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AFL-CIO Doubles Down: Obama's Created More Jobs Than Bush--With A Surplus To Boot!

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This obviously is an AFL-CIO/Democrat Party talking point. Remember on Friday when the AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer, Elizabeth Shuler initiated the "Obama created more jobs than Bush" myth on MSNBC? Remember too, a few weeks back when Trumka said "We don't have a deficit crisis"? These Union thugs must think that Americans are as powerless as their members. Well, my Card Check cronies, we'll see soon enough...

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albert henry Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 6:13 PM

vlad,

No you haven't proved anything. those things are called lies, vlad, not myth's. out right lies, intentional lies. bold face lies.

Or if you prefer, liar liar pants on fire, lies.

Google boy who cried wolf. He wasn't re-elected.

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vladimir estragon Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 4:17 PM

Hel-LLO. We've already been through this several times, kids.

"Elizabeth Shuler initiated the "Obama created more jobs than Bush" myth."

It's not a myth, it's the simple truth, easily proved with a few seconds of googling. The reason it sounds so strange here is that the right-wing noise machine has their followers believing that the economy was going gangbusters until Obama was inaugurated in January, 2009, when the fact is that 2008 was a financial disaster.

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albert henry Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 7:47 AM

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This guy represents only 12 percent of the work force. They are playing him like a Yankee's commerical in New York. and with the same kind of humility. In reality it is like advertising the Yankee's in Boston.

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albert henry Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 7:26 AM

Again, those who understand not freedom, fear it, and seek aid of comfort from the government, because they are timid souls who cannot, or will not be responsible for their own life.

Nothing this man said in his speech, suggested, or offered a solution to jobs, except for taxes, government, and labor. Should not the employer be included in his grand plan or scheme? But as it is, Employers have been degraded to second class, but union employers have become the plantation owners of the old south. A protected group

This is what fearful men do. They hide their fear with pride, and accusations of others. Keep the deflection at high speed, so people will not see the coward's they truly are.

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Dan_NV Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 10:16 PM

Just once, I would love to see a definitive breakdown by industry and sector of the jobs that Obama has "created." Even if you use the imaginary unemployment numbers touted by the Obama administration, it has been flat to last month increasing for over a year. You simply cannot claim to add jobs and report stagnant to rising unemployment figures while revising the number of jobs lost upward. Only in Washington DC does 2+2 = 5. They fool no one however with their fuzzy math.

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albert henry Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 9:17 PM

And can someone please explain to me, how a union guy, is a spokesman for the President's economic policy?

Why not a farmer, an oil man, or someone who cuts trees down by the thousands'?

Is a union job more American than a non union job? I guess the taxes the non-union person pays aren't the same.

Then, the next step, to this conspiracy of twisted logic, is the trolls posting here talk of conservative values with disdain, and find more comfort in values other than American, than Republican. Foreign healthcare its the rage, 8 dollar gas, everybody is doing it..

We, the conservative or tea partier, or independent thinking minded person has become an enemy in our own country.

Look at this post from this union guy and study it...

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clarityseeker2 Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 8:47 PM

remember----government jobs. Those are on the increase.
Private sector jobs?

Where real creation occurs?
Entrpreneurialship? Obama knows nothing about this sector. Nothing.
Now that's an entirely different issue---one Trumka cares nothing about, and one Obama wants everyone to forget about. There is no growth there.
This man-child is cluless...

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clarityseeker2 Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 8:40 PM

Trumka is correct---no really.

Obama HAS "created" more government jobs during this period that Bush did in his 8 years.

Bush was a big spender, no doubt about that.
He vetoed virtually nothing.
AND----he did not expand government to the tune this POTUS has.

So---Trumka's correct.
And these are the only jobs Trumka wants to see; all he's really concerned about, focused on.
Why?
Because union membership is on a protracted decline------EXCEPT-----for those in government.
BUT...CNN would never want to venture into this arena. Nuh uh...would'nt be prudent.

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socalcon Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 8:38 PM

Demonstrating the Party of Greed.

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albert henry Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 8:26 PM

The economy is shedding jobs like a golden retriever with mange, yet to here it told, this has been an absolute miracle. Brilliant statesmenship.

It makes as much sense as Taffy using her dad's credit card, to buy the beer for the Frat boys, but she just wants to be loved is that so wrong. As long as Daddy is paying the bill, and Taffy's dad has the kind of money as a Hilton, there's no problem.

Where are all the jobs, for all the money spent? They are no where to be found.

And of course the reply will be; "Oh, ya. W, and Wmd's, Cheney'a a pr!ck. Bamer brought us back from the brink. The brink of what? prosperity.

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albert henry Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 7:50 PM

Taffy;

have you been putting vodka on your Wheaties again?

