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发帖数: 3299 | 2 Exactly, the job report exceeds the expectation by a lot of margin. The
whispering number is 130 K for census, 70 K for the private industry. But
the real number is 48 K for census, 120 K for the private industry and
revise the preceding two months up 68K positive. The census recruits are
slower than historic regular pace. When the census ramps up its recruitment
in next several months, the picture will be pretty in the HEADLINE news.
This is what most people read. This is why I call the recover |
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发帖数: 4050 | 3 别人的劳动所得？
Not so simple. A top company CEO's salary can easily exceeds 1000 times of
that of average worker. In 1965, the difference is around 40. There is no
justification for that. Especially when considering that these fat cats take
no responsibility when they screw up. The have golden parachutes. They rip
off even if when they fail.
They exploited the system to the extreme.
In the past decade, the top 1% was having a good time, while the middle
class income just simply stay flat. With a dwind... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 4 Gallup: George W. Bush Job Approval Nudges Past Obama's
Monday, 06 Dec 2010 03:35 PM
Things weren’t looking too good for President George W. Bush when he left
office last year. They’re looking a whole lot better now, according to a
new Gallup poll, Politico reports. The survey shows 47 percent of Americans
approve of Bush’s presidency, up from 34 percent when he left office and
from his November 2008 low of 25 percent. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama
’s approval rating has slumped to 46 pe... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 5 $3.2万亿债务！民主党占多数的美国第111届议会期间，美国债务增加了空前的$3.2万
亿，相当于每个美国公民增加1万
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/111th-congress-added-more-debt-first-100
111th Congress Added More Debt Than First 100 Congresses Combined: $10,429
Per Person in U.S.
Monday, December 27, 2010
By Terence P. Jeffrey
Nancy Pelosi
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi holds one of the pens used by President Barack
Obama to sign the health care bill, Tuesday, March 23, 2010, in the East
Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott App... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 6 Incoming House Speaker John Boehner, in his first press release of the new
year, praises – what else? – an effort to cut spending.
In the release issued Tuesday, Mr. Boehner points out that the House will be
considering a resolution Thursday to cut $35 million from the cost of
running the chamber. Both the news release and the resolution are largely
symbolic. The $35 million — $10 million more than originally Republican
leaders originally considered – accounts for a tiny fraction of a federal
bu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 7 PHOENIX - The Arizona Senate has approved a revised bill requiring
presidential candidates to prove they are U.S. citizens eligible to run for
the office.
The bill approved Wednesday gives candidates additional ways to prove they
meet the constitutional requirements to be president.
It was prompted by the ongoing claim by some that there is no proof
President Barack Obama was born in the United States and is therefore
ineligible to be president.
Democrats argued the bill exceeds the state's auth... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 8 By Steve McCann
Gasoline has exceeded or approached $5.00 per gallon in some parts of the
United States long before the normal peak travel season has begun. Already
the politicians, headline writers, and some cable and talk show pundits are
pointing to the usual suspects. But they have avoided or are unaware of
where the fault actually lies.
One of the foundational tenets of economics is what is known as the law of
supply and demand. Normally whenever a product or commodity is in short
supply... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 The economic downturn has not led to more crime—contrary to the experts'
predictions. So what explains the disconnect? Big changes in American
culture, says James Q. Wilson.
When the FBI announced last week that violent crime in the U.S. had reached
a 40-year low in 2010, many criminologists were perplexed. It had been a
dismal year economically, and the standard view in the field, echoed for
decades by the media, is that unemployment and poverty are strongly linked
to crime. The argument is str... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 10 Washington (CNN) -- A federal appeals court has tossed out key provisions of
the sweeping health care reform bill championed by President Obama, setting
up a likely election-year showdown at the Supreme Court over the landmark
legislation.
A 2-1 panel of the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta on Friday
found that the law's "individual mandate" section -- requiring nearly all
Americans to purchase health insurance by 2014 or face financial penalties -
- was an improper exercise of fede... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9531 | 11 good thought. in capitalist society, there is no 按劳分配. 分配 depends on
the value of your products and services. In another words, you work for 1
hour, but the output value could vary.
