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Debbie Wasserman-Schultz states that We've really begun to turn the economy around.

 

 

"Well, we're going to focus on what we know is the number one priorities on Americans ease minds right now, that is creating jobs and continuing to get this economy turned around. If we have to drag the Republicans with us, then we'll do that, but, you know, it's been a whole lot of months, eight months they have controlled the house with no jobs bills coming to the Floor. Hopefully now with this compromise on the debt ceiling behind us, with the opportunity, with the economic to sit down and focus on longer-term deficit reduction that will have some balance and ask some sacrifice for our most fortunate," Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) told MSNBC. Schultz is also the Chairwoman of the DNC.

"We're creating jobs each month in the private sector.' "

 

 http://realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/08/02/debbie_

wasserman_schultz_weve_really_begun_to_turn_the_economy_around.html

 

I'm not certain if the woman is just pushing the party line, or is totally divorced from reality. 

 

And, her hair dresser, secretly a Republican, tells her how great her hairdo makes her look!

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Originally Posted by Mr.Dittohead:

Other than your Obamacare claims, what are the job killing policies?  Exactly.  You have to be specific since I'm not very intelligent. 

Here’s a good example where the Union controlled Obama Administration tried and failed. Obama’s socialistic Nation Labor Relations Board under orders from the Union.

This is just one of very many things being done by this socialistic Obama Administration.

NORTH CHARLESTON, SC - June 10,2011 marked the opening of the

Boeing 787 Dreamliner Final Assembly building in North Charleston, South Carolina, despite the state's battle with the National Labor Relations Board about the company’s decision to build in South Carolina.

“The NLRB wants the jobs here transferred back to Washington State and that’s not going to happen,” South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson told FOXbusiness.com. “Opening this facility is an exclamation point.”

  This is the most inexperienced President of the USA ever. He surrounds himself with high profile socialists/ communists, can’t forget the short term Green Czar Van Jones. Talk about a revolutionist. The radicals are you socialists that are trying to change this country into a third world country. He says he’s (Obama) against the wealthy, but all his friends are just that. His religion was the infamous Rev. Jeremiah Wright until the focus on Wright made it inconvenient for Obama. So like his Grandmother who not only raised him but is (do I dare say it) White, Wright was thrown under the bus. You socialists need to see this man for who or what he really is. He is a Power hungry want to be dictator. It just angers him to no end that he has to deal with the House. I am very thankful that he will not be dictator for life.

 

Skippy

Well thats one of one, not one of many as you claim.  Give me 3 more.  Should be easy if there are as many as you claim.

 

If Boeing isnt successful with their union-busting, they will just have to move more jobs offs****, as they have been doing for years.  To supply the Chinese with airplanes, Boeing is building large component factories in China for parts that will be used on US assembled planes.  Eventually, entire planes will be built in China.  Boeing is teaching the Chinese to build state of the art commercial airliners.

Reagan got the country out of the mess because he cut taxes, cut regulation, set clear objectives, and let ordinary Americans make money. Obama is failing to get the country out of a recession because he’s telling Americans what money they can make, what kind of jobs should be created, what extra regulations will be imposed on them (once he and his dysfunctional party have made up their collective minds), and how much more they’re going to be taxed once that has been decided by all the committees that have jurisdiction. In short, he has done the one thing he should have avoided like the plague—he has created uncertainty.

Obama and the belligerent anti-business cartel running Congress have created an increasingly hostile environment for businesses to operate in. It is hard to keep track of all the sectors which have incurred Obama’s wrath or over which he has asserted control. He told the banking industry that he did not run for office to help out “a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street.” He has threatened the health insurance industry, saying that the administration wouldn’t hesitate to block mergers or “to require the settlement concessions necessary to protect consumers.” He extracted concessions from the pharmaceutical industry and then double-crossed them. He used the BP oil spill as an opportunity to close down drilling operations by all companies at depths greater than 500 feet. He has revived all the uncertainties of the coal and utility industries with his promotion of cap and trade legislation.

The sheer perversity—the ideological rigidity of the administration—is well illustrated by its treatment of Milwaukee-based Bucyrus International. Bucyrus stood to win a three-year, $600 million contract to supply mining equipment for a coal-fired power plant in India, subject only to its getting favorable financing rates from the Export-Import Bank. The deal met all the criteria, including the more stringent environmental standards imposed by the Obama White House. The bank denied the financing because the “carbon footprint” of the project was too large. This is not going to stop the construction of the power plant, which is due to open in 2012, as other countries will be happy to supply the machinery. It will just deny jobs to American workers.  

