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To: zax who wrote (830621)	1/17/2015 8:48:23 PM
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Wrong stuff liberals believe in with a passion: People are always safer when guns are banned. Carbon has always been trapped in the earth's crust since the planet's formation and the release of it now will cook us all in the near future. Humans are somehow created months after a human egg cell is fertilized by a human sperm cell. Government is good for the economy, therefore more government must be better. Healthcare will be more abundant and less expense once the government forms multiple layers of a regulatory bureaucracy to make sure it is. Subsidizing an industry always leads to commercial viability in the marketplace. The only reason the private sector doesn't fund revolutionary innovations is because it's not smart enough to see how important that technology is to the future. But government knows better. Individuals are incapable of succeeding on their own, therefore government must dictate who should have what opportunity despite the individuals actually chances of succeeding on their own merit. Every person is definable by the category he or she can be classified with, not on the sum total that makes an individual unique. iotwreport.com Don't forget "Business doesn't create jobs". Poverty can be fixed by: 1. Increasing the minimum wage and 2. Taxing the rich. The more the better for both. We can all drive electric cars without building more power plants.

To: zax who wrote (830621)	1/18/2015 1:14:56 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574356

>> The labor force participation rate is by definition, a measure of how many people choose to work. This, of course, is incorrect. The labor force participation rate is that ratio determined by dividing (number of people who are employed + number of people looking for work) by the number of people in the particular cohort. Obviously, that has little to do with whether those who are "looking for work" choose to be unemployed. It really isn't about choice. But some people DO give up looking for work when they are totally discouraged or are able to live off of taxpayer funded benefits. Obviously, you have no idea wtf you're talking about. >> Obama has reduced the unemployment rate to the lowest level in more than six years! I'm sure, as a liberal idiot, you think that. The more sensible among us recognize the unemployment rate is still far above a full-employment level after six years of incompetent Obama economic policy that discourages work and discourages employers from hiring people. Had the economy simply been left alone with the policy in effect when Obama took office (no stimulus, no ACA, etc.) we would almost certainly be back to full employment by now. >> Are you ready for Hillary? No. In fact, I saw her brother-in-law Roger tonight (he was at the same restaurant I was) and the Bill & Hillary supporters were foaming at the mouth around him. They were excited and chattering about how Hillary was going to be the next president. It was hilarious to notice the political excitement around Roger whose only claim to fame was his cocaine arrest in the 90s! >> I don't understand why you are hung up on this statistic Because it is far more important than the unemployment rate, which is what you guys toss around as though it were meaningful. You could have a 3% unemployment rate but if they're all sitting on their asses it doesn't help productivity and that's what ultimately has to hold up for the economy to be better.