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发帖数: 29846 | 2 Only 7% Think Government Employees Work Harder Than Those in Private Sector
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Adults nationwide continue to believe government workers have it easier than
those in the private sector.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of American Adults shows
that 70% believe workers in the private sector work harder than government
workers. Just seven percent (7%) believe government employees work harder,
but 23% more are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click h... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 3 深陷债务危机的西班牙失业率达到21.3%，另一个深陷债务危机的国家希腊的零售额比
去年下降10%
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/apr/29/euro-nations-fal
Greek and Spanish economies falter ahead of expected rise in interest rates
Spanish Job Centers as Spain Meets Deficit Goal
Jobseekers wait for an employment centre to open in Madrid, Spain. Almost
five million workers are unemployed in the country. Photograph: Bloomberg/
Getty
Europe's north-south divide has worsened as figures show Spain and Greece
faltering, with rising unemploymen... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 4 Seven Myths About the Looming Debt-Ceiling 'Disaster'
By John Lott
Published July 15, 2011 | FoxNews.com
If Congress and the president don't raise the debt ceiling, the consequences
will be disastrous, politicians and pundits tell us, -- the equivalent of
an economic Armageddon. And President Obama warns that the consequences are
so dire that he cannot possibly tolerate any delay in making an agreement.
He announced yesterday that any debt deal must be completed by today, July
15th.
According to... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 5 By Geoffrey P. Hunt
It was Dorothy's dog Toto, a standard bred cairn terrier, in the 1939 movie
classic "The Wizard of Oz," tugging at the black curtain, who revealed the
Great and Powerful Oz to be nothing more than a humbug,
"Why, you're not a wizard at all, you're just a man! And you're a very bad
man for pretending to be a wizard," exclaims Dorothy. Professor Marvel,
chagrined after having been defrocked, and exhausted, unable to sustain the
charade, replies apologetically, " Oh no my dear... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 6 By Jeannie DeAngelis
Combine class warfare, demonizing the rich, getting as many people onto the
welfare rolls as possible, and pushing the economic system to collapse and
you have a flawless formula for Cloward-Piven 2.0 -- and a vehicle that
ensures Obama remains in power.
Cloward-Piven is a much talked-about strategy proposed in the mid-1960's by
two Columbia University sociology professors named Richard Andrew Cloward
and Frances Fox Piven. The Cloward-Piven approach was sometimes referred ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 7 拿了大把州政府补贴、曾经是奥巴马刺激方案宣传个案的Evergreen Solar公司申请破
产了。所谓“绿色产业”...
By Greg Turner And Jerry Kronenberg
Monday, August 15, 2011 - Updated 2 days ago
Evergreen Solar Inc., the Massachusetts clean-energy company that received
millions in state subsidies from the Patrick administration for an ill-fated
Bay State factory, has filed for bankruptcy, listing $485.6 million in debt.
Evergreen, which closed its taxpayer-supported Devens factory in March and
cut 800 jobs, has been trying to rework its debt for m... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 8 芝加哥和华盛顿放松枪支管制后，没有发生左派预言的枪支犯罪飙升，恰恰相反，谋杀
和枪支犯罪率下降，并且降幅超过美国平均水平
Media Silence Is Deafening About Important Gun News
By John Lott
Published September 30, 2011
Murder and violent crime rates were supposed to soar after the Supreme Court
struck down gun control laws in Chicago and Washington, D.C.
Politicians predicted disaster. "More handguns in the District of Columbia
will only lead to more handgun violence," Washington’s Mayor Adrian Fenty
warned the day the court made its decision.
Chicago’s Mayo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 Theories abound as to why the number of undocumented Cuban migrants to the
United States rose in the past year.
The number of undocumented Cuban migrants stopped at sea or who landed on U.
S. shores
has risen sharply after dropping in recent years.
2010: 831
2011: 1,696
Reversing a three-year trend downward, the number of undocumented Cubans
intercepted at sea or who reached U.S. shores in the past 12 months soared
by more than 100 percent — sparking questions about the reasons behind the
new tr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 10 By Monty Pelerin
The Obama Problem is simple to explain but impossible to solve. The problem
is Obama himself, and most people not named Barack or Michelle understand
that.
President Obama's political career is in free-fall. He will not be
reelected. Many Democrats and media personalities now understand what
appeared impossible even mere months ago.
