http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/09/11/can-we-have-a-tarp-for-jobs/ A slice of lime in the soda Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/09/11/can-we-have-a-tarp-for-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-43048 GregHao Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:05:24 +0000 https://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=17460#comment-43048 >>which he doesn’t seem to mention much any more<< The reason is, of course, that the American Jobs Act has no snowball chance in hell to pass the Republican controlled House and where the GOP has created a permanent regime of Filibuster (or rather forced cloture) in the Senate. Obama absolutely should and need to be out there extolling the virtues of the AJA but let's not pretend Obama is the problem. >>which he doesn’t seem to mention much any more

]]> http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/09/11/can-we-have-a-tarp-for-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-43047 GregHao Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:35:24 +0000 https://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=17460#comment-43047 >>which he doesn’t seem to mention much any more<< The reason is, of course, that the American Jobs Act has no snowball chance in hell to pass the Republican controlled House and where the GOP has created a permanent regime of Filibuster (or rather forced cloture) in the Senate. Obama absolutely should and need to be out there extolling the virtues of the AJA but let's not pretend Obama is the problem. >>which he doesn’t seem to mention much any more

]]> http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/09/11/can-we-have-a-tarp-for-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-43044 mfw13 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:25:07 +0000 https://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=17460#comment-43044 No. You can't. The idiotic Republicans in the Senate will filibuster any jobs bill (or anything else that could potentially help Democrats politically). No. You can’t. The idiotic Republicans in the Senate will filibuster any jobs bill (or anything else that could potentially help Democrats politically).

]]> http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/09/11/can-we-have-a-tarp-for-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-43043 GregHao Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:05:23 +0000 https://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=17460#comment-43043 >>which he doesn’t seem to mention much any more<< The reason is, of course, that the American Jobs Act has no snowball chance in hell to pass the Republican controlled House and where the GOP has created a permanent regime of Filibuster (or rather forced cloture) in the Senate. Obama absolutely should and need to be out there extolling the virtues of the AJA but let's not pretend Obama is the problem. >>which he doesn’t seem to mention much any more

]]> http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/09/11/can-we-have-a-tarp-for-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-43042 GregHao Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:35:23 +0000 https://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=17460#comment-43042 >>which he doesn’t seem to mention much any more<< The reason is, of course, that the American Jobs Act has no snowball chance in hell to pass the Republican controlled House and where the GOP has created a permanent regime of Filibuster (or rather forced cloture) in the Senate. Obama absolutely should and need to be out there extolling the virtues of the AJA but let's not pretend Obama is the problem. >>which he doesn’t seem to mention much any more

]]> http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/09/11/can-we-have-a-tarp-for-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-43041 GregHao Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:05:22 +0000 https://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=17460#comment-43041 >>which he doesn’t seem to mention much any more<< The reason is, of course, that the American Jobs Act has no snowball chance in hell to pass the Republican controlled House and where the GOP has created a permanent regime of Filibuster (or rather forced cloture) in the Senate. Obama absolutely should and need to be out there extolling the virtues of the AJA but let's not pretend Obama is the problem. >>which he doesn’t seem to mention much any more

]]> http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/09/11/can-we-have-a-tarp-for-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-43040 GregHao Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:35:22 +0000 https://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=17460#comment-43040 >>which he doesn’t seem to mention much any more<< The reason is, of course, that the American Jobs Act has no snowball chance in hell to pass the Republican controlled House and where the GOP has created a permanent regime of Filibuster (or rather forced cloture) in the Senate. Obama absolutely should and need to be out there extolling the virtues of the AJA but let's not pretend Obama is the problem. >>which he doesn’t seem to mention much any more

]]> http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/09/11/can-we-have-a-tarp-for-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-43037 GregHao Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:05:21 +0000 https://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=17460#comment-43037 >>which he doesn’t seem to mention much any more<< The reason is, of course, that the American Jobs Act has no snowball chance in hell to pass the Republican controlled House and where the GOP has created a permanent regime of Filibuster (or rather forced cloture) in the Senate. Obama absolutely should and need to be out there extolling the virtues of the AJA but let's not pretend Obama is the problem. >>which he doesn’t seem to mention much any more

