This time it’s dancing in Africa …..
Being Secretary of State IS serious business….
But I can’t getting the feeling that THIS lady has realized that there is more to life than being serious ALL the time….
Hillary Clinton sure knows how to have a good time.
The secretary of state was captured on camera dancing during her trip to South Africa, on the heels of showing off her moves in Malawi.
Earlier this year, Clinton made headlines when she was snapped drinking a beer in Cartagena, Colombia, where she was attending the Summit of the Americas.
It was just before the trip that a striking photo of the secretary of state texting aboard a military C-17 plane on her way to Libya gave way to “Texts from Hillary” – an Internet meme sensation.
In April at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, President Barack Obama jokedthat “much has changed” during his time in office. He quipped, “Four years ago, I was locked in a brutal primary battle with Hillary Clinton.
Four years later she won’t stop drunk-texting me from Cartegana.”
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I think the scary thing is neither party really has a plan
And that what many of us see as unacceptable unemployment
May be the new norm
It’s something most of us have never confronted
Jack, America confronted greater than this type of unemployment for over ten years during the great depression. And, although no one wants to admit it, Bush sent us into a mini-depression — a depression that only massive government spending would have prevented. So, eight percent unemployment may be the norm for a few more years. I can guarantee that, if Romney were to get his way with the budget and tax cuts, the economy would be even worse off in the future — most economists certainly agree.
Only the very elderly remember the Great Depression
I agree that in ten or twenty years the years 2008-2010 will be looked upon as a mini Depression
The thing that is disconcerting is that our economy is changing so rapidly that high unemployment may indeed be around for many years
And whereas in the past 4-5% unemployment was considered the norm
7-8% will be considered the future norm
With a resulting shrinkage in those classified as Middle Class
What you might look at is the response to the Slump of Britain’s National Government of 1931-40 under J. Ramsay Macdonald, Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain. While they weren’t inactive, they didn’t really have much of an answer either.
With both wings of the Liberals lining mainly with the Tories in the National Government, Labour’s opposition could only do so much. And unemployment stayed stubbornly high.
I agree Jack that only the elderly remember the Great Depression, but you and I are surely the children of depression babies. And today’s AARP poll really shows how those second generation depression kids are scared about not having the same retirement our parents had. It will be Romney’s undoing I think and lots of other Republicans who are foolish enough to back his tax plan.
I’m not sure what this has to do with Hillary Clinton but OK
Anyways speaking of Clinton the 1990′s might be the last time for a generation that we had significant economic growth.
Funny how George W. Bush has a new book called “The 4% Solution” about how to achieve that kind of growth.
The rate of economic growth under his 8 yr. Presidency? 2.5%
What’s next? Kim Kardashian writing a book about how to have a lasting marriage?
Believe it or not, way back when in the 1960′s there was argument, technical and political, over whether “frictional” unemployment (the kind that’s inevitable when employers and employees have freedom of choice in the labor market) was 2% or 4%.
Politicians and their economic allies who wanted to boast about getting unemployment down to or close to 4%, or who worried more about the dangers of deficits and inflation, argued that frictional unemployment was really 4%, and that making extra efforts to reduce it below that level would be at best futile and at worst would overheat the economy.
Liberals and the labor movement said the frictional level was still 2%, so there was room to lower it even further and hire more of the jobless.
This was at a time when there was still universal male conscription and over three million Americans in military uniform rather than the civilian economy.
My best guess is that the unemployment rate will continue to gradually fall – and that will be true regardless of whether Romney or Obama is president. The problem is that middle class jobs are disappearing and many of the newly unemployed must take a less desirable job than they previously had. So eventually we will get down to 4% or 5% unemployment rate. As long as there is an abundant supply of cheap labor, employers will find new products or services to provide.
We can slow the loss of jobs by providing tax disincentives to outsource jobs. But the loss of middle class jobs is not purlely an American experience. It is happening in most, if not all, advanced countries in the world.
Go Hillary – looks like you effectively connected with these people.
I would like to see a comparable picture of Romney doing that. I know he likes to sing “Who let the dogs out” and “America the Beautiful”, but I would enjoy seeing him dance too.
Hillary has had a long HARD last 15 years
It is good to see her HAPPY
If Hillary wants to STAY
HAPPY
She should
NOT RUN IN 2016
I wish I was as optimistic
I think that the present state of our economy with the basic disappearance of manufacturing jobs means the floor for unemployment is 6 or even 6.5%
Further I think the “real” unemployment rate today is substantially more than 8.3%
Depends where you are
The number 8.3% is actually an average
Some state are higher
Quite a few are lower
Could be Jack
We seem to have gotten a bit too efficient in some businesses
And the unemployment rate doesnt even include people who have essentially given up looking
And many of those were part of the Middle Class
That’s what’s so distressing
There is a real “war” being conducted on the Middle Class in this country
And it is being led by the Republican Party
Which essentially is OPPOSED to healthcare for average people
Which while playing silly word games is essentially OPPOSED to social security
Which once again afraid to openly say so is OPPOSED to Medicare
Which is OPPOSED to assisting Middle class families send their kids to college
Which in fact appears to be philosophically OPPOSED to just about anything to help average folks
While seemingly all concerned about the bloated military budget which cries out for draconian cuts
Amazing!