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2013/02/28 18:28:24
Subject: California Congress Woman predicts 170 million jobs will be lost with sequestration.
Maxine Waters: 'Over 170 Million Jobs Could Be Lost' Due To Sequestration Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) claimed today that "over 170 million jobs" could be lost due to sequestration.
Starting at around 0:30…
Yesterday we did have Mr. Bernanke in our committee and he came to tell us what he’s doing with quantitative easing and that is trying to stimulate the economy with the bond purchases that he’s been doing because he’s trying to keep the interest rates low and jobs – and he said that if sequestration takes place, that’s going to be a great setback. We don’t need to be having something like sequestration that’s going to cause these jobs losses, over 170 million jobs that could be lost – and so he made it very clear he’s not opposed to cuts but cuts must be done over a long period of time and in a very planned way rather than this blunt cutting that will be done by sequestration. As you know in this committee we have all of HUD and HUD is responsible for so many programs that determine the quality of life for women and families. CBDG, a form of grant programs will be cut by $153 million dollars, these are grants that help with cities and children and low-income programs. We also will cut the Home Program by $52 million if sequestration takes place, Native American Housing grants by $34 million, House and Choice grants $113 million, Public Housing – mostly single women in Public Housing – another $304 million, and homelessness, everybody claims to be concerned with homelessness and the growing number of women and children who are out their homeless but look they will take a $99 million dollar hit and on and on and on. We are here today, one more time, talking about women and children and families and how we can protect our women, children, and families and have a decent quality of life – sequestration will set us back, all of the gains that we have made will be lost with sequestration.
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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2013/02/28 18:30:44
Subject: California Congress Woman predicts 170 million jobs will be lost with sequestration.
Isn't 170 million jobs pretty much every working person in the USA?
I think I smell something fishy...
Ah, I just re-read it and she is not saying that they will be lost, but that they belong to a "pool of jobs available to be lost".
Kind of like if I say "there are a billion chocolate bars that could be eaten" I am not saying that I am going to eat a billion chocolate bars, but that there are a billion bars that I could select from to eat.
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So we will lose more jobs than are employed in the US?
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2013/02/28 18:45:11
Subject: California Congress Woman predicts 170 million jobs will be lost with sequestration.
SilverMK2 wrote: Isn't 170 million jobs pretty much every working person in the USA?
I think I smell something fishy...
Ah, I just re-read it and she is not saying that they will be lost, but that they belong to a "pool of jobs available to be lost".
Kind of like if I say "there are a billion chocolate bars that could be eaten" I am not saying that I am going to eat a billion chocolate bars, but that there are a billion bars that I could select from to eat.
I should preface this by saying Maxine Waters is an idiot. Google her statements. It could be a Bidenism (at least she's not counseling criminal acts like Biden has been with his shotgun talk), or and more likely, she's just an idiot who has no conception of math or facts.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
2013/02/28 18:47:14
Subject: Re:California Congress Woman predicts 170 million jobs will be lost with sequestration.
Frazzled wrote: (at least she's not counseling criminal acts like Biden has been with his shotgun talk)
Oh goodness I saw a video of that last night
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2013/02/28 19:31:43
Subject: California Congress Woman predicts 170 million jobs will be lost with sequestration.
KalashnikovMarine wrote: Yesh between Uncle Joe, this chick and Frankenstein it's scary how stupid some of our legislators can reveal themselves to be,
It would be easier to count the smart ones.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
2013/02/28 19:35:26
Subject: California Congress Woman predicts 170 million jobs will be lost with sequestration.
KalashnikovMarine wrote: Yesh between Uncle Joe, this chick and Frankenstein it's scary how stupid some of our legislators can reveal themselves to be,
It would be easier to count the smart ones.
It's not hard to count zero
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Lemme at least leave a good hoof beat they'll remember loud and long
Frazzled wrote: (at least she's not counseling criminal acts like Biden has been with his shotgun talk)
Oh goodness I saw a video of that last night
Clearly I missed something. I saw the "if you want a gun for home defense, get a shotgun" thing, was this part of that speech or something else?