But all this is the merest drop in the gusher of complexity and uncertainty which has engulfed business. Read the 54-page report by the Business Roundtable on “Policy Burdens Inhibiting Economic Growth” and you will understand the paralyzing precariousness of industries confronting laws that have not been laid down, regulations in a continuing state of flux, departments and agencies with no clear sense of direction, liabilities that change like the weather, and the certainty that the one force that will not be controlled is tort lawyers.

....The Obama administration consists of politicians who believe that a crisis is too good to waste, academics whose main contact with business has been soliciting money for endowments, bureaucrats impervious to economic considerations, environmental visionaries, and—to the extent that there is anyone who has spent time in business—quick buck artists who went briefly into “finance” to translate their political connections into money. Obama has appointed a cabinet and a White House staff which contains not a single former business executive. It is an administration whose only contact with Main Street is shopping.

 

 

http://www.weeklystandard.com/...private-sector-blues

Business leaders say Obama's economic policies stifle growth


  
By Lori Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 23, 2010

 

The chairman of the Business Roundtable, an association of top corporate executives that has been President Obama's closest ally in the business community, accused the president and Democratic lawmakers Tuesday of creating an "increasingly hostile environment for investment and job creation."

Ivan G. Seidenberg, chief executive of Verizon Communications, said that Democrats in Washington are pursuing tax increases, policy changes and regulatory actions that together threaten to dampen economic growth and "harm our ability . . . to grow private-sector jobs in the U.S."

"In our judgment, we have reached a point where the negative effects of these policies are simply too significant to ignore," Seidenberg said in a lunchtime speech to the Economic Club of Washington. "By reaching into virtually every sector of economic life, government is injecting uncertainty into the marketplace and making it harder to raise capital and create new businesses."

Seidenberg's remarks reflect corporate America's growing discontent with Obama. The president has assiduously courted the nation's top executives since taking office last year, seeking their counsel on economic policy in the wake of the recession and issuing dozens of invitations to the White House. In return, the Roundtable has generally supported the president's policies; it was the only major business group to back Obama's successful push for an overhaul of the health-care system.

In recent months, however, that relationship has begun to fray. First, Democrats included a provision in the health-care bill -- over the Roundtable's objection -- that reduced corporate subsidies for drug coverage to retirees, a move that could cost big companies millions of dollars. Then the EPA unveiled rules to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions even without climate-change legislation, creating uncertainty about the future cost of energy.

The final straw, said Roundtable president John Castellani, was the introduction of two pieces of legislation, now pending in Congress, that the group views as particularly bad for business. One, a provision of the administration's financial regulation overhaul, would make it easier for shareholders to nominate corporate board members. The other would raise taxes on multinational corporations. The rhetoric accompanying the tax proposals has been particularly harsh, Castellani said, with Democrats vowing to campaign in this fall's midterm elections on a platform of punishing companies that move jobs overseas.

"We had been working very closely with them," Castellani said, but things kept popping up that were "not just an irritant but a distraction" to promoting economic growth.

White House spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki disputed that notion. "The president has consistently pursued policies designed to create a better climate for American businesses in order to foster job creation, innovation and economic growth," she said via e-mail. "We have always had an open door to the business community, and we look forward to an ongoing dialogue."

A White House official said the administration has a "very good relationship" with Seidenberg and expects that to continue. Seidenberg is one of a number of chief executives who have met several times with Obama and repeatedly with senior officials. In February alone, he was invited to dinner with Obama and to the president's Super Bowl party.

Seidenberg, whose company is at odds with the Federal Communications Commission over a plan to regulate broadband providers, first expressed his concerns about the direction of Democratic economic policy in a meeting last month with White House budget director Peter Orszag. When Orszag asked for specifics, Seidenberg polled the members of the Business Roundtable and a sister organization, the Business Council. The result was a 54-page document, delivered to Orszag on Monday, chock full of bullet points about actions taken or considered by a wide array of executive agencies, including the White House Middle Class Task Force and the Food and Drug Administration.

"We believe the cumulative effect of these proposals will help defeat the objectives we all share -- reducing unemployment, improving the competitiveness of U.S. companies and creating an environment that fosters long-term economic growth," Seidenberg wrote in a cover letter for the document, titled "Policy Burdens Inhibiting Economic Growth."

