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If Obama Wins Who Would Prevent Collapse?

Cliff140 Wrote: Sep 07, 2012 2:12 PM

As for Ron Paul being an extremist - how is liberty and actually wanting smaller government extreme? The troops will be coming home anyway, regardless of whomever the establishment picks because we can't afford to keep borrowing money to bomb other countries and then rebuild them while our own nation crumbles. Not only can we not afford it, but when the entitlement programs come to a screeching halt, the troops will have to come home to protect the government from the next civil war. Then we WILL have a foreign policy of non-interventionism. The American Empire Adventurism will cease, to become the beacon of liberty it is meant to be.

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If Obama Wins Who Would Prevent Collapse?

The economy can’t recover until housing recovers, and neither can recover until the labor market recovers.

From Credit Suisse compliments of ZeroHedge.com:

[This measure of labor demand suggests businesses have become a lot less willing to hire in the last two months. Jobless claims in recent months are not showing a deteriorating picture for the layoff side of payrolls, but help wanted online ads are showing weakness on the hiring side.

Biggest two-month drop since the recession three years ago. Help wanted online ads posted a second straight triple-digit decline in Aug after Jul’s big drop. Importantly, new ads accounted for...

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