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August 18, 2011

Obama's Job Creation up 5.2%!_{(in regulators)}
[ArthurK]
— Open Blogger

Since we're thinking about it lately (EPA farm dust rule, the regulatory stuff in day 3 of After America Blogging) here's a look at a booming sector of the economy.

If the federal government's regulatory operation were a business, it would be ...the third largest in terms of employees, with more people working for it than McDonald's, Ford, Disney and Boeing combined.
Regulatory agencies have seen their combined budgets grow a healthy 16% since 2008, ...
That's at a time when the overall economy grew a paltry 5%.
... employment at these agencies has climbed 13% since Obama took office ... while private-sector jobs shrank by 5.6%.

regulatory boom.jpg

Meanwhile, in Bizarro World...

Not everyone in the Obama administration sees a problem. The EPA thinks new regulations can fuel the economy and hiring.
The EPA wrote in February that "in periods of high unemployment, an increase in labor demand due to regulation may have a stimulative effect that results in a net increase in overall employment."

It's not that excessive regulatory growth hasn't been a problem before Obama. It just that now, like so many other things, it's in turbo mode.

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1 Great, for a starter ink luster fork often is rubble vail you're.

Posted by: I'm in a New York state of mind at August 18, 2011 12:54 PM (4sQwu)

2 Practice saying it.

Posted by: I'm in a New York state of mind at August 18, 2011 12:55 PM (4sQwu)

3 Who regulates the regulators?

Posted by: fluffy at August 18, 2011 12:56 PM (O6q63)

4 The EPA wrote in February that "in periods of high unemployment, an increase in labor demand due to regulation may have a stimulative effect that results in a net increase in overall employment."

<HEAD> <DESK> <HEAD> <DESK>
We are so boned.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 18, 2011 12:56 PM (DEcmU)

5 1 Great, for a starter ink luster fork often is rubble vail you're.
Ha! I thought I was stroking out there for a moment but it turns I was just Sofa King We Todd Id.

Posted by: Rex Harrison's Hat at August 18, 2011 12:57 PM (4136b)

6 The EPA thinks new regulations can fuel the economy and hiring.

Like El JEFe claimed at those ignorant town halls that passing BammyCare would spur employment by removing all doubt that an unquenchable desire for revenue to fuel a massive entitlement lay in the future.

Posted by: Captain Hate at August 18, 2011 12:57 PM (houma)

7
"Don't always believe what you hear."

Posted by: soothsayer at August 18, 2011 12:57 PM (G/zuv)

8 Facts aren't everything.

Posted by: cherry π at August 18, 2011 12:57 PM (OhYCU)

9 Wrong wrong wrong. What it means that I now have more government shit to deal with as well as do my regular job, causing longer hours, more stress, etc. Idiots.

Posted by: keninnorcal at August 18, 2011 12:58 PM (SDc54)

10 why thank you fluffy.....that adds a whole new level of job creation!

Posted by: the administration at August 18, 2011 12:58 PM (IpiZb)

11 i didn't hear about this....i'm seen a chart!!!!!!/

Posted by: phoenixgirl at August 18, 2011 12:59 PM (IpiZb)

12 It did wonders for the bunny business. Finally, bunny sales are regulated, although it sucks to get a $94,000 fine for selling bunnies.

Posted by: joeindc44 at August 18, 2011 01:00 PM (QxSug)

13 turbo mode

It remind me of Wile E. Coyote's frantically spinning feet, right before he plunges to the bottom of the canyon.

Posted by: mongo78 at August 18, 2011 01:00 PM (2b46R)

14 Wrong wrong wrong. What it means that I now have more government shit to deal with as well as do my regular job, causing longer hours, more stress, etc. Idiots.

Posted by: keninnorcal

My business is to justify my existence and perpetuate myself. So I'll tell this and all sorts of other lies. It's me or you.

Posted by: bureaucracies at August 18, 2011 01:01 PM (326rv)

15 FLASH:
New DHS rules cancel deportations

Posted by: cherry π at August 18, 2011 01:03 PM (OhYCU)

16 "Dust Buster" is now an occupation. Thanks, Obama.

Posted by: Dang at August 18, 2011 01:04 PM (TXKVh)

17 4 The EPA wrote in February that "in periods of high unemployment, an increase in labor demand due to regulation may have a stimulative effect that results in a net increase in overall employment."