Mr. Obama burst onto the political scene as a relatively unknown wunderkind.
He could read a mean teleprompter and did so with fanfare at the 2... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 11 Frozen continent! Europe's rivers, lakes and even seas are iced over as
bitter Siberian cold leads to temperatures of almost -40C
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:49 AM on 13th February 2012
You would be forgiven for thinking these stunning vistas lay deep in the
heart of Antarctica.
But they are, in fact, what has become of the European landscape as
temperatures plummet to nearly -40C - the coldest snap in decades.
Rivers, lakes, beaches and even seas have been iced over by a Siberian
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 By Kim Zigfeld
The Obama administration has responded to Vladimir Putin's landslide re-
election as president of Russia by doubling down on appeasement. America
may never live down the shame, and it will keep on paying through the nose
at the gas pump for this folly. What the Obama administration has done over
the course of just a few days is truly disturbing.
First, after watching one of the most corrupt elections in Russian history,
during which every major pro-freedom candidate was systemat... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 Matthew Fisher, Postmedia News Jul 3, 2012 – 7:18 AM ET | Last Updated:
Jul 3, 2012 11:54 AM ET
OIA, Greece — Why should foreign governments and international funds spend
hundreds of billions of euros in emergency aid to rescue Greece from ruin
when — despite a youth unemployment rate topping 52 per cent — many young
Greeks do not seem interested in working at all?
That is one of many riddles that the new Greek government must try to solve
amid opprobrium and often downright anger from nor... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 14 Mon, Jul. 23, 2012 Posted: 09:14 AM EDT
In 2006, the Episcopal Church's presiding bishop, Katherine Jefferts Schori,
told the New York Times that Episcopalians were not interested in "
replenishing their ranks by having children." Instead, the church "[
encouraged] people to pay attention to the stewardship of the earth and not
use more than their portion."
"Stewardship of the earth" and having children are not incompatible, but if
Schori's goal was a principled extinction, she's about to succee... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3942 | 15 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2012/10/03/fact-che
3:51PM EST October 4. 2012 - In the first presidential debate Wednesday
night, President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney packed their
responses with accusations about each other's policies and defenses of their
own.
Here are a few claims that deserve a deeper look:
Private-sector job gains
Claim: Obama said the U.S. economy has created 5 million private-sector jobs
the past 30 months.
DEBATE: Battle of economic visions
Fact... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 16 A Danish wind turbine company whose subsidiaries received over $50 million
in U.S. stimulus dollars announced on Friday it has cut more than 800 jobs
in the United States and Canada this year and may be forced to lay off
another 800 employees in North America.
This is yet another green energy company that received wasteful stimulus
funds and does not even have anything to show for it.
According to Reuters, Vestas, the wind turbine maker, saw its order intake
go down by 24 percent during the fir... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 17 Another Obama Victory: Smithfield to Shut Virginia Plant
by Jammie
Anyone paying attention to all the jobs being cut in those swing states
Obama won? Not only is unemployment surging and the market plummeting, major
companies are announcing layoffs seemingly by the hour. But none of this
has anything to do, of course, with Obama’s re-election. And now the folks
in Virginia are also falling victim. I’d pity them but they cast their lot
with an economic catastrophe, and now they shall suffer.
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发帖数: 29846 | 18 by Jeffrey Lord
Twinkicide.
Death by Liberalism.
This time it's Twinkies.
In October it was Newsweek.
Who's next? What does this lemming-like liberal instinct mean for America?
What is it that bakers and editors had in common as they looked into the
abyss that would spell their own professional death? And then jumped?
Answer: They'd rather be dead than Not Liberal. Unfortunately for the rest
of us -- they are not alone. Worse, they are in charge.
Presented with multiple opportunities to survive ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1509 | 19 Black Friday History
For millions of people Black Friday is the time to do some serious Christmas
shopping --even before the last of the Thanksgiving leftovers are gone!
Black Black is the Friday after Thanksgiving, and it's one of the major
shopping days of the year in the United States -falling anywhere between
November 23 and 29. While it's not recognized as an official US holiday,
many employees have the day off -except those working in retail.
