Unemployment is down slightly; now the GOP HAS to raise the payroll tax to sabotage the economy?
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Anonymous
I'll save the bacteria for B O and the occupy army....they LOVE bacteria. |
Anonymous
Now your fingers are infected again. If you stare at your hands you can almost see the bacteria multiplying. Scrub, scrub, scrub! |
Anonymous
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the human cleanliness and hygiene scale.
cleanest/freshest to bacteria-scabies/fly swarm. hygiene guy...normal population...................B O |
Anonymous
There would be an immediate response on wall street and employers would percieve that a non Democrat would be better for business. I would say within 6 months. Employers are negative when Obama and Democrats in charge. Only the minions (the majority) that things would get better boy were we wrong. |
Anonymous
I would say you have never run a company before. This is how bitter republican schlubs imagine companies are run. Why don't you read a 10-K and learn a thing or two? |
Anonymous
LOL say all you want. I do run a company and the fear of regulatory rules and negative perception of the administration has caused a freeze in hiring. |
Anonymous
Pardon my French, but that's just pure bull$***. You would hire in a minute if you felt it would increase your profits. Or else you're a really crappy businessman. Businesses aren't hiring because (a) they're squeezing more productivity out of the workers they have and (b) so many people are unemployed/underwater that no one is buying anything. Which is, of course, a vicious self-perpetuating cycle. Name one regulation that -- if it were permanently abolished tomorrow -- would cause you to hire a single full time employee. |
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PP again -- and that "fear" thing is 100% GOP strategy with zero basis in reality.
Republicans live to make sure everyone else lives in fear. |
Anonymous
A kiosk at the mall is not a company. You are a fool if you are giving up economic opportunity because of a president you don't like. It's nuts. Maybe people aren't buying beepers anymore. |
Anonymous
same here, waiting for things to clear up before hiring. hopefully a change in administration will fuel a better perception. |
Anonymous
| The stock market is up 50% from when Bush left office. I'd say revenues and earnings are doing just fine. |
Anonymous
| To the original question, by keeping the funds flowing into social security low (via the payroll tax cut), which in the past two years has failed to stimulate the economy, you are also screwing over social security as well. The converse to the statement asked, isn't that the GOP is raising the payroll tax, but that the Democratic Party is rushing the Social Security fund to insolvency. I'm glad Obama gave it a try (to cut payroll taxes to stimulate the economy), but it didn't work. So raise it back and try something different. I don't have a dog in this hunt, but I see both parties are doing their damndest to make next election year difficult for the other party. The GOP wants to see taxes go up because they genuinely believe that will piss off enough people to vote for them. Obama wants to keep it low because it helps his chances (perhaps the closest this country will get to an admission by him that tax cuts do improve the economy or rather tax increases hurt). So I'd like to see both parties run out of DC. They are both shameless. |
jsteele
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This would be a sound argument were it not for one essential fact of which you appear to be unaware: the funds lost by the payroll tax cuts were replaced by money from the general fund. Therefore, the money going into social security did not change. All current proposals also offset the cuts. It is exactly how the cuts will be paid for that has the two parties at odds. The Democrats want to pay for the cuts with a surcharge on the very wealthy. The Republicans want to take the funds from medicare and a federal employee pay freeze. |
Anonymous
It's funny how all the clueless Faux News watchers think they can repeat the party line on an anonymous board and posture as executives. |
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