Thus spaketh Top Men.
Top.Men.

Posted by: No Whining at August 18, 2011 01:04 PM (HmCnI)

18 The EPA wrote in February that "in periods of high unemployment, an increase in labor demand due to regulation may have a stimulative effect that results in a net increase in overall employment."

How does someone, presumably with enough reasoning ability to compose a sentence, say such a thing without laughing?

The stupid, it burns.

And Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) is tired beyond tired of the trolls at August 18, 2011 01:04 PM (8y9MW)

19 It did wonders for the bunny business.

Pets? or meat?

Posted by: that lady with the rabbits for sale at August 18, 2011 01:04 PM (GTbGH)

20 For those that missed it:
Captured Drudge Headline

Posted by: Foole In The Rain at August 18, 2011 05:00 PM (BkQvr)

Good job!

Posted by: Tami at August 18, 2011 01:04 PM (X6akg)

21 The EPA wrote in February that "in periods of high unemployment, an increase in labor demand due to regulation may have a stimulative effect that results in a net increase in overall employment."

Ah yes, the "dig a ditch with spoons" theory of economics.

Posted by: Waterhouse at August 18, 2011 01:05 PM (Ya0IT)

22 The EPA is the temple of the stuttering clusterfucks of miserable failure.

Posted by: toby928™ at August 18, 2011 01:05 PM (GTbGH)

23 Posted by: Waterhouse
.........
Yup! And just think of all the workers we can hire at the spoon factory!!!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 18, 2011 01:06 PM (f9c2L)

24 It did wonders for the bunny business.

I know what you mean
- Hef

Posted by: cherry π at August 18, 2011 01:06 PM (OhYCU)

You win everythng. Everything else is just filler.

Posted by: fluffy at August 18, 2011 01:06 PM (O6q63)

26 dude sold rabbits on the side and got a 92,000 fine

Posted by: joeindc44 at August 18, 2011 01:06 PM (QxSug)

27
We would burn paper at the factory but we can't because there is ink on the paper.

Wood we can burn. Unprinted paper we can burn. Old news papers, no fucking way, there is ink on it man.

That is the fucking EPA for you.

Posted by: sTevo at August 18, 2011 01:06 PM (VMcEw)

28 The EPA wrote in February that "in periods of high unemployment, an increase in labor demand due to regulation may have a stimulative effect that results in a net increase in overall employment."

Friggin everything is "broken windows" to these dipshits.

Will someone please shit them up, already. It isn't difficult. Just talkk about what idiots they are ...

Oops. Can't find a GOPer to describe Barky's stupidity accurately, so we just have to listen to these idiotic arguments about the great benefits of breaking windows again and again until the US finally keels over.

"He's [Barky's] one real slow learner." -- Oscar Goodman, Mayor of Las Vegas

Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 18, 2011 01:06 PM (N49h9)

29 ClusterfuckEnomics

Posted by: cherry π at August 18, 2011 01:07 PM (OhYCU)

30 "in periods of high unemployment, an increase in labor demand due to regulation may have a stimulative effect that results in a net increase in overall employment."

Run that by me again Willis!?!

Posted by: Arnold Drummond at August 18, 2011 01:07 PM (UK9cE)

31 Spoons will now be a growth industry????

Posted by: Fork Makers Local 666 at August 18, 2011 01:07 PM (61BD9)

32 Posted by: Foole In The Rain at August 18, 2011 05:00 PM (BkQvr)

Was that really up at Drudge, or did you do that?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) is tired beyond tired of the trolls at August 18, 2011 01:07 PM (8y9MW)

33 Nice! Sofa King We Todd Id.

Fun with Anguish Languish.

Posted by: I'm in a New York state of mind at August 18, 2011 01:07 PM (4sQwu)

34 Fareed Zakaria has the answer, fellas! From the New York Times

Posted by: Joffen at August 18, 2011 01:07 PM (EPcuy)

35 Resist we much!

Posted by: Rev. Al at August 18, 2011 01:07 PM (Pir3k)

36 It is time that we all just become pirates. I really don't want to live in this pansy world. It looks like we become one big faggy Anderson Cooperville. Creepy. WTF - supposedly we are the engine of the world, but we need government employees to tell us how things should be done? God, we have become a mass of quivering lemmings.