The term “Black Friday” was coined in the 1960s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 Gun and ammo sales predicted to skyrocket in wake of Obama’s re-election
OKLAHOMA CITY – The morning after President Barack Obama was re-elected,
business appeared to be pretty normal at the very popular and successful H&H
Shooting Sports, with customers looking at handguns and folks getting
something to eat at H&H’s 4U Cafe.But after talking to H&H owner Miles Hall
(he has operated H&H with his wife Jayne for more than 30 years), that
normal mood will likely change to exceedingly busy as people... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 21 Previously on The Perils of Pauline:
Last year, our plucky heroine, the wholesome apple-cheeked American republic
, was trapped in an express elevator hurtling out of control toward the debt
ceiling. Would she crash into it? Or would she make some miraculous escape?
Yes! At the very last minute of her white-knuckle thrill ride to her
rendezvous with destiny, she was rescued by Congress’s decision to set up .
. . a Super Committee! Those who can, do. Those who can’t, form a
committee. Those who r... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 22 By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON January 30, 2013 (AP)
The U.S. economy unexpectedly shrank from October through December for the
first time since 2009, hurt by the biggest cut in defense spending in 40
years, fewer exports and sluggish growth in company stockpiles. The drop
occurred despite stronger consumer spending and business investment.
The Commerce Department said Wednesday that the economy contracted at an
annual rate of 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter. That was... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 23 Beth Belton, USA TODAY9:59a.m. EST March 1, 2013
(Photo: Mark Wilson, Getty Images)
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Huge income drop follows 2.6% surge in December
Most of December's income gain came from bonuses, dividends paid before
higher taxes kicked in
Consumer spending up 0.2%, driven by payments on higher heating bills
WASHINGTON (AP) — Personal income growth plunged 3.6% in January, the
biggest one-month drop in 20 years, the Commerce Department said Friday. And
consumer spending rose just 0.2% with m... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1283 | 24 Nelson，GA是本周一刚刚通过的法案：
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ga-city-looks-make-gun-ownership
Nelson当局说，许多人在院子里插一个有安保公司的牌子（不管是不是真的雇了ADT之
类的公司），我们通过这个立法，也是一样的道理。
同样是GA州的Kennesaw是1982年通过的法案。法案通过的当年，人身攻击案件就下降了
74%，第二年又在此基础上下降了45%！然后一直维持在非常低的水平上（The city's
population
grew from around 5,000 in 1980 to 13,000 by 1996 (latest available estimate
). Yet there have been only three murders: two with knives (1984 and 1987)
and one with a firearm (1997). After the law went into effect in 1982, crime
against persons ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 High Court Rules for Monsanto in Seed Patent Case
By BRENT KENDALL And JESS BRAVIN
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that Monsanto Co. MON -1.19%
can use its patents to prevent farmers from planting later generations of
genetically engineered seeds without paying for them.
Monsanto's Roundup Ready seeds render crops resistant to weed killer and are
planted on much of the nation's farm acreage. But unlike many inventions,
Monsanto's patented biotechnology is self-replicating, prompti... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 What Difference Does It Make? Queen Hillary’s Approval Plummets in Wake of
Benghazi Cover-Up
by Jammie
Let’s just cut to the bad news: She still somehow manages to have the
approval of 52% of the public. We’re outnumbered by the low-information
crowd, obviously.
Hillary Clinton’s favorability rating dropped significantly in a
Quinnipiac University poll released Friday, as the months-long investigation
into the terrorist attacks in Benghazi have begun to drag on the former
secretary of State.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 California Democrat ‘Rising Star’ Arrested on Burglary Charges »
by Jammie
Curiously, nobody is calling him a white Hispanic.
Sonoma County Supervisor Efren Carrillo’s arrest Saturday on suspicion
of burglary and prowling is likely to curtail any short-term plans of his to
seek higher office and could cut short or limit his career in local
government, political observers said Sunday.
While the extent of immediate damage to his political prospects isn’t
yet clear, the dramatically di... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 America's so-called news media have abandoned journalism for shameless left-
wing propaganda. Instead of reporting the news, they censor, lie, and
distort to advance their radical left-wing agenda. Check out these recent
examples:
The economy is a mess, but it's not Obama's fault. Despite the
chronically weak economy (high unemployment, rising gas prices, falling
incomes for the poor and middle class, 54 million Americans on food stamps,
and a shrinking middle class), the liberal media circl... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 30 by Jammie
We guess the American people don’t approve of the ObamaCare trainwreck,
threatening to arrest World War II vets and trying to tank the stock market.
