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Bernanke says unemployment hasn't improved enough to slow stimulus
L A Times ^ | September 18, 2013, 12:13 p.m. | Jim Puzzanghera

Posted on 09/18/2013 1:49:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin

"The unemployment rate is not necessarily a great measure in all circumstances of the state of the labor market overall," Bernanke said

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1 posted on 09/18/2013 1:49:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

More excuses for inflation.


2 posted on 09/18/2013 1:50:38 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: BenLurkin

He’ll never cite the cause, will he? Excessive taxation and regulation at the federal level?


3 posted on 09/18/2013 1:53:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: BenLurkin
Just do what the dept of labor statistcians do, Ben.

Shave a few million off each week to dazzle the public and media. Problem solved. Nobody ever asks for real information. LIV's don't need no stinkin information.

4 posted on 09/18/2013 1:54:47 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: BenLurkin

BTW, someone at the Whitehut focus grouped the word dazzle as it relates to Obama. So look for the word “Dazzle, dazzling, bedazzled,” and it’s offshoots like pizazz, charisma, and charm.


5 posted on 09/18/2013 1:57:29 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: BenLurkin

Why not have the true Republicans require a BINDING, updated, “Federal Financial Impact Statement” for 2012-2013 for Obama”care?”

It should take a month or two to complete, allow for a vote to delay Obama”care” for a year, and then show the great financial harm to our Economy that the Statement’s numbers will document.

Wharton, Stanford, Michigan and Princeton could also file their independent Financial Impact Statements to compare to the Office of Budget and the Congressional Budget Office Financial Impact Statements.

As B. Hussein is fond of saying: “We need to get all the facts first.”


6 posted on 09/18/2013 2:00:07 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: BenLurkin

Fake White Indian 1
Bernanke 0


7 posted on 09/18/2013 2:01:04 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: BenLurkin

“I need more cowbell!”

Because it’s worked so well so far.


8 posted on 09/18/2013 2:03:09 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Why haven't we heard from the 30 Benghazi survivors?)
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To: BenLurkin

Translation: What we’re doing isn’t working and will result in more financial chaos and economic destruction... so QE must continue.


9 posted on 09/18/2013 2:06:33 PM PDT by Common Sense 101 (Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
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To: BenLurkin

Uh, the stimulus is being used to fund unemployment payments, Social Security disability payments for healthy people who have run out of unemployment insurance payments, and Welfare System EBT entitlements.

More stimulus will never reduce the unemployment rate because it currently is being used to prevent economic recovery and to lock unemployed into government dependency via our social welfare system.


10 posted on 09/18/2013 2:08:49 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: BenLurkin

Someone please tell Bernanke that his Wall Street buddies are as employed as they are going to get. He is killing us with this crap.


11 posted on 09/18/2013 2:37:26 PM PDT by pallis
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To: BenLurkin

Bernanke is lying through his teeth. The ONLY purpose behind this massive increase in the money supply (and devaluation of our currency) is to fund government deficit spending. This has nothing at all to do with economic growth. If they really wanted economic growth, then they wouldn’t be giving that money to the one entity in this world that cannot create wealth - government.


12 posted on 09/18/2013 2:40:38 PM PDT by Hoodat (BENGHAZI - 4 KILLED, 2 MIA)
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To: rdcbn
More stimulus will never reduce the unemployment rate because it currently is being used to prevent economic recovery and to lock unemployed into government dependency via our social welfare system.

WINNER !!!

13 posted on 09/18/2013 2:41:43 PM PDT by Hoodat (BENGHAZI - 4 KILLED, 2 MIA)
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To: BenLurkin

So Bernanke is, basically, admitting that Oboingo’s claims that the economy is improving are horsecrap?

Someone alert CNN!


14 posted on 09/18/2013 2:43:28 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative

Exactly.


15 posted on 09/18/2013 2:44:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

DEFUND/DISMANTLE the FED/IRS. They and members of congress have caused enough damage to the republic.

http://www.usdebtclock.org


16 posted on 09/18/2013 3:22:08 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: BenLurkin

the EMPLOYMENT rate is a better measure..


17 posted on 09/18/2013 4:31:35 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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