Posted by: Sub-Tard at August 18, 2011 01:07 PM (0M3AQ)

37 Q: What do you call 4,400 fired federal bureaucrats when President Perry shuts down the Department of Education?
A: A good start.

Posted by: No Whining at August 18, 2011 01:08 PM (HmCnI)

38 The EPA wrote in February that "in periods of high unemployment, an increase in labor demand due to regulation may have a stimulative effect that results in a net increase in overall employment."

And high inflation just comes along for the ride! Magic!

Posted by: Dang at August 18, 2011 01:08 PM (TXKVh)

39 21 For those that missed it:
Captured Drudge Headline
Posted by: Foole In The Rain at August 18, 2011 05:00 PM (BkQvr)

awesome..

Eventually the EPA will get around to regulating the tides soon..

Posted by: Dave C at August 18, 2011 01:09 PM (ZpxXe)

40 This needs to be in Perry's stump.

Posted by: lauren at August 18, 2011 01:09 PM (OTKZk)

41 Posted by: lauren at August 18, 2011 05:09 PM (OTKZk)

It does. Here's hoping he has a staffer who is a Moron.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) is tired beyond tired of the trolls at August 18, 2011 01:10 PM (8y9MW)

42 I think they're counting on the employment boom that comes with the hiring of people that actually understand the new fucked up policies and regulations tying things up long enough so your company can actually continue to function for the short term.

In other words, humans are from Mars, politicians are from that little shit planet that's no longer considered a planet.

Posted by: © Sponge at August 18, 2011 01:11 PM (UK9cE)

43 The one thing that makes me lean toward Perry is that he is so pissed at the EPA, I think if he wins, there is a chance he will shut it down permanently.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 18, 2011 01:11 PM (0N5pL)

44 For those that missed it:
Captured Drudge Headline
Posted by: Foole In The Rain

Are you serious or is that a p-shop?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 18, 2011 01:11 PM (DEcmU)

45 Fareed Zakaria

Which one of Barky's ball washers is he?

Posted by: No Whining at August 18, 2011 01:11 PM (HmCnI)

46 Ah yes, the "dig a ditch with spoons" theory of economics.
_{Ken Rogoff: Infrastructure spending, if it were
well-spent, that's great. I'm all for that. I'd borrow for that,
assuming we're not paying Boston Big Dig kind of prices for the infrastructure.}

_{Fareed Zakaria: But even if you were, wouldn't John
Maynard Keynes say that if you could employ people to dig a ditch and
then fill it up again, that's fine, they're being productively employed,
they'll pay taxes, so maybe Boston's Big Dig was just fine after all.}

It works! It works!

Posted by: Fareeeeeeeeeed Zakaria at August 18, 2011 01:11 PM (ZMHGo)

47 For those that missed it: Captured Drudge Headline Posted by: Foole In The Rain at August 18, 2011 05:00 PM (BkQvr) Whoever the owner of scoamf.com is, gifs like that could take the place of daily google doodles.

Posted by: t-bird at August 18, 2011 01:13 PM (FcR7P)

48 Ouch. I was thinking that Dick Obama could make a regulatory moratorium a part of his super secret jobs program which he is rolling out after his all important vacation. Unfortunately for him, that would lead to discussion of his actually increasing regulation during a bad economy, and time of high unemployment. Bummer. Oh, well, maybe he'll make an increase in regulation part of his super secret jobs program.

Posted by: Nerdygirl at August 18, 2011 01:13 PM (UQYNA)

49 45 The one thing that makes me lean toward Perry is that he is so pissed at the EPA, I think if he wins, there is a chance he will shut it down permanently. All he has to do is transfer its regulatory function to the Commerce Department with the direction that no regulation that scores a negative to the GDP will be enforced. Then downsize EPA to a couple of hundred SMEs and let it study itself to death. Remove the teeth and the pit bull becomes Gumby.