]]> http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/09/11/can-we-have-a-tarp-for-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-43036 GregHao Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:35:21 +0000 https://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=17460#comment-43036 >>which he doesn’t seem to mention much any more<< The reason is, of course, that the American Jobs Act has no snowball chance in hell to pass the Republican controlled House and where the GOP has created a permanent regime of Filibuster (or rather forced cloture) in the Senate. Obama absolutely should and need to be out there extolling the virtues of the AJA but let's not pretend Obama is the problem. >>which he doesn’t seem to mention much any more

]]> http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/09/11/can-we-have-a-tarp-for-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-43035 GregHao Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:05:20 +0000 https://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=17460#comment-43035 >>which he doesn’t seem to mention much any more<< The reason is, of course, that the American Jobs Act has no snowball chance in hell to pass the Republican controlled House and where the GOP has created a permanent regime of Filibuster (or rather forced cloture) in the Senate. Obama absolutely should and need to be out there extolling the virtues of the AJA but let's not pretend Obama is the problem. >>which he doesn’t seem to mention much any more

]]> http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/09/11/can-we-have-a-tarp-for-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-43034 GregHao Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:35:20 +0000 https://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=17460#comment-43034 >>which he doesn’t seem to mention much any more<< The reason is, of course, that the American Jobs Act has no snowball chance in hell to pass the Republican controlled House and where the GOP has created a permanent regime of Filibuster (or rather forced cloture) in the Senate. Obama absolutely should and need to be out there extolling the virtues of the AJA but let's not pretend Obama is the problem. >>which he doesn’t seem to mention much any more

]]> http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/09/11/can-we-have-a-tarp-for-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-43033 dWj Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:07:45 +0000 https://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=17460#comment-43033 Your recollection of TARP is different from mine. Certainly official government budgeting is done on a "cash" basis, such that TARP counted for those purposes as "expenditure", but there was a fair amount of discussion as to how much of that was going to be "lost", and, with what TARP ended up being, I think most people expected that the first $125 billion doled out would be profitable (even before the terms were changed after the fact). Your recollection of TARP is different from mine. Certainly official government budgeting is done on a “cash” basis, such that TARP counted for those purposes as “expenditure”, but there was a fair amount of discussion as to how much of that was going to be “lost”, and, with what TARP ended up being, I think most people expected that the first $125 billion doled out would be profitable (even before the terms were changed after the fact).

]]> http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/09/11/can-we-have-a-tarp-for-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-43032 GregHao Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:05:19 +0000 https://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=17460#comment-43032 >>which he doesn’t seem to mention much any more<< The reason is, of course, that the American Jobs Act has no snowball chance in hell to pass the Republican controlled House and where the GOP has created a permanent regime of Filibuster (or rather forced cloture) in the Senate. Obama absolutely should and need to be out there extolling the virtues of the AJA but let's not pretend Obama is the problem. >>which he doesn’t seem to mention much any more

]]> http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/09/11/can-we-have-a-tarp-for-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-43030 GregHao Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:35:19 +0000 https://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=17460#comment-43030 >>which he doesn’t seem to mention much any more<< The reason is, of course, that the American Jobs Act has no snowball chance in hell to pass the Republican controlled House and where the GOP has created a permanent regime of Filibuster (or rather forced cloture) in the Senate. Obama absolutely should and need to be out there extolling the virtues of the AJA but let's not pretend Obama is the problem. >>which he doesn’t seem to mention much any more

]]> http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/09/11/can-we-have-a-tarp-for-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-43029 dWj Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:22:40 +0000 https://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=17460#comment-43029 Your recollection of TARP is different from mine. Certainly official government budgeting is done on a "cash" basis, such that TARP counted for those purposes as "expenditure", but there was a fair amount of discussion as to how much of that was going to be "lost", and, with what TARP ended up being, I think most people expected that the first $125 billion doled out would be profitable (even before the terms were changed after the fact). Your recollection of TARP is different from mine. Certainly official government budgeting is done on a “cash” basis, such that TARP counted for those purposes as “expenditure”, but there was a fair amount of discussion as to how much of that was going to be “lost”, and, with what TARP ended up being, I think most people expected that the first $125 billion doled out would be profitable (even before the terms were changed after the fact).

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