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Job Killers: A Rogues' Gallery
Forbes ^ | 10/22/2012 | William Baldwin

Posted on 10/31/2012 9:22:37 AM PDT by ExxonPatrolUs

Employers chopped 8.7 million jobs during the recession. Is it possible they overdid it—and that’s why the recovery is so terrible?

If this theory is correct, then we have a third set of culprits for the dismal state of the economy today. Two causes we can all agree on: the bursting of the home price bubble and the collapse of spending by over-indebted consumers. The third reason for the weak recovery would be that employers are messing up. They have been too quick to fire workers and too slow to hire.

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1 posted on 10/31/2012 9:22:38 AM PDT by ExxonPatrolUs
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employers are messing up. They have been too quick to fire workers and too slow to hire.

Yep! Nothing to do with Obama and his banksters. Just line up the employers and shoot them, the dirty capitalist pigs! That will instantly fix the job market! Meantime, I have a free cell phone for you!

2 posted on 10/31/2012 9:30:12 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: ExxonPatrolUs
employers are messing up. They have been too quick to fire workers and too slow to hire.

Yep! Nothing to do with Obama and his banksters. Just line up the employers and shoot them, the dirty capitalist pigs! That will instantly fix the job market! Meantime, I have a free cell phone for you!

3 posted on 10/31/2012 9:30:50 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Stupid illogical statements from the left once again. If the economy were in good shape and you werent threatening to tax the living daylights out of small and large businesses by raising the tax rate, enforcing Obmacare, and raising the amount of withholding taxes we have hold out (so you can rape that fund too) in addition to the new regulations you enacted which makes it cost even more to run our businesses we would hire more people, Obama, you nitwit!


4 posted on 10/31/2012 10:29:29 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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