Posted by: Sub-Tard at August 18, 2011 01:14 PM (0M3AQ)

Posted by: Tom Vilsack at August 18, 2011 05:10 PM (Zs83Q)

How about we regulate you out of a job....maybe you can try that food stamp thingie

Posted by: Crowsting, who like everyone else here knows that Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a mise at August 18, 2011 01:14 PM (61BD9)

51 Flash: EPA rules cancel food production. Flash: FDA rules cancel medicine production. Flash: Administration rules cancel America. No, they're not saboteurs. It's all just UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES. Sorry, my "assume stupidity before malice" thingamabob broke.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 18, 2011 01:14 PM (bxiXv)

52 Fareed Zakaria

Daddy is an Islamic "scholar"

Posted by: cherry π at August 18, 2011 01:14 PM (OhYCU)

Obama's Five Step Plan To Full Employment:

1. Food stamps for everybody

2. Increase Unemployment Insurance Benefits to 1,000 weeks

3. Add positions in the growing Mexican gun-running industry

4. Force major manufacturing concerns to keep their plants in union states

5. Increase the EPA's regulatory activities by 3,000 percent

Posted by: The Obama Brain Trust at August 18, 2011 01:15 PM (QKKT0)

54 Regulation is an American tradition ensconced in the Constitution, wingnuts: "... a well-regulated militia ..."

Posted by: Glib Todds - Sofa King We Todd Id at August 18, 2011 01:15 PM (HmCnI)

55 the dail goes up to 11 !!!

Posted by: Jeff at August 18, 2011 01:16 PM (A3tpD)

56 The one thing that makes me lean toward Perry is that he is so pissed at the EPA, I think if he wins, there is a chance he will shut it down permanently.

I love the line "I will work every day to make Washington as inconsequential as possible in your lives."

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) is tired beyond tired of the trolls at August 18, 2011 01:16 PM (8y9MW)

57 It's regulators all the way down.

Posted by: Waterhouse at August 18, 2011 01:16 PM (Ya0IT)

58 New regulations standardizing clothing wear and nutritional standards will cause a boom in jobs. - Textile jobs to manufacture and distribute beige unitards. - manufacturing jobs to produce gruel cups - food service jobs to produce and dispense gruel - compliance officer jobs to identify uniform and nutritional violators - corrections officers to guard imprisoned uniform and nutritional violators

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 18, 2011 01:16 PM (2tTzd)

59 The EPA wrote in February that "in periods of high unemployment, an increase in labor demand due to regulation may have a stimulative effect that results in a net increase in overall employment." Wow. This administration and Democrats in general are full of economic Einsteins, aren't they? First, food stamps and everlasting unemployment benefits boost the economy. Now, increasing regulation will increase employment. I guess businesses and taxpayers have an unlimited pool of money to draw from. I don't know, but it seems to me that liberals may have a fundamental misunderstanding about the way things work.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at August 18, 2011 01:17 PM (21lBC)

60 48 ... Fareed Zakaria: But even if you were, wouldn't John Maynard Keynes say that if you could employ people to ~~dig a ditch and then fill it up again,~~ that's fine, ~~they're being productively employed,~~ they'll pay taxes, so maybe Boston's Big Dig was just fine after all. Posted by: Fareeeeeeeeeed Zakaria He contradicts himself In The Same Sentence! (if they're digging and filling in the same ditch, it's not productive. We don't even need to bring in the broken window fallacy.)

Posted by: Comrade Arthur at August 18, 2011 01:17 PM (fjpxd)

61 Posted by: Waterhouse at August 18, 2011 05:05 PM (Ya0IT)

You are being kind.

It is actually "dig ditch with more expensive spoons that don't work as well."

Anyone who can make a statement such as that with a straight face is either the best actor in the world or so profoundly stupid and indoctrinated that he should immediately be removed from the employment pool (and probably the gene pool just to be safe).

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 18, 2011 01:18 PM (LH6ir)

62 First, food stamps and everlasting unemployment benefits boost the economy.

They don't just "boost the economy" they create jobs. Yes, paying people to be unemployed increases employment. So says the administration of Barack Obama, who is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) is tired beyond tired of the trolls at August 18, 2011 01:19 PM (8y9MW)

63 Will someone please shit them up, already.

In the post-Barackalyptic cannibal wasteland, I'll eat so many of them, my ass will be pumping out a constant hyper-pressurized chunky mist of half-digested bureaucrats. All day.

And I'll aim that mist at the sky sometimes, and I'll say "for my dead homies," and I'll think of you.

I promise.

Posted by: oblig. at August 18, 2011 01:19 PM (xvZW9)

64 Posted by: Jeff at August 18, 2011 05:16 PM (A3tpD)

I spell it "Dale."

