Sorry pessimists, this just isnt your week. With GDP still increasing and unemployment better than feared, the headlines being craved by democrats for "massive unemployment and "recession" just arent materializing. Maybe next month?

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Elminate all taxes on income and replace with a national sales tax.

Source?

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I found this: Business & Technology | April job losses less than expected, unemployment rate eases to 5% | Seattle Times Newspaper

What about all those manufacturing jobs we used to have? Oh yeah I forgot, the global economy is more important than domestic workers.

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-Liberty
-The Bill of Rights
-Decentralization
-Democratic Process
-Non-agression
-Constitutional gov't
-Anti-militarism
-Oversight in gov't
-Read the Bills Act
-Accountability

Huh?

That's the companies seeking out their profits. Can't blame anyone but business for that.

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Thoughts awe hame tak awa ma fear
Sweat an bluid hide ma veil awe tears

Yeah, but that's more "things aren't quite as shitty as we feared." Not quite the intent I derived from the OP.

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Thoughts awe hame tak awa ma fear
Sweat an bluid hide ma veil awe tears

I'm referencing trade deals that encourage the outsourcing of jobs for the global market. Companies will seek to profit regardless of what we do, I just think we should make it more profitable to hire unemployed Americans rather than simply outsource to China.

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"Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters."- Grover Cleveland

The 10 Planks of the American Populist Party
-Liberty
-The Bill of Rights
-Decentralization
-Democratic Process
-Non-agression
-Constitutional gov't
-Anti-militarism
-Oversight in gov't
-Read the Bills Act
-Accountability

Which trade deals are those?

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Staun ma groon al nae be afraid
Thoughts awe hame tak awa ma fear
Sweat an bluid hide ma veil awe tears

And you can't blame business for wanting to increase their profits.

Well, liberals can...

Well, NAFTA for one.

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"Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters."- Grover Cleveland

The 10 Planks of the American Populist Party
-Liberty
-The Bill of Rights
-Decentralization
-Democratic Process
-Non-agression
-Constitutional gov't
-Anti-militarism
-Oversight in gov't
-Read the Bills Act
-Accountability

I can if it's for a short-term gain at the expense of a sound long-term strategy. That's part of the problem in business today - there's so much focus on the qurterly numbers that the long term profitability of the company is often sacrificed.

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Staun ma groon al nae be afraid
Thoughts awe hame tak awa ma fear
Sweat an bluid hide ma veil awe tears

I love this kind of crap - I believe jviehe is trying to apply for one of those "talking heads" on corporate media who, even when the banks were falling like flies, still maintained "the economy is solid".
April's outcome is what everyone was expecting...still crap...still bad...just not worse.

hey don't worry those surplus checks will get us through, well those that get them anyway.

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So the state planners must arrogate to themselves the right to manipulate any sector of the economic system if the good of “society” or the “general welfare” is paramount.

Ipso- if the rights of the individual get in the way, the rights of the individual must be sublimated.

The Road to Serfdom
FA Hayek (interpretation)


Mortgage Backed Security survivor

You mean the borrowed money? Don't feel entirely left out, those who didn't get any and their children and grandchildren still get to help service the debt.

The economy lost 20,000 jobs, the population went up, and unemployment went down.
OK................

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Adam Smith , The Wealth of Nations 1776

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"
FDR's second Inaugural Address