In his speech, Seidenberg said he has been "encouraged" by the administration's response to the letter, which includes an offer of additional meetings to discuss the specific complaints. And he denied that his relationship with Obama has deteriorated, saying he has visited the White House more times in the past year than "in the previous 16."

Obama "is not ignoring us," Seidenberg said. The problem, he said, is translating those discussions into policy actions that do not simply expand government, but help a nervous private sector "create work" in uncertain times.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2010062205279.html

On Obama, Wall St. Shows a Reluctance to Commit

 

President Obama’s $35,800-a-plate fund-raising dinner was the talk of Wall Street last week.

Held at Daniel, the Michelin three-star restaurant of Daniel Boulud on the Upper East Side, the event was seen as a test of the president’s popularity among the deep-pocketed financiers he has often vilified but has long relied on to finance his campaign. The tables were filled with moneymen like Marc Lasry, the billionaire founder of the hedge fund Avenue Capital; Robert Wolf, the chief executive of UBS Group Americas; and Mark T. Gallogly, a co-founder of Centerbridge Partners.

The big news, however, was who wasn’t there: No Jamie Dimon, once referred to as the president’s “favorite banker.” No Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs, a longtime Democratic supporter. Not even Richard Parsons, chairman of Citigroup and a member of Mr. Obama’s transition economic advisory board.

The conventional wisdom, of course, is that Wall Street has turned its back on Mr. Obama out of frustration with his so-called antibusiness rhetoric and “fat cat” comments about bankers.

 

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/20...eluctance-to-commit/

Originally Posted by Mr.Dittohead:

Well thats one of one, not one of many as you claim.  Give me 3 more.  Should be easy if there are as many as you claim.

 

If Boeing isnt successful with their union-busting, they will just have to move more jobs offs****, as they have been doing for years.  To supply the Chinese with airplanes, Boeing is building large component factories in China for parts that will be used on US assembled planes.  Eventually, entire planes will be built in China.  Boeing is teaching the Chinese to build state of the art commercial airliners.

The Government in part is responsible for the migration of jobs to China and elsewhere. Corporate

tax rates are a big part of this. Our corporate tax rates are next to if not the highest. Of course the cost of labor is also a big reason. I don't know what the answer to that is.

  As for the three, Gulf oil platform(Drilling) jobs. Potential Alaskan Oil Field Jobs. National Areonotical and Space Administration jobs and all associated with the Space Shuttle. Can't forget all those lay offs in Las Vegas when Obama told people not to go there. Thats Four.

Skippy 

Utility giant AEP says it will close five coal plants to comply with EPA regs

By Andrew Restuccia - 06/09/11 03:55 PM ET

 

Utility giant American Electric Power said Thursday that it will shut down five coal-fired power plants and spend billions of dollars to comply with a series of pending Environmental Protection Agency regulations.

The company’s dramatic plan to comply with the regulations could give Republicans and moderate Democrats ammunition in their ongoing fight against EPA's efforts to impose new regulations aimed at limiting greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants including mercury and ****nic.

Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) immediately pounced on AEP's announcement.

“This is a perfect example of the EPA implementing rules and regulations without considering the devastating impact they may have on local economies and jobs,” Capito said. 

Capito said she will write a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson asking whether the agency took into account the economic impact of its regulations.

 

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wi...n-five-closed-plants

Originally Posted by Mr.Dittohead:

Other than your Obamacare claims, what are the job killing policies?  Exactly.  You have to be specific since I'm not very intelligent.

Simply google!

 

 Wynn Resorts (WYNN) CEO Steve Wynn was speaking on a company conference call when he unleashed on President Obama, ranting about what Wynn sees as anti-business, socialist policies that are frightening companies as well as customers:

 

"…I’m saying it bluntly. That this administration is the greatest wet blanket to business and progress and job creation in my lifetime. And I can prove it. And I could spend the next three hours giving you examples of all of us in this marketplace that are frightened to death about all the new regulations, our healthcare costs escalate, regulations coming from left and right uh, a president that seems, you know, that keep using the word redistribution

 

…those of us who have business opportunities and the capital to do it are going to sit in fear of the president [snip] …the guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we aught to do something to businesses that don’t invest, they’re holding too much money. You know we haven’t heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists.

 

Everybody’s afraid of the government. There’s no need soft peddling it. It’s the truth. It. Is. The. Truth. "

 

"Senior Obama administration officials concluded the federal moratorium on deepwater oil drilling would cost roughly 23,000 jobs, but went ahead with the ban because they didn’t trust the industry’s safety equipment and the government’s own inspection process, according to previously undisclosed documents.

