Shooshmoo
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Two days later and the OBL death already seems like old hat.
Not to me. Why do you hate America?
Two days later and the OBL death already seems like old hat.
Not to me. Why do you hate America?
Obama proposing a tax per mile scheme right now shows you how out of touch he really is. That tax will be in addition to gas taxes no doubt. And don't gas taxes already tax those who drive more?
Sorry I wasted my time, if that's all you took from it. We need to creat jobs. Enlighten me on how effective you think the President's policies have been and what, if anything, you would have done differently.
"I hated the bailout of GM/Chrysler because it was basically a giveaway to the labor unions."
Do you even know what was in the deal?
They gave up billions of dollars owed to them. They cut their salaries and cut new hires salaries to be the same non-union new hires. They cut their current and retirement health benefits.
You see the word union and immediately state everything about them is bad.
This one case where the unions gave up billions to save millionis of US jobs and they did.
The complete wipeout of existing shareholders and creditors, while the UAW was handed 17% interest in the new company is what I'm referring to.
is this THE dirk?
"A 3 pack of chicken breasts has gone from $7 to $10."
That's more expensive than here. Just got some skinless, boneless chicken titties for $1.99/pound.
it is feeling just a shade better for these 244,000 Americans, I reckon.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_economy
The total amount of unemployed was unchanged from March at 13.7 million people.
The labor participation rate also was stuck at 64.2 percent, refuting the notion that the rise in the unemployment rate reflected more discouraged workers looking for jobs.
Also, the so-called real unemployment rate—which the government calls the U-6—which encompasses discouraged workers as well, actually rose in the month two-tenths of a point to 15.9 percent.
The numbers suggested that a good portion of the boost came from McDonald's [MCD 79.00 0.40 (+0.51%) ], which moved to hire 50,000 workers last month.
Still, gains in April marked seven straight months of net job creation, but remained too little to make much of dent on the pool of 13.7 million Americans out of work.
^can you post a link for that?
I've read it being called "the biggest corporate hiring spree in 5 years...."