Dan Cleary- Anonymous
With all due respect Mr. President, you are a moron.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Joel-S-Miller/20711381 Joel S. Miller
Well since he is due to respect at all I concur! I am a teacher and I know in class he spent the majority of his time with a dunce cap on in a corner for telling his teacher he won’t stop working until all the kids in his class don’t have to do math or econ!!
- Anonymous
Perhaps I’ve given him more respect than he deserves. He’s an idiot.
IQ Range Classification
70-80 Borderline deficiency
50-69 Moron
20-49 Imbecile
below 20 Idiot - Anonymous
If this is true, we should all immediately stop working. Just stop producing anything at all – then sit back and enjoy the explosion of prosperity.
- Anonymous
You have a choice independents. Four more years of this crap or change course!
- poljunkie
Well, hopefully he will be first in line come 2013.
- Anonymous
It creates more jobs because the (government, who we pay for with our tax money) has to hire more people to handle all the Jobless claims, that we also pay with our tax money. Then they need to hire a paper company to produce all the paper for all the increase in applications. Just think more paper will need to be manufactured. More trees will need to be chopped down. Once all the paper is used up from (Capitalists company’s) than we can hire (with our tax money again mind you) a Recycle company that will come and recycle all that paper, and make people like Al Gore richer thus giving him more money to produce more indoctrination films about Global Warming. just think of all the actors they will need for that film. Oh and they will need new cameras that are made from china who charge us taxes to ship them over here. I love this country don’t you?
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Valdez/1806887704 Steven Valdez
I think you’re wrong on Romney but this is very humorous explanation. =)
- Anonymous
at least you got the pun!
- Anonymous
Thanks for clearing that up. I was confused for a moment.
- Anonymous
BHO has been with pelosi, because he is sounding just like her. DUMB!!! I would like to see his grades. People make me laugh when they say oh, he is so smart. I reply how do you know did you see his grades and they repeat the same thing. If he is suppose to be so smart what happened to his shovel ready jobs that he laughed at and said I guess they weren’t so shovel ready and laughed. Real funny, tell that to the people who have been out of work for over 2 years. Time for the American people to wake up and see what this man and his Chicago crew did to our country. Time for Americans to say YOUR FIRED!!!
- Anonymous
He must really think Americans worship him and lap it all up. I expect when we poop on his parade, he’ll call it a shovel-ready job. Seriously… he is making Americans furious. He should get another Nobel prize now… and some serious meds.
- Anonymous
Like your thinking.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1396855720 Brian Jones
Ahhhh…so basically he just told anyone that WOULD have been employed by this project that he was helping them by keeping them unemployed…
- Is_Sense_Common
I really do think that’s what he’s selling. You’re better off being unemployed – it’s damn near Patriotic to be on welfare! My question is – is anyone really listening to this man? I’ve tried to listen to some of his “brilliant” speeches and it’s just a bunch of gobblety-gook that sounds smart. We need to share our platitude decoder rings with the rest of the country!!
- Anonymous
So, if you’re a true patriot you should get unemployed. Sounds sensible to me.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1396855720 Brian Jones
My head couldn’t handle it. Humpty-Dumpty can only be put back together so many times, and I’m on my last life…
- Anonymous
It would remind me of the Peanuts characters listening to adults (not that Ear Leader and Piglosi are adults, mind you) :
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah…
- Anonymous
“I would not ask anyone to do something I’m not willing to do myself,”
Dang, I thought he was referring to being unemployed.
- Anonymous
That was his line as he introduced himself at the chicago all male bath house
- Anonymous
Someone stole his little black book of emergency Soros responses.
Maybe it’s some sort of mantra or positive reinforcement? Notice someone gives him a cookie whenever he says it?
Seriously, the green energy lights are on but the home has been foreclosed on.
- Anonymous
NO-bama, this is how you create jobs. Real facts. Thank you Bloomberg news for doing the leg work. Please pass on to 13Krieger.
- Anonymous
As my favorite talk radio host, Jim Quinn (get his shows at WPGB.com) says, “Liberalism is: Standing on your head and telling the world it’s upside down.”
- Is_Sense_Common
Excellent quote! I may borrow that one too!