 

Marcia McNutt, an Obama administration science adviser, commented on the corporate culture of BP in a memo sent to Michael Bromwich, the administration’s new top offs**** oil exploration regulator, on June 28.

 

Critics of the moratorium, including Gulf Coast political figures and oil-industry leaders, have said it is crippling the region’s economy, and some have called on the administration to make public its economic analysis. A federal judge who in June threw out an earlier six-month moratorium faulted the administration for playing down the economic effects…"

"American Electric Power on Thursday announced it plans to shut down several coal-fired power plants, convert or retrofit others, and cut as many as 600 jobs in the next few years to comply with regulations proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday finalized stronger regulations for Wisconsin and 26 other states aimed at curbing air pollution from long-distance sources.

 

The rules will help those states fight ozone and particle pollution caused by power plants in Illinois, Indiana and other states.

 

But Wisconsin utilities – whose pollution can contribute to air-quality problems elsewhere – will also need to find ways to reduce their own emissions.

 

The likely result: Higher electric bills in the coming years.

 

A group of power companies known as the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity called the action one of the most costly crackdowns on coal ever."

 

Nationwide, the EPA estimated that utilities are projected to spend $800 million on the rule in 2014, in addition to $1.6 billion a year that’s been spent to satisfy an earlier version of the regulations."

 

"Texas could face a shortage of electrical generation within a few years if the federal government moves forward with a new rule meant to cut down on power plant smokestack emissions, the chief executive of the state's grid operator warned on Tuesday.

 

"We believe it is our role to voice our concern that Texas could face a shortage of generation necessary to keep the lights on in Texas within a few years" if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency moves forward, said H.B. "Trip" Doggett , president and CEO of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas .

 

The Cross-State Air Pollution Rule will force Texas utilities, and others in the eastern half of the country, to cut emissions that contribute to smog and soot beginning next year, putting older coal plants under pressure. According to the EPA, Texas air quality suffers from power plant emissions from as far away as South Carolina. Texas plants, in turn, affect air quality in states as far away as Michigan."

 

And, as to the misogynist charge -- ridiculous!  They are my favorite half of the human race!

 

Originally Posted by Mr.Dittohead:

Well thats one of one, not one of many as you claim.  Give me 3 more.  Should be easy if there are as many as you claim.

 

If Boeing isnt successful with their union-busting, they will just have to move more jobs offs****, as they have been doing for years.  To supply the Chinese with airplanes, Boeing is building large component factories in China for parts that will be used on US assembled planes.  Eventually, entire planes will be built in China.  Boeing is teaching the Chinese to build state of the art commercial airliners.

The NLRB  suit will ensure no foreign investors will ever build factories in other than right to work states.  And, silicon valley entrepreneurs do the same when they go into production.

Originally Posted by skippy delepepper:

The Government in part is responsible for the migration of jobs to China and elsewhere. Corporate

tax rates are a big part of this. Our corporate tax rates are next to if not the highest. Of course the cost of labor is also a big reason. I don't know what the answer to that is.

  As for the three, Gulf oil platform(Drilling) jobs. Potential Alaskan Oil Field Jobs. National Areonotical and Space Administration jobs and all associated with the Space Shuttle. Can't forget all those lay offs in Las Vegas when Obama told people not to go there. Thats Four.

Skippy 


The oil drilling services companies operating in the Gulf have been lying about the state of their equipment, ie the fact that blowoff preventors are known not to work reliably below 2500 feet and not at all below 5000 feet.  Until that is resolved, there should be no more drilling permits for the Gulf.

 

Potential jobs are not jobs, so the fact that the drilling in AK question has gone on for 10 years is not the fault of the current president.

 

BushIIe canceled the Shuttle, not OBama.  OBama added back the last 2 flights, at a cost of $1.2billion.

 

No one should go to Vegas.  Ever.  Everything is sticky with "DNA" and sweat. 

The blow out preventors may need to be tested at 5000 feet, that's not the same. 

 

Obama has mouthed off about potential jobs for 2.5 years. Still waiting!

 

The shuttle was designed to meet congressional constraints.  If NASA's original design were in place, the program would have been much safer and cheaper overall, as more launches were performed.

 

As to Vegas, you must understand, Ditzy is the leftwing version of the Puritan and church lady. God forbid, that somewhere, someone is enjoying himself. 

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