In general, capitalist system is an expending system. the output always
exceeds demand, therefore the system needs to find market outside. However,
the expension has limit: China, India, Latin American is included in the
system. Maybe Aferica can take another couple of decades. After that? maybe
world war III. |
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 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: 4321 | 13 Fact -
1. US spends the most in the world on healthcare, $8000 per capita
2. US ranks 37th in the world on healthcare service. #1 France spends only
half of that number
3. The best healthcare system is single payer system. Obamacare is nowhere
near it
Here it goes (in the order of water-down) -
Single payer system -> public healthcare -> public option -> mandate with
opt out -> pure private healthcare
And yellow t-bags are scared? |
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发帖数: 997 | 14 i am sorry, but they are just not that smart. look at all the nominees they
have. romney and ryan. omg. what a disgrace. they don't even look or sound
creditable. let alone being smart. WTF |
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发帖数: 4321 | 15 okay. We'll see them in the zoo then.
they |
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发帖数: 1637 | 16 They purge and silence all moderate, well respected Republicans like
Indiana's Richard Lugar.
They see every compromise as betray of their "imaginary Principle" which
actually doesn't exit.
they |
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发帖数: 3803 | 17
please, you two girls marry each other and get hell out of here! |
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发帖数: 4321 | 18 Nope. 2B is my only love. |
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发帖数: 997 | 20 lol oh boy you so deserve a title of republican. |
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发帖数: 3803 | 21
you little whore sucker. |
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发帖数: 1637 | 22 This is called partisan illusion , ha. |
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发帖数: 997 | 23 one good old guy ron paul is screwed out of party. republican needs serious
restructure, or it will be up for no good. |
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发帖数: 1637 | 24 Actually I was going to vote him and he does stay a chance. No I do not
agree with him in many issues but some key stand.
serious |
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发帖数: 4321 | 25 why do you talk down yourself?
now I'm heart brooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooken. |
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发帖数: 997 | 26 one only smart , sensible person left in their party, and they have to kick
him out. retarded. |
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 Fed Pulls Trigger, to Buy Mortgages in Effort to Lower Rates
Published: Thursday, 13 Sep 2012 | 3:35 PM ET
The Federal Reserve fulfilled expectations of more stimulus for the
faltering economy, taking aim now at driving down mortgage rates until an
improvement in unemployment that the central bank says will be a problem for
several years.
The Fed said it will buy $40 billion of mortgage-backed securities per month
in an attempt to foster a nascent recovery in the real estate market.
The p... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10233 | 28 1)teachers earn an average salary of $76,000 per year, while CTU says it’s
$71,000. That either makes them #1 or #2 in the nation.
2)parents of almost 400,000 children abandoned by teachers earning perhaps
50 percent more than their own income struggled to find alternatives
3)Governor Pat Quinn had hiked taxes for the entire state of Illinois – by
as much as 67 percent in some cases. The estimated budget deficit for the
public school system exceeds even that large gap; it’s expected to grow to... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 850 | 29 why?
because for the first time, Romney's favorability rating exceeds that for
Obama based on rcp's avergae.
Obama's favorable rating is 50.8 vs 45.8, with a 5.0% favorable rating.
Romney's rating is 49.7 vs 44.3 with a 5.4% favorable rating.
Obama: Favorable/Unfavorable
Poll Date Sample Favorable Unfavorable Spread
RCP Average 10/4 - 10/11 -- 50.8 45.8 +5.0
USA Today/Gallup 10/10 - 10/11 891 RV 51 48 +3
Politico/GWU/Battleground 10/7 - 10/11 1000 LV 53 45 +8
Monmouth/SurveyUSA/Braun 10/8 - 10... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1985 | 30 Not necessarily classify myself as a leftist. But why the corporate income
taxes are all attributed to Buffet? Isn't the corporate income the outcome
of all of its employees' hard work?
As long as your total income, be it capital gain income or ordinary income,
exceeds certain threshold, a higher than 15% tax rate applies. That sounds
fairer.
A better argument can be the capital that Buffet has been using to generate
capital income has been taxed as ordinary income before it becomes capital. |
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发帖数: 17225 | 31 DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — Even in the off season, the pastel beach houses
lining a skinny strip of sand here are a testament to the good life.
Multimedia
Slide Show
In Alabama, a Community on Shifting Sands
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原帖地址
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/science/earth/as-coasts-rebui
A blog about energy and the environment.
Go to Blog »
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Jeff Haller for The New York Times
Storms have repeatedly torn through Dauphin Island, four miles off the
Alabama coast, costing tens of million... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 Top U.S. Firms Are Cash-Rich Abroad, Cash-Poor at Home .
