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To: Sr K who wrote (507098)	9/9/2012 1:01:57 AM
From: i-node	10 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793917

>> For this board: What was UCT-6 when George W. Bush took office, and when he left office? I think you're referring to U6, the TRUE unemployment rate. In January, 2009, it was in fact 14.2% versus 14.7% now. But when Bush left office, U6 had been under 10% for almost his entire two terms, and in fact had gone above 10% for most of '03 before dropping back under 10% after the '03 tax cuts. Save for one month in 04, U6 was well under 10% until June of 2008, when it became apparent that Obama would win the election, at which time businesses understood what was about to happen to us. Since June of 2008, U6 has never approached 10% again and throughout most of Obama's term has stayed in the 15-17% range. It is worth mentioning that the highest levels of U6 occurred in late '09, after the failed trillion dollar stimulus was know to have failed badly. We could well be headed back to those levels or beyond. Why do you try to defend this incompetent administration's policy? You must be the only person in America who thinks the economy is anything other than horrible.

To: Sr K who wrote (507098)	9/9/2012 9:49:30 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	3 Recommendations Respond to of 793917

Top Senate Dem Recruit Slams ObamaCare Kerrey faces on uphill battle, despite his long and successful political career in the state. He served one-term as Governor and two as Senator. But, he left office over ten years ago and has resided in New York City ever since. And, Nebraska has become increasingly hostile to the Democrat party. His only hope is to distance himself from the national party. Which he is quickly trying to do: Democratic Senate candidate Bob Kerrey said Thursday that he hates the employer mandate in the Affordable Care Act and that his own businesses might drop employee insurance and pay the federal fine for doing so if the mandate goes into effect in 2014. Kerrey said wealthy Americans pay their fair share in taxes. And he said President Barack Obama made a big mistake by not following the recommendations of his own bipartisan budget deficit commission. He went beyond just a general opposition to ObamaCare, however. He was very specific, and knowledgable, about one of the law's chief failings: “I hate the employer mandate,” Kerrey said. “I think it’s going to have a counterproductive impact. We don’t have any (insured employee) that costs us less than $7,000 (a year), and the fine’s $2,000. We’ll dump ’em off. We won’t call it dumping, we’ll say ... ‘Go get it from the exchange.’” That Kerrey has to distance himself so far away from the Democrats' signature achievement is further evidence that the Democrat party is no longer a national party. It is increasingly a regional party, clustered on the coasts, and big urban areas. There was a time Democrats could compete just about everywhere across the country. In many places that is becoming more rare and usually requires a flawed GOP candidate or a Dem campaign that tacts far away from the party. This process has been accelerated since Obama and the progressive-left took over the party. While the media fixates on the occasional Republican moderate who feels out of touch with the GOP, the list of Democrats alienated by their national party is far longer. Bob Kerrey is just the latest Democrat to be left behind by his party.