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Heck of a job, Barry! [Darleen Click]

AP tries to spin it for Obama, fails

WASHINGTON (AP) — Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream.

Survey data exclusive to The Associated Press points to an increasingly globalized U.S. economy, the widening gap between rich and poor and loss of good-paying manufacturing jobs as reasons for the trend.

The findings come as President Barack Obama tries to renew his administration’s emphasis on the economy, saying in recent speeches that his highest priority is to “rebuild ladders of opportunity” and reverse income inequality.

Hardship is particularly on the rise among whites, based on several measures. Pessimism among that racial group about their families’ economic futures has climbed to the highest point since at least 1987. In the most recent AP-GfK poll, 63 percent of whites called the economy “poor.”

Meanwhile, full-time jobs are being replaced by part-time and Obama had issued his Royal Edict that he wants more of any money you have left

The Obama administration dug in Sunday on its vow to reject proposed spending cuts by congressional Republicans in upcoming budget talks, but declined to say whether the president would veto their proposals or allow a government shutdown.

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told “Fox News Sunday” that President Obama will neither sign government funding bills that slash domestic spending nor negotiate with Republicans over spending cuts to reduce the federal debt limit.

53 Replies to “Heck of a job, Barry! [Darleen Click]”

  1. palaeomerus says:

    “Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told “Fox News Sunday” that President Obama will neither sign government funding bills that slash domestic spending nor negotiate with Republicans over spending cuts to reduce the federal debt limit.”

    Obama should face three more years of fixed sum continuing funding resolutions set at no increase, minus implementation of Obamacare, and have the house tell him we will not negotiate with him (or Reid) or fund any executive action he takes.

    Lame duck on a leash,
    quack all you like, bless your heart.
    Out-quack your tame press .

  2. sdferr says:

    “. . . based on several measures . . .”

    Yep, measures hand selected not to reflect untoward circumstances in the actual scheme of things. Better those not be mentioned.

  3. newrouter says:

    prez. foodstamp™ delivers

  4. SDN says:

    Obama should face three more years of fixed sum continuing funding resolutions set at no increase, minus implementation of Obamacare, and have the house tell him we will not negotiate with him (or Reid) or fund any executive action he takes.

    And what are the odds of the current House doing that? or anything happening if Obama just says “Funding? I control the check-writing machine. What you gonna do about it?”

    What I thought.

  5. leigh says:

    We’re in the wilderness and our “leaders” have feet of clay.

  6. Well, if it weren’t for my wife’s death “benefits” I’d be living in a box under the Lanier bridge. My coastal area is in the Second Great Depression. Whole shopping centers have emptied out. I denounce myself for pointing this out….

  7. BigBangHunter says:

    – The beauty, or pain, take your pick, of pointing out the reality that surrounds us, even as that half white jackass in the WH brays his bullshit Narrative(tm), is all we really have to maintain our sanity.

    – Otherwise we’d all just sit and smile and clap in unison for the butterfly shitting Unicorns in Utopia valley, while we starve to death and the fearless leader and his fat-assed wife eats Arugula.

  8. Libby says:

    Is there a budget? Has any budget passed during his presidency?

  9. cranky-d says:

    No budget has been passed during Obama’s presidency.

  10. happyfeet says:

    for at least parts of their lives

    i struggle with hunger all the time

    then I eat tasty foozles

    then later on I struggle some more

    I don’t always keep the propaganda sluts at the Associated Press in the loop

  11. BigBangHunter says:

    Is there a budget?

    – What possible purpose could a stiffling, troublesome budget serve, when Utopia is at stake, and you have no intention of spending anything less than whatever it takes to pave over the depression with your Commywood paper mache’ Utopia, no matter how much phony money you have to print.

    – Get serious. Budgets are for unuanced clingers.