By KATE LINEBAUGH
Emerson Electric Co. EMR +0.34% has $2 billion of cash in the bank. But this
year it had to borrow money in the U.S. to help buy back shares, distribute
dividends and even pay its taxes.
That's because "substantially all" of Emerson's cash is in Europe and Asia,
according to the company's filings with securities regulators. The maker of
power-plant and data-center equipment could always bring that cash back home
, but it ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3322 | 33 The Census Bureau's newly released population projections predict that non-
Hispanic, white Americans will cease to compose a majority of the population
in 2043, two years after the total population exceeds 400 million people.
This highly symbolic shift to a "majority-minority" nation is due in large
part to two factors: While the Hispanic population is expect to grow by 75
million people in the next 48 years, the white, non-Hispanic population will
decrease—not just as a percentage of the natio... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 DOJ: Murders of School-Age Children Down 42%; Only 1% Take Place at School
By Terence P. Jeffrey
December 17, 2012
(CNSNews.com) - Murders of school-age children---those between the ages of 5
and 18—declined by 42 percent between the 1992-93 school year and the 2008
-2009 school year, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, and only
about 1 percent of the school age children murdered during the 2008-2009
school year were murdered at school.
In February 2012, the Bureau of Justice Statistics... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 奥巴马带来的改变：一届任期给美国家庭平均增加超过5万美元债务，超过从华盛顿到
克林顿42任总统的总和
First Term: Obama Increased Debt $50,521 Per Household; More Than First 42
Presidents in 53 Terms Combined
January 19, 2013
By Terence P. Jeffrey
(CNSNews.com) - During Barack Obama’s first term as president of the United
States, the debt of the federal government increased by $5.8 trillion,
which exceeds the combined debt accumulated under all presidents from George
Washington through Bill Clinton.
The new federal debt accumulated in Obama's fi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 State of the Union: Will Obama Tell Young People He's Screwing Them Big Time?
Nick Gillespie|Feb. 12, 2013 12:00 pm
courtesy Gateway Punditcourtesy Gateway PunditFor at least the next 36 hours
, the political media will be talking about President Barack Obama's State
of the Union address (SOTU) as if it's a meaningful event. Will Obama go
bold or timid into this good night, will he make the case for more taxes and
fewer guns, for engaging North Korea or ignoring the Hermit Kingdom, for
stuffing ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21627 | 38 Excellent article
英文原文：
Barron's Cover | MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2013
The Next Boom
By KOPIN TAN
Cheap natural gas and increasingly competitive labor costs are bringing
factories and jobs back to the U.S. Eight ways to win.
As the only industrialized superpower not decimated by World War II, the
United States once made nearly 40% of the planet's goods. These days, that
number has shrunk to 18%. We make American Girl dolls in China, Levi's jeans
in Mexico, and enough movies in Vancouver to nickname ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 931 | 39 Time杂志最近一期专辑。
1. Routine Care, Unforgettable Bills
When Sean Recchi, a 42-year-old from Lancaster, Ohio, was told last March
that he had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, his wife Stephanie knew she had to get
him to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Stephanie’s father had been
treated there 10 years earlier, and she and her family credited the doctors
and nurses at MD Anderson with extending his life by at least eight years.
Because Stephanie and her husband had recently started their own small
techn... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 As Calif. Drowns in Debt, Group Advocates For Free Healthcare for Illegals
March 20, 2013 Posted by Warner Todd Huston
Even as the state of California is drowning in debt and already suffering
under an avalanche of unfunded mandates, a powerful healthcare advocacy
group in the Golden State is pushing for free healthcare for all illegal
aliens.
The group, The California Endowment, has launched a new program called “
Health Happens Here” to push expanded healthcare. To highlight the issue,
Cal. E... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10345 | 41 The U.S. has a long and difficult history with racial discrimination, but on
Tuesday the Supreme Court marked a milestone worth celebrating when it
ruled that a section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act has outlived its
usefulness. The political left is reacting as if this means a return to Jim
Crow, but the ruling is best understood as a sign of the racial progress
that progressives claim to believe in.
In a 5-4 decision, the Justices said that the law's Section 4b coverage
formula—which requires t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 Same Number of Americans Out of Work as Immigrant Workers Reform Bill Would
Bring »
A new study from the Center for Immigration Studies found that 57.5 million
working-age Americans are either unemployed or currently out of the labor
market, a figure that matches what some estimate to be the number of
immigrant workers that would be brought into the country by the Senate’s “
Gang of Eight” immigration bill.