Posted by: Dale Carnegie Speed Reading Class at August 18, 2011 01:19 PM (LH6ir)

65 Oh good I was just thinking it was time to start drinking. Now I have an excellent reason.

Posted by: alexthechick at August 18, 2011 01:20 PM (n4zgK)

66 arrrgh. Just assume my last post had the strikeout text replaced with underlined text.

Posted by: Comrade Arthur at August 18, 2011 01:20 PM (fjpxd)

67 Regulation stifles innovation and risk taking. It puts the focus on gaming the system rather than providing benefits to society. It distorts the business objective toward meeting the regulators demands rather than meeting the market demands, and generally, market demands come from people who are trying to make their lives better. Therefore, the regulators have a better life, while the needs of the rest of society become less important.

This becomes a direct roadway to hell. About the only shovel ready project O can come up with, I guess.

Posted by: JayBee at August 18, 2011 01:20 PM (Xwgt3)

68 o/t: "Cue Panic As Fed Resumes Liquidity Swap Lines, Lends $200 Million To Swiss National Bank, Most Since October 2010" link

paging governor perry, governor perry...you have a phone call...

Posted by: at August 18, 2011 01:20 PM (k1rwm)

69 Just got back from the doctor. He told me that for a man of my age I'm in pretty good shape. Then he told me that Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure. I had to agree.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 18, 2011 01:21 PM (m7Pub)

70 My doctor told me he wanted me to redistribute some of my weight.

Posted by: cherry π at August 18, 2011 01:22 PM (OhYCU)

71 66
Posted by: oblig. at August 18, 2011 05:19 PM (xvZW9)

Ah, Grasshopper, you have honed your inner EoJ-ness to attain Brown Belt level ...

Posted by: No Whining at August 18, 2011 01:22 PM (HmCnI)

72 OT: I thought of a nasty idea to counter that mom who sicced her small child on Perry to ask about the age of the Earth. Some child should ask Obama if he thinks blacks are descended from apes. What is the right answer to that question?

Posted by: WalrusRex at August 18, 2011 01:22 PM (Hx5uv)

73 It is actually "dig ditch with more expensive spoons that don't work as well."

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 18, 2011 05:18 PM (LH6ir)

Forks are best for the make-work digging that our economy needs. Less environmental impact, too.

Posted by: Typical Libtard at August 18, 2011 01:22 PM (N49h9)

74 I'm tempted to print up business cards that say, "Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure," and leave them at restaurants, gas stations, the bank, and all over the place.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) is tired beyond tired of the trolls at August 18, 2011 01:23 PM (8y9MW)

75 According to estimates created by the Joe Biden Jobs Department, every time I take a dump, 10,000 jobs are created. I therefore pledge to increase the frequency and volume of my dumps until every American has full employment.

Posted by: Barky O'Genius at August 18, 2011 01:23 PM (QKKT0)

76 Who gave you clearance to write this post?

Posted by: Hermes at August 18, 2011 01:23 PM (OTKZk)

O/T and up on Drudge: Obama cancelling deportations of illegals so he can get them to vote in 2012. Rage overflowing...

Right here, right now, Rick Perry needs to make a stand and shut up the whiners who are against him on the issue of illegal aliens. I have seen a quote that he is against amnesty, and wants legal "get in line, buster" type of immigration reform. Do.It.Now. and mercilessly flog the Democrats and Barky for this. He will gain support by many Americans if he is clear on this point.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky at August 18, 2011 01:23 PM (FnRYN)

78 I'm tempted to print up business cards that say, "Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure," and leave them at restaurants, gas stations, the bank, and all over the place.
Posted by: AllenG

Nice idea. Don't you remember all the flags with W's picture on them that were left in steaming piles of dog doo? Perhaps something along those lines would be in order, too.

Posted by: Hobbitopoly at August 18, 2011 01:24 PM (h1p5V)

79 Fareed Zakaria: But even if you were, wouldn't John Maynard Keynes say that if you could employ people to dig a ditch and then fill it up again, that's fine, they're being productively employed, they'll pay taxes, so maybe Boston's Big Dig was just fine after all.

This is so retahded.....It's just amazing.

The government taxes, then employs people that it pays with those taxes, but taxes those payments..........You don't see THAT circle ever running out of money at some point?

Douchebaggery.......

