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Post by Helen Dagner on Oct 30, 2012 23:33:57 GMT -5
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Post by Helen Dagner on Oct 31, 2012 11:10:38 GMT -5
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Post by Helen Dagner on Oct 31, 2012 11:15:32 GMT -5
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Post by Helen Dagner on Nov 2, 2012 0:44:38 GMT -5
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Post by Helen Dagner on Nov 2, 2012 17:27:25 GMT -5
COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America.
ABBOTT: Good Subject. Terrible Times. It's 7.8%.
COSTELLO: That many people are out of work?
ABBOTT: No, that's 14.7%.
COSTELLO: You just said 7.8%.
ABBOTT: 7.8% Unemployed.
COSTELLO: Right 7.8% out of work.
ABBOTT: No, that's 14.7%.
COSTELLO: Okay, so it's 14.7% unemployed.
ABBOTT: No, that's 7.8%.
COSTELLO: WAIT A MINUTE. Is it 7.8% or14.7%?
ABBOTT: 7.8% are unemployed. 14.7% are out of work.
COSTELLO: IF you are out of work you are unemployed.
ABBOTT: No, Obama said you can't count the "Out of Work" as the unemployed. You have to look for work to be unemployed.
COSTELLO: BUT THEY ARE OUT OF WORK!!!
ABBOTT: No, you miss his point.
COSTELLO: What point?
ABBOTT: Someone who doesn't look for work can't be counted with those who look for work. It wouldn't be fair.
COSTELLO: To whom?
ABBOTT: The unemployed.
COSTELLO: But they are ALL out of work.
ABBOTT: No, the unemployed are actively looking for work. Those who are out of work gave up looking and if you give up, you are no longer in the ranks of the unemployed.
COSTELLO: So if you're off the unemployment roles that would count as less unemployment?
ABBOTT: Unemployment would go down. Absolutely!
COSTELLO: The unemployment just goes down because you don't look for work?
ABBOTT: Absolutely it goes down. That's how Obama gets it to 7.8%. Otherwise it would be 14.7%. He doesn't want you to read about 14.7% unemployment.
COSTELLO: That would be tough on his reelection.
ABBOTT: Absolutely.
COSTELLO: Wait, I got a question for you. That means there are two ways to bring down the unemployment number?
ABBOTT: Two ways is correct.
COSTELLO: Unemployment can go down if someone gets a job?
ABBOTT: Correct.
COSTELLO: And unemployment can also go down if you stop looking for a job?
ABBOTT: Bingo.
COSTELLO: So there are two ways to bring unemployment down, and the easier of the two is to have Obama's supporters stop looking for work.
ABBOTT: Now you're thinking like the Obama Economy Czar.
COSTELLO: I don't even know what the hell I just said!
ABBOTT: Now you're thinking like Obama.
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Post by Helen Dagner on Nov 2, 2012 21:52:44 GMT -5
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Post by Helen Dagner on Nov 2, 2012 22:06:29 GMT -5
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Post by Helen Dagner on Nov 2, 2012 22:32:55 GMT -5
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Post by Helen Dagner on Nov 3, 2012 4:59:37 GMT -5
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Post by Helen Dagner on Nov 3, 2012 5:55:02 GMT -5
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Post by Helen Dagner on Nov 3, 2012 14:31:48 GMT -5
NEWINGTON, N.H. — Mitt Romney kicked off the last weekend of the 2012 campaign in the state that set him on pace to win the Republican nomination, the first of four stops in three states today.
With three days left before the election, Romney and President Obama are dashing across key swing states where they have been virtually deadlocked since mid-October. In addition to the New Hampshire event, the Republican nominee will have a rally in Iowa and two others in Colorado today. Romney launched his presidential campaign at a New Hampshire event in June 2011.
This morning, about 2,000 people, according to the campaign, huddled in coats and hats on a chilly tarmac to hear Romney. The GOP nominee declared that the campaign has become a movement.
“It’s not just the size of the crowds. It’s the conviction and compassion in the hearts of the people,” Romney said. “It’s made me strive to be more worthy of the support I have received across the country and to campaign as I would govern, to speak for the aspirations of all Americans, not just some Americans.”
After the event, Romney, his surrogates and staff boarded the campaign plane and Ann Romney — who has been traveling solo to stump for her husband — walked to the back of the cabin offering pastries to reporters. Asked how it felt to campaign on her own, she said the experience has been “humbling” and “extraordinary.”
“It’s very touching for me,” she said. “It was very emotional when I gave my last sort of address by myself, because I hear the voices and the passion of the people out there that are really hurting, and they are etched in my mind and my heart, as they are with Mitt.”
As to her husband’s state of mind? “I’m not going to — that’s it, guys. It’s pumpkin whoopie time!”
Copyright © 2012 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc.
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Post by Helen Dagner on Nov 4, 2012 0:53:20 GMT -5
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Post by Helen Dagner on Nov 5, 2012 2:51:32 GMT -5
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Post by Helen Dagner on Nov 5, 2012 6:14:01 GMT -5
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Post by Helen Dagner on Nov 5, 2012 13:40:59 GMT -5
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