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To: RetiredNow who wrote (124250)	10/18/2012 11:51:45 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Why Scott Brown is paying homeless people By Steve Benen - Thu Oct 18, 2012 9:45 AM EDT Associated Press Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) has had better weeks. With the polls increasingly showing him trailing Elizabeth Warren (D), the Republican created some new trouble for himself when he falsely accused victims of asbestos-related illnesses of being paid actors. *But this piece, published by the conservative Boston Herald, is arguably the most damaging of all.* A group with the startling moniker "Obama Supporters for Brown" showed up in Dudley Square yesterday -- and were hit with an apparent racist slur from a group of Warren backers -- while organizers acknowledged they were paying modest "per diems" to homeless people and others to wear the T-shirts in an area where civic leaders have come out strong for Elizabeth Warren. It stands to reason that Brown would want to tell voters that some President Obama supporters back him, too. After all, he's in Massachusetts, where the president is quite popular, and Mitt Romney is not. It also stands to reason that Brown would like people to believe his supporters are racially and ethnically diverse. But the Republican senator's campaign is supposed to earn support based on merit. Instead, homeless people are, according to the article, receiving a per diem, "meant to cover transportation, child care and other costs, 'works out to' roughly $8 an hour." In fairness, I should note that some of the so-called "Obama Supporters for Brown" activists are not homeless, but all of them are receiving compensation in exchange for "volunteering."

To: RetiredNow who wrote (124250)	10/18/2012 11:56:13 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

I don't read that website. It's extremely biased and traffics in rumor mongering and falsehoods. If I remember correctly, they were one of the premier spreaders of all that birther non-sense. And yet, the guy you think is qualified to be president includes this piece of website garbage on his plane and calls them journalists. Birds of a feather hang out together don't you know. BTW, back to another important topic. Remember when I said the September Unemployment Rate numbers make no sense, because they defy all the other statistics I'm seeing and it was a 3 sigma swing, which means it was an aberration, an outlier, not the beginning of a salutary trend? Well, today's claims numbers is further evidence that the September numbers were not part of an improvement trend. Sometime in 2013, when NBER does it's analysis on whether we had a recession in 2012 or not, it is a decent probability that they will say it started sometime between Q2 and Q3. *Unemployment claims jumped 13% in the latest week from the previous week* And do you remember least week......claims dropped significantly...........and it was reported that one state had not submitted its claims......that state being CA. And that claims would pop back up this week whenCA put its claims back in. I am so tired of you Rs with all your damn conspiracy stories. Its no wonder you're afraid to tell people where you live. I bet your lock your bedroom door at nite.