Posted by: © Sponge at August 18, 2011 01:24 PM (UK9cE)

80 I wonder if we'll get double gruel rations on Barky's birthday.

Posted by: Waterhouse at August 18, 2011 01:24 PM (Ya0IT)

81 #77 Do it, but know you are in violation of rule 14326 of the Dpt of Jobs code.

Posted by: Hermes at August 18, 2011 01:25 PM (OTKZk)

82 You don't see THAT circle ever running out of money at some point?

Newton's Second Law: It's not just for physics anymore.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) is tired beyond tired of the trolls at August 18, 2011 01:25 PM (8y9MW)

83 Why hire more regulators if they fail to regulate?

Posted by: at August 18, 2011 01:26 PM (k1rwm)

84 According to Fareed, jobs are like ShamWows: cut it in half - now you've got two! Cut it some more and pretty soon you've got 100,000 ShamWows! IT'S MATH, WINGERZ!

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 18, 2011 01:26 PM (2tTzd)

85
Task force estimates $360 million in contract money lost to Taliban, criminals in Afghanistan.

Isn't this just wonderful.

Posted by: sTevo at August 18, 2011 01:26 PM (VMcEw)

86 You don't see THAT circle ever running out of money at some point?

Can we start calling Democrats "anti-Science" since they ignore the existence of Newton's Second Law? (I don't normally post two replies to the same statement, but it was too good to pass up).

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) is tired beyond tired of the trolls at August 18, 2011 01:27 PM (8y9MW)

87 @ 33 @46

Seriously, Only half of that blinking headline was up at Drudge. Guess which half.

Posted by: Foole In The Rain at August 18, 2011 01:27 PM (BkQvr)

88 IT'S MATH, WINGERZ!

Math is hard.

Posted by: malibualexthechick at August 18, 2011 01:27 PM (n4zgK)

89 87 According to Fareed, jobs are like ShamWows: cut it in half - now you've got two! Cut it some more and pretty soon you've got lint 100,000 ShamWows!
IT'S MATH, WINGERZ!
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 18, 2011 05:26 PM (2tTzd)

And you can spin that lint into yarn, and then knit new ShamWows with that yarn!

Posted by: No Whining at August 18, 2011 01:28 PM (HmCnI)

90 Bob Beckel (puke) just advocated for eliminating the EPA

Posted by: cherry π at August 18, 2011 01:28 PM (OhYCU)

91 Fareed Zakaria: But even if you were, wouldn't John Maynard Keynes say that if you could employ people to dig a ditch and then fill it up again, that's fine, they're being productively employed, they'll pay taxes, so maybe Boston's Big Dig was just fine after all.

Why bother digging at all? Pay people to sit. Fewer injuries. Less traffic. Less pollution.

"Intellectual bullshit" is not hard.

Posted by: Dang at August 18, 2011 01:29 PM (TXKVh)

92 I'm surprised, and frankly disappointed, in some of you - those who suggest that food stamps and unemployment benefits will spur fantastic job growth.

You're forgetting the third part of this D'ohama Trinity, the one promoted by the Glorious Ex-Speaker of the House - remember, you heard it from her first - contraception is stimulus!

Posted by: Chuckit at August 18, 2011 01:29 PM (tUFnv)

Ok, so what is it about Perry's past that makes you think he's a small government conservative who will cut entire bureaucracies and departments from the pig trough?

Let's see...he's pretty. His pants are cresed. He's personally charming. He's got that public oratory thingy down pretty good. He's telling you exactly what you want to hear, just the way you want to hear it. He's spent most of his adult life being groomed by political activists and politicians, while claiming to be, or being touted as, an 'outsider.' His adherents aren't really looking into his past or his record, except to offer aplogias for it. They're ignoring those who do ask questions about his pst, or shouting them down.

How'd America do the last time we elected someone like that?

Posted by: Warren Bonesteel at August 18, 2011 01:29 PM (E7Z1r)

94 IÂ’ll promise you this, IÂ’ll work every day to try to make Washington, DC, as inconsequential in your life as I can.Â’

Posted by: I'm Rick Perry, B!tch at August 18, 2011 01:29 PM (T3vCe)

95 Posted by: cherry π at August 18, 2011 05:28 PM (OhYCU)

Are you sure it's Bob and not his brother?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) is tired beyond tired of the trolls at August 18, 2011 01:29 PM (8y9MW)

@4: "We are so boned."

