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Obama says economy can take hit and keep going
Yahoo News ^ | 6 May 2011 | JIM KUHNHENN

Posted on 05/06/2011 11:18:34 AM PDT by mandaladon

INDIANAPOLIS – Refocusing on the nation's economic struggles, President Barack Obama welcomed news Friday that the economy unexpectedly added more than 200,000 jobs last month. "We are regaining our footing," he said.

The president spoke during a visit to a transmission plant in Indianapolis, even as the killing of Osama bin Laden continued to dominate headlines and much of the president's time.

From Indianapolis he was to travel to Fort Campbell, Ky., to thank the Navy SEALs who stormed bin Laden's compound in Pakistan and shot him dead, and the helicopter operators who got them there.

But first, at Allison Transmission in Indianapolis, the president promoted his clean energy agenda while offering an optimistic assessment of the economy's growth. April's labor market report marked the third straight month in which more than 200,000 jobs were created, the best three-month hiring spree in five years and a sign of increasing confidence in the private sector.

"We've made this progress at a time when our economy's been facing some serious headwinds," the president told workers, citing high gas prices and the earthquake in Japan. "There will undoubtedly be some more challenges ahead, but the fact is that we are still making progress," he said. "And that proves how resilient the American economy is, and how resilient the American worker is, and that we can take a hit and we can keep on going forward."

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To: de.rm

I hear you, like I said, we don’t normally do this, but some of them appear to be regular people suffering from the muzzie loving president.

I run in circles that are prepping to take our country back. Not an armed kind of thing, but a survival tactic. We are not going to abide by their ‘rules’. Eventually, freedom will win. We are in a battle, it’s just not being fought with guns.

Just look at the tea parties. I live in Wisconsin, look what’s happening here, previously a blue state, fighting gallantly to be red. We are going to win every battle the unionista’s throw at us.

2010 was the warning shot, the supreme court election in Wisconsin was a battle, 2012 will decide the outcome. We aren’t going away, obama is a mistake, and history will prove it. He’s going down big time. Americans are still Americans, we LOVE our freedom. We’ve been rising up and it’s not diminishing. I still have hope. After November 2012, my opinion may change. So far, we have the upper hand.


61 posted on 05/06/2011 12:36:54 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
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To: caww

Consider that the government is being set up to run on its own without interference from ‘elected officials’.
The EPA is one example. The HHS (Obamacare) and the NLRB (Boeing dictate) are just two more.

Like the scene in ‘Cabaret’....”Still think you can contain them?”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoyPdI1L6RE


62 posted on 05/06/2011 12:39:57 PM PDT by griswold3 (Character is destiny)
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To: lucky american
62,000 were mcburgerflipper jobs... the balance were theoretical jobs supposedly created by the keynesian economic theory of X number of jobs created per X number of Federal dollars spent... pure bullsh!t!

LLS

63 posted on 05/06/2011 12:44:03 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (THANK YOU PRESIDENT BUSH!)
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To: Gondring
yesSir, upon further review, you are correct...this plant indeed makes hybrid trannys...

my guess is that they still need to make a whoooole bunch more heavy truck parts to turn a profit tho...

64 posted on 05/06/2011 12:45:12 PM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: Gilbo_3
"Obama Says Economy Can Take Hit and Keep Going"

Yah....just like Osama.

Leni

65 posted on 05/06/2011 12:55:17 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: mandaladon


66 posted on 05/06/2011 12:57:59 PM PDT by RasterMaster (We the tax-payer subsidize DUh-bama's failures)
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To: mandaladon

Here it is, from the top;

http://www.indystar.com/article/20110506/NEWS/110506010/Obama-want-energy-breakthroughs-Indiana?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|IndyStar.com
“That means over the last 14 months,” Obama said, “we’ve added more than 2 million jobs in the private sector.”


67 posted on 05/06/2011 12:57:59 PM PDT by Son House (Finally, People Lie, Because They Feel If They Tell The Truth, They Won't Get What They Want.)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
"The media is on his side.."

I take some comfort in the knowledge that when the mobs come with pitchforks and torches and tar and feathers, they will grab the media as well as the politicians.

