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The Obama Index: The Newest Index to Measure Our Despair
Townhall.com ^ | September 8, 2012 | John Ransom

Posted on 09/08/2012 3:26:24 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

I can’t tolerate obamanomics but i’ll say this. there are structural issues out there. he should have as well as others addressed them. the incentives are to not hire. period. all the shuffling around of money is meaningless. why hire? does it move up a stock price? is demand there? why not manufacture overseas. its cheaper. its whats happening. these are the issues. not how much money is in the system.


21 posted on 09/08/2012 5:50:12 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: ronnie raygun

They will end up calling it the BUSH INDEX.


22 posted on 09/08/2012 5:50:18 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Kaslin

Only Obama could preside over an economy with so much money that has produced so little return as our economy has since January 2009.

Never in the annals of human history have so many dollars done so little for so many.

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Yes, obama had alot of money to fritter away. Fact is, he only used it to appease his donors and cronies. Obama makes Carter look like Ebenezer Scrooge.


23 posted on 09/08/2012 6:05:16 AM PDT by mardi59 (ROMNEY/RYAN 2012)
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To: neveralib

Very interesting source, but that inflation index is dated April 2011, and I don’t think is being updated- I might be wrong abvout that. Still a very interesting site. Thanks.


24 posted on 09/08/2012 7:32:38 AM PDT by matthew fuller (Obama- If you get re-elected, who are you gonna blame for the mess you will inherit?)
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To: Nip

“As a Federally Funded Community Organizer his financial management has been defined as spending every dollar he has been given. Failure to do so means less money in the next gift from the Federal Government.”


That is also how federal agencies operate. Use it or lose it. That wasteful mindset really needs to change as it promotes a grostesque mismanagement of resources.


25 posted on 09/08/2012 8:33:16 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: neveralib

Actually I think the “real” unemployment rate is 14.7%, not 14.2%.


26 posted on 09/08/2012 8:51:36 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: onemiddleamerican
"I'm sure there is also a fair amount of "screw you, Barack Obama, you socialist bastard" in the unwillingness to spend and hire."

I'm not lifting a finger (either on consumption beyond the minimum or on getting a job again) till Zer0 is gone.

27 posted on 09/08/2012 9:29:06 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ronnie raygun; Kaslin

Did someone say “unprecedented?”

The most “unprecedented” pRESIDENT in history.


28 posted on 09/08/2012 9:52:58 AM PDT by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: Kaslin

Take the Jimmuh Carter misery index and raise it to the 3rd power.


29 posted on 09/08/2012 2:23:57 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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