“The number of working-age (16 to 65) native-born Americans who are not
working — un... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 43 By Michael Snyder, on August 20th, 2013
Obama Follow MeBarack Obama has been running around the country taking
credit for an "economic recovery", but the truth is that things have not
gotten better under Obama. Compared to when he first took office, a smaller
percentage of the working age population is employed, the quality of our
jobs has declined substantially and the middle class has been absolutely
shredded. If we are really in the middle of an "economic recovery", why is
the homeownership... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 1:38 PM, Sep 25, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER
A new report by the American Action Forum finds that Obamacare exchanges
will cost $5.3 billion and 16 million hours in paperwork burdens.
"On October 1, the health care exchanges established in the Affordable Care
Act (ACA) will go online. Despite the many delays, administrative lapses,
and staggering costs, few have examined the regulatory burdens of the new
health care exchanges," writes Sam Batkins, the author of the report.
"According to admini... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 45 On Wednesday, the Obama administration finally released its first numbers
for Obamacare health insurance exchange enrollment dating from October 1 to
October 31. The numbers were not pretty: just 106,185 people “selected a
Marketplace plan” using the exchanges, after the administration predicted
that 494,620 people would do so.
Even the Associated Press was forced to lament the “dismal numbers.” The
federal health care exchange signed up less than 27,000 people. Meanwhile,
nearly 7 million peopl... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3656 | 46 so your proposal is:
1 2-3% annual tax on wealth, perhaps another 2-3% tax on income. Good luck
with that amendment to the constitution.
2. no representation w/o taxation: those don't pay tax has no say in the
matter of the nation, unless they enlist in armed service. Good luck with
that amendment to the constitution too.
I think your proposal will be extremely well received by the wall street "
investment class". You know, the Romney kind. They have vast amount of
wealth, in the mean time, they... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 Obama’s IRS spends nearly $100 million on office furniture
By Mary Lou Byrd
Published May 12, 2014
Washington Free Beacon
The IRS has spent $96.5 million on office furniture under the Obama
administration and is now claiming it has insufficient funding to adequately
serve taxpayers.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew testified before the House two weeks ago about
the IRS’ need for additional funding for the upcoming fiscal year. The IRS
is currently seeking an increase of $1.2 billion—a 7 percent raise... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 Companies Try to Escape Health Law’s Penalties
Some Employers Seek to Shift Employees to Medicaid; Others Plan to Offer ‘
Skinny’ Benefit Plans
By
Anna Wilde Mathews And Julie Jargon
Updated Oct. 21, 2014 9:17 p.m. ET
With companies set to face fines next year for not complying with the new
mandate to offer health insurance, some are pursuing strategies like
enrolling employees in Medicaid to avoid penalties and hold down costs.
The health law’s penalties, which can amount to about $2,000 per ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5456 | 49 我在其他组看到某人copy过来没有quotation的论调, 我看着应该是尼大叔的高论.
我来反驳一下.
1. SB16和SB1 都是同一堆人提议的, 猪党吗, 看看general provision就知道了. SB16
因为大家强烈反对被postpone了. 本来猪党准备在Quinn下台前强行通过的. 现在继续
来还能改方向?
2. 这个太扯, 自己看看provision . Sec. 18-8.15. Basis for apportionment of
primary State financial aid to the common schools for the 2015-2016 ---"
This formula approach imputes a level of per pupil Available Local
Resources and provides for the basis to calculate a per pupil level of
primary State financial aid that, when added to Ava... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 174 | 50 这个礼拜我最关心的一件事，是哥伦比亚大学中国学生学者联谊会（简称CUCSSA）被哥
大校方勒令关闭。对于美国主流媒体来说，这件事情实在太小，因此几乎没有引起任何
关注。但是对于中国留学生来说，却不亚于是一个重磅炸弹，从本周日开始我的朋友圈
就被这件事大量刷屏。
今天终于有媒体报道这件事了。《福布斯》写了一篇报道，成为第一家报道这件事的英
文主流媒体。
报道引用了哥伦比亚大学xin问发言人提供给《福布斯》的邮件声明，很短，原文如下：
The number of students from China enrolled at Columbia exceeds any other
group of international students by a substantial margin, a fact we celebrate
and take pride in. In this matter, the Columbia University Chinese Students
and Scholars Association （CUCSSA） has been treated in th... 阅读全帖 |
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