Fall in jobless rate strips Romney of an argument - Washington Post [ournewsa.blogspot.com]
Question by Global Corporatist: Why is it acceptable for the President to call those who do not agree with his energy policy "flat earthers"? Why is it cool for Obama to continually disparage large populations of our country with ad hominem attacks? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/9146843/Obama-hits-back-at-GOP-Flat-Earthers-over-rising-fuel-prices.html Well of course liberals think it's okay for the President to be a douche bag, as long as he agrees with you. Best answer for Why is it acceptable for the President to call those who do not agree with his energy policy "flat earthers"?:
Answer by bobology, the study of bob
he knows their dumb enough to vote for him no matter what he says.
Answer by Libertarian Freedom Fighter
Because... ...You realize that this wouldn't be an issue if we used more dams.
Answer by Jason L
Global warming deniers are like flat-earthers. Sorry. Not agreeing with specifics isn't the same as outright denial of science. He was specifically addressing GOP leaders who called for more oil drilling and less alternative energy research. While US domestic oil production is at an 8 year high. Of course, GOP wants more oil rigs, but have they forgotten the BP disaster so quickly? They blamed Obama for that.
Answer by Tomás de Torquemada
You have about as much credibility as a "flat earther". It's very appropriate, and the only people he's pissing off are people that will never vote for him anyway. You are a small minority, and hardly a large population. Go read a science book.
Answer by J. Spicoli
Hey, is this the contard drum circle bros? I brought my bongos...
Answer by abitleftofcenter
Flat earthers is used today as a label for people who resist change and want to go back to the so-called "good old days" or who refuse to believe anything that challenges their preconceived notions.
Answer by Rolando Prico
For those who disagree with 98% of the scientist who say there is global warming, the shoe does fit.
Answer by Weise Ente
It's valid, given that the entire reason behind the push for alternative energy is global warming. Something those conservative think is a giant conspiracy.
Answer by Tom Florentine
Because a long time ago, after it was known that the world was round the idiotic conservatives of the time still would never believe that the earth was round despite an abundance of evidence. Now there are people who base their beliefs on their own personal feelings, and will not accept that without a doubt the earth's temperature is increasing due to human actions. This has been proven scientifically without a doubt, and among industrialized nations only in America are idiots still denying it. Not only should Obama be calling these people flat earthers, he, and everybody else in the nation should be mocking them relentlessly, and every opinion they present should be immediately disregarded.
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For Mitt Romney, it was the number that proved everything. Since the very first speech of his campaign, the Republican candidate has used a simple figure to bolster his argument that President Obama couldn’t fix the U.S. economy: 8 percent.
In this campaign, begun in the midst of a staggering downturn, monthly unemployment reports have been a running scorecard. They distill a vast and complicated economy down to terms simple enough for a stump speech: a number and a direction, up or down.
For Romney, any number above 8 percent proved he was right and Obama was wrong.
Obama had promised, Romney told audiences repeatedly, never to let unemployment get that high. Instead, Romney said, the jobless rate blew past 8Â percent and got stuck there.
Until Friday.
The 0.3 percent dip in unemployment in September, from 8.1 to 7.8 percent, deprived Romney of one of his central campaign themes.
It was enough to put him on the defensive just as he was basking in the afterglow of his debate performance Wednesday, the best moment of his campaign against Obama so far. It wasn’t because the figures showed a healthy economy â€" they didn’t â€" but because the economy had crossed a threshold that Romney had implied it would never cross without him.
“We can do better,†Romney said Friday at a rally in the Virginia coal-country town of Abingdon. It was the same argument he has used throughout the campaign, but without the number he’d always used to hammer it home. “There were fewer new jobs created this month than last month. And the unemployment rate . . . has come down very, very slowly, but it’s come down nonetheless.â€
The political importance of the 8 percent threshold was driven home, in a backhanded way, by a few conservatives who floated a conspiracy theory that Friday’s dip had been engineered to give Obama a boost.
Former General Electric chief executive Jack Welch wrote on Twitter: “these Chicago guys will do anything. can’t debate so change numbers.â€
The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the data were worked out the same way as always, with no interference. And Welch later conceded that he had no evidence of a conspiracy.
There is no special economic magic to 8 percent. A truly healthy economy, experts say, would have a rate far lower.
“Eight is bad, 7.9 is bad, 8.1 is bad,†said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former director of the Congressional Budget Office and an adviser to GOP nominee John McCain in 2008. “We want to be at six.â€
But the figure assumed its political significance in early 2009, before Obama had taken office, in a report written by a pair of his advisers, Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein. That report projected, with caveats, that if Congress passed a large stimulus package, unemployment would peak at 8 percent.
The stimulus passed. But the rate kept going up.
It reached 10 percent in October 2009 and then fell only slowly, despite the billions pouring in from the government. Before last month, the rate had hovered between 8.3 and 8.1 percent. Obama’s advisers later said they had not understood the depth of the country’s economic troubles when they made their projection.
More Fall in jobless rate strips Romney of an argument - Washington Post Topics Fault Lines - Puerto Rico: The fiscal experimentDozens of university students are arrested for demonstrating against a tuition hike. But Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuno remains steadfast in charging students more to help close a .2 billion budget gap. The students' fight is representative of a larger debate in Puerto Rico, and in the US, about how to solve a severe budget crisis -- and at what cost. Gov. Fortuno, a hawkish fiscal conservative, laid off 20000 government workers in 2009, and suspended all labor negotiations, just like governors on the US mainland are doing today. But two years later Puerto Rico's labor unions are still scrambling to reorganize a largely unemployed population -- nearly 17 percent. Puerto Rico is in its fifth year of recession, and expected to be the world's slowest growing economy if its situation doesn't improve. At question is the degree of economic and social responsibility the US has to its commonwealth state. Fault Lines travels to Puerto Rico to invest igate America's legacy as the Island's ruler, and the harsh economic policies that are being imposed on the people who live there. This episode of Fault Lines, "Puerto Rico: The Fiscal Experiment" first aired June 27, 2011 on Al Jazeera English. english.aljazeera.net Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com Follow us on Tumblr: ajfaultlines.tumblr.com See all episodes of Fault Lines www.youtube.com Meet the Fault Lines staff: www.youtube.com
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