- Anonymous
Definitely grab his podcasted shows. They’re free and you may enjoy him better than the big boys of radio. He’s somewhat of a best-kept secret.
- Anonymous
The tragedy of this statement is not only that it reveals the morbid stupidity of the President but also that his statement will inflame and delight his constituency.
The man is a master, in complete control of the flock. Here’s a video of Obama the crowd pleaser at the Democratic Convention of 2012::
- Anonymous
The logic here (or lack thereof) is just astounding. It says that the more unemployment we have, the more jobs are being created. If we got unemployment up to about 20%, then we would “really” be creating jobs! (cough) I recall when Nancy Pelosi also said this. With these clowns in charge, no wonder our economy is in the toilet.
- Anonymous
If this is the case then why does the left get all giddy about the U-3 jobless numbers, if anything they should be jumping up and down as proof positive that high U-3 umbers translates to eco-stimulus. Truly awed by which the usurper keeps grasping at broken straws. Seriously can anyone really be that effing stupid after three years?
- Anonymous
If O had said unemployment benefits create more jobs than Solyndra there might be a discussion.
- Anonymous
“delay his vacation”? Are you kidding me? He just got back from vacation. And as for “keeping congress in session” don’t worry Obutth@le, after that power-grab you did with those illegal appointments I’m quite sure that congress is never going to recess again as long as you’re golfer-in-chief.
OMG ABO 2012
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OQI5D66OXO7X2FE4NVCZC7BAMA Joe
Bet he CHANGES his MIND on SOPA now !
What a POS !! (Piece of S–T)
- Anonymous
Acronyms and dashes, I can’t understand a word you’re saying! WTH!
- Maxsteele
So wait? Somehow, Obama has economic geniuses that tell him that taking taxes from people who work and giving a small fraction of that money to people who do not work will increase employment?
How the hell does that work?
Even a person who has taken 1st year economics knows that jobs create jobs. How exactly does unemployment create jobs. Taking this logic to it’s fruition then, if we had 90% of the people in the USA unemployed then it should create more jobs then any program ever???
How can he say these lies with a straight face? - Anonymous
Because, the entities that are in control of the media aren’t challenging him. I really don’t understand the lack of total national uproar about this. If the people can’t get together and stand up to defend this country, then it’s lost. How will the dems get any votes? But you watch how close it will be.
- Anonymous
Oh, I can see that you don’t understand how economics works. You see, it’s like this. You put $20 in your left pocket and $10 in your right pocket. Now let’s say you need to pay a $25 debt from your right pocket. You take $15 out of your left pocket, put it in your right pocket and say, ‘There I have enough’. Now, if a $15 debt is required from your left pocket, take $10 from your right and your okay again. Then, you get a …..
Wait, that’s foolish, you say? Now you’re just being racist.
/sarc
- Anonymous
He only needs to convince the same people who bought his BS in 2008 which probably won’t be too hard, and the SEIU will throw in a bunch of illegals. Voila.
- StNikao
The HOUSE has just rejected Obama’s Debt Ceiling Raise…
- Anonymous
Doesn’t matter. It’s a done deal. Both House and Senate have to reject it by 2/3 margins. It was set up to pass last year.
- DCGere
Good grief, how did we end up with a moron as president? I am completely scared to see how many voting idiots want to re-elect this fool.
- Anonymous
He must be taking advise from Paul Krugman.
- Anonymous
He’s the pretend president. He pretends to know what he’s talking about. The ‘yes’ people he has surrounded himself with pretend to agree with him. Everyone he comes in contact with pretend that he is everything that he isn’t. Shocking? Yes. But it’s the pretend world. Nothing is real but the results and the effect it has on this nation.
- http://no-apologies-round2.blogspot.com/ AmericanborninCanada
WOW! NO wonder some of us unemployed folks got jobs then! THANKS Dear Leader! OMG- Obama Must Go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Anonymous
Sounds like treason to me. Why isn’t he being arrested and thrown in jail. If a Republican was so ingnorant wouldn’t the dems be calling for the same?
- poljunkie
“President Obama said that he will delay his vacation..”
Wait, what?
