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2011-08-31 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2011-08-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 "That's our urgent mission, and that's what I'm fighting for every single day," he said.

Except when he's fighting for more regulation, more taxes, or more fairness in income distribution, that is.

Posted by Bobby 2011-08-31 06:07|| 2011-08-31 06:07|| Front Page Top

#2 "That's our urgent mission, and that's what I'm fighting for every single day," he said with a tough, manly glint in his eye.

(See that's how you make it look like that he really cares about the proles and is a leader to boot!)

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2011-08-31 08:51|| 2011-08-31 08:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Or on the golf course.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-08-31 10:06|| 2011-08-31 10:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Government spending creates one job for every two that transfer taxation destroys.

Want more jobs? Get out of the way.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-08-31 10:21|| 2011-08-31 10:21|| Front Page Top

#5 I come in contact with a lot of regular people on a daily basis who have created more jobs than this guy. The arrogance of the elite.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-08-31 11:04|| 2011-08-31 11:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Wake me when a professor from an ivy league school actually makes a positive difference in the government.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-08-31 11:40|| 2011-08-31 11:40|| Front Page Top

#7 And the first thing this "expert" suggested before taking his chair is a National sales tax.

What an expert. What a stupid idiot - FUBAR.
He will sleigh the economy.

Let the freddie Kruegar jokes fly.

Posted by newc 2011-08-31 11:48|| 2011-08-31 11:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Steve Jobs or the Koch Brothers are jobs experts. A college professor (see Austan Goolsbee) - not so much.

Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-08-31 12:13|| 2011-08-31 12:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Gregory Mankiw, a former CEA chairman under President George W. Bush and long-time acquaintance of Krueger sez:

[A] reputation as an analytic, data-driven economist, not as a champion for many specific policy initiatives... highly-qualified for the post... doesnt expect Krueger to push the administration in new directions... more of a continuity appointment... "dont think the president wanted a change. Hes keeping the basic structure of the team in place.

Posted by Pappy 2011-08-31 12:56|| 2011-08-31 12:56|| Front Page Top

#10 The guy has never had a job.

Posted by Skidmark 2011-08-31 13:35|| 2011-08-31 13:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Obama himself is on the record for not having worked a single day in his whole life...the perfect gay coke head parasite...

Posted by hotspur666 2011-08-31 13:45|| 2011-08-31 13:45|| Front Page Top

#12 Have a look at Finis Welch's thoughts on one famous piece of work by Professor Krueger and colleague. (It is a pdf file.)

Posted by Perfesser 2011-08-31 18:51|| 2011-08-31 18:51|| Front Page Top

#13 IIRC LUCIANNE > STUDY: 80% OF US LAWMAKERS [espec Congresscritters] HAVE LITTLE OR NO BACKGROUND/DEGREES IN BUSINESS, ECONOMICS.

ARTIC = Again, IIRC circa 22% majored at College or University in [mostly Lefty?] Liberal Arts, ditto another 55% in the [Maha-Rushian]Histoire' + Quantitative Methods, etc. of GOVT-PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, THEORY.

AKA HOW TO BE A GOOD STATIC GOVT-PUBLIC BUREAUCRAT = PAPER-STAMPER/PUSHER???

["GOOD MORNING VIETNAM" Movie = UNIFORMED MOUSTACHED US ARMY RADIO STATION BUREAUCRAT TWINS IN OPPOSITE DESKS here].

Or twas it "OCTO MOM'S" OCTOPULETS - I fergit???

D *** NG IT, ROBIN WILLIAMS' MOVIE CHARACTER WAS IN THE US AIR FORCE - THE VETERAN US ARMY COMMAND SERGEANT MAJOR [SpecForces]COULD TELL BY HIS [messy unpressed unshined off-balanced] HEAD COVER + INSIGNIA???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-08-31 20:02|| 2011-08-31 20:02|| Front Page Top

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