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Obama administration on Thursday will propose tough new restrictions on big financial firms, hedge funds and derivatives markets, officials said on Wednesday.
am i the only one who laughs when barack obama says something like "i propose we use aunt jemimiah syrup for our pancakes and bacon" and others respond by saying "Oh My God!!! Barack Obama wants to kill Mrs. Buttersworth!
I'm amused that you find this all so funny. Display your laughter to the millions that are losing their jobs, and unable to feed their families. Walk up to a trucker that just lost his job, and laugh in his face. See how long your laughter lasts then.
Originally posted by ProfEmeritus
reply to post by Fremd
You say;
I came to ATS in search of somewhere i could have a voice. Having been so fed up with the way things have been for so long (as far as the united states goes) i've been yearning for somewhere i can find people as fed up as i am ...seems i've found it! Do not worry - i am not an extremist politician - i'm not a wackaloon or a troll. My politics are about the people vs govt. and of course i'm on the people's side.
Obama says one thing, and the wack-o right takes it, blows it 100 miles out of proportion, surrounds everything with lies, and others eat it up.
Your tactic is no different. You twist what im talking about into something im not talking about to give the illusion that i'm mocking people who lost their jobs.
U6 is the broadest measure of unemployment in the civilian labor force in the U.S. economy and includes those who need work but have given up the search, and those who have taken part-time jobs while still seeking full time employment. In February, that figure rose by 0.6% to 16.0%. The seasonally-adjusted U3 figure is the one typically reported in the media and does not include those who have given up and those who have been forced into part-time work. This morning, it was announced that payrolls shrank by 651,000 jobs and that unemployment (the U3 figure) had risen to 8.1%. But this data is a curious mish-mash of data from two separate surveys. The job loss figure is generated by the “Current Employment Statistics” (CES) program, a survey of 150,000 businesses and government agencies. But the 8.1% unemployment figure comes from the “Current Population Survey,” a monthly survey of households, conducted by the Census Bureau. The latter survey shows that the ranks of the unemployed grew by 851,000 in February, with the number of jobs shrinking by 351,000 while the work force grew by 498,000. (I can’t explain why there’s a discrepancy of 2,000. Perhaps a matter of rounding.) Normal labor force growth is about 150,000 per month, so nearly 350,000 people who were on the sidelines jumped back into the job market in February. (See www.bls.gov... for more info.) And yesterday it was reported that, once again, the number of weekly first-time unemployment claims in the previous week was about 650,000, a rate that’s held steady for weeks now. That’s an annual rate of approximately 24%, or one out of every four workers, losing their job.
I came to ATS in search of somewhere i could have a voice. Having been so fed up with the way things have been for so long (as far as the united states goes) i've been yearning for somewhere i can find people as fed up as i am ...seems i've found it!
Originally posted by wonderworld
Taking over Wall Street an Hedge fund derivitables is against our capitalist system.
I guess they also want to Nationalize Wall street.
I dont believe this is only aboput removing toxic assets.
This is a means to regulate the global financial system. I assume other Nations must follow. They are directly connected. Regulation is now almost an every day word.
"The overall orientation...is to focus on the why and the what and the rationale as opposed to the who," a senior administration official told FOX News. "One of those principles will be independence so that will certainly eliminate the Treasury Department. But we will not be making a commitment to a specific systemic regulator. The focus will be on the why and the what."
"The overall orientation...is to focus on the why and the what and the rationale as opposed to the who," a senior administration official told FOX News. "One of those principles will be independence so that will certainly eliminate the Treasury Department. But we will not be making a commitment to a specific systemic regulator. The focus will be on the why and the what."