:w00t:

We are now socialist, one step away from communism, the red menace.

I wish Mr. Bush could have run again, he would have wiped the floor with that Osama.

Look at this economy, it was never this bad under Mr. Bush

Spend, Spend, Spend, Who's got the money? Aww, it's alright we'll make more

You people may call these deeds of Obama "accomplishments" and "achievements", But we call them "bringing us to the brink of annhiliation".

What one man gives away and splurges on, another is forced to work very hard to pay for.

Liberals are known for their tax and spend mentality. They spend until they are forced to vomit! And even then, they will shove a handful of dollar bills down their throats to keep from spewing forth their upchuck!

Some of these extravagant expenditures are just dandy until one must come up with the means to pay for them.

Devastating Poll Numbers for President Obama

Americans are more pessimistic about the state of the country and less confident in President Barack Obama's leadership than at any point since Mr. Obama entered the White House, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.

The survey also shows grave and growing concerns about the Gulf oil spill, with overwhelming majorities of adults favoring stronger regulation of the oil industry and believing that the spill will affect the nation's economy and environment.

Sixty-two percent of adults in the survey feel the country is on the wrong track, the highest level since before the 2008 election. Just one-third think the economy will get better over the next year, a 7-point drop from a month ago and the low point of Mr. Obama's tenure.

Amid anxiety over the nation's course, support for Mr. Obama and other incumbents is eroding. For the first time, more people disapprove of Mr. Obama's job performance than approve. And 57% of voters would prefer to elect a new person to Congress than re-elect their local representatives, the highest share in 18 years.

President Barack Obama pauses in the East Room of the White House in Washington on April 6.

The results show "a really ugly mood and an unhappy electorate," said Democratic pollster Peter Hart, who conducts the Journal/NBC poll with GOP pollster Bill McInturff. "The voters, I think, are just looking for change, and that means bad news for incumbents and in particular for the Democrats."

And that 44% was just 2 months ago in April. It just gets worse and worse as the months tick by. We're at 62% now who feel the country is on the wrong track. The more Obama does, the less the people care for him. He needs to GO! 2012 can't come soon enough for me!

Keep in mind that much of the spending we are currently doing is for bush's failed policies: the two wars (both unfunded), the 2 tax cuts for the rich (both unfunded) and the medicare part D (unfunded).

Plus our biggest expenditures are mandated: social security, medicare, medicaid and then there's the military.

Let's see what plans the neocons who are running for office have for reducing any of THESE programs.

And as for Pres. Obama's poll numbers - what would you expect when the bashing continues day after day from the conservative media who find fault with everything he does and the stupid people can't discern fact from fiction? I can and do which is why I know he's doing a great job. I will concede that the democrats need to do a better job at getting the message out, so here's my part:

In the last six months more jobs were created than in the 8 years of the bush administration.

Edited June 27, 201016 yr by Cleo's Mom

Keep in mind that much of the spending we are currently doing is for bush's failed policies: the two wars (both unfunded), the 2 tax cuts for the rich (both unfunded) and the medicare part D (unfunded).

I know that, and you'd think that because of the debt our country was in before he stepped on the pedestal, that he would cease to add to it. But NO! He added more than any president in history ever added to their current debt! He's a spendthrift, a credit card user, an irresponsible, financially unsavy person. A liberal. That says it all. Tax and Spend, Spend, Spend. That will solve all our problems.

Plus our biggest expenditures are mandated: social security, medicare, medicaid and then there's the military.

Let's see what plans the neocons who are running for office have for reducing any of THESE programs.

And as for Pres. Obama's poll numbers - what would you expect when the bashing continues day after day from the conservative media who find fault with everything he does and the stupid people can't discern fact from fiction? I can do which is why I know he's doing a great job. I will concede that the democrats need to do a better job at getting the message out, so here's my part:

In the last six months more jobs were created than in the 8 years of the bush administration.

Government paid jobs DO NOT count as jobs created. They may be actual jobs for the individual who is wroking them, but they are jobs that ALL Americans will have to pay the salaries for from this day forward! Only Private sector jobs are considered a celebration. Government jobs have no "Congratulations President Obama" from me!

The government payroll is far exceeding the private sector jobs. We will be dolling out more money than we are able to continue making. What one federal job pays to an individual, another individual has to work hard to pay them. Why is that a reason to rejoice, IYO?

As for bashing Obama, I saw more bashing of Bush by liberals than what is happening with Obama, even though Obama has been squeezing in more of his agenda that the people do not approve of than any president has ever done. Liberals are STILL bashing Bush, even though he's not even there anymore.

