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I do cause Bush would have focused on jobs/economy instead of socialized healthcare.

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You act as if they are mutually exclusive. There has been massive massive spending bills that create tonnes of jobs....this is what republicans are so mad about remember all that spending?? It was part of his campaigning and part of his presidency. There is anouther huge omnibus jobs bill going through at the moment. His state of the union speach was totally centered on jobs not healthcare.

So drop the pretences of him just not caring about jobs. One problem of course has been that the republicans have gone in and fucked a lot of it up......forcing the stimulus bills to be tax breaks not job creation spending....preventing energy bills that create green jobs etc etc etc.

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Infrastructure is not the only source of jobs. Just about any spending and heck tax cuts too results in jobs with varying effectiveness. Even things as esoteric as bank bailouts lead to jobs by encouraging the lending that allows businesses to invest and grow, hiring in the process.

Incidentally If you want to talk about infrastructure alone as if that is the only source of job creation I discussed, with you I think, why the direct infrasturcture amount of 5% was far s aller than the indirect amount that makes it way to infrastructure. Things like state transfer payments end up being spent a lot on infrastructure a lot of the pork spending in the bill is on infrastructre projects and additionally things like say the money spent on green energy projects fuels a bunch of infrastructure spending itself.

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Infrastructure is not the only source of jobs. Just about any spending and heck tax cuts too results in jobs with varying effectiveness. Even things as esoteric as bank bailouts lead to jobs by encouraging the lending that allows businesses to invest and grow, hiring in the process.

Incidentally If you want to talk about infrastructure alone as if that is the only source of job creation I discussed, with you I think, why the direct infrasturcture amount of 5% was far s aller than the indirect amount that makes it way to infrastructure. Things like state transfer payments end up being spent a lot on infrastructure a lot of the pork spending in the bill is on infrastructre projects and additionally things like say the money spent on green energy projects fuels a bunch of infrastructure spending itself.

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You are the ones trying to survive.. If you want the US to stay as the global number one, it's a lost cause. Sorry.

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You are the ones trying to survive.. If you want the US to stay as the global number one, it's a lost cause. Sorry.

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I hope you don't invade us, too.

(btw I'm from Norway, I doubt we'll ever need any help )

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(btw I'm from Norway, I doubt we'll ever need any help )

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that's great

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If things don't get better soon, US will be the one asking for help from Norway.

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