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NFP Misses, Prints At 0 As In Unchanged! Unemployment Rate 9.1%

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Key Highlights:

  • At 0, the NFP number is a plunge of 85K, from a downward revised July, which was previously at 117. This is the biggest drop since September 2010
  • The Household Survey saw an increase of 331K in the number of employed
  • Average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls decreased by 3 cents, or 0.1 percent, to $23.09. This decline followed an 11-cent gain in July. This is the first time the avg hourly earnings have been negative MoM since January 2008
  • Underemployment, U-6, rose to 16.2%, from 16.1% in July
  • The labor force rose to 153.6 million in August.
  • Ironically the only good news in the report, was what many have been indicating is a negative for months: namely that the Labor Force Participation rate actually rose for the first time in months from the nearly 30 year low of 63.9% to 64.0%

Bottom line: since this number is virtually a negative, this means QE3 is now just a formality. As to the functionality of QE3... well that's a different question

 

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Fri, 09/02/2011 - 11:45 | 1626715 chindit13
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I must have missed yet another of those "Chinese Economic Miracles".  I did notice, however, that the most significant innovations in the last month---at least one of which will take a Nobel---all came from the US.  Intel with a new chip, IBM with a new type of memory, a new treatment for leukemia, and an astonishing new anti-viral that is 15 for 15 in completely wiping out every virus it has contacted, including the rhinoviruses for the common cold and HIV.

As has been the case since Confucius destroyed whatever China might have been, China invented a sum total of ZERO.

But don't lose faith.  Perhaps with 1.35 billion, somebody someday will have an original thought.  Why, that would be a.......MIRACLE!

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 11:54 | 1626751 Joeman34
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In terms of the miracle, you didn't miss much.  All the wording was misspelled, the grammar was nearly indecipherable, and it didn't work like it was supposed to...

"All gurd ideas are belong to us!"

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:46 | 1625738 Caviar Emptor
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Data for the previous two months were revised down by a total 58,000 to show payroll increases of 85,000 jobs in July and only 20,000 in June, the government report showed.

From Dow Jones News Service

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:47 | 1625741 SheepDog-One
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W T FFFFFFFFF!!!!!

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:52 | 1625783 DefiantSurf
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to be revised later to "holy $hit!"

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 10:44 | 1626445 LongBallsShortBrains
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You mean. "Holy ¢rap!"?

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:47 | 1625744 Racer
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average wages and hours decreased, but not for rich fat banksters of course... no, they got even richer but did however work less too

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:48 | 1625747 tocointhephrase
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O O O its magic

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:18 | 1625976 dwdollar
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you know...

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 12:21 | 1626845 sleepingbeauty
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Never believe it's not so

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:48 | 1625748 geno-econ
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Labor Day has a special meaning.  Fed will be invited for Thanksgiving. Xmas without many gifts 

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:48 | 1625753 LawsofPhysics
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Aside from the large companies that are part of the kleptocracy, all private sector companies (small business in particular) have stopped participating in this sham.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:48 | 1625755 Dick Darlington
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     Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The following table shows the change
in nonfarm employment from selected time periods.
*T
============================================================

                        -----Change Since-----Recession
                        Year     Pres. Obama    Start
                      to Date      Start      Dec. 2007
============================================================
Payroll Survey            903       -1,705      -6,819
  Manufacturing           189         -631      -1,969
  Private sector        1,190       -1,090      -6,404
  Government             -287         -615        -415
  Ex-Manufacturing        714       -1,074      -4,850
Household Survey          145       -2,460      -6,867
============================================================

 

YES WE CAN!

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:49 | 1625756 virgilcaine
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Ben and his QE are what is killing the Economy via higher costs creating the margin squeeze. Employyees are the last thing businesses want in this environ.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:49 | 1625759 Stormtower
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Santelli is on point again.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:49 | 1625760 LoneStarHog
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The Labor Force Participation Rate INCREASED because the people on EUC has DECREASED.  But, they DID NOT FIND JOBS!

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:49 | 1625764 MoneyWise
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ZH prays and preaching finally come true..

ZH happy hour is now.. Congrats, muchachos.. :)))

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:55 | 1625809 sun tzu
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It's not praying. It's called telling the truth and not buying the lamestream media bullshit

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:50 | 1625769 linrom
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ROFL. Same playbook as in 2010, right before QEII.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:15 | 1625949 SheepDog-One
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Yea only difference is in 2010 the dollar was in the 80's, and gold not even $1,000 yet, and you didnt have 4 QE's ALREADY fail yet either. Different world today!

