Pelosi: 500 million Americans are going to lose their jobs!

I heard that over a week ago. Hilarious still.

 

Those poor, unemployed great-great-? grand kids.

 

A baby seal is clubbed every time Nancy Pelosi goofs.

 

A thread I would expect from Basso. I understand why conservative ideologues and libertarians hate Pelosi. It is puzzling to see some moderates nutty about her.

 

She is just two heartbeats (albeit stopping at roughly the same time) away from being President.

 

imagine, if you will, that Sarah Palin had said this...

 

I would be impressed. I don't think Sarah Palin can fathom numbers that large.

 

i doubt a republican would've started the thread.

 

Pelosi made this same gaffe back in January in an interview with Chris Wallace.

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PELOSI: Well, I believe that — I know that President-elect Obama is a strong supporter of America’s workers. I myself am a strong supporter of that legislation. We passed it with a strong vote in the House in the last Congress, and I continue to be supportive of it.

But in terms of what we have to do in the first 100 days, we must address the needs of this country. Five hundred million people will lose their jobs each month until we have an economic package.

WALLACE: No, 500,000.

PELOSI: What did I say, million?

WALLACE: Yes, 500 million. That would really be a recession.

PELOSI: Oh, no. Excuse me. Thank you for correcting me.

WALLACE: Yes.

PELOSI: It feels like 500 million. Five hundred thousand Americans will lose their jobs each month until we have a recovery package.
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I know this only a small sample but, can Pelosi or any Democrat explain, how in the world is your Stimulus-Pork going to find employment for all these people?

* Citigroup - 59,000 layoffs
* Bank of America - 35,000 layoffs (over 3 years - to 2011)
* HP Electronic Data Systems - 24,500 layoffs (over 3 years - to 2011)
* Linens 'n Things - 21,250 layoffs
* General Motors - 19,000 layoffs
* Lehman Brothers - 16,000 layoffs
* Alcoa - 15,200 layoffs
* Starbuck's - 12,000 layoffs
* AT&T - 12,000 layoffs
* Wachovia - 11,250 layoffs
* BT (British TeleCom) - 10,000 layoffs
* DHL (US Division) - 9,500 layoffs
* Bennigan's Restaurants - 9,300 layoffs
* JP Morgan/Washington Mutual Acquisition - 9,200 layoffs
* JP Morgan/Bear Stearns Acquisition - 9,160 layoffs
* Dell - 8,900 layoffs
* Sony (USA) - 8,000 layoffs
* Bank of America (Countrywide) - 7,500 layoffs
* Circuit City - 7,305 layoffs
* American Express - 7,000 layoffs
* NASA - 7,000 layoffs
* American Airlines - 7,000 layoffs
* Google - 6,000 - 4,300 layoffs
* Sun Microsystems - 6,000 layoffs
* Credit Suisse - 5,300 layoffs
* Merrill Lynch - 5,150 layoffs
* Reliance Group - 5,000 layoffs
* GMAC - 5,000 layoffs
* Dow Chemical - 5,000 layoffs
* Morgan Stanley - 4,100 layoffs
* Fidelity Investments - 4,000 layoffs
* Sprint Nextel - 4,000 layoffs
* University of Texas Medical Branch - 3,800 layoffs
* Siemens Enterprise Communications - 3,800 layoffs
* PepesiCo - 3,300 layoffs
* Goldman Sachs - 3,260 layoffs
* Lehman Brothers - 2,900 layoffs
* Nokia (Manufacturing division) - 2,300 layoffs
* Daimler Trucks - 2,100
* Nortel Networks - 2,100 layoffs
* Chrysler - 1,825 layoffs
* International Paper - 1,500 - 1,000 layoffs
* Yahoo! - 1,500 - 1,000 layoffs
* Goldman Sachs - 1,500 layoffs
* HSBC North American Holdings - 1,350 layoffs
* Lenovo - 1,250 layoffs
* Nissan (UK) - 1,200 layoffs
* HSBC - 1,100 layoffs
* Macy's - 960 layoffs
* Bank of America - 928 layoffs (management)
* Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co - 850 layoffs
* Boeing - 800 layoffs
* Woolworths - 700 layoffs
* Nokia (US Sales) - 650 layoffs
* Texas Instruments - 650 layoffs
* Adobe Systems - 600 layoffs
* Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) - 500 layoffs
* Merrill Lynch (Trading division) - 500 layoffs
* Level 3 Communications - 450 layoffs
* Barclay's - 400 layoffs
* E-Trade Financial Corp. - 278 layoffs
* Palm - 200 layoffs
* Akamai - 110 layoffs

Expected job losses and announced layoffs in 2009

* Japan's top 12 automakers - 25,000 combined layoffs expected
* Caterpillar - 20,000 layoffs
* Panasonic - 15,000 layoffs
* KBG Toys - 15,000 expected layoffs
* GlaxoSmithKline PLC - 10,000 job losses expected
* Sprint Nextel - 8,000 layoffs (14% of staff)
* Pfizer Pharmaceutical - 8,000 layoffs (by end of 2011)
* Home Depot - 7,000 layoffs
* Starbucks - 6,700 layoffs
* ING - 7,000 layoffs
* Phillips Electronics - 6,000 layoffs
* Intel - 6,000 layoffs (second round)
* PNC Financial - 5,800 layoffs
* Whirlpool - 5,000 expected layoffs
* Microsoft - 5,000 layoffs
* Ericsson - 5,000 layoffs
* General Motors - additional 2,000 layoffs over 2008 total
* Fidelity Investments - 1,700 layoffs (second round of 4,000 job cuts announced in 2008)
* Bell Canada - 1,500 early retirement buy outs
* Time/Warner (TV) - 1,250 layoffs
* Harley Davidson - 1,100 layoffs
* United Airlines - 1,000 layoffs
* Liz Claiborne - 725 layoffs
* John Deere - 200 layoffs
* BigLots - unspecified number of expected layoffs
* AK Steel - unspecified number of expected layoffs
* Waterford/Wedgewood - unspecified number of layoffs

http://www.nowpublic.com/tech-biz/layoffs-list-job-losses-2008-and-2009-ongoing

 

So if it can't help all of the people it shouldn't be allowed to help any? Or to help prevent additional layoffs?

 

We're going to do just as the Egyptians did when they had a large number unemployed and discontent. We're going to put them to work building valuable public works projects.

Spoiler

 

Remember the Pelosi poll that was done on this message board?

60% voted poor, while 2% said Great and 8% okay. That is worse approval than Bush. Maybe 2% of the message board live in SF and actually voted for her?

 

So we are going back to slavery?

Genius!!!

Hope you know how to follow orders from your overloards!

 

500,000 a month until a package is passed? Really? So if there isn't a stimulus package in a year, 6,000,000 jobs will be lost?

I find even that number hard to believe.

 

It will probably hold for a few months at least. The have said all along 10% unemployment.