Bush-Basher Paul McCartney: Not Just Rude, But Wrong

Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, June 3, 2010, 10:22 PM

Those Obamas sure seem to like it when people from foreign countries say insulting things about Americans in the highest houses of our government.

Sir Paul would be the latest.

Too bad the cameras weren’t on the Obama’s after that Bush attack. You know they were chuckling along with all the other radicals at the party.

It turns out that the ignorant one was Paul McCartney.

Laura Bush is a librarian. She and her husband made a mini-cause of supporting literacy and public libraries both in Texas and in Washington DC.

Charles Lane at the WaPo’s Post Partisan Blog reported:

There are many things of which Bush may be fairly accused. It would be boring to list them all. My point here, however, is that

those who smugly deride his ostensible ignorance often inadvertently demonstrate their own.

And so it was with

McCartney’s obnoxious crack, which was not only nasty, and totally inappropriate to the occasion, but also perfectly uninformed.

Bush’s wife Laura is a librarian. She and her husband made a mini-cause of supporting literacy and public libraries, both when he was governor of Texas and

when he was president

.

The Bush administration oversaw creation of a federal grant program to train a new generation of librarians. It’s called the

Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program

, and it has awarded $130 million to date. During Bush’s presidency, federal funding for public libraries

grew from $163.2 million per year to $212.2 million per year

– a 30 percent increase.

In mocking the boorishness of a former U.S. president, Sir Paul, and those who roared at his remark, unfortunately demonstrated their own.

To see the McCartney video, cklick here:

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/06/bush-basher-paul-mccartney-not-just-rude-but-wrong/

Edited June 27, 201016 yr by pattygreen

Question News & Politics

Will the Libs EVER quit bashing Bush?

by Chico Posted 07/29/09

Originally published 04:45 a.m., July 29, 2009, updated 09:30 a.m., July 29, 2009

Obama still cashing in on Bush's failings

Joseph Curl (Contact)

Facing the first real rough patch of his presidency, President Obama and his supporters are once again resorting to a tried-and-true tactic: attacking George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

In his White House press conference last week, Mr. Obama referred to the Bush era at least nine times, three times lamenting that he "inherited" a $1.3 trillion debt that has set back his administration's efforts to fix the economy.

With the former president lying low in Dallas, largely focused on crafting his memoirs, Mr. Obama has increasingly attempted to exploit Mr. Bush when discussing the weak economy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the difficulty closing the military prison at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

As he took power, Mr. Obama promised a "new era of responsibility" that would transcend partisan politics.

"For a guy who campaigned on taking responsibility and looking forward, he spends an awful lot of time pointing fingers and looking backward," (Sounds like Cleo'smom)said former Bush deputy press secretary Tony Fratto, who has begun defending the previous administration.

But Democrats think Mr. Obama would be remiss if he did not point out what he inherited.

"I'm not convinced that Obama and his supporters are bashing Bush as much as they are quite rightfully reminding people that our current economic mess and the wars were inherited from the Bush administration," said Democratic strategist Bud Jackson. "It's important to remind people of this because Republicans are now criticizing the Obama administration as if they had no role in how we got here."

Democratic Party strategist Liz Chadderdon said the strategy of blaming the previous team has been effective.

"I think Bush-bashing has been alive and well since '07 and, since it keeps working, why not use it?" she said. "Voters have short memories. The administration needs to remind people that things were way worse over the last four years than in the last six months."

Mixed feelings among voters about health care reform have shaken the president's approval ratings from the high poll numbers when he took office. Six months into his term, 30 percent of the nation's voters "strongly approve" of Mr. Obama's job performance, according to a survey released Monday by the Rasmussen polling organization.

The poll showed that 40 percent "strongly disapprove" of the president's performance, marking the first time the disparity has reached double digits.

(and now we are up over 62%)

Since taking office, Mr. Obama has implemented a $787 billion stimulus package that has failed to produce a quick economic turnaround and the U.S. economy has shed more than 2.5 million jobs.

Mr. Obama hardly ever refers to Mr. Bush by name. In fact, his Web site, whitehouse.gov, recently scrubbed the name of the former president out of a reference to Hurricane Katrina, which once read: "President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast."

Now, the "President Bush" is gone.

Although Mr. Obama's effort is subtle, his rhetoric is clear. On his first trip overseas, Mr. Obama referred to Mr. Bush's foreign policy and said the United States has "shown arrogance" and been "dismissive, even derisive." He said decisions of the past had "lowered our standing in the world."