What's this "we" shit, peasant?

Posted by: Prezidizzle Obizzle at August 18, 2011 01:29 PM (xy9wk)

97 So what you're saying is that we need billions of dollars worth of spoon-ready projects.

Posted by: WalrusRex at August 18, 2011 01:30 PM (Hx5uv)

98 While I'm here, has everyone filled out Form 14635 B? It is required if you wish to continue to criticise the President.

Posted by: Hermes at August 18, 2011 01:30 PM (OTKZk)

99 "The EPA wrote in February that "in periods of high unemployment, an increase in labor demand due to regulation may have a stimulative effect that results in a net increase in overall employment."" That's the mostest-fucking-stupidest thing I have ever fucking heard. To even begin to believe that you have to have no fucking idea about what work is... Hiring more people to do the same work really ought to reduce their wages, shouldn't it? Someone ought to get poorer (i.e. EVERYONE, YOU FUCKING RATDICK DIPLODUNK COCKGOBBLING ASSCAPTAINS) because more people are..ah, screw it. Leftists and bureaucrats are idiots. They'd drag everyone to till the same collective farmland and wonder why everyone is starving at harvest. The more people share the same pie, the less each get. Gah, what a bunch of cretins.

Posted by: Vercingetorix at August 18, 2011 01:31 PM (N8eC4)

100 Bob seems sober today

Posted by: cherry π at August 18, 2011 01:31 PM (OhYCU)

101 How'd America do the last time we elected someone like that?

Posted by: Warren Bonesteel at August 18, 2011 05:29 PM (E7Z1r)

You don't live in Texas, do you......

Posted by: © Sponge at August 18, 2011 01:32 PM (UK9cE)

102 I think that they need to install a mechanical regulator to filter the methane emanating from EPA Hdq.

Posted by: ontherocks at August 18, 2011 01:32 PM (HBqDo)

103 This not a joke. It is fact from the Hill by way of NRO:

President Obama issued an executive order Thursday intended to coordinate a Â“government-wide initiative to promote diversity and inclusion in the federal workforce.Â”

The order creates a council of deputy agency chiefs and federal workers tasked with developing a government-wide plan to improve diversity in recruitment, training, and promotion of federal workers. The plan is due within 90 days, and each federal agency has been tasked with developing its own guidelines within 120 days after that.

Â“The federal government has a special opportunity to lead by example,Â” said John Berry, director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in a conference call.

Posted by: WalrusRex at August 18, 2011 01:32 PM (Hx5uv)

104 @100, thank you, I el-oh-el'ed...

Posted by: Vercingetorix at August 18, 2011 01:32 PM (N8eC4)

105 Dig with a spoon, dig with a fork, can't we all just get along?

Spork that ditch, fellows!

^{But let's watch the dust.}

Posted by: Dang at August 18, 2011 01:33 PM (TXKVh)

106

@38: "Q: What do you call 4,400 fired federal bureaucrats when President Perry shuts down the Department of Education?
A: A good start pipe dream."

Tightened that up a bit to reflect reality.

Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at August 18, 2011 01:34 PM (xy9wk)

107 Yeah, Warren. He's no RON PAUL!

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 18, 2011 01:34 PM (2tTzd)

108 oh geez they do not waste any time, they are trying to knock out bachmann and palin in one shot...link

Posted by: at August 18, 2011 01:35 PM (k1rwm)

109 Why bother digging at all? Pay people to sit. Fewer injuries. Less traffic. Less pollution.

What???? Fewer injuries, less workman's comp filings. Less traffic, fewer trips to mechanics for scheduled maintenance. Less pollution, fewer trips to the doctor for asthmatics.

Can't you see that your plan is a drag on the economy?

Posted by: Fareeeeeeeeeed Zakaria at August 18, 2011 01:35 PM (ZMHGo)

110 they are trying to knock out bachmann and palin in one shot..

It's the Rolling Stone, certainly the one place I go to for indispensable political insight, right after Newsweek.

Posted by: toby928™ at August 18, 2011 01:39 PM (GTbGH)

111 Rolling Stone is overtly Marxist and makes MSNBC seem like a Tea Party network

Posted by: cherry π at August 18, 2011 01:40 PM (OhYCU)

112 in periods of high unemployment, unemployment increases are good, because they create more jobs in the Unemployment Commission. Wow, I should work for the Stuttering Clusterfuck of Miserable Failure's administration. I am so good at brainless spin.

