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The real question is when will Americans stop sitting on their a**es waiting for politicians to make their lives better and start creating better jobs for themselves.
It isn't the government's responsibility if a citizen doesn't make a decent salary.
Who cares. The promise of the US is EQUAL OPPORTUNITY, NOT EQUAL OUTCOMES. Obama promises financial ruin and poverty for EVERYONE.
Dont be so harsh, Obama doesnt give financial ruin and poverty to his buddies like Warren Buffet, who's wealth has grown substantially during the Obama term.
Fact, if the government cut spending (the suggestion I responded to) it would lead to anotjer great recession.
Thanks for playing.
Bull ****. Cutting spending at a federal level, allows people to keep more of their money and therefore spend it, BOOSTS the economy, it doesnt crash it. Return to school.
Bull ****. Cutting spending at a federal level, allows people to keep more of their money and therefore spend it, BOOSTS the economy, it doesnt crash it. Return to school.
Forgot who I was speaking to. You are wrong, Clinton never cut spending, spending grew EVERY YEAR he was prez. A 60% cut in government spending would devastate this country.
Cut federal spending by $255 billion over 5 years. Already cut the Federal Workforce by over 200,000 -- on the way to lowest level in 30 years. Over 180 new recommendations will save $70 billion. Eliminated 284 federal advisory committees.
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Originally Posted by buzzards27
A 60% cut in government spending would devastate this country.
Who the hell is discussing a 60% cut? Are you just making things up? Wow, why dont we go for 180% cut, woo hoo.. I mean if you are going to just pull figures out of your ass, then make them good ones so we can laugh even harder at you.
Romney started STAPLES. Staples employs over 70,000 people.
Obama turned down the Keystone Pipeline. Romney will approve it. 20,000 well paying jobs just like that. What's Barack going to do?
There are currently 154.9 million civilian workers employed, under President Obama's administration. 70,000 low-wage jobs seems fairly paltry, doesn't it? Do you know one adult, head of family that is earning a livable wage at Staples?
I looked into average annual job growth by presidential term, using Wikipedia, and charted their table of data. See attached.
You might notice that the steepest job growth averages since Ike's terms have all been accomplished by Democrat Presidents, and the steepest declines by Republicans. That's because while Republicans like to tell us that benefiting business means benefiting Americans, they leave out the part about it being the 1% that are benefited. They earn money by cutting jobs and adding to their profits for their shareholders, not for their workers.
Of all the presidents that have taken office, you might also notice that only GWB was able to drive the numbers below zero.
President Obama listened to his constituents (like me) that raised their voices against the Keystone Pipeline because of the long-term dangers and costs it represented, in the face of too little gain. 20,000 jobs over a short-term to not out-weigh environmental and health dangers that would prevail over centuries.
It is the attentiveness to the people, and the concerns for their futures that makes President Obama the better candidate.
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