I think its a separate rant. Its like he has blasting away with a shotgun on the brain or something. In case anyone's wondering, wandering outside and randomly firing off a shotgun from your balcony is : 1) epic cool; 2) illegal; 3) might be manslaughter level illegal if you hit someone.
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
2013/02/28 20:29:39
Subject: California Congress Woman predicts 170 million jobs will be lost with sequestration.
Manchu wrote: You must feel very conflicted about Joe Biden, Frazz. He's like your soul mate in some ways.
oh yea he's a toot!
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
2013/02/28 21:40:32
Subject: California Congress Woman predicts 170 million jobs will be lost with sequestration.
Frazzled wrote: (at least she's not counseling criminal acts like Biden has been with his shotgun talk)
Oh goodness I saw a video of that last night
Clearly I missed something. I saw the "if you want a gun for home defense, get a shotgun" thing, was this part of that speech or something else?
It was that, but the video I watched had attached clips of women firing shotguns and getting hurt/knocked down.
Also the fact that Biden was advocating taking random shots into nowhere to scare away burglars.
"So, do please come along when we're promoting something new and need photos for the facebook page or to send to our regional manager, do please engage in our gaming when we're pushing something specific hard and need to get the little kiddies drifting past to want to come in an see what all the fuss is about. But otherwise, stay the feth out, you smelly, antisocial bastards, because we're scared you are going to say something that goes against our mantra of absolute devotion to the corporate motherland and we actually perceive any of you who've been gaming more than a year to be a hostile entity as you've been exposed to the internet and 'dangerous ideas'. " - MeanGreenStompa
"Then someone mentions Infinity and everyone ignores it because no one really plays it." - nkelsch
FREEDOM!!!
- d-usa
2013/02/28 21:52:20
Subject: California Congress Woman predicts 170 million jobs will be lost with sequestration.
KalashnikovMarine wrote: Yesh between Uncle Joe, this chick and Frankenstein it's scary how stupid some of our legislators can reveal themselves to be,
It would be easier to count the smart ones.
It's not hard to count zero
It took centuries for mathy types to invent zero.
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Frazzled wrote: (at least she's not counseling criminal acts like Biden has been with his shotgun talk)
Oh goodness I saw a video of that last night
Clearly I missed something. I saw the "if you want a gun for home defense, get a shotgun" thing, was this part of that speech or something else?
Also the fact that Biden was advocating taking random shots into nowhere to scare away burglars.
I suppose this idiot of a vice president doesn't really have a clue about gun safety then. One of the first things I learned as a kid, when handling firearms, is to be aware of your surroundings, more importantly what is downrange. Should I be surprised he would suggest something like this? Probably not.
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2013/03/01 01:46:11
Subject: California Congress Woman predicts 170 million jobs will be lost with sequestration.
The woman is an idiot who lacks a highschool level understanding of the numbers that define her country. She's in good company in Washington.
I mean, just yesterday Ben Bernanke said this;
"Significant progress has been made recently toward reducing the federal budget deficit over the next few years. The projections released earlier this month by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) indicate that, under current law, the federal deficit will narrow from 7 percent of GDP last year to 2-1/2 percent in fiscal year 2015.8 As a result, the federal debt held by the public (including that held by the Federal Reserve) is projected to remain roughly 75 percent of GDP through much of the current decade.
However, a substantial portion of the recent progress in lowering the deficit has been concentrated in near-term budget changes, which, taken together, could create a significant headwind for the economic recovery … Moreover, besides having adverse effects on jobs and incomes, a slower recovery would lead to less actual deficit reduction in the short run for any given set of fiscal actions."
And yet the Republicans continue to play this make believe game where they all sit around, looking very serious and talking about the very serious budget cuts that are very serious and must be done or something serious might happen. Seriously.
Relapse wrote: God help us if anything happens to Obama. He's bad enough, but if Biden ever, by some dark evil happenstance became president...
I'm beginning to suspect Presidents have started picking their VPs purely to dissuade assassination attempts against themselves.