  12. Budgets are, like, math. And math is just one vowel away from meth. And drugs are bad, m’kay?

  13. newrouter says:

    The world is now fully involved in a process of massive change. Not only have the old Mustache Petes of the Middle East gone the way of the dinosaur, so too has the Blue Model. And just as the Middle East is now aflame — and East Asia is now wracked with tension — with the stresses of upheaval, so in its own way is the West doomed to suffer these pangs. President Obama may now suspect what will be increasingly true. He and whatever he represents matters less and less.

    It is the new opportunities and institutions that represent the post-Blue World that will become increasingly. Hard though it may be to imagine, the Middle East may very soon no longer be synonymous with petroleum nor will a lifetime government job be a guarantee of anything in particular. President Obama, in a recent misstatement, was perhaps unwittingly prescient when he called the United States and Europe “developing countries”.

    He is more correct than he can imagine. It is moving past his arc of history into something neither he nor we can clearly see.

    link

  14. EBL says:

    I don’t disagree Obama has fucked up the economy, but those numbers are BS.

    Oh they are technically true…sort of. It is just a load of steer crap.

  15. BigBangHunter says:

    – Troubles on the domestic front are just one area where the “talk-talk-talk”, all hat and no cattle approach of the hyper-hipocrites of Leftist Progressivism shows for the umpteenth time why Socialism always fails.

    – Maybe the 1.85 million Syrian refugees are invisible to the Lefturds, like WMD’s, at least thats the way they’re being treated by the whores in the American MessMedia, and Jug ears doesn’t want to know about it in fear of his base, where he might be compelled to finally DO something. Yeah, that could happen.

    – We’re reduced to having to watch UK and Al Jazeera news outlets if we want to have any idea of whats going on in the ME.

  16. Ernst Schreiber says:

    I think there was one budget, way back in 2009. Maybe two, depending on what they did with the Bush budget for 2009.

  17. newrouter says:

    -I think there was one budget, way back in 2009.-

    reid and pelosi went full cr mode after the baracky got power

  18. LBascom says:

    Without googling Ernst, I don’t think there’s been a budget since Pelosi/Reid took the reins of congress in 2008.

  19. newrouter says:

    indeed this was one area orangeman had power post 2010. and he pissed it away because fighting demonrats is “bad” and the msm don’t like it

  20. LBascom says:

    I’m sorry, Jan. 2007.

  21. LBascom says:

    OK, I googled. You were right.

    •The last time the Senate passed a budget was on April 29, 2009.

  22. newrouter says:

    the demonrats stopped playing by the rules when they owned the fed gov’t – 2009

  23. newrouter says:

    ” The final resolution was approved by the House on June 5, 2008.[2] The final spending bills for the budget were not signed into law until March 11, 2009 by President Barack Obama, nearly five and a half months after the fiscal year began.”
    ibid

  24. leigh says:

    Who needs a budget when you have a printing press and aren’t afraid to use it?

  25. leigh says:

    nr, I read your 7:24 as “final solution”.

  26. maggie katzen says:

    •The last time the Senate passed a budget was on April 29, 2009.

    I remember that because there was that chart about Obama not adding to the deficit all that much, and the way they got there was by giving the 2009 budget to W.

  27. sdferr says:

    “. . . where he might be compelled to finally DO something.”

    Oh, Obazm is already doing something alright, it’s just that no-one seems to notice what it is he’s doing: he’s fulfilling Al Qaeda’s every demand, one quiet little bit at a time. Another name for it is surrender.

  28. newrouter says:

    so the 2008 bailouts are locked into the cr. i wonder if “baseline budgeting” is too. probably with these thieves.

  29. newrouter says:

    old man mitchy and orangeman be taking a ride by the choom gang.

  30. The thing about a Continuing Resolution on the budget is that all of the assumptions written into the last budget are — well — continued. The ’09 budget is the baseline, by necessity.

  31. newrouter says:

    i wrote jg a note. i said to him that mike lee’s proposal is a starting point. remove the solyndra energy stuff, remove the delta smelt stuff CA Republican Wins State Sen. Seat in Dist. with 60% Hispanics, 22-Pt. Dem Adv., remove all edu stuff etc.

