Quoted from CICERO

Typical response.  Union's taking no responsibility for their decisions.  They decided to strike and ended up out on the curb.  There are consequences for actions, and 18K people deceived by their union boss' rhetoric have woken up to a harsh reality. Too bad.

Why didn't Obama bailout their "bad management practices"?

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

Raising taxes kills business -- the policies of Obama and the Pelosi-Palooza is ruining this country.  It is not too soon to line up good candidates to defeat those Pelosi-Palooza neo-liberal tax and spenders in Congress at the polls in 2014.

Quoted from Shadow

You are missing one important point Box, you can raise taxes when the economy is good but not when it's barely moving.

Quoted from Box A Rox

It's always convenient to blame the Unions... no mention of the "consequences" of
Bad Management Practices that led to the business being unable to honor it's contracts.

In the end, upper management will get a large severance package, investors will divide up the assets and
the union workers will be out of a job, and out of a pension.  The dogs will fight for the scraps that are
left.

The 1% grow richer... the middle class drops into the working poor class... and the Right applauds.  

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Just look at all the amazing innovations modern technology has given us: at-home HIV tests, motion-activated screwdrivers and self-inflating tires. It’s easy to look down on our prehistoric ancestors for their primitive, electric screwdriver-less way of life. But one scientist says we shouldn’t be so quick to judge.

In a two-part paper published in the journal Trends in Genetics, Stanford University researcher Gerald Crabtree suggests that evolution is, in fact, making us dumber — and that human intelligence may have actually peaked before our hunter-gatherer predecessors left Africa.

(MORE: Creationists Boycott Dr Pepper Over ‘Evolution of Flavor’ Ad)

The reason? Life on the veldt was tough, and prehistoric humans’ genes were constantly subjected to selective pressure in an environment where the species’ survival depended on it. For humans, that meant getting smarter. ”The development of our intellectual abilities and the optimization of thousands of intelligence genes probably occurred in relatively non-verbal, dispersed groups of peoples before our ancestors emerged from Africa,” Crabtree said in a news release.

The urbanization that followed the development of agriculture simplified survival by removing some of its challenges, which likely weakened natural selection’s ability to eliminate mutations associated with deficiencies in intelligence. Crabtree estimates that over the last 3,000 years (about 120 generations), humans have sustained at least two mutations that have eroded our intellectual and emotional intelligence.

“A hunter-gatherer who did not correctly conceive a solution to providing food or shelter probably died, along with his or her progeny, whereas a modern Wall Street executive that made a similar conceptual mistake would receive a substantial bonus and be a more attractive mate,” Crabtree wrote in the paper. He also noted that the average Athenian from 1000 B.C. would rank among the smartest and most emotionally stable in today’s society.

Not everybody agrees with Crabtree’s reasoning, however. Steve Jones, a geneticist at University College London, believes there is insufficient data to support his theory. ”Never mind the hypothesis, give me the data, and there aren’t any,” Jones told The Independent. “I could just as well argue that mutations have reduced our aggression, our depression and our penis length, but no journal would publish that. Why do they publish this?”

Crabtree does argue that no matter how deteriorated our intellectual abilities may have become over the millennia, advancements in technology will someday render these changes insignificant.

“I think we will know each of the millions of human mutations that can compromise our intellectual function and how each of these mutations interact with each other and other processes as well as environmental influences,” Crabtree said in the release. “At that time, we may be able to magically correct any mutation that has occurred in all cells of any organism at any developmental stage. Thus, the brutish process of natural selection will be unnecessary.”



Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/.....umber/#ixzz2CQJ04IZt

Quoted from joebxr

8 financially destructive years to be repaired in 4 years, even with 2 years of Dem control....NOT REALISTIC.
Hear "created jobs" a lot...what about the jobs that were saved...we lose sight of that one.

Quoted from CICERO

government didn't create jobs, they ran up debt to subsidize jobs that our economy otherwise cannot sustain.  My kids should be signing these paychecks of "saved jobs".

Quoted from joebxr

and the alternative was a deeper recession, more tax bruden on those working and "your kids" and a potential total collapse of our economy.....some decisions just have to be made even when there is a sacrifice involved. Unpoular...yup....burden on future....yup.....worst that alternative.....NOPE !!!

Quoted from Shadow

Box, Obama has been in office for 4 years and his policies haven't done anything to create jobs
of improve the economy, that being said when is the unqualified president going to take responsibility for his failed policies?

Quoted from Box A Rox

Senders... you have the right to your own opinion but not to your own facts!
The FACTS differ with your OPINION:


US Dept of Labor
29 months of private sector JOB GROWTH!

Post what ever fiction you like Senders but the FACTS that you ignore just shows how little you know about
the reality of the present jobs situation.

29 months of private sector JOB GROWTH!

Quoted from senders

I'm sorry, did I say anything about the 'jobs'.....if you interpret what I said differently than I'm understanding it/typing it
please enlighten....