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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (80443)	3/5/2010 8:14:36 AM
From: Sedohr Nod	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224867

Fact worth knowing: $8 billion shortfall forecast for Washington state budget OLYMPIA — It used to be lawmakers could reassure themselves a little about the state's budget woes by noting California was in much worse shape. No longer. A preliminary state revenue forecast Thursday pushed Washington's state budget shortfall to $8 billion. As a proportion of the state's general fund, that's nearly as bad as the mess in California p.s.....Glad to hear you got a raise. seattletimes.nwsource.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (80443)	3/5/2010 10:24:43 AM
From: FJB	4 Recommendations Respond to of 224867

From Tim Fowler: In Pictures: The Obama and Pelosi Job Gaps There are a lot of ways to measure job growth in America, some more accurate than others. Organizing for America (the political arm of the Democratic National Committee) created a chart to “celebrate” the first anniversary of President Barack Obama’s Failed Stimulus. Their chart attempted to cover up the fact that President Obama’s stimulus was a giant failure and came up 9 million jobs short of the number of jobs he promised to create by 2010. Well, Matthias Shapiro of 10000Pennies video fame created his own jobs graph showing just how great Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) economic stewardship has been for the American people. It shows how jobs have plummetted under her leadership: ... blog.heritage.org

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (80443)	3/5/2010 10:35:56 AM
From: Ann Corrigan	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224867

Tax-payer funded state employees & teachers? Are there actually any new private sector jobs in WA state? Starting to think you don't like me Ken...you never reply anymore to my posts;( Is it something I've said:)

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (80443)	3/5/2010 10:58:11 AM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224867

Harry Reid: "Only 36,000 people lost their jobs today, which is really GOOD." youtube.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (80443)	3/5/2010 11:55:58 AM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224867

Indonesian students protest Barack Obama's visit Fri Mar 5, 7:53 am ET JAKARTA, Indonesia – Scores of Islamic students staged protests outside Jakarta's parliament and in at least three other major Indonesian cities on Friday against President Barack Obama's upcoming visit to this predominantly Muslim country. The students carried banners branding Obama as an enemy of Islam and an imperialist in downtown Jakarta as well as in the provincial capitals Padang, Yogyakarta and Surabaya. They also threw shoes at large pictures of Obama's head. An Iraqi journalist was sentenced to a year in prison for throwing his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush during a news conference in Baghdad in 2008. Protest organizer Ahmad Irhamul Fikri, spokesman for the Coordinating Board for Campus Proselytizing Institute, said bigger rallies will be staged next Friday in more Indonesian cities ahead of Obama's March 20-22 visit. Such demonstrations of hostility toward Obama are rare in Indonesia, where he enjoys widespread popularity because he spend part of his childhood in Jakarta while his mother was married to his Indonesian stepfather. Local government officials allowed business people to erect a statue of a 10-year-old Obama in a Jakarta park in December. But it was shifted last month to a nearby elementary school that he attended after more than 50,000 people supported a Facebook campaign against it and court action was threatened. Obama is expected to sign the statue's pedestal while in Jakarta.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (80443)	3/5/2010 3:16:31 PM
From: JakeStraw	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224867

During the most recent seven years that the Democrats have controlled Congress, their deficits have averaged $619 billion a year, or 5.3% of the gross domestic product (GDP). During the most recent seven years that the Republicans have controlled Congress, their deficits have averaged $93 billion a year, or 0.6% of GDP. Over their entire seven-year spans, the Democrats' deficit spending has totaled $4.3 trillion, the Republicans' $651 billion. Over the 14 years in question, the four highest deficits as a percentage of GDP have all occurred when the Democrats have controlled Congress. The five lowest have all occurred when the Republicans have controlled Congress. investors.com