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 10:22 | 1626340 greased up deaf guy
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gold was never under $1000 at any time during 2010. 

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:50 | 1625770 youngman
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some paper interviewed a just graduated.....24 years old by the way.....Ivy League female student who is on food stamps....she said she did everthing right...she has an ARTS major...lol....she has 80,000 in debt for an Arts major...good luck lady...you chose your path..and now you will be selling panties at Victorian Secret

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:53 | 1625795 LoneStarHog
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It could be much worse.  She could have a degree in WOMEN'S STUDIES, probably the most useless damn degree of the liberal feminists.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:55 | 1625808 tip e. canoe
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"now you will be selling panties at Victorian Secret"

or selling her own used ones on craigslist.   she could even make it an "Art" project.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:56 | 1625818 sun tzu
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more likely she will be selling her vagina once the welfare benefits run out

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:20 | 1625980 tip e. canoe
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actually, used to be 'friends' with an Ivy grad who was doing just that.   of course, she wove intricate webs of intellectual pablum to justify her choices (e.g. she was working to dismantle the patriarchal system from the bedroom).   when i pointed out to her that, although her rationale may very well be vaild, her ever growing shoe collection only perpetuated the very same system that enslaved her and her gender, she stopped calling me to talk.

some people are just too damn smart for their own good.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 10:18 | 1626320 O_HAI
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Ehhh another hooker with a heart of gold.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:57 | 1625832 Blano
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LOL so true.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:08 | 1625897 chindit13
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Darwin has an answer for Arts Majors with $80K in student debt.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:20 | 1625989 tip e. canoe
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earthworms...time to get your nails dirty ladies.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:50 | 1625771 gdgenius
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Household survey saw +331k? I don't get it...

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:51 | 1625776 chinaguy
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BLS B/D adds 87k so this was really a negative print.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:51 | 1625777 Dr. Engali
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Clearly this is bullish information.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:51 | 1625778 Silverhog
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 Baloney roast for Thanksgiving this year.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:51 | 1625779 overmedicatedun...
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I think bailing out TBTF banks and co's (yah thats you GE) has worked wonders- Ceo of GE the job's czar was brilliant move NO?  burn down the white house would create or save plenty of jobs. just saying.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:52 | 1625785 Kristian
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I see no reason for QE3, as the previous QE's didn't create any jobs; that is a proven fact by now, although nothing new. Why would QE3 create jobs this time? Probably a silly question, as the Fed adopts another kind of logic.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:54 | 1625801 Caviar Emptor
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Everyone expects a big QE3. But the Fed is facing reality and hinting they won't do it. We're going to get fiscla stimulus including a jobs package, business tax breaks, mortgage refi, and ither forms of stimulus. Been sayin all week

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:12 | 1625931 SheepDog-One
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And no one cares about all that....what they demand is a giant diamond encrusted Tiffany trunk filled with free money!

Everyone will look at the 'economic tinkering' and say 'Big deal! Im still broke and I dont have a job!'

'Tax breaks' (yea sure), mortgage tinkering, shovel ready BS'...all will be looked at as just further angering the people WTF theyve been doing that crap all along!

Good luck creating feeling of happiness and joy in bankrupt america when 30% is being haircut off stocks!

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 13:27 | 1627084 penisouraus erecti
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But, QEn isn't to create jobs, it's to funnel money to the Wall Street crowd that our lawmakers in effect represent.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:52 | 1625787 Caviar Emptor
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What a Labor Day Weekend this sets up for the Yachting crowd! 

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:53 | 1625792 chump666
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market had a 9% locked in, QE3 is dead in the water...lawmakers will tear bernake a new a-hole.  stagflation here we come.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:04 | 1625869 SheepDog-One
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QE3 dead, they cant deliver it for all kinds of monetary and economic reasons, besides its very unpopular with the people they view it as bailouts for rich Wall St bankers and theyre exactly right!

Everyone got their parachutes on?

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:56 | 1625803 BlackholeDivestment
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...AAAAfreakingmazing, that little squirt on cnbc just offered the suggestion that companies hate Rosemary's Baby so much they are not hiring so he has bad numbers during election time. lol. Time to turn to Bloomberg. before this TV gets broken.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:01 | 1625852 SheepDog-One
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OH really, theyve stooped so low theyre just blaming it on 'racist america' which is not hiring simply to make Obunghole look bad?? This is just unreal....anyone 10 years ago saying that on TV would have to make a public apology. 