"There are some mornings I read the news and feel like it's January 2009 -- there are so many stories making the front page about things that President Bush thought about and didn't do," said former White House press secretary Dana Perino. "I find it hard to believe that there aren't more interesting stories affecting Americans in the here and now that can garner that kind of space. But the obsession continues unabated."

Even when asserting his responsibility for addressing the nation's problems, Mr. Obama manages to highlight that he was left to deal with others' missteps.

At a town-hall meeting this month in Michigan -- the state with the nation's highest jobless rate -- Mr. Obama said that fixing the economy is "a job I gladly accept."

But he added, "I love these folks who helped get us in this mess. And then suddenly say, 'Oh, this is Obama's economy.'"

The liberals can't get away from bashing Bush, yet critisize Conservatives for their Obama Bashing. Hypocrites!

Government paid jobs DO NOT count as jobs created. They may be actual jobs for the individual who is wroking them, but they are jobs that ALL Americans will have to pay the salaries for from this day forward! I have to laugh that people who work in the private sector don't think our tax dollars go to them. They do. Westinghouse Research could not exist without government (read: taxes) contracts. Also, all the big defense contractors - private jobs, but government tax dollars. And then there's our tax dollars used for private corporate welfare. Your arguement is a false one. Only Private sector jobs are considered a celebration.By you and others with convuluted thinking. Ask a person with a "government" job if they would rather be unemployed and wait for a "real" private sector job. Government jobs have no "Congratulations President Obama" from me! What a shock. Good thing I'm sitting down.

The government payroll is far exceeding the private sector jobs.Provide statistics to prove this. We will be dolling out more money than we are able to continue making. What one federal job pays to an individual, another individual has to work hard to pay them. Why is that a reason to rejoice, IYO?

As for bashing Obama, I saw more bashing of Bush by liberals than what is happening with Obama, even though Obama has been squeezing in more of his agenda that the people do not approve of than any president has ever done.Everything on his agenda is what he ran for as a candidate and people overwhelmingly voted for him and his agenda. Liberals are STILL bashing Bush, even though he's not even there anymore.BECAUSE HIS POLICIES ARE THE REASON WE'RE IN THE MESS WE ARE. I know the neocons would like to forget about bush's failed policies and try daily to rewrite history or at least ignore it. It is up to us progressives to make sure that doesn't happen and to remind people the failures that happened when the republicans were in charge.

Question News & Politics

Will the Libs EVER quit bashing Bush?

by Chico Posted 07/29/09

Originally published 04:45 a.m., July 29, 2009, updated 09:30 a.m., July 29, 2009

Obama still cashing in on Bush's failings

Joseph Curl (Contact)

Facing the first real rough patch of his presidency, President Obama and his supporters are once again resorting to a tried-and-true tactic: attacking George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

In his White House press conference last week, Mr. Obama referred to the Bush era at least nine times, three times lamenting that he "inherited" a $1.3 trillion debt that has set back his administration's efforts to fix the economy.

With the former president lying low in Dallas, largely focused on crafting his memoirs, Mr. Obama has increasingly attempted to exploit Mr. Bush when discussing the weak economy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the difficulty closing the military prison at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

As he took power, Mr. Obama promised a "new era of responsibility" that would transcend partisan politics.

"For a guy who campaigned on taking responsibility and looking forward, he spends an awful lot of time pointing fingers and looking backward," (Sounds like Cleo'smom)said former Bush deputy press secretary Tony Fratto, who has begun defending the previous administration.

But Democrats think Mr. Obama would be remiss if he did not point out what he inherited.

"I'm not convinced that Obama and his supporters are bashing Bush as much as they are quite rightfully reminding people that our current economic mess and the wars were inherited from the Bush administration," said Democratic strategist Bud Jackson. "It's important to remind people of this because Republicans are now criticizing the Obama administration as if they had no role in how we got here."

Democratic Party strategist Liz Chadderdon said the strategy of blaming the previous team has been effective.

"I think Bush-bashing has been alive and well since '07 and, since it keeps working, why not use it?" she said. "Voters have short memories. The administration needs to remind people that things were way worse over the last four years than in the last six months."

Mixed feelings among voters about health care reform have shaken the president's approval ratings from the high poll numbers when he took office. Six months into his term, 30 percent of the nation's voters "strongly approve" of Mr. Obama's job performance, according to a survey released Monday by the Rasmussen polling organization.

The poll showed that 40 percent "strongly disapprove" of the president's performance, marking the first time the disparity has reached double digits.