My goodness, the summer of recovery has turned into a 12 step program, for the reckless drunken orgy of spending, and total and complete denial, that is the party that is in power.

The new strategy. spend, borrow, lie lie, borrow, borrow, spend, tax, tax, tax, lie lie.

And unemployment keeps going up. What gives?

My brother who has been in the union for over thirty years, and been out of work for two years, finally went back to work. My brother who is not a union employer, put him to work.

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The Plumber Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 7:20 PM

This is exactly why I oppose universal suffrage. We need literacy tests.

First question: 2+2=?

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albert henry Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 9:22 PM

If I'm a troll, it would b W. everybody knows 2+2=W

If I'm a reporter 2+2=for,Obama

If I'm Barney Frank 2+2= -4, so we still have 8 to spend

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The Plumber Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 9:59 AM

and Winston Smith? From 1984,

"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is...

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arch16 Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 6:22 PM

Just how stupid do these morons think the American people are? We are living through a deep recession and this is what we have to listen to from imbeciles and morons that could care less on the state of the nation. We will see just how stupid the majority populace is in November when they vote up or down on the lib congress's performance!

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BK22 Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 5:26 PM

Kind of like Nancy Peslosi making the statement that astonished everyone:

"We should pass the healthcare bill so that we can see what's in it"

I mean, I like a good surprise once in awhile myself but gezzzzus, is this the dumbest woman on the planet or what? The Dems said it would lower cost. IT DIDN'T! The Dems said that it would lower the deficit. IT DIDN'T! The Dems said that you could keep your present doctors and coverage. YOU CAN'T! They said it was supported by all the doctors according tothe AMA. IT ISN'T! Doctors are now dropping medicaid patients. Doctors are now dropping medicare patients. There aren't enough doctors and hospitals to support the system. States are now passing legislation to...

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taffy10 Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 5:38 PM

The Iraq war's revised price tag: $3Trillion.

That's your Party, permanently set to STUPID. The very LAST THING we need in this country is more GOP idiocy. My money's on the fact that the GOP will universally "Pull a Palin" and screw their asinine 're-take America' pooch.

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taffy10 Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 5:39 PM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090302200.html

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moderateGuy Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 5:46 PM

And what, no one's out there to take that 25 cent bet, barfy?!?

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NOTW Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 9:16 PM

Taff a Laff, Where is the Hope for jobs?

Brack looks like he already needs another vacation...

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One for All Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 11:06 PM

I read the WAPO article and I must comment on the simple idiocy of it. It is a typical leftwing nut job rant which tries to piece together totally erroneous facts that have no connection to each other, except in the disjointed minds of the brainwashed left. I ask the question, If the people of a country was at the whims of a murderous maniac what price could you put on gainning Freedom for that country? I think the 60 million or so Iraqi's would have something to say about it. Let's go further what price would you put on your freedom taffy? Or your life and that of your family?

The automaton's on the left always have talked smack until it was time to actually put up or shut up. Then they just whine and cry like the 5 year olds they...

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stalkinghorse2 Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 5:43 PM

With you BK. Guess what, my health care premiums just got jacked. We're going to change it back on November 2nd.

When obama said we're going to 'bend' the cost curve he meant to say the 'bend you over cost curve'.

America just ain't diggin commie lite.

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BK22 Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 10:43 AM

stalk...mine are going up in January. I pay for my own and still get better service than from some government deskjockey. My premiuims actually went down twice in 2007 & 2008...now it's going up...wonder why?

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Kenny Z Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 5:24 PM

These democrats are a bunch of nuts. They can's possibly believe this tripe. Then again, maybe they can, after all, they voted for obama.

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homer noble Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 5:23 PM

Indeed, we recall the brilliant responses and discussion offered by taffy on Aug 10, 2010 when Greg Hengler posted "AFL-CIO President: It's "Fiction"--"We Don't Have A Deficit Crisis"" Great work, taffy; we appreciate your firm grasp of the issues. Are you Trumka's personal secretary?

The U.S. annual budget deficit hit $1.4 trillion last year. It is projected to be about $1.6 trillion this year. The total U.S. debt adds up to about $13 trillion. And now Obama, in peddling his largess of labor day debt, wants to spend 50 billion more on roads, rails, runways, and run amok debt.

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taffy10 Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 4:39 PM

You guys can't HANDLE the truth. Thank goodness you have Greg, the hack with the most to lose if he can't perpetuate the lies that keep Koch and Murdoch in business.

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moderateGuy Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 4:43 PM

Well barfy, you're half right. There is the truth and people who can't handle it; and then there are lies...You miss "the good old days" when the only game in town were the liberal lies peddled by LameStream Media, dontcha?