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Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
2013/03/01 02:01:30
Subject: California Congress Woman predicts 170 million jobs will be lost with sequestration.
As others have said, Maxine Waters is an idiot. The fact that she keeps getting reelected... well it doesn't say anything good about our nation that's for sure.
As for Biden's comment... a man in Virginia was just arrested and charged the other day for doing the exact thing he advised. Two men were breaking into his house, he had actual visual confirmation of that. He fired a shotgun through his door, and now he's been arrested for reckless endangerment.
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2013/03/01 03:22:30
Subject: California Congress Woman predicts 170 million jobs will be lost with sequestration.
After seeing that shotgun video, I begin to realize why there are so many accidental shootings. In all fairness, from what I saw, Biden was not the sole moron in the video.
@Sebster and d-usa, you are wise men, I see.
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2013/03/01 11:58:15
Subject: California Congress Woman predicts 170 million jobs will be lost with sequestration.
d-usa wrote: I can see Frazzled and Biden having some similarities, but then Frazzled never said that he would make a good politician either.
I have however said I would make an excellent dictator. Viva Me!
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
2013/03/01 12:10:49
Subject: California Congress Woman predicts 170 million jobs will be lost with sequestration.
d-usa wrote: I can see Frazzled and Biden having some similarities, but then Frazzled never said that he would make a good politician either.
I have however said I would make an excellent dictator. Viva Me!
While I would welcome our weiner overlords, one cannot help but think that third class citizenship behind weiner dogs and weiner dog chew toys would be an improvement for the human race.
Relapse wrote: God help us if anything happens to Obama. He's bad enough, but if Biden ever, by some dark evil happenstance became president...
Mother of god
It is the best insurance against assassinations.
I've never understood that thinking. There are a couple basic reasons to assassinate a head of state, personal hatred towards the individual and/or a desire to severely hurt the government of that state. The competency of the VP isn't going to affect the decision making of the nutter who hates the Pres enough to take a shot at him/her, and an incompetent replacement helps further the goal of the guy trying to bring down the gov't.
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2013/03/01 17:53:09
Subject: California Congress Woman predicts 170 million jobs will be lost with sequestration.
d-usa wrote: I can see Frazzled and Biden having some similarities, but then Frazzled never said that he would make a good politician either.
I have however said I would make an excellent dictator. Viva Me!
While I would welcome our weiner overlords, one cannot help but think that third class citizenship behind weiner dogs and weiner dog chew toys would be an improvement for the human race.
When the privileged class only asks that you feed them, rub their belly, and toss a ball around you realize its not that bad.
Relapse wrote: God help us if anything happens to Obama. He's bad enough, but if Biden ever, by some dark evil happenstance became president...
Mother of god
It is the best insurance against assassinations.
I've never understood that thinking. There are a couple basic reasons to assassinate a head of state, personal hatred towards the individual and/or a desire to severely hurt the government of that state. The competency of the VP isn't going to affect the decision making of the nutter who hates the Pres enough to take a shot at him/her, and an incompetent replacement helps further the goal of the guy trying to bring down the gov't.
It does discourage attempts that are politically motivated, as much as people may dislike Obama, they LOATHE Biden.
People seem to think that only nutjobs and crazies kill heads of state. Political assassination still is a threat.
Of course, the real target wouldn't be Obama. it would be potential presidential candidates at this point.
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It doesn't discourage politically motivated attempts. Again, if Obama's politics are the motivator, and you perceive Biden as incompetent (would not be able to effectively enact the policies Obama is able to implement for what ever reason). than the weak appearing VP choice is no deterent.
Every time a terrorist dies a Paratrooper gets his wings.
2013/03/01 18:31:08
Subject: Re:California Congress Woman predicts 170 million jobs will be lost with sequestration.
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Yes, he's incompetent. The worry is that he would do something if he was the president, not that he wouldn't, and thats exactly why Obama will never be assassinated.
Obama is fairly central compared to the rest of his party, better to let him stay where he is.
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