  32. newrouter says:

    the cr is the budget. fight them.

  33. happyfeet says:

    cause it matters

    math notwithstanding

  34. newrouter says:

    “cause it matters”

    remove all the hollyweird tax breaks in the irs code

  35. newrouter says:

    “cause it matters”

    insert language that all border security is implemented or the cr is dead. eff these peeps.

  36. happyfeet says:

    math still says game over thank you for playing whoremerica here are your lovely parting gifts

  37. Ernst Schreiber says:

    so the 2008 bailouts are locked into the cr. i wonder if “baseline budgeting” is too. probably with these thieves.

    Yes, it is. The one time stimulus that didn’t work because it wasn’t big enough has now been spent five times over to know effect. Probably because it still isn’t big enough.

    Right Paulie K?

  38. Ernst Schreiber says:

    old man mitchy and orangeman be taking a ride by the choom gang.

    Don’t kid yourself, nr, they’re every bit as much the choom gang as are Pelosi, Reid and Obama.

  39. newrouter says:

    “, they’re every bit as much the choom gang as are Pelosi, Reid and Obama.”

    keep “hope and change alive” put the delta smelt in their face. do it for the “hispanics”!!11!!

  40. newrouter says:

    that’s why Lee has to add the kitchen sink to the cr.

    or forward in all directions:

    3 Mustaphas 3 – The Balkan Television Service

  41. newrouter says:

    these peeps suck

    Republicans to make big pushes on oversight legislation

    time for sumthing new

  42. newrouter says:

    you got the effin money: cut it the eff off you dumb beltway losers.

  43. palaeomerus says:

    This is what it looks like when some grandiose, pompous fucking idiot who thinks they are fair by definition (the expectation of a cheap grace that comes from merely aligning one’s self with those who claim to be on the right side of history) generously deigns to try and reach out across an imagined gulf of intellectual progress towards presumed drooling atavistic subhumans and bring them light(TM) and truth(TM) in the service of establishing a platform for social justice*.

    http://www.theroot.com/views/how-not-derail-dialogue-race?page=0,1

    (Social Justice is a euphemism for the arbitrary and capricious breaking of eggs for the promise of an omelette later. And by eggs I mean humans, property, and institutions. And by omelette I mean paradise on earth in the form of riots, pay outs, show trials, chaos, aggression, sometimes starvation, paranoia, power mongering, totalitarian despotism, embezzlement, mass exodus, and eventual societal collapse)

  44. SBP says:

    Fortunately. our flawed document says that no money can be spent without approval from the House, and Boehner is at the helm.

    Hahahaha. I kill me sometimes.

  45. serr8d says:

    Oh noes, Obama’s drowning!
    (h/t Theo Spark & Politizoid)

  46. geoffb says:

    Accomplishments, real and phony.

  47. Sigivald says:

    In 2011 that snapshot showed 12.6 percent of adults in their prime working-age years of 25-60 lived in poverty. But measured in terms of a person’s lifetime risk, a much higher number — 4 in 10 adults — falls into poverty for at least a year of their lives.

    The problem there is not “everyone is poor!”. (I mean, some people are, of course. of that 12.6 pecent, a fair number really are just plain poor, for various reasons.)

    The problem is “AP’s selling poverty”, either just “because news” or “because whoever was involved wants more government to fix it”.

    Because “poverty for at least a year of their lives” for 2/5 of the population?

    Pay your way through college? “Poverty”.

    Grad student? “Poverty”?

    Shitty post-high-schol job? “Poverty”.

    That that’s not what we really mean by that term doesn’t matter – it’s good enough for a scary factoid and “something must be done”.

  48. palaeomerus says:

    Why you should NEVER trust gun control advocates who say you should retreat and wait for the police to be called.

    http://gothamist.com/2013/07/26/subway_stabbing_victims_suit_agains.php

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