US economy is booming.

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  1. HB Surfer

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    Aren't people with wealth supposed to know how to make more money with their already existing wealth?
     
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    sure in a static economy that isnt manipulated by progressive communists printing money to pay our bills.
     
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    Even when only the wealthiest are "earning" record profits under our form of Capitalism? Are you sure it isn't some sort of "market failure" regarding some sort of ethic?
     
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    who is earning record profits?

    The stock market is so high cause its made with funny money, the dollar is worth less and less.

    The value of the US dollar decreases every time they print money to pay our bills. every time.
     
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    Even when only the wealthiest are "earning" record profits under our form of Capitalism?
    Are you sure it isn't some sort of "market failure" regarding some sort of ethic?
     
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    Absolutely. Companies are flush with cash available for investing, but they are not investing in hiring because they know demand is weak as hell. Simply have to forget about supply-side for a while and start goosing demand.
     
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    The links the righties asked for are posted. (Silence is golden).
     
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    Supply side economics should be supplying us with better goverance at lower cost by better ensuring full employment of resources.
     
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    Uh... you're posting those in the wrong thread.

    That completely ridiculous claim you made about Hershey not being in Pennsylvania anymore was proven false in the Walmart thread.... where you were completely pwned and you admitted defeat.

    So... what are you going on about now ?
     
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    Which Hershey's kisses does Walmart sell? The ones from Mexico, or the ones from Hershey?
     
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    ? Samuelson a noted columnist wrote that if we include people who have dropped out of the work force, the actual unemployment rate is at 10%.The economy is growing, but as much in spite of Obama's policies as because of them.The Fed's pouring money into the economy is fueling the stock market. Notice how it falls when we hear a rumor that the government will weaken its stimulus efforts. So far, our economy has yet to reach the level of the better years when Bush was president. The government's implication that unemployment payments are better than jobs at stimulating the economy is another sign of Obama's failures.
     
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    If the economy is booming, there is no reason to extend unemployment clear out to an obscene 99 weeks.
     
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    He's trying to be clever and hide this 'response' in a different thread.
     
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    Wouldn't know, or care... as long as you are done repeating the lie about Hershey moving out of Pennsylvania.

    That typical lying, left-wing, alarmist lunacy needed to be fixed... and so it was.
     
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    I see..
    The links that I provided, tell the story. Spin it whatever way it makes you comfortable.
    Oh..and, I THINK they probably get theirs from Mexico. Much higher profit margins. (just thought you'd like to know)
     
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    Could the rightists please try to understand the logic that the economy could boom in 2014 and people could still have a hard time finding a job.

    Oh, BTW, it is not 99 weeks.
     
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    Its called a jobless recovery...not worth a tinkers damn for the average American worker.
     
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    Since the several States are legalizing pot, there is no need for an obcenely expensive, War on Drugs.
     
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    It can be with EB and a three year lookback.
     
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    Unemployment compensation is supposed to be on an at-will basis in any at-will employment State.
     
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    No, it can't. These are not rolling extensions. Each extension name the number of weeks a person can get unemployment benefits. Without extensions, the program goes back to 26 months for everyone. The extensions say that we are still have high unemployment and that we want to keep the same added weeks.

    In the first years after the great recession, we went up to 99 weeks but no person could ever gotten more than 99 week. In the last extension, it went down to 73 weeks and no person could ever get more than 73 weeks.

    For 13 million out-of-work Americans, record spells of joblessness are abating. The median duration fell to 16 weeks in January [2013] from 25 weeks in June 2010,

    Even at 16 weeks, that means 50% find a job in the first 16 weeks but 50% are still looking.

    There is an added problem being caused by businesses. They are taking longer to fill job openings because they are spending more time looking for a perfect fit. The number of job openings has increased to levels not seen since the height of the financial crisis, but vacancies are staying unfilled much longer than they used to — an average of 23 business days today compared to a low of 15 in mid-2009,

    37.3% of the unemployed are taking more than 26 weeks but that also means that 62.7% did find a job within 26 weeks. So the smearing of the unemployed is nonsense. People are spending time looking for jobs. Last year, if they didn't find a job after 73 weeks, they didn't get any more unemployment benefits. 26 weeks is too little with 7% unemployment rate.

    People cannot stay on unemployment benefits after 73 weeks, period.
     
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    The major portion of the war on drugs is aimed at things like Meth, Heroin, XTC, etc.... things that lead to addiction, crime, and homelessness.... including it's transport across our borders..... not on marijuana.

    And we have only spent around $1 trillion over the last 40 years. The current government frivolously spends that in a day.

    I don't think it is unnecessary, or obscene.
     
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    Sorry, there are already too many people being Infringed in their Individual Liberty through a non-existent, nor delegated social Power to Prohibit forms of Commerce among the several States since the repeal of that only delegated social Power, with our Twenty-First Amendment.
     

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