Another vacation? - Anonymous
He’s going to Disney World…
- poljunkie
Are you kidding- Because my husband said he heard “he” was giving a speech at one of the Disneys?
imagine the security nightmare/hassel for all the families on vacation. - Anonymous
And closing things down, totally ruining it for families who saved for three years to be able to take the kids there.
- Amy
See, I think he’s there to thank Mickey & Donald for signing the recall Scott Walker petition…
- Anonymous
God help us.
- Anonymous
Jimmy Carter is doing back flips. His history as the worst President is more than safe now.
- Anonymous
Still the saddest part of this whole fiasco since 2009 is the fact that American Citizens actually went in to the voting booth on election day and pulled the lever for this guy believing what he and the main stream media said. And still to this day, people believe him even with despite all the evidence stacked up against him.
Unbelievable.
That is the true problem America faces today. It has nothing to do with government, Congress, banks, mortgages, Wall Street, the middle east, global warming, etc. It’s all about the “Crisis of Character” that we as American Citizens face. We know nothing about the principles this country was founded on. We know nothing about the Constitution and what it means. We believe for some reason that the people that run big corporations are evil, yet the people that run big government are not. I could go on and on.
Until we to solve the “Crisis of Character”, nothing will really get ever get any better.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Dias/1680711668 Chris Dias
Like Newt said, the “welfare-stamp” president. No, he isn’t actually a moron, but we should hope that he isn’t as smart as he thinks he is. He’s not a moron, because his plan – as he has always stated – is to destroy America as a super power.
- Michael Kadinger
This article lies like a rug. The jobs created are 6000 temporary construction jobs. And about 300 to 500 permanent jobs. And out of the 6000 temporary jobs only about 11% would be local jobs, so about 660 temporary local jobs. And all this junk oil will be refined for export. And guess who gets to suck up all the pollution produced by this sludge? We do! And our children do. And our wildlife does! WOW! such a deal.
- Anonymous
At this point even temporary jobs are needed, people need to provide for their families. The pipeline would provide oil that is not from the Middle East and would pave the way to energy independence and people starting businesses that would lead to the recovery that obama appears hellbent on stifling.
There is no way that pollution would ever get as bad as it was in the middle of the 20th century because the laws that have been put in place would allow the environment to be minimally affected.
As far as our poor children go, their future has already been stolen from them by the obama regime and his stimulus that has put the burden of debt on our children for generations. That “stimulus” stimulated nothing but his donors in paybacks.
- Michael Kadinger
None of the Canadian sludge oil that will be refined here will stay here, it’s all for Export to China and India and a few other places. The only thing that will stay here is the pollution caused from refining this nasty stuff.
- Amy
ALL construction is basically temporary. So by that logic, electricians, plumbers, pit fitters, iron welders – they are all temporary jobs as well? And don’t try to give me any crap, I work for an electrical contractor. I know just a little bit about how projects are bid, won and how it works. Our guys heading out of town to work on a project are then CONSUMERS in the area they are working. Aren’t you the consumer guy? Don’t you think the temporary jobs would have had some cascading effect on the economy? Oh that’s right, unemployment is a better stimulus to the economy than jobs.
You libs sure have some strange logic ~
- Anonymous
Hi Mike you sneaky little Occupier you. Where ever you go now I’ll be there.
- Michael Kadinger
As far as unemployment insurance goes it stimulates the economy. Why? Because it puts money in the hands of consumers who spend it all. And who are the REAL job creators? CONSUMERS. Economics 101.
- Anonymous
That is a distortion, you failed Econ 101.
Consumer’s do no not create jobs any more than Unemployment checks stimulate the economy. Consumers only create the need for a product that someone with a idea produces and then he/she creates the jobs.
Unemployment puts money in the hands of people to pay their bills and buy groceries; basic consumerism. They are not buying luxury items above what they need, and as our economy continues to slide downward it will put many more people out of work thus disincentivizing more companies to make product and provide services.
Eventually the checks stop coming. In your other post you were whining about the pipeline creating temporary jobs, are you unable to make this simple comparison?
And when there are not enough people to support the checks, what then? What about our children, whom you conveniently exploited in your other post?