(and now we are up over 62%)

Since taking office, Mr. Obama has implemented a $787 billion stimulus package that has failed to produce a quick economic turnaround and the U.S. economy has shed more than 2.5 million jobs.

Mr. Obama hardly ever refers to Mr. Bush by name. In fact, his Web site, whitehouse.gov, recently scrubbed the name of the former president out of a reference to Hurricane Katrina, which once read: "President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast."

Now, the "President Bush" is gone.

Although Mr. Obama's effort is subtle, his rhetoric is clear. On his first trip overseas, Mr. Obama referred to Mr. Bush's foreign policy and said the United States has "shown arrogance" and been "dismissive, even derisive." He said decisions of the past had "lowered our standing in the world."

"There are some mornings I read the news and feel like it's January 2009 -- there are so many stories making the front page about things that President Bush thought about and didn't do," said former White House press secretary Dana Perino. "I find it hard to believe that there aren't more interesting stories affecting Americans in the here and now that can garner that kind of space. But the obsession continues unabated."

Even when asserting his responsibility for addressing the nation's problems, Mr. Obama manages to highlight that he was left to deal with others' missteps.

At a town-hall meeting this month in Michigan -- the state with the nation's highest jobless rate -- Mr. Obama said that fixing the economy is "a job I gladly accept."

But he added, "I love these folks who helped get us in this mess. And then suddenly say, 'Oh, this is Obama's economy.'"

The liberals can't get away from bashing Bush, yet critisize Conservatives for their Obama Bashing. Hypocrites!

Because bush's policies nearly destroyed this country and brought our economy to near collapse. I know the neocons would like to forget this (I'll make sure that doesn't happen) but we are living the results of his failures every day.

Now, Pres. Obama's policies have turned job losses into job gains but the republicans want to go into reverse back to job losses. And the people who support this aren't stupid?

May 3, 2010

Federal Government Outpaces Private Sector in Job Creation

Both see more hiring than firing; the opposite is true in state and local governments

by Frank Newport

PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup's Job Creation Index for April reveals significantly more hiring within the federal government than in the private sector. Both show a substantially more positive picture than state and local governments, where firing far eclipses hiring.

Gallup's Job Creation Index is based on the percentage of American workers who say their employers are hiring minus the percentage who say their employers are letting workers go. The overall Index value for American workers in April tilts positive, with 27% of workers saying their places of employment are hiring, and 22% saying their employers are letting people go -- resulting in an overall +5 Job Creation Index.

These overall numbers, however, mask significantly different patterns across employment sectors. Based on these reports from workers, the federal government is a growth industry, while employment at state and local governments is shrinking.

By almost a 2-to-1 margin, federal employees say their employer is hiring rather than firing, giving the federal government a relatively robust +18 Job Creation Index for April. (Federal workers make up about 5% of the sample of workers Gallup interviewed in April.) This contrasts with Index values of -28 among state and -26 among local government workers (about 7% and 5% of Gallup's workforce sample, respectively). The Job Creation Index among private-sector and other non-government workers is +9.

Bottom Line

Gallup's Job Creation Index clearly indicates that state and local governments are in the midst of significant downsizing, no doubt reflecting budgetary issues resulting from recessionary pressures on the tax (and other) revenue that funds these governments.

Hiring at the federal level has apparently to date escaped these same fiscal pressures. Indeed, the federal government appears to be significantly outpacing the private sector in terms of the relative number of jobs created.

How long this pattern will continue is difficult to project. The federal budget deficit is likely to become a prominent element of political debate in the months and years ahead, thus opening up the possibility of increased employment pressures at the federal level. At the moment, however, the federal government is one of the brightest spots in the nation's hiring picture.

Government paid jobs DO NOT count as jobs created. They may be actual jobs for the individual who is wroking them, but they are jobs that ALL Americans will have to pay the salaries for from this day forward! I have to laugh that people who work in the private sector don't think our tax dollars go to them. They do. Westinghouse Research could not exist without government (read: taxes) contracts. Also, all the big defense contractors - private jobs, but government tax dollars. And then there's our tax dollars used for private corporate welfare. Your arguement is a false one.

I do not want my tax dollars to have to pay for ANOTHER government employee's salary. If that employee worked for a private company, then the company would pay his salary, not you and I.

Only Private sector jobs are considered a celebration.By you and others with convuluted thinking. Ask a person with a "government" job if they would rather be unemployed and wait for a "real" private sector job.

