posted on December 2, 2005 02:23:10 PM new
Not only is our economic position growing stronger and stronger....but another good month for jobs.
Economy Gains 215,000 Jobs During November
(CNSNews.com) -
The U.S. Labor Department reported Friday that employers added 215,000 workers to their payrolls during November, a rebound from hurricane-related dropoff that helped hold unemployment steady at 5 percent.
The gain is close to the average of 195,000 jobs added in the first eight months of the year before Hurricane Katrina dragged hiring down in the past two months.
The gains were broad based, with
construction climbing 37,000,
manufacturing payrolls gaining 11,000 and
business and professional services adding 29,000.
The retail sector showed only 9,000 additional jobs, although those numbers are adjusted for the holiday shopping season.
"Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy. This is their essence." --Ann Coulter
And why the American Voters chose to RE-elect President Bush to four more years. YES!!!
posted on December 2, 2005 02:31:24 PM new
No, it won't...we don't drink bushy's kool-aid.
Linda , you scared me with that thread title, I thought you got a new idea off your latest t-shirt.
But it's the same old desperation blurb. Listening to the radio now and they're talking about the closing of Ford plants.
posted on December 2, 2005 02:34:54 PM new
lol...I know, classic. But they tried for so long to put their political focus on just how badly the economy was doing....but now refuse to acknowledged just how well it IS doing. Figures....
....so now they're doing their darnest to have us surrender to our enemies....even though they didn't have the guts to vote for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq.
And they think voters are going to put their kind in office??? ROFLOL
posted on December 2, 2005 02:39:51 PM new
Ya, the repugs put the GOOD ones in office...Delay(arrested), Frist(under investigation), Libby(indicted), Cunningham(a crook who's going to spill his guts about OTHERS to save his worthless butt), Ahnold (sexual predator), bush(coward), .....on and on and on and these people are in power now...NOT 40 years ago(for the braindead who I KNOW are going to bring up Kennedy).
posted on December 2, 2005 02:44:17 PM new
Here's how rattled lindaT-shirt reader is:
""....so now they're doing their darnest to have us surrender to our enemies....even though they didn't have the guts to vote for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq.""
OK, a timed pull-out, which the IRAQI's ALSO WANT, is not surrender).
Your next sentence is an oxymoron(and so are you).
So you think because they DIDN'T vote for immediate withdrawal, which YOU don't want, they're gutless. So then you mean the opposite , YOU want immediate withdrawal!!!!!
Quick, read a t-shirt and get a snappy comeback
posted on December 2, 2005 02:51:50 PM new
How a Lobbyist Stacked the Deck
Abramoff Used DeLay Aide, Attacks On Allies to Defeat Anti-Gambling Bill
By Susan Schmidt and James V. Grimaldi
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, October 16, 2005; A01
Lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his team were beginning to panic.
An anti-gambling bill had cleared the Senate and appeared on its way to passage by an overwhelming margin in the House of Representatives. If that happened, Abramoff's client, a company that wanted to sell state lottery tickets online, would be out of business.
But on July 17, 2000, the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act went down to defeat, to the astonishment of supporters who included many anti-gambling groups and Christian conservatives.
A senior aide to then-Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) helped scuttle the bill in the House. The aide, Tony C. Rudy, 39, e-mailed Abramoff internal congressional communications and advice, according to documents and the lobbyist's former associates.
Rudy received favors from Abramoff. He went on two luxury trips with the lobbyist that summer, including one partly paid for by Abramoff's client, eLottery Inc. Abramoff also arranged for eLottery to pay $25,000 to a Jewish foundation that hired Rudy's wife as a consultant, according to documents and interviews. Months later, Rudy himself was hired as a lobbyist by Abramoff.
The vote that day in July was just one part of an extraordinary yearlong effort by Abramoff on behalf of eLottery, a small gambling services company based in Connecticut. Details of that campaign, reconstructed from dozens of interviews as well as from e-mails and financial records obtained by The Washington Post, provide the most complete account yet of how one of Washington's most powerful lobbyists leveraged his client's money to influence Congress.
The work Abramoff did for eLottery is one focus of a wide-ranging federal corruption investigation into his dealings with members of Congress and government agencies. Abramoff is under indictment in another case in connection with an allegedly fraudulent Florida business deal.
Abramoff had deep roots in the conservative movement and rose to prominence by helping Republicans tap traditionally Democratic K Street lobbyists for campaign dollars. But in the eLottery fight, he employed a win-at-any-cost strategy that went so far as to launch direct-mail attacks on vulnerable House conservatives.