- Amy
Umm… having had the hubbie on unemployment for all of 6 weeks, I can tell you there was NO consuming going on in our household. It was cut back all but necessary expenses so we didn’t have to dip into savings. No movie tickets, no extra trips up north, no ice cream runs, no pizza’s after the game, no game actually, no new shoes, no new clothes, no new… Well you get the idea. How exactly does that stimulate the economy?
- Michael Kadinger
You spent the money from the checks didn’t you? That stimulates the economy.
- Amy
It’s a perverse logic, it won’t work to keep repeating it at me or anyone else who can clearly see. Even places in Europe with high unemployment benefits and long benefit periods push their citizens to get back to work or retrain. Of course, we all know what fabulous condition most of the European economies are in…
Oddly enough, as they’ve extended unemployment bennies, they’ve also begun taxing them. Things that make you go hmm….
- http://www.kennethballard.com Kenneth
Unemployment benefits have always been taxed as income. It’s one of those little things that I always thought was odd, like taxing the income of the military and government workers. It’s taxed at only 10%, I think, but that extra money can still potentially go a long ways, as it could buy a tank of gas or fill the cabinets just a little bit more to help you get by.
- http://www.kennethballard.com Kenneth
It’s not stimulating anything. It’s money that was taken from you earlier via your taxes and is now being given back to you.
What you’re saying is similar to saying that tax refunds are an economic stimulus. It’s money people should’ve actually kept in their pocket by adjusting their W-4. Spending your savings is also not an economic stimulus because you are merely expending the wealth you’ve already accumulated, just at a later time.
So what does stimulate the economy? The production of wealth. And how is wealth created? Finding new and innovative ways to make use of existing resources to balance existing demands. When wealth is created, jobs are created. And more jobs leads to a productive redistribution of wealth through market channels that truly stimulates the economy.
And speaking of W-4s, if I may since this is tax season: the IRS this year put out a new W-4 for 2012 with new exemption calculations that may reduce your tax withholding and put a little bit more of your money back in your pocket with each paycheck.
- Anonymous
Worse still is there are pundits and regular folk who will actually defend this moronic statement.
- Anonymous
so giving people who are unemployed a reason to stay unemployed longer is going to create jobs how exactly???
- http://www.kennethballard.com Kenneth
And how are unemployment “benefits” an incentive to stay unemployed?
- Anonymous
because people are getting money for doing nothing. Close to two years already of unemployment benefits and he wants to add on to that?? As Newt said…that’s an Associate Degree. Plus with the unemployment benefits people not only look for a job that will give them more money than what they currently make on unemployment but they have to find a job where they make more plus enjoy doing that job more than doing whatever they want. Granted not every single person on unemployment is like that but it doesn’t exactly put a rush to find a job out there. “Ah, I’ve got time. I don’t feel like looking for a job today.” Or “I’m too good to do that.”
- http://www.kennethballard.com Kenneth
I consider it getting paid to look for a job, because that is what you must do to retain the “benefits”. I certainly don’t doubt that people game the system, either, but I certainly think most people are honest and will do what they can to find a decent job. Most people want to do something valuable with their day.
Calling unemployment benefits “an incentive to stay unemployed” is, to me at least, the same as blaming the unemployed for being unemployed.
- Anonymous
I agree that most of the people want to find a decent job. But what is now considered a decent job? Some people may need to take a pay cut or do something that they may not exactly want to do in the long term so they pass on the job to keep looking.
My question is, how long is enough time to keep looking? Should they constantly get money until they find a job? Is just shy of two years not enough time to find a job?
- http://www.kennethballard.com Kenneth
You do raise a valid question. I don’t like the idea of unemployment benefits being extended like this either. I know it’s expensive. But having been on unemployment long-term several years ago, I understand the plight of those who are unemployed.
The question I don’t think is whether they are willing to take such jobs, but whether the companies in question are willing to hire them.
You see if someone like me were to get laid off and walk into a construction company or a place like Wal-Mart looking for work, they’d know just by looking at my resume that the only reason I’m there is because I have bills to pay. This gives them an incentive to turn me down — why hire someone who is likely not going to get much into the job, which means I’m likely not going to work nearly as hard because the job is just a crutch until they something better comes along?