Posted by: Nerdygirl at August 18, 2011 01:42 PM (UQYNA)

113 Fareed Zakaria Opinion Writer ObamaÂ’s Job No. 1: Create jobs

Brilliant!

Posted by: toby928™ at August 18, 2011 01:43 PM (GTbGH)

114 O/T: is hobbs a british subject? link

cramer's reaction is priceless.

Posted by: at August 18, 2011 01:46 PM (k1rwm)

115 'President Obama issued an executive order Thursday intended to coordinate a Â“government-wide initiative to promote diversity and inclusion in the federal workforce.Â”' Wait, the SCOAMF doesn't know that state and federal gubmints have been doing this all along? I knew someone who worked in a state lab in the late seventies. People would come in and literally count black faces. Then they would berate the director because almost all of the black employees were unskilled, such as clerks. Then the director would ask the state bureaucrat if he knew how many black microbiologists there are in the state of Michigan.

Posted by: Nerdygirl at August 18, 2011 01:47 PM (UQYNA)

116 Oh boy! Here's Warren Bonesteel, the toughest of the internet tough guys, to put us some knowledge.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 18, 2011 01:47 PM (m7Pub)

117 The AF Pilots got plenty of work hauling the Queen around for a couple extra hours at MV:

First lady Michelle Obama and her daughters Sasha and Malia landed at MarthaÂ’s Vineyard Airport a little before 2 p.m. on Thursday to begin a 10-day summer vacation here. A plane with the United State of America lettering landed on the far side of the airport by the business park at 1:50 p.m. Shielded by school buses and emergency service vehicles, Mrs. Obama and the girls were quickly whisked into waiting SUVs and accompanied by state police out of the area. They left for Blue Heron Farm in Chilmark 10 minutes after arrival.

Executive One F left the airport at 2:15 p.m.

Mr. Obama is scheduled to arrive on the Vineyard early this evening.

Posted by: observer at August 18, 2011 01:47 PM (Zs9j0)

118 This is absolutely brilliant. I hesitate to even post the link as you guys are going to make them even more hysterical and preebus is going to make oodles of money. link

Posted by: at August 18, 2011 01:49 PM (k1rwm)

119 I didn't read all of the comments, but does anybody else find this to be insane?

Posted by: Fritz at August 18, 2011 01:56 PM (+KjE2)

120 Why in the hell would anyone click on its links, considering where they would lead to?

And have you asked your mom why she isn't absolutely ashamed by the "person" she raised?

Posted by: jwm at August 18, 2011 02:26 PM (spEu4)

121 I knew it! These dumb asses think they can create jobs by adding regulations that require corporations and even small businesses to hire more lawyers and bookkeepers.

They are taking the broken window myth to an extreme. Using their logic, the anarchists who protest the G20, IMF and WTO conferences are a boost to the economy because they break so many windows.

Posted by: Cooter at August 18, 2011 02:41 PM (C06Qq)

122 Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at August 18, 2011 03:28 PM (ryClw)

123 Wow i really found this to be an interesting read; thanks for sharing

Posted by: Bonhoeffer Audiobook at August 18, 2011 04:08 PM (MBDKH)

124

Heck yeah. Nothing says "economic growth" like increasing the COST of doing business without providing increased value, services, or products.

Actually, if these boobs had half a brain they would understand that when business has to hire someone strictly to monitor for regulatory compliance, that additional cost is then absorbed into the price of the product, and the corresponding customer has to spend MORE to get the exact same product, thus leaving them with less money and likely they end up buying LESS other products.

That's called economic RETRACTION, not growth.

Fucking morons. Obama and liberals are economic illiterates.

Posted by: deadrody at August 18, 2011 05:27 PM (l9UkQ)

125 How can the number of jobs go up AND the unemployment go up? The 'entry' of new workers coincides with June/Dec graduations so new employment should pull down the UI rate except for those two months.

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129 I notice that you are also noticing that Obama and the Democrats appear to be from Bizarro world, something that I have been pointing out for a while. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizarro_World

Posted by: A Conservative Teacher at August 21, 2011 03:53 PM (aLAlf)

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