have quite looking at this time is at 17.4 percent. Also with this months unemployment level nation wide above 9.6 percent makes it the 13 month in a row at that level or above which has not happened since the depression. This is from the department of labor.

And when the insurance requirements start hitting these companies even more staff is going to be let go thats why I said in the other post they are doing the following.
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As Obama administration officials put into place the first major wave of changes under the health care legislation, they have tried to defuse stiffening resistance — from companies like McDonald’s and some insurers — by granting dozens of waivers to maintain even minimal coverage far below the new law’s standards.
The waivers have been issued in the last several weeks as part of a broader strategic effort to stave off threats by some health insurers to abandon markets, drop out of the business altogether or refuse to sell certain policies.
Among those that administration officials hoped to mollify with waivers were some big insurers, some smaller employers and McDonald’s, which went so far as to warn that the regulations could force it to strip workers of existing coverage.

This bunch in office don't have a clue they were told this would run companies out of business and cost to the public threw the roof. That is unless that was the plan start to force government run insurance on the public because there will be no other choice, as some thought was the reason for there push. It will cause a lot of companies to cut back even more.

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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

Thomas Jefferson

Between you, fox news, and glen beck I am really starting to believe that obama is a euro muslim communist socialist fascist bent on destroying the american way of life.

Bless you all for your vigilance!

Unemployment was really high when Reagan was president too. I lived through that. Also Reagan and Clinton both had low popularity ratings way back in the poles that were pretty pretty close to Obama's present ratings. When Regan was in, several of my jobs went south. Only it was South Carolina, Virgina, Florida etc for lower wages and less benefits not Mexico. I'm still voting Libertarian and Independent and I don't mean the Teabaggers either. The important thing is vote. A vote for something you believe in is never a wasted vote. Even if it's a Republican or Democrat. Nothing worse than a person who complains but never set a foot inside a voting booth or even a town meeting.

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Well you see how there health care bill is working out for all don't you. What we get the %200 increase next year instead of this year or what more waivers? And yes he was raised Muslim then went on to Christianity but have you ever read any of his long time Pastor Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr speeches? I have and bama went to this church for 20 years and never felt a need to leave it until running for President and people saw that they preached racism against whites and did it openly. None of that is false either the speeches are on record. The associated press said this in 2008
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Initially, Obama said he disagreed with Wright but portrayed him as a family member he couldn't disown. The preacher had officiated at Obama's wedding, baptized his two daughters and been his spiritual mentor for some 20 years.

But six weeks after Obama's well-received speech on race, Wright claimed at the Press Club appearance that the U.S. government was capable of planting AIDS in the black community, praised Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and suggested that Obama was acting like a politician by putting his pastor at arm's length while privately agreeing with him.

The next day, Obama denounced Wright's comments as "divisive and destructive."
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Sure bama says that now but what about the previous 20 with this clown?
And on the insurance end just read the following and these are not from Fox either.

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All told 30 companies, also including insurers Cigna (NYSE: CI - News) and Aetna (NYSE: AET - News), received the waiver, affecting 968,765 enrollees.

Companies affected by the law were threatening to drop coverage completely or raise employees' premiums by as much as 200% in order to comply with next year's deadline, according to a government official familiar with the matter.

"We were in a situation where if we didn't take action, folks could lose their only source of coverage or pay an outrageously high premium. That wasn't acceptable," the official said.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs explained the Obama administration's position Thursday.

"We want to ensure that in the time that it takes to implement the law, workers don't find themselves at the mercy of insurance companies jacking up rates," Gibbs said at a press briefing.
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Everything is heading the wrong way in this Economy they claimed health care was a big part of the problem and succeeded in making it worst!!!!
I don't wear blinders and ignore things that are there as record.

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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

Thomas Jefferson

And the solution is?? Put Republicans back in who did nothing in the previous 8 years. Sorry, I was not better off during the Bush or Reagan years for that matter. I reinvented my business, but that was more due to technological advances not the government. Our government was broke long before Obama got it. Doesn't matter who broke it and pointing fingers won't fix it. The Conservative Movement whack jobs are scaring people away from the Republican party. They all tell you what's wrong but have no suggestions on how to repair it. We need term limits, and line item veto to curb some of the corruption in politics. It shouldn't be who ever has the deepest pockets wins.

cvilleira, I'm self employed and my health care has been skyrocketing since 1989. Didn't matter who was in office. I've never seen my insurance go up 200%. We have always been at the mercy of the insurance companies. The insurance companies determine what they cover or deny and have since the first HMO was established. In network/out of network it's all a rouse to give you less coverage.

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In the Northeast , particularly Massachusetts its a bad economy, and made worse by bad decisions of the current politicians . But to change to good stuff, that is a good looking stable of guitars u have.

The bama administration said the companies that they gave waivers to said the were planing REPEAT planing on an increase of %200 so they received waivers from the new bill (Cigna and Aetna to name two) for one year. Some also said they were planing on reducing coverage as well. Read the release bama's spokesmen said. That does not address next year though. What then? The new law takes away much of the insurance companies ability to say what they cover and don't as well as who. They are in business to make money but with the new requirements they have to increase cost to all. How else will they stay afloat. Someone applies for Insurance they will have to take them even with existing conditions. What if that is something like AIDS where they no the cost will eventually be 100's of thousands of dollars, who going to pick up the cost to them. There other policy holders of course.
You will see insurance companies going out of business in the years to come for sure and we may all just end up under Government run Health Care just as they want'ed from the start.

The Health Insurance the Wife and I have runs $800. a month now with Dental. I can only imagine what it will become when companies are forced to take on the new bill requirements cost is going to be passed along as bama and group were just told. ( and they new it) Now they are just postponing it with waivers.

And I will admit 7 of the best year I had were while Reagan was in office and 4 of Clintons years weren't to bad either. Then just bland coasting along until 2007 bottom fell out from bill's and over spending in congress in the previous 10 years (97'-07"). Congress has been out of control now for 13 years and the last 2 years of lame duck Bush presidency and then bama years following have been the worst. The leadership has no finger on the pulse of the public and don't care!!!!

I Wish I had the answer, but it appears our current leadership don't have one either. All we can do is keep throwing them out until one comes along. Vote smart not party, color, or as told by local leaders!!!! Use your brain people.

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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

Thomas Jefferson

Reagan years were golden if you were in the aerospace industry. We built the 100 B1B Bombers for the Air Force at Boeing. Clinton years weren't too bad. I'll take some of Bush's 4.5 unemployment rate right now over the current mess were in.This current crop of fools have had control of Congress since 2007 and still blames the Republicans. It's time to run em off. Can't wait for Nov 2........... Mike

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