68 posted on 05/06/2011 12:58:49 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (We will fight for America and it starts here in Madison, WI. It starts here. It starts now.)
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To: mandaladon

I don’t think the heavy stuff’s gonna come down for quite a while yet.

-—Carl Obama


69 posted on 05/06/2011 1:00:44 PM PDT by SoDak
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To: Son House
Obama is in for a historic blowout next year. A 54-46 type drubbing. Why do I think that, because his poll number barely creaked up this week, and people are done with him. he's lost the 35-65 White Independent demographic, they are now split something like 70/30 against. That';s killer and means he will lose states like Fl, Nevada, NC, VA, Ind, Pa, NM, Colorado, Wisconsin and Iowa. He's done and he knows it, the iceberg is on the horizon and The Good Ship Obama is running out of time to have the rudder steer clear. I still think he does not make it to next November, maybe some scandal like this OBL cluster f* will bring him down. The Truth ALWAYS prevails, G* set it up that way.
70 posted on 05/06/2011 1:08:55 PM PDT by pburgh01
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To: mandaladon

Yeah, and Bambi is the one delivering the hits.


71 posted on 05/06/2011 1:09:40 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Le Parti du The'. Ne marchez pas sur moi!)
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To: Son House
Oh and I did see your handle...here is one for you you if you are into a good verison version of Son House's Death Letter

Death Letter by The White Stripes

Man if I could get a guitar to sound like that..mmm, mmmmm, it's downright Jimmy Page.

72 posted on 05/06/2011 1:14:25 PM PDT by pburgh01
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To: mandaladon

“We are regaining our footing,” he said.

Right! We regain our footing as we step ftom one bucket of crap into another....


73 posted on 05/06/2011 1:15:16 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: mandaladon

I’ve never taken an economics class and I know this country is in a terrible position right now.


74 posted on 05/06/2011 1:23:51 PM PDT by wastedyears (SEAL SIX makes me proud to have been playing SOCOM since 2003.)
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To: mandaladon

Yeah, those “serious headwinds” are largely the Presidency of Barack Obama.


75 posted on 05/06/2011 1:33:16 PM PDT by The Pack Knight (Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and the world laughs at you.)
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To: justice14
Easy for him to say... He’s causing the “hit”.

Exactly.

76 posted on 05/06/2011 1:44:55 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Budget sins can be fixed. Amnesty is irreversible.)
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To: mandaladon
"Obama says economy can take hit and keep going"

Yep. Our fearless leaders have many layers of QE methods to try. Money, money everywhere! Who said that it doesn't grow on trees? ;-)


77 posted on 05/06/2011 2:19:46 PM PDT by familyop (Rome wasn't burnt in a day.)
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To: Indy Pendance
I was in Nashville last week. There were homeless sleeping under bridges etc, all over the place in prominent places smack dab in downtown.

That's normal for this place, I live in Trashville... we had a serious homeless problem before Osama was even elected.

78 posted on 05/06/2011 2:20:14 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour (With The Resistance...)
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To: lucky american
Wasn’t 60 thousand of them Mac Donald’s low paying jobs?

Yep, and the rest were an accounting gimmick.

I never understood the meaning of the old Mussolini saying that "it takes a dictator to make the trains run on time" until an older Italian lady explained it to me. The trains never ran on time when Musso was in power.

79 posted on 05/06/2011 2:43:47 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

Perhaps living in ‘Eskimo’ land alters your point of view. But that guy looked like my ‘dad’. Maybe he bought booze, but maybe he got a meal and a room. Maybe he was a vet. Lot’s of maybe’s.

One thing I’m grateful for is when the SHTF, all you southerns will take the brunt of the takers. Us in the northern regions will survive, we’re programmed to take on the worst. You all will have leeches, sucking the blood out of your states. We’ll be happy being cold and miserable, shoveling 2 feet of snow.

They’ll migrate to the ‘nice’ weather states. Nature has it’s way.

I kind of feel sorry for you. You all down south will deal with the brunt of the looters. But then again, up here in Eskimo land, we’ve lived it forever. We’ll chop wood and make sure our well and septic are working and survive no power.

I’m glad I live far away from a ‘city’.

We live in a different world than the rest of the country.

We are the bitter clingers. LOL!


80 posted on 05/06/2011 2:45:43 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
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