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Old 04-30-2017, 05:03 PM
 
Location: Out in the Badlands
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He was trying to organize the community as per his previous profession.
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Old 04-30-2017, 08:24 PM
 
Location: Eastern UP of Michigan
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Hey swayalot----- almost every close friend, relative, sil/bil and people I worked with retired early. I worked at a local hardware. There were only 6-7 people, out of 30ish, that were between the ages of 25 and 60.


Everyone else was a student and working there part-time or a previously retired person working part-time for something to do.


I am happy to say that Jim retired at 57, and I retired at 62 so were are a part of the not in the labor force. Next time you see that 95 million, you might want to remember that the baby boomers are leaving the workforce by thousands each day.


If you are lucky, work hard and keep your nose to the grind stone, someday you too will be part of that number.
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Old 04-30-2017, 08:31 PM
 
Location: Gone
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What has Obama given the nation:

- 10 trillion dollars in new federal deficit and doubling of all debt in entire US history with nothing to show for it
- 20% perennial unemployment
- escalated inner city violence and hopelessness
- bloated federal govt
- 1 zillion new regulations of red tape to strangle businesses and citizens
- rotting infrastructure
- demoralized, gutted, and castrated US military
- wars galore and unstable globe
- vast internal corruption and misuse of government for political favors
- astronomical expensive healthcare and 40 million still uninsured
- another housing and stock market bubble from fed policy of zero % interest while seniors on limited income eat dog food

Obama is by far the worst President in US history.

Obama has left a large turd in the toilet for Trump. Weak growth, weak economy, weak employment, new metrics on how the economy is measured.
Wow, that entire list can be applied to trump and the GOP congress, oppps
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Old 04-30-2017, 08:35 PM
 
Location: Pixley
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And even if President Trump adds heavily to the debt, he'll cut taxes dramatically, making him a lot more useful to the American people than Obama was.
Because magically deficits don't matter again?
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Old 04-30-2017, 08:42 PM
 
Location: Pixley
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"Trump is preparing another big one by putting Wall Street in charge of the treasury and the economy."

Oh, you mean like Obama did?

"Timothy Franz "Tim" Geithner is a former American central banker who served as the 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. wikipedia.org

Jack Lew, "In June 2006, Lew was named chief operating officer of Citigroup's Alternative Investments unit, a proprietary trading group. The unit he oversaw invested in a hedge fund "that bet on the housing market to collapse."[24] During his work at Citigroup, Lew had invested heavily in funds in Ugland House while he worked as an investment banker at Citigroup during the 2008 financial meltdown.[25] Lew also had oversight of Citigroup subsidiaries in countries including, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and Hong Kong; and during his time at Citigroup, Citigroup subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands increased to 113"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lew

It's funny to watch so many libs on here complain about Trump's ties to Wall St yet NEVER complained about Obama's.

"
A List of Goldman Sachs Ties to the Obama Government–including Elena Kagan


https://prof77.wordpress.com/politic...g-elena-kagan/
This is an issue now because TRUMP made it an issue, bringing it up in the campaign. And what does Trump do after railing against Clinton, saying that she would bend over for Wall Street? He goes out adds plenty of Wall Streeters on his staff.
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Old 04-30-2017, 08:47 PM
 
Location: Pixley
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Hey swayalot----- almost every close friend, relative, sil/bil and people I worked with retired early. I worked at a local hardware. There were only 6-7 people, out of 30ish, that were between the ages of 25 and 60.


Everyone else was a student and working there part-time or a previously retired person working part-time for something to do.


I am happy to say that Jim retired at 57, and I retired at 62 so were are a part of the not in the labor force. Next time you see that 95 million, you might want to remember that the baby boomers are leaving the workforce by thousands each day.


If you are lucky, work hard and keep your nose to the grind stone, someday you too will be part of that number.
Too funny that sway did not read the whole article:

The structural issue is what North calls the "silver tsunami of retirees" or those 10,000 baby boomers a day leaving the workforce and heading for retirement.
But that's only one more part of the problem. Another big issue is the skills gap for employers struggling to find workers to fill positions.

Job openings in September were at 5.5 million, though hires were at just 5.1 million, according to the Labor Department.

"Employers have lots of jobs open but can't find the right people to fill them. That's certainly a part of it as well," North said.
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Old 04-30-2017, 09:37 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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He was trying to organize the community as per his previous profession.
He certainly organized his minions, while destroying the party. Worst base of power since FDR for the Dems. Doubling the debt ($10T in 8 years - as much as all other Presidents combined) is something the left constantly ignore as well.

It's an astonishing disconnect.
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Old 04-30-2017, 09:39 PM
 
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Barack Obama is the only president in US history to never have a year of economic growth over 3.0% (despite adding almost $10 trillion to the national debt).
How did he manage to fail so badly?
Even without Obama, most of that debt would've been added. His first year of office incurred nearly 2 trillion dollars of debt because of the bailout packages and ongoing deficits from the previous administration. Bush was running 600-700 billion deficits just prior to the recession.

historical debt outstanding
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Old 04-30-2017, 09:42 PM
 
Location: Stillwater, Oklahoma
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What has Obama given the nation:

- 10 trillion dollars in new federal deficit and doubling of all debt in entire US history with nothing to show for it
- 20% perennial unemployment
- escalated inner city violence and hopelessness
- bloated federal govt
- 1 zillion new regulations of red tape to strangle businesses and citizens
- rotting infrastructure
- demoralized, gutted, and castrated US military
- wars galore and unstable globe
- vast internal corruption and misuse of government for political favors
- astronomical expensive healthcare and 40 million still uninsured
- another housing and stock market bubble from fed policy of zero % interest while seniors on limited income eat dog food

Obama is by far the worst President in US history.

Obama has left a large turd in the toilet for Trump. Weak growth, weak economy, weak employment, new metrics on how the economy is measured.
You are so pitifully wrong about Obama being the worst president. Instead, it was really Bush. Are you so ignorant about Bush that you don't know that there were two recessions started while Bush was president? Of course, I bet you were also wrong for voting for Bush both times. Right?
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Old 04-30-2017, 09:49 PM
 
Location: Stillwater, Oklahoma
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"How did he manage to fail so badly?"

The so-called "Stimulus" bill is all you have to look at.

It was MEANT to kick start the economy by providing money to complete gov't backed construction type projects.
LOL, as worst president, Bush's stimulus checks sure didn't help things.
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