See what I’m getting at? A lot of the people who are unemployed right now didn’t come from blue-collar jobs. They came from higher-paying careers. It’s a paradox: the longer they sit unemployed, the less likely they are to get hired on their career track, but having that career track at all means the less likely they are to find lower-paying work outside their career unless they intend to and get fully behind a career switch.
- Anonymous
I see your point as well but again…how long do we pay for people because they can’t find a job whether their fault or not?
- Anonymous
Obama is not an idiot. He is deliberately and systematically destroying the economy to facilitate his dream of a Marxist takeover. When he said he was going to fundamentally change the country, it wasn’t an empty campaign promise. Watch out for some real or manufactured crisis that will give him the excuse he needs to declare martial law and himself The Leader.
- Anonymous
I can’t believe that his favorability numbers are as high as they are. I do suspect that those are the result of polls being heavily skewed because if it were the opposite that would seal the suspician that America is heavily populated with morons.
- http://twitter.com/GuyComment Guy Comment
The pipeline would not create anything near 130,000 jobs in the US. On TransCanada’s website, the only jobs estimate they provide is 20,000 short-term (2011-2012) construction jobs. Permanent jobs? Zero.
- Anonymous
So the oil just flows without maintained pipes or pumps and compressors. It then refines itself and moves itself to the final sales point? Wow, that is magical oil, isn’t it.
You are not very bright.
- Anonymous
The moron in chief hasn’t a clue how to create a real job..
- Amy
He has an odd definition of shovel ready ~
- Anonymous
The only thing shovel ready was the pile of cash to pay off his donors.
- Amy
- Anonymous
He is only saying what HIS constituents want to hear and they are so stupid that they believe every single word the messiah utters.
- Anonymous
If unemployment insurance created more jobs, America would swimming in them after all this time during Obama-nation’s reign!
- Amy
I haven’t had to vet this, but I won’t be somehow surprised to find it all true ~
http://news.investors.com/Article/591960/201111161727/Billionaire-Buffetts-Bakken-Boom.htm
ETA: ugh… more to read on this one. http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/warren_buffett_the_keystone_pipeline_and_crony_capitalism.html
- Anonymous
Obama losing HIS job is the only “unemployment” that will create jobs.
- bobemakk
He has no clue, that is why anything he responds to he needs a teleprompter. Has “0″ intelligence.
- Anonymous
obama is a fishing idiot. Honestly, there are no words to express the intensity of the vacuum where his brain should be.
I’m equally amazed that anyone, let alone millions, would believe this fool. Yes, I know, he is a marxist deliberately destroying America. But public school system and leftist media notwithstanding, how do people listen to the words that come out of his mouth and not come to their senses?
Romans 1:22; I know; I’ve quoted it. But I feel like David Limbaugh who said of similar drivel, “If I wasn’t seeing this with my own eyes I wouldn’t believe it.”
Incredibly, President Obama continues to pitch never-ending unemployment benefits as an economic stimulus. He insists that these benefits – along with his barely-noticeable payroll tax cut – not only create jobs, but they create even more jobs than the Keystone pipeline project that he just put the kibash on. (That would be about 130,000 jobs, give or take, in case you’re wondering).
The claim is so plainly idiotic, all you can do is shake your head and marvel at how this guy ever managed to pass an economics class, let alone how he got elected President.
Wouldn’t you just love to see those college transcripts?
President Obama said that he will delay his vacation and keep Congress in session until the passage of his desired payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits extension — two proposals that Obama said would create more jobs than the Keystone XL pipeline that his administration recently delayed.
“I would not ask anyone to do something I’m not willing to do myself,” Obama said when asked if he would go on vacation while keeping Congress in Washington D.C. “We are going to stay here as long as it takes [to get unemployment extended and pass the payroll tax cut].”
As Obama called for passage of those bills, he also responded to a recent Republican push to require him to approve the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada. “However many jobs might be generated by a Keystone pipeline,” he said, “they’re going to be a lot fewer than the jobs that are created by extending the payroll tax cut and extending unemployment insurance.”
Hat tip: JWF.
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