Whether it's what they would "prefer" or not is irrelivent. Every time we add another job to the government's payroll, we essentially take away a job from the private sector, cause we cant afford both. SOMEONE has to pay for that government job. I know you liberals can't comprehend that, but it's true. Every dollar that the government pays toward a government employee's salary comes from the private sector.

Government jobs have no "Congratulations President Obama" from me! What a shock. Good thing I'm sitting down.

The government payroll is far exceeding the private sector jobs.Provide statistics to prove this. (see post below)We will be dolling out more money than we are able to continue making. What one federal job pays to an individual, another individual has to work hard to pay them. Why is that a reason to rejoice, IYO?

As for bashing Obama, I saw more bashing of Bush by liberals than what is happening with Obama, even though Obama has been squeezing in more of his agenda that the people do not approve of than any president has ever done.Everything on his agenda is what he ran for as a candidate and people overwhelmingly voted for him and his agenda. (no, they voted for a change, a change that they thought would be unlike the past president, and all they see is more of the same, and far worse)

Liberals are STILL bashing Bush, even though he's not even there anymore.BECAUSE HIS POLICIES ARE THE REASON WE'RE IN THE MESS WE ARE. I know the neocons would like to forget about bush's failed policies and try daily to rewrite history or at least ignore it. It is up to us progressives to make sure that doesn't happen and to remind people the failures that happened when the republicans were in charge.

All we can see are the failures of what is happening right now!

May 3, 2010

Federal Government Outpaces Private Sector in Job Creation

Both see more hiring than firing; the opposite is true in state and local governments

by Frank Newport

PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup's Job Creation Index for April reveals significantly more hiring within the federal government than in the private sector. Both show a substantially more positive picture than state and local governments, where firing far eclipses hiring.

Gallup's Job Creation Index is based on the percentage of American workers who say their employers are hiring minus the percentage who say their employers are letting workers go. The overall Index value for American workers in April tilts positive, with 27% of workers saying their places of employment are hiring, and 22% saying their employers are letting people go -- resulting in an overall +5 Job Creation Index.

These overall numbers, however, mask significantly different patterns across employment sectors. Based on these reports from workers, the federal government is a growth industry, while employment at state and local governments is shrinking.

By almost a 2-to-1 margin, federal employees say their employer is hiring rather than firing, giving the federal government a relatively robust +18 Job Creation Index for April. (Federal workers make up about 5% of the sample of workers Gallup interviewed in April.) This contrasts with Index values of -28 among state and -26 among local government workers (about 7% and 5% of Gallup's workforce sample, respectively). The Job Creation Index among private-sector and other non-government workers is +9.

Bottom Line

Gallup's Job Creation Index clearly indicates that state and local governments are in the midst of significant downsizing, no doubt reflecting budgetary issues resulting from recessionary pressures on the tax (and other) revenue that funds these governments.

Hiring at the federal level has apparently to date escaped these same fiscal pressures. Indeed, the federal government appears to be significantly outpacing the private sector in terms of the relative number of jobs created.

How long this pattern will continue is difficult to project. The federal budget deficit is likely to become a prominent element of political debate in the months and years ahead, thus opening up the possibility of increased employment pressures at the federal level. At the moment, however, the federal government is one of the brightest spots in the nation's hiring picture.

You said the government payroll outpaces the private sector. This does not prove that statement. This shows that the government is hiring more than the private sector and THAT IS A GOOD THING. A government job is a job and it does not take a job away from the private sector. If the private sector would hire and quit trying to get more work (for free ) from existing workers then the federal government wouldn't have to hire people.

Keep in mind that when a person is hired by the federal government, the pay taxes, buy things and stimulate the economy. As the economy improves, the deficit is reduced and fewer people depend on government programs (aid). They become productive members of our society. And that is a good thing.

I wish the government would do more hiring, like the WPA program under FDR. Another great president the neocons hate.

All we can see are the failures of what is happening right now!

I don't see any failures - just successes.

-healthcare reform - passed

-stimulus that turned economy around (job losses to job gains)

-financial reform - about to pass

-clean energy bill - on horizon

-replaced insubordinate McCrystal - done

-got $20 billion from bp for people and recovery - done

Plus all the other ones I listed.

Why don't you list all of bush's successes in EIGHT YEARS? I would like to see that list. Not a cut and paste, just your list.

It's downright hilarious to watch patty complain about "Bush bashing" when all she does is Obama bash. And before that, she was busy bashing Clinton. Remember??? She swore that Clinton's failed policies are why 9/11 happened. Which was patently false. The Republican dominated congress stopped Clinton from being as aggressive as he wanted to be with terrorists in certain middle eastern countries.