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:57 | 1625825 Version 7
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unemployed + underemployed = 9.1% + 16.2% = 25.3% screwed

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 08:58 | 1625839 drivenZ
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0? no way. surely there must have been 2, maybe 3, net jobs added to payroll...haha. look on the bright side a 0 print probably beat the ZH readership expectations. So, ramp on?

 

 

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:02 | 1625845 SheepDog-One
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This was a huge negative print no doubt! 

QE is wildly unpopular with people and they correctly view it as 'BAILOUTS' from the start, correctly so! Good luck with QE, they cant do it!

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:05 | 1625871 MoneyWise
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"QE is wildly unpopular with people"

Right, (what people? Polish?) 98% don't know what it is.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:08 | 1625896 SheepDog-One
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Oh REALLY so thats why 85% were DEAD SET AGAINST TARP and QE1 and melted down the DC switchboards calling to say 'NO'!

I hope youre really not all-in like that stupid MomoChaser clown on QE! Youll get cornholed big time on that one, I guarantee its not coming!

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:13 | 1625936 MoneyWise
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I don't care about QE, stock will do OK without it, overtime.
And you really an asshole, by the way..Which praying for Revolution,
collapse, hungry riots, and all kinds of BS, alone with many
here.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:17 | 1625975 SheepDog-One
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OH right! Stocks which have ONLY gone up from DUH 6,500 due to free money QE, will now just do fine somehow all on their own, sitting there 50% overpriced and with 100 P/E's....yea sure hey go bet on it!

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 11:45 | 1626712 TuesdayBen
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QE?  Yeah, dat's Quiche Eater.  Right?

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:02 | 1625860 somethingelse
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So whatever the negative amount is they add the same number and call it the birth/death adjustment.....how clever  //sarc off

this dog doesn't have legs.....can't pull the same trick over and over   even the dumbest of the dumb in MSM will catch on. 

 

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:06 | 1625879 SheepDog-One
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New slave peasants were born...so at least we got THAT going for us!

What a stupid grabasstic bunch of morons, now theyre stuck with no QE...their only option now is to be seen as 'tough' and go after Wall St! Bet on it!

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:12 | 1625927 Moneyswirth
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Waiting with baited breath on Obama's jobs plan, and how raising taxes on the rich will create jobs. And high speed rail.  

 

 

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:29 | 1626047 Bicycle Repairman
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Obama's plan is a mono-rail from San Diego to New York city.  In a compromise with Congress it will pass through all 50 states.

Get your shovels, bitches.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 10:35 | 1626404 Problem Is
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Obama Bin Lyin's plan is an infrastructure bank so all the money for a mono-rail project can be looted by Wall Street...

There are no jobs programs...

Every program is Wall Street welfare ho' program from HAMP to stimulus...

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:13 | 1625941 chindit13
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This is one time I kind of wish we got CNBC out here.  I can only speculate as to what absurdities Liesman and Mark "The Most Overpaid Man in America" Zandi (is he a guest today?) are pulling out of their arses to put a slightly less rancid stench on this dreadful number.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:31 | 1626066 SheepDog-One
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Well, Liesman said companies are not hiring because theyre obviously racist'....YEP thats what passes for the very best of economic journalism today!

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:24 | 1626005 ZapBranigan
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Are you fucking kidding me?  Zero?  I have to imagine that at least 40% of traders will smell the fishy suspiciousness of this and head for the exits.  Or, everything comes-up green today courtesy of our Chairsatan and his FUBARed market algos.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:26 | 1626031 Crassus
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And this with concurrent wars and enormous defense contracts.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:31 | 1626060 Bicycle Repairman
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Clearly we need both QE3 and another war.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:37 | 1626093 papaswamp
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NSA participation rate declined 0.3%

NSA Civilian labor force declined by a whopping 468,000

NSA Not in Labor Force increased by 669,000

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:50 | 1626154 r101958
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where did you get these numbers?

