"The Private Sector is Doing Fine" by Niki2

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"The Private Sector is Doing Fine"

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Monday, June 25, 2012 06:24
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Saturday, June 23, 2012 2:05 PM

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

GM adds third shift at Texas plant, 800 jobs
http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/22/autos/gm-third-shift/index.htm?source=
cnn_bin]

U.S. Job Creation Index Highest Since September 2008
Net Private-Sector Job Growth Since Obama Policies Took Effect: 1,017,000 New Jobs
http://www.gallup.com/poll/148379/job-creation-index-highest-september
-2008.aspx

Gravity-Defying CEO Pay; The boss’ take outstrips investor gains again
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2012/12/ceo-compensation-12_land.html

CEO Pay: Highest Salaries Equal 3,489 Years For Typical Worker
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/25/ceo-pay-highest-salaries-typi
cal-workers_n_1545189.html

2012 Q1 Earnings Season Has BLOWN AWAY Expectations;
Of the 453 S&P 500 companies that have announced earnings so far, 72 percent have beaten analysts EPS estimates.
http://www.businessinsider.com/q1-earnings-season-update-13-2012-5

Also, just for the hell of it:

Gas prices down 6% this month
http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/22/news/economy/gas-prices/index.htm?sour
ce=cnn_bin

Republicans are so quick to blame Obama for everything WRONG, how about now? Not that I have any expectations, but wouldn't it be wild if even ONE of them gave Obama credit for ANYTHING good?

Shall I contrast all that (and there's more) with how the PUBLIC sector and all the rest of us are doing? Obama was right; the economy isn't doing great and has a long way to go, but "the private sector is doing fine".

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Saturday, June 23, 2012 2:22 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Rick Perry will scramble to take credit for GM adding shifts in their Texas plant, while decrying the auto bailout.

And the GOP will agree with him, of course. And then Romney will take credit for it as well.

And Scott Brown will say that he meets with the King and Queen of GM and the Prime Minister of Texas daily... ;)

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero

"I've not watched the video either, or am incapable of intellectually dealing with the substance of this thread, so I'll instead act like a juvenile and claim victory..." - Rappy

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Sunday, June 24, 2012 6:24 AM

CENTURY22

How's that stimulus plan working?

http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/201 1/10/06/top-us-energy-official-leaves-aft er-solyndra-report/

"The Obama campaign is going to be running an ad, titled “Jobs,” in several key swings states. The ad, however, does not propose the president’s new jobs plan and it does not trumpet his sterling economic record.
Neither exists. "
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/06/08 /obama-may-blame-gop-for-bad-jobs-report- but-it-no-subsitute-for-leadership/

Failed Stimulus:
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011- 08-08/markets/30010404_1_stimulus-package -spending-cuts-debt

http://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/article /?q=MTViNmZiZmQ4NmMxM2Y5NmEzNWIwYWRmNmNhM WJlY2I=

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/10/f lashback-obamas-failed-stimulus-cost-more -than-9-year-iraq-war/

It was the DemoRats that passed the stimulus package and controlled how it was spent. UTTER FAILURE!

The hero of Canton the man they call .....ME!

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Sunday, June 24, 2012 6:26 AM

CENTURY22

Ignoring the facts is what liberals do best!

WHITE HOUSE FOUND TO PAY WOMEN LESS ON AVERAGE THAN MEN
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/war-on-wo men-white-house-found-to-pay-women-less-o n-average-than-men/
The Official White House Report:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/d isclosures/annual-records/2011

Obama paid a lower tax rate than his secretary, White House confirms
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/obama -paid-lower-tax-rate-secretary-white-hous e/story?id=16134462#.T9j7OncfgwA

41 Obama White House aides owe the IRS $831,000 in back taxes
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washingto n/2010/09/congress-taxes-irs.html

That's what governments are for, to get in a mans way. - MAl

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Sunday, June 24, 2012 6:27 AM

CENTURY22

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Sunday, June 24, 2012 6:35 AM

WHOZIT

GM adds a 3rd shift in TX, so what. They stopped building;

Pontiac

Saturn

Hummer

Oldsmobile

Saab was sold to the Dutch

Adding a 3rd shift in TX doesn't mean the company is returning to it's former glory, GM stock use to be one of the best stocks you could own.

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Monday, June 25, 2012 6:24 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Hee, hee, hee; hook baited, fish LANDED. As for his first post:

FauxNews
FauxNews
Third cite: A total lie, "Other than bailing out bondholders what exactly do we have to show for any of it? The one-word answer is "debt".

National Review...article starts out "Conservatives have correctly declared President Obama’s $787 billion “stimulus” a floppop". Of course they have; but it's not true. If one checks the home page of National Review, it's pretty obvious which way they're bent. The article is also from 2009

The next one posts a graph of "Federal Deficits With and Without Iraq War", which shows that the "Without Iraq" amount is exactly the same as it was under Bush (but the Iraq War spending was higher under Bush), and then goes on to quote FauxNews. Duh.

Second post:

We've been over the fact that the White House pays women less than men. I certainly agree the President should be right in there, checking the pay of every member and fixing the problem, rather than dealing with the SERIOUS problems in our country.

One might also note:

Quote:
President Obama’s top female White House aides earn more on average than their male counterparts, a reversal from the pattern in the George W. Bush administration, The Washington Times found in an analysis of 2011 pay records.

Top female employees on average earned nearly 4 percent more than top male employees under Mr. Obama, compared with a deficit of 12 percent under Mr. Bush. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/30/obama-pays-a-few-women
-big-bucks/]

I didn't bother beyond that. Rather a poor attempt, in my opinion.

As an aside; GM doing away with lines that weren't performing would probably be part of their restructuring, and has NOTHING to do with their current state or that they're hiring workers.

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