So whether the bashing is deserved or not, it's going to happen from the opposition camp. That's the way it is in American politics. In fact, that's the way it is in politics everywhere. We're just dirtier about it than in some countries.

I'd like to see patty's list of Bush accomplishments too - particularly when it comes his economic accomplishments - which is what she constantly wrings her hands and whines about regarding this administration.

Edited June 27, 201016 yr by BJean

The Census Bureau says it let go about 243,000 of the temporary workers who helped in conducting the population count from mid-May to mid-June. Peak census employment reached about 586,000 in early May, indicating additional cuts to come that will keep distorting the payroll figures for months.

Private payrolls

For that reason, economists say private payrolls, which exclude government jobs, will be a better gauge of the state of the labor market for much of 2010. Employment at companies rose by 113,000 after a 41,000 gain in May, according to the median forecast of 29 economists surveyed.

The report will probably also show the unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent last month, according to the survey median, from 9.7 percent. Joblessness, which reached a 26-year high of 10.1 percent in October, will take time to recede as the number of previously discouraged jobseekers returning to the labor force exceeds the number of available jobs.

Factory payrolls increased in June for the sixth straight month, according to the survey. Service providers have also been adding to headcounts this year.

Delta Air Lines Inc., the world's biggest carrier, will hire 700 airport ticket and gate agents to help handle increased summer traffic and operations disrupted by weather, Chris Kelly, a Delta spokeswoman, said June 18 in an interview. Those are in addition to the 300 pilot and 300 reservation agent jobs recently filled by the Atlanta-based airline.

Factory rebound

Manufacturers in the U.S. are reaping the benefits of the global recovery. Deere & Co., the world's largest farm equipment maker, last month reported second-quarter profit that topped analysts' estimates and raised earnings and sales forecasts for a second time this year as demand improved.

Farm machinery sales in the U.S. and Canada will gain 5 percent to 10 percent for the year and South American farm equipment sales are projected to jump about 25 percent because of improvements in the Brazilian and Argentinean markets, Deere said.

"Clearly the markets are improving, and there's a lot of good news out of Brazil," Susan Karlix, a Deere spokeswoman, said May 19 on a conference call with analysts.

On Thursday, the Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing index will show factories expanded in June for an 11th consecutive month, according to economists surveyed. Manufacturing accounts for about 11 percent of the economy.

Manufacturers' shares

The manufacturing rebound has helped underpin shares. The Standard & Poor's Supercomposite Industrial Machinery Index of 52 companies, including Caterpillar Inc. and Deere, has increased 7.8 percent so far this year compared with a 3.4 percent decline in the broader S&P 500.

Household spending climbed 0.1 percent in May after being little changed the prior month, economists projected a report from the Commerce Department tomorrow will show. Incomes likely rose 0.5 percent, the biggest gain in a year, as an increase in hours and average earnings more than made up for a smaller increase in employment, the report will also show.

The Federal Reserve last week said slowing inflation and the fallout from Europe's debt crisis where among reasons it will maintain interest rates low for "an extended period."

The central bank said the labor market is "improving gradually," changing April's assessment that it was "beginning to improve." Consumer spending still "remains constrained" by joblessness and "tight credit," it said.

Tax credit

Housing is feeling the effects of the end of a homebuyer tax credit, figures may show. Construction spending, due from the Commerce Department on Thursday, fell 0.7 percent in May after a gain of 2.7 percent, economists projected.

The following day, the National Association of Realtors will publish its index of signed purchase agreements, or pending home resales, which will show a 14 percent decline in May after three months of gains, according to the survey.

Another report from S&P/Case-Shiller on Tuesday may show an index of average home prices in 20 cities rose 3.5 percent in April from a year earlier.

bloomberg news

So, let's see:

1) Employment at companies rose

2) Factory payrolls increased for the sixth straight month

3) Delta Airlines is going to hire 700

4) Manufacturers are reaping the benefits of global recovery

5) Markets are improving

6) Manufacturing is rebounding

7) Income rose 0.5% (the biggest gain in a year)

8) Labor market is improving gradually

BUT somehow the republicans don't like any of this. The economy is recovering but they want it to fail. And they've done everything in their power to help it fail. They want Obama to fail, so they can push their agenda.

The republicans don't like any of the above listed economic improvements and want to go back to the failed policies of bush. Why is anyone with half a brain listening to them?

Edited June 27, 201016 yr by Cleo's Mom