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:58 | 1626204 papaswamp
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http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t01.htm

Table A-1...look at the first set of numbers under Not Seasonally Adjusted

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:39 | 1626106 r101958
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I don't like it but......Prediction*****: Paper gold rises today.....maybe until Monday....then paper gold sells off and the TBTF's use the profits to prop up the market next week (maybe sooner). After all, that is where much of their free treasury money (and future profits) reside.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:43 | 1626123 HomeyDClown
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Didn't we simply hang ourselves with this one?  I mean - we take the company (oops sorry country) to the brink of financial doom and gloom - and employers don't hire?  I mean Mrs. Tea Party - how would that have worked.  Employers won't hire if they don't think there will be an economy around.  So this "news" is really not "news" - it's fall out - and should be pointed out that our gov't b.s. is probably directly responsible - or at least partially responsible for the miss in employment numbers. 

While all parts - dems, reps, tea baggers were dicking around - they never probably thought about how their actions would impact the actual "real" economy. 

these freakn guys...

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 09:58 | 1626211 jmcadg
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This is a pretty decent number compared to what I thought it would be -25k!!!!

Goldman, it's one thing revising your estimate down, it's another still being optimistic, losers.

Ben still needs more ammo for QE3. He needs the markets to run some heavy down days between now and Jackson Hole.

S&P sub 900, Dow sub 10k and Gold +2k. Bring it on.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 10:37 | 1626415 greased up deaf guy
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jackson hole was last week/month and won't be happening again until next august. i think you mean the next fomc meeting.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 10:02 | 1626236 fwchiro
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Wonder what the chances are that Zero pulls a repub trick on Thurs and announces they will be sending out bread and circuses, I mean a 1-2K check to everyone to get things started...  It may be too far from elections for this, but I wouldn't be surprised...

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 10:15 | 1626298 SokPOTUS
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Another Epic Fail that would be; but hell, I'd rather they send it to me than Jamie Dimon.

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 10:31 | 1626381 Problem Is
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Money for sheeple?? BAH-HAH-bahahaha...

"Bailout My Bonus"
Taxpayer welfare money for TBTF Banksters...

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 10:28 | 1626366 Problem Is
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That big drop in Labor Force Participation since January 2009 has been Obama Bin Lyin's jobs program...

Reduce unemployment by shrinking the denominator...

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 11:40 | 1626691 SRV - ES339
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Of course... and the far right influence on the GOP to slash and burn on the Fed, State, and local level has been a rousing success!

They've been in control in most states, in The House, and can and do block almost anything in the Senate, for almost a year and everything is coming unglued... where are the jobs Boehner and Cantor promissed once the Billionaires got there tax cuts and bugets were slashed?

WTF did they think would happen when you cut, slash and burn (for all but the very rich) in a recession... but knock yourselves out and (T) party on to oblivion!

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 13:20 | 1627043 penisouraus erecti
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Dems have been in control of congress, the appropriations branch of government, since 2006 moron. Nice lameass try at misplacing blame. As for the states, my neighboring state of Wisconsin is doing great since they brought some fiscal responsibility there, despite efforts of the unions and even Obama to sabatoge it. Hence, COSTLY recall elections a MAJOR FAIL!!!!

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 10:51 | 1626475 ak_khanna
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The process to create jobs involves the following steps :

Replace the top management of the too big to fail banks, put the existing ones in prison and charge them with fraud and misreprese­ntation. Reclaim the remunerati­on and bonuses that they have earned during their tenure at the bank. Break the too big to fail banks into smaller ones so that they are no longer a risk to the whole financial system. Implement the Glass Stegall Act.

Use the reclaimed billions of dollars from the arrested bankers and use them to improve the infrastruc­ture of the country. This would create jobs instantly and the improved infrastruc­ture would give the confidence to the small businessma­n to hire more people.

Tax the richest 5% of the population heavily as they no longer create jobs in the country but outsource the jobs to the low cost developing nations. Stop completely the funding of election candidates by corporates and rich individual­s so that their influence on politician­s to make rules beneficial to themselves is clipped.

Ban the use of derivative­s and speculatio­n in the stock, commoditie­s and currency markets. Stopping speculatio­n in commodity markets would reduce their prices substantia­lly which would be beneficial to the majority of the population­. This would lead to a better standard of living for the middle class families and they would go out and spend helping the revival of the economy.

But in the real world we can keep on dreaming.

http://www­.marketora­cle.co.uk/­Article245­81.html

Fri, 09/02/2011 - 13:45 | 1627140 faustian bargain
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That chart is just one big 27-year-long frown.

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