This week, Mitt Romney made his first trip abroad as the presumptive GOP nominee, visiting London and kicking things off by questioning the city's preparation for the Olympics. Romney's remarks were a field day for the British press, spawned the Twitter hashtag #romneyshambles, and elicited rebukes from David Cameron ("it's easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere") and London Mayor Boris Johnson, who jabbed back at "a guy called Mitt Romney." On the upside, Romney managed to unite what had been a very divided country. Meanwhile, on this side of the pond, HuffPost selected eight community reporters to cover the Democratic and Republican National Conventions as part of our OffTheBus "Cover the Conventions" contest. We will use their insight and outsiders' perspective to help get beyond the horse-race aspect of election coverage when it comes to the ultimate Olympic event for politics fans -- the November elections.
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Saturation macroeconomics has identified a terminal daily pattern in US bond prices that represents for some time to come the final high interest rate for the world's safest asset, US sovereign debt. The US ten year note may reach 1.7 to 2.1 percent on 16 August 2012. That would be a great buy, considering the US 10 year note is headed to less than 0.3 percent.
Amidst all the news about about a polarized dysfunctional US congress, the have and have nots, the 99 or 99.99 per cent and the < or
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We in the union sector are united in our realization that this administration couldn't care less about American labor. And the fawning press reports on the President and his Job Czar Jeff Immelt like it's a love story.
The American press is saturated with journalists that would be horrified if they discovered a blue collar worker in their own family, so it's easy to see the culture of disregard for American workers.
By the way, Huff Post has sections for Business, Entertainment, Media, Hollywood,
Kardashians...Where is the "Labor" section?
In the meantime here in the states the GDP grew just 1.5% putting us under the 2.0% needed for net job growth. Matches with the recent 80,000 jobs number (down from 500,000 in May 2010) that indicates a shrinking net workforce.
And for a President that cannot seem to pass anything, mostly choosing to play the blame game instead, the Iron Shield (on the table since 2009) went through the Senate like a hot knife through butter coinciding with a Romney visit to Israel. Wow. Could all that obstructionist stuff be rhetoric? Makes one wonder.
Lastly, in the spirit of the Olympics, the President might have a world record with a score of 100 to nil. Over 100 hundred fund raisers and zero meetings with his economic team. Carry-On.
The answer is obviously that the 99% have been successfully propagandized over the last 40 years to vote against their own best interests. In contrast to other advanced countries, the US has a population that has been purposefully overworked and undereducated.
The states that vote Republican, are the very one's where their citizens use the most government aid.
I suppose the UK public would have fely the same if the French or Chinese or Germans had done the same, but damned Romney?