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[lather2002.livejournal.com]

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[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

it's funny because his head looks like a ding-dong.

[i.livejournal.com]

it's even funnier because he probably voted for mccain.

[dr-pepper-spray.livejournal.com]

Don't snatch the burger from the guy before can put it together, you impatient weasel.

[spaz-own-joo.livejournal.com]

THIS

[alithefiend.livejournal.com]

I see a lot of places that are understaffed and overworking their current employees rather than hiring, and this is in the lower wage sectors such as restaurants and mall stores.

I had a job doing data entry when I was 16, and in 2009 my brother at 18 can't find a part-time job for some extra money in college.

[redheadrat.livejournal.com]

Technically noone would want to hire right now knowing that the employment cost may skyrocket soon with the proposed health care reforms and doing extra lay-offs will push the unemployment insurance costs up.

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

that's an interesting fictional reality to base decisions on

[merig00.livejournal.com]

and they also want to increase the minimum wage now...

[capthek.livejournal.com]

You say it like it is something new. You know that there has been a steady increase in the minimum wage over the past couple of years, right? Signed into law back in 2007?

[i.livejournal.com]

when are they going to increase it enough that it has the buying power of the $2.10 an hour i got in 1978?

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

"they" being the 110th Congress, right?

[hoboclown.livejournal.com]

What's with the hat? Is this guy about to go on Safari?

[kadaria.livejournal.com]

What kind of painter can't make unemployment fit but would rather us a hyphen?
Sloppy comic.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

cartoon fail.

There's tons of construction work going on.

There must be a reason why this guy doesn't have any. Maybe it's because he looks grotesquely obese.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

unemployment is a lagging indicator. Someone hired today will be listed as unemployed for July till the paperwork goes through.

And yes. Record unemployment numbers. The legacy of BushCo "Economics".

[xforge.livejournal.com]

I simply am agog having to think that you of all people don't know employment numbers lag heavily BEHIND economic recovery. Simply. Agog.

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

You ignored this the first I posted it (as it seems you're not interested in actual debate, just hit and run posting of random cartoons), so I'll post it again:

You guys post these same fucking rants over and over as if President Obama inherited a peaceful country and surplus from George W. Bush and fucked everything in the six meager months he's been in office. And as if the next future GOP president (whenever that is) will actually scale back government spending one iota.

Both parties love government spending, etc. Where the difference is is two-fold. One is that Democrats do want to, yes, actually pay for it, and taxes has to be a part of that (and keep in mind Obama's proposed increases would still put the tax rate lower than Reagan had it, not to mention 50 percentage points lower than under Eisenhower), while Republicans just create debt, foreign and domestic, to pay for it. The other difference is in what they actually spend the money on. As we saw with Bush, conservatives spend money (debt-funded) on upper-class tax cuts and military projects and war and in subsidies and payoffs to big industries, etc. Democrats prefer instead to spend money on socially progressive programs like health-care or a stimulus or alternative energy and that sort of thing.

It may sometimes seem like a pick your poison choice, but I'll take the latter any day.

I am kind of looking forward to the next time a Republican is president. That is the day they will magically stop caring about 'big government' and deficits again.

Then government can go back to its true priorities... military occupations, endless tax cuts, and forcing feeding tubes into brain-dead ladies.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Here's a little musical interlude while you wait for a reasonable response to your reasonable post:

http://youneedageek.com/files/crickets.wav

[merig00.livejournal.com]

Yeah I guess increasing social service programs, new medicaid programs and at least doubling AIDS aid to Africa was made by eeeh... Some president between Clinton and Obama... What was his name? Damn... I forgot

[dwer.livejournal.com]

new medicaid programs? You mean the payouts to pharmaceutical firms and health insurance corporations?

hah.

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

Wait, doesn't your sarcastic response about George W. Bush (can't you people even say his name anymore... he's not Beetlejuice, he won't show up if you do), doesn't that prove my point about both parties supporting some form of 'big government'?

PS- Re: The medicaid bill Bush passed... dwer said what I was going to on that, so I'll leave it at that. George W. Bush never did anything remotely progressive on health-care.

PPS- Bush increased 'social service programs'? You and I must have different definitions for that term. See, I'm thinking of George W. Bush, the guy who twice vetoed children's health-care funding, tried to destroy Social Security, and knocked down social safety net programs both directly (by cutting/redirecting funding) and indirectly (by aiding and abetting the collapse of the economy).

PPPS- Doubling AIDS aid to Africa? I will Bush his kudos on that. He kept his promise. Still, he loses points for watering-down that support by not allowing condoms to be sent in the GOP's abstinence-only zeal.

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

Since when do republicans think job creation is the business of the federal gov't?

[lather2002.livejournal.com]

When the government spends Tax Dollars with the explanation that it is for job creation. Otherwise the federal government should let it's citizens keep more of their earned income and only take what is necessary to do what the U S Constitution allows it to do.

[donolectic.livejournal.com]

I suggest you work with the Supreme Court to address the unconstitutional expansion of the Commerce Clause by the Executive and Legislative branches.