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1. #1
   On December 3rd, 2009 at 11:34 am, WarEagle82 said:

   How about reducing taxes and regulations on the private sector? How about reducing government spending? Are those items on the agenda? Just askin’.

2. #2
   On December 3rd, 2009 at 11:36 am, WarEagle82 said:

   You know, if we put all those ACORN and SEIU thugs in prison there would be an immediate demand for new jobs for prison guards?

   Will that be on the agenda?

3. #3
   On December 3rd, 2009 at 11:38 am, WarEagle82 said:

   If we began vigorously prosecuting the “academics” engaged in a RICO fraud of staggering proportions we would need more investigators, prosecutors and prison guards.

   Is that on the agenda?

4. #4
   On December 3rd, 2009 at 11:41 am, mdt said:

   No need for a summit if they simply enforce laws

   http://www.numbersusa.com/content/news/december-3-2009/rep-smith-op-ed-obama-doing-nothing-recover-stolen-jobs.html

5. #5
   On December 3rd, 2009 at 11:43 am, verogolfer said:

   Let’s hope Summers and all the rest of the crowd dozes off. If they’re asleep, they can’t do any additional damage to the country.

6. #6
   On December 3rd, 2009 at 11:44 am, Flyoverman said:

   The total number of jobs created in the real world by the attendees is less than the number of attendees at this sham.

   It’s like a group of librarians getting together to try and figure out the best way to electrically wire a shopping center.

   They have no clue what they are doing.

7. #7
   On December 3rd, 2009 at 11:45 am, WarEagle82 said:

   Oh, good point. If we stopped illegal immigration and began rounding up the 20 to 30 million illegal immigrants in the country we might open up a few jobs.

   And if eliminated H1B visas for a year that would reduce another 120,000 immigrants EACH MONTH! Golly, I wonder if any of these ideas are on the agenda…

8. #8
   On December 3rd, 2009 at 11:45 am, stillontheroad said:

   The only jobs at this summit are being done with…….. never mind

9. #9
   On December 3rd, 2009 at 11:47 am, Pasadena Phil said:

   I wonder how the shovel manufacturers have fared so far under the last “Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! porkulus boondoggle? I suspect that the hip-wader manufacturers have fared better. Someone has to clean up all the BS being heaped on us not to mention all the snow jobs.

10. #10
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 11:48 am, sbw999 said:

    Of course there is rampant cronysim in this instance, but if I donated $29,000,000 to a candidate, I would expect benefits from that. The solution is to eliminate big money from campaigns. Everybody gets the same amount of funds to campaign, so you dont have candidates beholden to deep pocketed donors. Until that happens, politicians on both sides of the aisle will be puppets for their large donors.

11. #11
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 11:50 am, WarEagle82 said:

    I wonder if the shovel industry is reporting record earnings?

12. #12
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 11:51 am, WarEagle82 said:

    Oops! Sorry, Phil, I missed your post…

13. #13
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 11:52 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Do they call it a summit because they’re sitting on top of a mountain of $hite?

14. #14
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 11:53 am, rocketman said:

    ***
    TERM LIMITS!!! Real CONFLICT OF INTEREST laws with real teeth (aka prison time) for violators.
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***

15. #15
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 11:54 am, Rob said:

    It all amounts to stealing MY money…

16. #16
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 11:57 am, Anita said:

    Cavuto cheerleading shamelessly for O. He became O’Reilly light.

17. #17
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 12:21 pm, Regulus said:

    Stuart Varney pegged it this morning on FOX News: the participants in the Kabuki Summit may discuss all the numbers they want, but the unspoken number that this event is all about is “354″ — the number of days until the next election.

    Having Hope-a-Dope and his cronies “advisors” put their heads together to discuss how they’re going to “save” the jobs market is like having a collection of 14th Century military surgeons discussing how they’re going to “save” a wounded soldier: the soldiers who lived to grow old did so by learning to hide their wounds.

18. #18
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 12:26 pm, John Deaux said:

    So what exactly did the other 11 summits accomplish?

19. #19
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 12:34 pm, Blackstone said:

    On December 3rd, 2009 at 11:48 am, sbw999 said:

    The solution is to eliminate big money from campaigns. Everybody gets the same amount of funds to campaign, so you dont have candidates beholden to deep pocketed donors.

    Uh, how ’bout NO? Who decides who’s a viable enough candidate to be eligible to receive funds?

    What we need to do is eliminate campaign finance laws altogether, with the only exceptions being full disclosure of donors and prohibition of foreign money. All these laws do is shield political insiders (of which Obama is definitely one, don’t let his image fool you) from competition. The insiders know how to work the system to their advantage, and they have the MSM watching their backs. Outsiders only have money.

    There’s a reason why the incumbency rate in Congress shot way up after the imposition of campaign finance laws in the ’70s.

20. #20
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 12:36 pm, jsr said:

    I read somewhere else that Paul Krugman of the NYT (he won a Noble Prize in economics you know) will be attending. I imagine he will be able to provide numerous analysis, charts and graphs that show how borrowing more money to create more government jobs will be the solution. Because as he has conclusively shown many times that for every $1 the government spends it creates $10 dollars of economic activity. Or was it $100? (See Soviet Union for proof of the success of this principle.)

21. #21
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 1:08 pm, MarcoPolo said:

    Are there any actual manufacturers on the list? The partial list I saw, far shorter than MM’s, didn’t show any.

22. #22
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 1:11 pm, Southpaw said:

    The truth is, everyone knows this summit will accomplish nothing. This incompetent Administration has proven that it can’t solve anything. Having another meeting won’t change that.