And a lot of other things.
Meanwhile, economic confidence is plummeting thanks to the Obama Shutdown.
Meanwhile, he continued with his violent rhetoric today.
President Barack Obama told reporters Friday that he won’t negotiate
with Republicans to end the budget standoff “with a gun held to the head of
the American people.”
“I’m ha... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7299 | 31 Liz Goodwin, Yahoo News October 7, 2013 5:36 AM
Just 10 years after the Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan’s
use of race in admissions as a necessary step to foster campus diversity,
the justices are set to decide whether that state’s voters are allowed to
ban affirmative action in admissions entirely.
The case, Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, is one of
several controversial cases on the docket in the 2013-14 term, which began
Monday.
The justices are also set to... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 by Jammie
Sure, he’s in a position to make demands.
Most Americans disapprove of the way Obama is handling his job, the poll
suggests, with 53 percent unhappy with his performance and 37 percent
approving of it. Congress is scraping rock bottom, with a ghastly approval
rating of 5 percent.
Indeed, anyone making headlines in the dispute has earned poor marks for
his or her trouble, whether it’s Democrat Harry Reid, the Senate majority
leader, or Republican John Boehner, the House speaker,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2896 | 33 很多左逼想当然认为美国人会更多地怪罪于共和党. 其实很简单, 总统协调不好, 要负
最主要的责任. 这说明这个总统无能: 治国无能, 领导无能, 何况他还曾夸海口, 说只
要他当总统, 更有利于国家团结, 种族和睦, 经济发展, 我看都是放屁.
就是这个总统, 曾亲自出面, 大放厥词, 企图影响司法独立, 还把trayvon martin臆
想为自己的儿子, 实在一大败笔, 让世人贻笑大方.
现在强行推行obamacare, 搞得国家半瘫痪, 真是罪过.
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发帖数: 61690 | 36 The public’s approval of congressional Republicans' handling of budget
negotiations continues to plummet as the government shutdown enters its
third week.
A Washington Post/ABC News poll found that for the first time during the
shutdown, less than a majority — 49 percent — of Republicans approve of
their party’s handling of negotiations.
The poll finds only 21 percent of the public overall approving of the GOP’s
handling of budget negotiations.
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-r... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 37 The public’s approval of congressional Republicans' handling of budget
negotiations continues to plummet as the government shutdown enters its
third week.
A Washington Post/ABC News poll found that for the first time during the
shutdown, less than a majority — 49 percent — of Republicans approve of
their party’s handling of negotiations.
The poll finds only 21 percent of the public overall approving of the GOP’s
handling of budget negotiations.
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-r... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2964 | 38 Because when bubble burst, they did not have someone like Bernanke/Paulson
who knew how to deal with the aftermath. Tax hike at the peak of Asia
financial crisis shot itself at the foot. Instead of increasing tax revenue,
the economy plummet, tax revenue down sharply. And they are in a deflation
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发帖数: 5601 | 39 By Jim Acosta. Tom Watkins and Kevin Liptak, Tue April 1, 2014
Washington (CNN) -- A last-minute enrollment surge enabled the White House
to meet its original sign-up target for the Affordable Care Act, a
surprising victory for the Obama administration after a rocky rollout of the
program that has become a political hot potato for Democrats and a rallying
cry for Republicans.
President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that 7.1 million people had signed up
on federal or state exchanges for coverage u... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 Sick Man of Europe is Europe; Blame the Socialists, Progressives, Greens,
and the Euro Itself
Joel Kotkin writing for New Geography hits the nail smack on the head with
his assessment Sick Man of Europe is Europe.
Throughout the continent, public support for a united Europe fell
sharply last year. Opposition to greater integration has emerged, with anti-
EU parties gaining support in countries as diverse as the United Kingdom,
Greece, Germany and France.
The new reality is epitomized by ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 41 A new report of "economic freedom" around the world finds the US ranked 12th
among 152 countries, tied with the United Kingdom, and lower than neighbor
Canada or Australia. The index, published by the Cato Institute and Canada's
Fraser Institute, has been published since 1996. As recently as 2000, the
US ranked 2nd in the world, in terms of boasting a free economy. The US's
declining ranking will lower future economic growth.
