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U.S. economic growth slowed more than expected in the first quarter as higher food and gasoline prices dampened consumer spending, and sent a broad measure of inflation rising at its fastest pace in 2-1/2 years.
More people applied for unemployment benefits - Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/More-people-applied-for-apf-1056781553.html?x=0&.v=2 - broken link)
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- More people sought unemployment benefits last week, the second rise in three weeks, a sign the job market's recovery is slow and uneven.
The Labor Department says applications for unemployment benefits jumped 25,000 to a seasonally adjusted 429,000 for the week ending April 23.
THIS is what obama should be concentrating on - jobs, jobs, jobs, not campaigning and fund raising.
I'd say some people need to expand their "good news" sources....beyond the propaganda of the White House.
OK - a friend had me turn to MSNBC - Laurence Odonnell is getting ready to have Orley Tates on (may have butchered that name). It is supposed to be a hoot.
Update: It was funny. That woman is seriously crazy.
Orley Taitz has a serious problem...ODonnell let her have it and he should have....dumb broad is talking about some selective service number...my goodness, just shows no matter what evidence is presented against their (birthers) argument, they will come up with something else
But off he goes - as the economy continues to tank, as gas prices continue to rise, as the deficit continues to grow, as the war(s) continue to rage on, as the debt ceiling limit is coming fast - to appear on Oprah and then flitting over to NY for a couple of fundraisers.
Obama heads to Chicago for Oprah, NYC for money - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110427/ap_on_re_us/us_obama - broken link)
Is this guy serious? All that is going on in this country, around the world and he is focused like fly on dung to campaigning, 19 months out.
Shameful, negligent, amateurish.
and if we don't have time for this sillyness, how come we had to wonder about it for so long...
What are you talking about? Obama said we don't have time for such silliness. Is not appearing on Oprah and attending 2-3 fundraisers considered "silly"?
Was it silly when Bush attended fundraisers, when he was prez?
If attending fundraisers is 'silly', logic would conclude..yes, bush was silly, too, along with every other president who attended fundraisers while president.
But off he goes - as the economy continues to tank, as gas prices continue to rise, as the deficit continues to grow, as the war(s) continue to rage on, as the debt ceiling limit is coming fast - to appear on Oprah and then flitting over to NY for a couple of fundraisers.
Is this guy serious? All that is going on in this country, around the world and he is focused like fly on dung to campaigning, 19 months out.
Shameful, negligent, amateurish.
Obama is correct. We don't have time for this silliness.... but HE does. Interesting that he says we don't have time, but he has no problem wasting lots of people's time on this topic for two plus years.
I think there are plenty of people that voted for him that are deeply disappointed (I, for one) - so I think there are very few that are giving him a free pass. I preferred Hillary - and wound up voting for what was the best choice out of two not-so-good choices. Still, I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt - and am disillusioned in his ability.
However, I find myself defending him over unfair jabs. OMG - he took a week vacation - how dare he - when everyone accepted the fact that Bush took more vacations than any other president before him, setting a huge record. OMG, he's campaigning when everything that is broken is not repaired yet - when ALL sitting Presidents have done that in the last few decades, because we run our politics on a money system that sets our politicians up to be sold to the highest bidder. OMG - his name is funny, must mean he wasn't born here, so he must produce a birth certificate - when that has never come up before this election. OMG - Michelle Obama is trying to get kids to eat healthy (you think that would be a good thing in the time of escalating health care costs and childhood obesity) - when all First Ladies have had their "causes", this one no more controversial than the others, and certainly more relevant. OMG - he has dishonored the Presidency by putting his feet on the desk in the Oval Office - they did shut up when a photo was produced with Bush's feet on the desk. It just goes on and on and on and on.
I would feel more free to justifiably criticize him if there was not so much garbage out there.
More people applied for unemployment benefits - Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/More-people-applied-for-apf-1056781553.html?x=0&.v=2 - broken link)
THIS is what obama should be concentrating on - jobs, jobs, jobs, not campaigning and fund raising.
I'd say some people need to expand their "good news" sources....beyond the propaganda of the White House.
How wrong can they be?
Must be the result of the tea sipping Pubs in the house. The economy was picking up until they took office three months ago. Now that they've revealed their nutty agenda, some folks are waking up. And the economic slowdown coincides exactly with their term.
Many are very upset with the Republican proposals.
Others cling to the GOP party line like a fish on the hook, unable to break free and swim for themselves.
First it was blame Bush,Bush,Bush now its the birthers and their silliness distracting him and Congress from tackling our problems.Didn't they spend a large amount of time about health care with total control to pass anything they wanted before the American people spoke loud and clear in November.Excuses,excuses,excuses bet Bo his dog ate his homework.
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