23. #23
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 1:35 pm, stillontheroad said:

    With the state of the economy and our great nation being taken apart bit by bit, now this happens:
    “A man dressed as an elf is jailed after police in Georgia say he told a mall Santa that he was carrying dynamite.” An Elf threatening to blow up Santa – I have had enough now.

24. #24
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 1:36 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Remembering the last jobs summit.

25. #25
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 1:50 pm, RedDog said:

    Please. Blow my brains out. Google prop aside, these people know as much about job creation and economics as I know about quantum physics.

26. #26
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 1:56 pm, Truesoldier said:

    I really hope there is video of the summit as it will be used in the future as a lessons learned on what not to do in the face of rising unemployment.

27. #27
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 1:56 pm, RedDog said:

    We know the answer, but if people at this meeting don’t immediately advocate for disconnecting the government from the economy (over-regulation and taxation) – then we must conclude it is the proverbial dog and pony show.

    Bring on Mr. Barnum.

28. #28
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 1:57 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    I wonder how many catering jobs they created in Washington, DC by hosting the “jobs summit” there.

    Of course, maybe they all just “brown-bagged it” to save money. Is it racist to say “brown bag?” Somebody check with Joy Behar…

29. #29
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 2:01 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    Do you think the Salahi’s will crash the “jobs summit?”

    Do these people have jobs or are they just crash events?

    Oddly enough, I was at the game where this lady crashed the half-time event and pretended to be a cheerleader. Of course, I had a ticket…

    http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/56965,people,news,michaele-salahi-pretended-to-be-a-redskins-cheerleader-polo-match

30. #30
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 2:56 pm, stillontheroad said:

    Ok, here is more wisdom by Fearless Leader:
    “While I believe that government has a critical role in creating the conditions for economic growth, ultimately true economic recovery is only going to come from the private sector,” Obama said. “We don’t have enough public dollars to fill the hole of private dollars that was created as a consequence of the crisis.”
    I am just speechless at the stupidity of this A##hat. What private sector employeer is going to hire anyone when they do not know the full extent on how much they will be taxed by our Dear Leaders plans?

31. #31
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 3:00 pm, graysonret said:

    Here’s what you do, Mr. Obama. Deregulate businesses, cut the Crap and Tax, throw out Pelosicare, erase the “tax the rich” ideas, and drill.

32. #32
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 3:09 pm, rambler said:

    This joke of a summit is nothing more than another opportunity for BHO to give another speech and to launch his nationwide tour of his beloved 57 states.

33. #33
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 3:11 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    When he says, “While I believe that government has a critical role in creating the conditions for economic growth, ultimately true economic recovery is only going to come from the private sector,” Obama said. “We don’t have enough public dollars to fill the hole of private dollars that was created as a consequence of the crisis.”

    What he means is, “Those fat-cat, racist Republicans aren’t doing enough to offset the destructive effects of my lunatic economic policies aimed at taking control of the economy and introducing Marxism and it is making me look bad. They need to empty their pockets and sign over their companies to me so I can manage everything.”

34. #34
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 3:41 pm, SpeakEasy said:

    The only jobs they know how to create are GOVERNMENT JOBS which does not grow the economy, only the deficit and costs taxpayers more. Idiots.

35. #35
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 4:04 pm, Elm Creek Smith said:

    Where is the United States Chamber of Commerce, you know, the people who can actually create jobs?

    Not invited?

    So much for a “jobs” summit.

    ECS

36. #36
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 4:23 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    In 1976, there was an economic (inflation) summit called by President Ford. Not one of the morons at the summit, or any that attended the pre-summit meeting, understood exactly what inflation is or how it happened. They tried to reason it away as “cost/push inflation” or the “wage/price spiral.” What a bunch of idiots.

    The reason for the inflation was because in 1968, congress removed the final 5% gold backing from federal reserve notes. With no limitation on the amount of money the gov’t could print, they stoked up the printing presses and went to town printing paper money. By 1976, it was a disaster.

    What did the economic (inflation) summit conclude? Print more paper money! The Keynesians believed that having more money around would allow business to give labor a pay raise to pay for the high cost of goods. No wonder why intelligent people have demolished Keynes’ moronic economic views.

    The more things change…

37. #37
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 4:40 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    When I was in college the vast majority of my Econ profs were monetarists. The one Keynesian prof I had actually used a text book written by a monetarist though.

    One of my profs summed it up one day when he said, “Keynes was an interesting sociologist but understood nothing of economics.”

    Go and check on the actual value of a dollar over time. The results may come as a shock when you realize how much our currency has devalued over the last 100 to 200 years.

38. #38
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 6:07 pm, Elm Creek Smith said:

    On December 3rd, 2009 at 4:40 pm, WarEagle82 said: Go and check on the actual value of a dollar over time. The results may come as a shock when you realize how much our currency has devalued over the last 100 to 200 years.

    A few years back someone complained to Jeff Cooper about the rising cost of firearms. Jeff explained that the real cost had not gone up at all. In 1877 a brand new Colt Single Action Army revolver in .45 Colt cost one twenty-dollar gold piece. In 1997, a brand new Colt Single Action Army revolver in .45 Colt could be had for…

    …a twenty-dollar gold piece.

    ECS

39. #39
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 10:26 pm, ajmontana said:

    Get the “cots” ready they should be there a while.

40. #40
    On December 3rd, 2009 at 11:17 pm, PKAmmoTroop said:

    What we need is more imaginary congressional districts – that’s where all the new jobs are cropping up!

41. #41
    On December 6th, 2009 at 5:15 pm, cheapseat said:

    everyone get down to their local gubmint offices and get their name in for those JOBS obie won is creating. you too can be a parasite on society.