[Puppage]

they don't come any smarter than Barney Frank

Or, gayer.

[trek]

Bawny Fwank, Communist Stooge. This article is good news. Now the Stalinist Sodomite is out of the closet in more ways than one.

[lady lawyer]

I never realized how much of a social Broder is until now.

[Cyber Liberty]

Broder's doing his best for his party.

[StriperSniper]

Frank urges that we "take some of the wealth that is being created by this wonderful thing, this increased productivity, this new technology and the ways of using it, and all this innovation, and let us use it for our own undisputed public purposes

There are none.

[Moonman62]

When I asked him in an interview Thursday if he was sending a message to John Kerry, Frank said, "It's a message for all Democrats. What I'm saying is we're in a situation now where we need the government, and where is it? We've cut taxes, we've criticized bureaucracy, we've almost condemned the public sector. I'm saying it's time to talk positively about government and use it to do what the private economy is no longer doing."

What does he think GWB has been doing the past three years? The government has grown 25% and GWB has not used a single veto. GWB has gone after accounting crooks in the private sector that haven't done anything worse than what the federal government's been doing for decades. That's what the "new tone in Washington" is all about. Broder needs to find something to do besides writing about Bawney Fwank, who is totally disconnected from reality, as usual.

However, this does show that the "new tone" is a failure. No matter how much you spend and grow the government, it will never be enough for the Left.

[expat_panama]

"The ability of the private sector in this country to create wealth is now outstripping its ability to create jobs..."

There you have it: too much wealth.  We've got to stop this excess wealth creation immediately!!  Sounds pretty stupid, right?   You'd think that David Broder would ask Sen. Bahnie Fwank what's wrong with wealth, but instead he just agrees that somehow the BLS is mistaken and there aren't really more people working now earning higher wages than ever before. 

Why not, Liberals don't know how to click here.  In fact, they don't even bother making up numbers any more, they just say that everything is bad and that it's caused by GW's globalization.

Idiots

[OldFriend]

Broder drinking some of that special juice again.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

Last week, I returned from a drive around the eastern half of the country of about 4,000 miles. This country had better take some of the "wealth" which it is generating and rebuild some of the existing interstate highways. They are in sad shape.

Based on the number of cars that I saw on all of the roads, we had better take some of that "wealth" and start a major roadbuilding effort. IMHO

[ilgipper]

Unemployment numbers are NOT high; this is insane. The statistics are pretty good for the point we are at in the cycle. What could be disputed is now many people are out there without jobs or less desirable jobs, but are not counted in the govt. statistics. Regardless, the same system is in place today as in all other recent economic recoveries, and the unemployment numbers are pretty decent.

[Iris7]

"The ability of the private sector in this country to create wealth is now outstripping its ability to create jobs." - Barney Frank

This is merely Karl Marx's theory of surplus value. Pure, unadulterated Marxism. I am not being metaphorical; this sounds like something Engels would have said.

[MJY1288]

"In a speech on March 4, Frank took what has become a commonplace of political conversation, something that President Bush, Sen. Kerry and scores of lesser lights constantly discuss -- namely, the frustrating job market -- and probed it in a depth one rarely hears from a politician."

Barney Frank has always been good at probing a subject, just ask his boyfriend! :-)

[aruanan]

That is the basic reason, he suggests, for this jobless recovery -- why month after month the economic growth figures spell boom, and month after month unemployment remains stubbornly high and more thousands become so discouraged they give up the search for work.

Record high jobless benefits combined with record long jobless benefits eligibility combined with self-employment or barter or cash-transacted jobs that provide non-reported income equals much of the so-called jobless recovery.

[Mr. Bird]

and month after month unemployment remains stubbornly high

Broder is senile, anti-Bush, or both. There is not one objective measure of unemployment out there that would cause anyone to honestly state it is "stubbornly high". Not one. Indeed, objective measures indicate that unemployment is, at its worst, merely low rather than extraordinarily so.

[jwalsh07]

A socialist kissing another socialists ass.

So what else is new?

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

I found something here of interest, despite the author and despite that Barney Frank is being quoted.

If corporations continue to offshore/outsource and the "jobless recovery" continues until every desk job and manufacturing plant is offshored, then Frank may be correct, that government intervention is very likely at some point.

Is that what corporations want?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

"Our problem today," he said, "is too little government."

Just Barney talkin' out his a$$.

[Pietro]

What a change in demonicratic thinking; more government, higher taxes, command economy. Boy that's bold thinking.

simply amazing.

[dennisw]

So damn stupid. The public sector is doing much better and paying more with more benefits than the private sector. Not in million years would I truest the fat ass, beaurocrat drones in DC with stopping off shoring and preserving jobs.

[AppyPappy]

Jobless recovery = a recovery when a Republican is in office