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GOP Continues to Kill the Middle Class
bpuharic wrote:
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:28:07 -0500, wrote: On 2/14/2011 6:38 AM, bpuharic wrote: on't you think they would form a union as fast as they can. because CEO's dont like challenges to their power. and there is no penalty for firing union organizers germany's workers are HEAVILY unionized unemployment in germany right now is 6%. ours is 9% no regulations on wall street no unions so tell me: how we doing?? I don't know about yours but my portfolio is doing quite nicely. Thanks for asking. gee if that's the case why is unemployment at 9%? Obama. |
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On 2/16/2011 6:53 PM, L G wrote:
bpuharic wrote: no regulations on wall street no unions so tell me: how we doing?? I don't know about yours but my portfolio is doing quite nicely. Thanks for asking. gee if that's the case why is unemployment at 9%? Obama. Your portfolio performance is tied to the unemployment rate? Mine isn't. |
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GOP Continues to Kill the Middle Class
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:31:44 -0500, HenryK wrote:
On 2/16/2011 6:53 PM, L G wrote: bpuharic wrote: no regulations on wall street no unions so tell me: how we doing?? I don't know about yours but my portfolio is doing quite nicely. Thanks for asking. gee if that's the case why is unemployment at 9%? Obama. Your portfolio performance is tied to the unemployment rate? Mine isn't. I don't know, mine seems to be mirroring the unemployment rate lately. |
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GOP Continues to Kill the Middle Class
HenryK wrote:
On 2/16/2011 6:53 PM, L G wrote: bpuharic wrote: no regulations on wall street no unions so tell me: how we doing?? I don't know about yours but my portfolio is doing quite nicely. Thanks for asking. gee if that's the case why is unemployment at 9%? Obama. Your portfolio performance is tied to the unemployment rate? Mine isn't. Not mine - not directly anyway. |
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:47:04 -0500, BAR wrote:
In article , says... bpuharic wrote: On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:28:07 -0500, wrote: On 2/14/2011 6:38 AM, bpuharic wrote: on't you think they would form a union as fast as they can. because CEO's dont like challenges to their power. and there is no penalty for firing union organizers germany's workers are HEAVILY unionized unemployment in germany right now is 6%. ours is 9% no regulations on wall street no unions so tell me: how we doing?? I don't know about yours but my portfolio is doing quite nicely. Thanks for asking. gee if that's the case why is unemployment at 9%? Obama. The stimulus was passed so that the unemployment rate would stay below 8%. That's what Obama promised. The check is in the mail... Which stimulus... there were more than a few.. http://www.economicstimulusdetails.c...timelines.html |
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GOP Continues to Kill the Middle Class
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:47:04 -0500, BAR wrote:
In article , says... bpuharic wrote: On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:28:07 -0500, wrote: On 2/14/2011 6:38 AM, bpuharic wrote: on't you think they would form a union as fast as they can. because CEO's dont like challenges to their power. and there is no penalty for firing union organizers germany's workers are HEAVILY unionized unemployment in germany right now is 6%. ours is 9% no regulations on wall street no unions so tell me: how we doing?? I don't know about yours but my portfolio is doing quite nicely. Thanks for asking. gee if that's the case why is unemployment at 9%? Obama. The stimulus was passed so that the unemployment rate would stay below 8%. That's what Obama promised. The check is in the mail... yeah the GOP did more damage to the economy than anyone knew but the right thinks that's OK |
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GOP Continues to Kill the Middle Class
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:53:29 -0500, L G wrote:
bpuharic wrote: On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:28:07 -0500, wrote: On 2/14/2011 6:38 AM, bpuharic wrote: so tell me: how we doing?? I don't know about yours but my portfolio is doing quite nicely. Thanks for asking. gee if that's the case why is unemployment at 9%? Obama. HAHAHAH gee. the germans have 6% lots of unions there. social democracy. more liberal than obama.... |
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GOP Continues to Kill the Middle Class
On 2/17/2011 6:34 PM, bpuharic wrote:
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:53:29 -0500, L wrote: bpuharic wrote: On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:28:07 -0500, wrote: On 2/14/2011 6:38 AM, bpuharic wrote: so tell me: how we doing?? I don't know about yours but my portfolio is doing quite nicely. Thanks for asking. gee if that's the case why is unemployment at 9%? Obama. HAHAHAH gee. the germans have 6% lots of unions there. social democracy. more liberal than obama.... I have relatives in Germany, and the unemployment is close to 20%. |
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GOP Continues to Kill the Middle Class
On 2/18/11 6:40 AM, Despot wrote:
On 2/17/2011 6:34 PM, bpuharic wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:53:29 -0500, L wrote: bpuharic wrote: On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:28:07 -0500, wrote: On 2/14/2011 6:38 AM, bpuharic wrote: so tell me: how we doing?? I don't know about yours but my portfolio is doing quite nicely. Thanks for asking. gee if that's the case why is unemployment at 9%? Obama. HAHAHAH gee. the germans have 6% lots of unions there. social democracy. more liberal than obama.... The unemployment rate in Germany this past January was 6.6%. This article from the Minneapolis Post explains why: Germany – the new mini-superpower By Robert Marquand | Published Mon, Jan 31 2011 8:37 am BERLIN — Quietly at first but less so now, Germany is breaking out of its postwar identity – the assumptions and understandings that held it in place for 60 years. Germany is shedding the past, busting old taboos and being more assertive. What an evolving Germany will look like in 20 or even five years is unclear, but will have profound consequences for Europe and the West. Much of the recent breakout is due to a rising German industrial base achieved by elbow grease, niche market savvy, and, as is often said here, by "doing our homework." Germans have looked around lately to find they have the preeminent world-class export economy in Europe. No one else comes close. German precision tools are coveted in Asia and Russia like Fabergé eggs. Germany is building much of the Summer Olympic and World Cup facilities in Brazil. The next generation of Eurostar trains linking the Continent and Britain will be made by Siemens of Germany, not, as they traditionally have been, by Alstom of France – a blow to French pride. Germany's new global strategy seeks markets and relations in every direction – from Brazil and China to Vietnam and India. France no longer exercises its capacity to "run Europe" but has become a kind of shadow partner of Berlin. Even the city of Berlin, with its bohemian nightclubs and vibrant arts community, has become a hip urban center – what some here consider the new Paris of Europe. Germany makes no secret that it desires greater stability between Berlin, Poland, and Moscow. A new amity along the old Weimar corridor would signify a breathtaking change. Overall, Germany spent $120 billion a year in the 1990s to unify the country and rebuild its infrastructure, training its sights on the global marketplace. That helped it pull away from the rest of the EU. Forty percent of Germany's exports now go to the so-called BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China). The closest EU competitor ships less than 10 percent. German machine-tool exports alone spiked 128 percent between 2009 and 2010. The unemployment rate in Germany hit an 18-year low last fall – 7.5 percent. - - - http://www.minnpost.com/worldcsm/201...ini-superpower Germany has its problems, of course, and some of them are damned serious, but it made the sort of capital investment we don't make in this country, especially in infrastructure, and it has a much stronger social safety net than we do. A social democracy can work. A free market democracy does not, not any longer. |
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