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taffy10 Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 5:41 PM

and you miss "the good old days" of lying us into a war that now totes a price tag of $3 trillion when all is said and done. Meanwhile, you twits have some nerve whining about deficits that YOUR Party caused, but never underestimate the combined whining of the moronic buffoonery that you belong to, moderateBoob..

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BK22 Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 8:08 AM

Oh the horror....let the tears begin...the incessant whining and crying is getting old. THE American people are looking for leaders not whimpy whiners who can;t take responsibility for their inept actions. That is the nice thing about our Republic, we get to throw the rabble out every so often and make changes. The juvenile clown needs to replaced by an adult. Let's begin by taking out the trash in November.

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Richard410 Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 9:36 AM

This war (Obama's War, he is still acting like he's incharge right?) has cost less total than Obama has spent in less than 2 years.. You really are clueless

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BK22 Wrote: Sep 07, 2010 10:45 AM

Yup...Obama announced that the war in Iraq was over and all the troops were pulled out on Aug 31. 2 days later, american troops were fighting in...you guessed it IRAQ. Some leader!

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socalcon Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 5:09 PM

Time to admit it taffy, Obama is Jim jones re-incarnate.

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Kenny Z Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 5:23 PM

daffey - please, please, drink down the kool-aid. If it isn't good for you, you will have helped many others by answering their prayers.

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taffy10 Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 5:46 PM

If you knew what you were talking about it would be a miracle. Listen to the clown is nothing but a teabagging fool for Koch and Murdoch - if you even know who those clowns are, that is. More likely, you are one in an army of lurching wankers who follows the bouncy ball of GOP greed right off the cliff without a thought or clue as to what you're doing. Blind, stupid faith.

Hah, talk about Jim Jones - you guys swallow stuff more vile than kool-aid, and ENJOY it.

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taffy10 Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 5:47 PM

It's GOP tool time for Kenny. How sad for you, dopey.

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NOTW Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 9:15 PM

Laff a taff, Where are the green shoots? Where is the confidence? Why is there deflation? Its been 19 months and counting. Where is the Hope?

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NOTW Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 9:13 PM

The Truth Taff? If they were actually saying something true, we could handle it.

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NOTW Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 4:12 PM

They must have good drug coverage plans for their membership and are counting on it. You'd have to be on drugs to buy into that stupidity.

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DocForesight Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 4:11 PM

If I were a psychologist I'd be tempted to label Mr. Trumka "delusional". So Obama has created more jobs in two years than Bush did in 8? First of all, presidents don't create jobs - unless they are Executive office jobs. The best you can say is that presidential policies either encourage or discourage the private sector to create jobs, and that depends also on Congress promoting similar policies. It's that 'separation of powers' thing.

Unions and their membership have their place, but if they continue to insult Americans' intelligence with pronouncements like this, then they are more of a dinosaur than they are willing to admit.

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moderateGuy Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 2:17 PM

While Bush inherited a faltering economy from Clinton ( the economy having grown at a 1.1% annualized rate over the previous three quarters), during Bush years:
- overall real GDP grew at an average annual rate of 2.5%.
- the number of jobs created grew by 6.5% on average.
- the growth in average salaries was 1.2%.
Numbers don't lie; liberals DO.

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taffy10 Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 6:06 PM

Actually, you better watch who you call liars, moderateBOOB. The fact is, back in Bushworld
the share of national income going to wages and salaries was the lowest on record (even going back to 1929),
your corporate dieties saw the highest share and on record. Ah, but you guys like that -- while pretending that there was growth
in salaries (1.2%?? LAUGHABLE).

Bush oversaw the SMALLEST fraction of overall increase in
workers’ pay since World War II. Ah, but at that same time, for the first time on record, corporate profits
captured a larger share of the income growth in a recovery.

The Commerce data showed that workers as a group reaped an
unusually small share of the economic gains from the current
recovery during Bush's lost decade....

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joe kidd Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 6:15 PM

Put your blue beret back on and crawl back under the desk ,we have a net loss of 283,000 jobs under Obama .thats just this summer .

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moderateGuy Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 10:44 PM

That would be true barfy, except...well, except, that Center for Budget and Policy Priorities is NOT a respectable source of information; they are an extreme left stink tank. You lying liberals can't "prove" anything by quoting yourselves.

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BK22 Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 11:23 PM

Moreover, according to Census data, median income among working-age
households in 2005 — four years into the recovery — also was lower
than during the recession, after adjusting for inflation. Median
income among working-age households fell in each year from 2001
through 2005."
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No wonder they call you daffy taffy....this is your argument?...medium income fell? as opposed to what? 10% unemployment....no hope for any recovery...deficit going through the roof...spending like dogs in heat....

Good argument there Daffy!

November 02 can't come fast enough. Say bye, bye taffy!

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