The index, built on decades of research by Nobel laureates and dozens ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 The odds of life existing on another planet grow ever longer. Intelligent
design, anyone?
By
Eric Metaxas
Dec. 25, 2014 4:56 p.m. ET
In 1966 Time magazine ran a cover story asking: Is God Dead? Many have
accepted the cultural narrative that he’s obsolete—that as science
progresses, there is less need for a “God” to explain the universe. Yet it
turns out that the rumors of God’s death were premature. More amazing is
that the relatively recent case for his existence comes from a surprising
place—s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 43 US new-home sales collapse in March
April 23, 2015 - 12:35 PM
By JOSH BOAK, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sales of new U.S. homes plummeted in March, as the spring
buying season opened with sharp declines in the Northeast and South.
The Commerce Department said Thursday that new-home sales fell 11.4 percent
last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 481,000. This marks a
swift reversal from an annual sales pace of 543,000 in February, which had
been the strongest performance in seve... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 Climate Change: The Single Greatest Misinformation Campaign in World History
April 24, 2015 - 11:16 AM
By Stephen Moore
Wednesday was Earth Day and to hear the experts like Usher and Al Gore tell
the story, the planet is in a miserable state. We’re running out of our
natural resources, we’re overpopulating the globe and running out of room,
the air that we breathe is becoming toxic, the oceans are rising and soon
major coastal cities will be underwater, and the Earth is, of course,
heating up, e... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 45 US economy barely grew in first quarter
April 29, 2015 - 10:05 AM
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy skidded to a near halt in the first
three months of the year, battered by a triple whammy of harsh weather,
plunging exports and sharp cutbacks in oil and gas drilling.
The overall economy grew at a barely discernible annual rate of 0.2 percent
in the January-March quarter, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday.
That is the poorest showing in a year a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 46 Lies, Damned Lies & The BLS Inflation Statistics
by Jim Quinn • July 20, 2015
Tweet about this on TwitterShare on FacebookShare on LinkedInPrint this
pageEmail this to someone
The government released their monthly CPI report this week. Even though it
came in at an annualized rate of 3.6%, they and their mouthpieces in the
corporate mainstream media dutifully downplayed the uptrend. They can’t let
the plebs know the truth. That might upend their economic recovery
storyline and put a crim... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 43471 | 47 Baltimore killings soar to a level unseen in 43 years
BALTIMORE – Baltimore reached a grim milestone on Friday, three months
after riots erupted in response to the death of Freddie Gray in police
custody: With 45 homicides in July, the city has seen more bloodshed in a
single month than it has in 43 years.
Police reported three deaths — two men shot Thursday and one on Friday. The
men died at local hospitals.
With their deaths, this year's homicides reached 189, far outpacing the 119
killings b... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 143 | 48 最后对合法移民的那几条离liberal立场已经不远了
提高H1B最低工资标准，要求H1B走perm过程，取消J-1 visa（改成从inner city "
youth"中去hire)，严查外国难民项目来增加对美国贫民的补助。
Requirement to hire American workers first. Too many visas, like the H-1B,
have no such requirement. In the year 2015, with 92 million Americans
outside the workforce and incomes collapsing, we need to companies to hire
from the domestic pool of unemployed. Petitions for workers should be mailed
to the unemployment office, not USCIS.
End welfare abuse. Applicants for entry to the Uni... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3656 | 49 below is the original text from Trump's website, specific policy related to
legal immigration. my comments:
item #1. I have my concern. carefully executed, can crush ICCs and those 1
year "masters" programs. which are the true cause of the degradation of IT
work quality and IT workers' life quality. executed badly will shut the door
on true talents.
item #2. This may be the source of the fear on H1B application process. I
agree hiring foreign worker should have a higher threshold, but I do not
a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1503 | 50 就是这段了
Immigration moderation. Before any new green cards are issued to foreign
workers abroad, there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from
the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers. This will
help reverse women's plummeting workplace participation rate, grow wages,
and allow record immigration levels to subside to more moderate historical
averages.
我觉得Trump把这些东西抛出来的时候根本没有想过要去执行，以他的见识不可能不知
道，就算废了合法EB移民也没法让公司多招女人和黑人的，公司最多不招人就是了。他
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