http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2009/12/01/is-the-ambitious-obama-agenda-freezing-the-us-labor-market-ceos-think-so/ Politics and policy from inside Washington Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:23:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2009/12/01/is-the-ambitious-obama-agenda-freezing-the-us-labor-market-ceos-think-so/comment-page-1/#comment-5043 Ed753 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:37:27 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/?p=2770#comment-5043 WOW, Jimmy-P, we must have been on a parallel today, I was just talking to my boss about this afternoon, so many variables, unknowns, rules changing daily.Our company is treating it like "crossing the desert" the more water you keep, the slower you sip it, the longer you can last.24 months into the recession, and is there anything in sight, "less-bad" is no longer good enough, or might this be the "new-norm". 2.8% 3rd quarter, minus all the spending, cash-4-clunkers, FTHB Credit, all the road projects, and we only squeak out 2.8%? What now, the crack is almost gone!? WOW, Jimmy-P, we must have been on a parallel today, I was just talking to my boss about this afternoon, so many variables, unknowns, rules changing daily.Our company is treating it like “crossing the desert” the more water you keep, the slower you sip it, the longer you can last.24 months into the recession, and is there anything in sight, “less-bad” is no longer good enough, or might this be the “new-norm”. 2.8% 3rd quarter, minus all the spending, cash-4-clunkers, FTHB Credit, all the road projects, and we only squeak out 2.8%? What now, the crack is almost gone!?

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