CNN's Holmes: More Divorces Are 'a Sign That the Economy Is Getting Better'
Economic growth in the first quarter was an abysmal 1.8 percent. Last week, initial jobless claims increased by 25,000 from the previous week, up to 429,000. The Federal government borrows $188 million an hour, or over $52,000 a second, just to keep up with President Obama's spending demands. Despite almost a trillion dollars for Obama's and the Democratic Congress's stimulus, unemployment remains at 8.8 percent.
Amid all these storm clouds, the Obamamaniacs at CNN have found a silver lining. Anchor T.J. Holmes on CNN Newsroom reported today:
Here is a sign that the economy is getting better, an unexpected sign you didn't think about. Divorce rates in the U.S. are on the rise. It's explained here. In 2000 before the recession, of course, way back before the recession, the divorce rate was 4.0. When hard times started in 2007 the breakup rate dropped to 3.6 percent here. But then last year it fell a bit more, a bit more to 3.5. That was the divorce rate then. So, fewer and fewer people are getting divorced.
But now as the economy gets better, we're learning now, we're starting to see a surge in divorce filings. I'm going to bring in matrimonial attorney -- that sounds so much better than divorce attorney -- Elizabeth Lindsay, here to explain this to me. Explain to me just the basics. Why is it when the economy gets better people are OK to get divorced?
The counselor, of course, was more than happy to provide details.
T.J. didn't ask what evidence exists of the "surge in divorce filings," but why mess up a happy story? In the Age of Obama, good news about the U.S. economy is so very hard to find. But apparently, the news readers at CNN will grasp at any straw.
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Wow
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 10:06pm.
So the bad news is the good news? This is what passes for economic analysis at CNN? Wow, they must have really slashed their on-air talent salary budget if this is the caliber of staff they're hiring. They've gone full circle to being, once again, the "Chicken Noodle Network"
Bad news is good news to a
Submitted by ricklail on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 2:25pm.
Bad news is good news to a liberal.
Evil is good, good is evil.
Light for darkness and darkness for light
Bitter for sweet, sweet for bitter
Isaiah was a very wise man. Then again he was listening to a wise God. We all know God had liberals pegged.
Bale of Straw
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 9:57pm.
If I knew his address I would send him a bale of straw. Hopefully he would share it with all the "anchors" at Cnn so they could spend less time grasping for straws.
Jerry
Submitted by ricklail on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 2:28pm.
You may not realize it but that is a brilliant idea. Let's send all the anchors/pundits at the networks some straws. It could say something like here's some straws so stop grasping.
I guess I was taught
Submitted by rbosque on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 10:03pm.
I guess I was taught incorrectly at my university. Time to throw out my economics degree since these media types have figured it all out!
Wow, I've been looking at the wrong indicators all this time!
More "Good News"
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 10:08pm.
Next up, more spouses are having extramarital affairs because, due to an improving economy, they can again afford a hotel room for a night...
Chris Norman
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 10:16pm.
Probably a 3 hour special hosted by the Galloping Sperm Spreader aka ex-Governor Spitzer.
Well, he probably had help
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 10:24pm.
Well, he probably had help from a NY state government stimulus program... :)
Sorta Kind of
Submitted by zenman1661 on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 12:14am.
Yes, divorce is expensive, so some couples couldn;t afford to legally split untill things did get better. But, I really don't think there were enough couples like that to make a statistical difference in the the divorce rate. And I sure as hell, wouldn't use it for the basis of a news piece.
The Burgeoning Economy
Submitted by Emma Grump on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 10:14pm.
By this logic, shootings are on the increase because now people have more money to buy bullets.
That reminds me of the old
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 10:25pm.
That reminds me of the old Rodney Dangerfield joke that his neighborhood was so poor, the crooks couldn't afford guns so they had to insert the bullets manually.
CNN Holmes Related To Baghdad Bob?
Submitted by stratman on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 10:22pm.
Iraq's Information Minister Denies Baghdad Siege
Monday, April 07, 2003
BAGHDAD, Iraq — With U.S. tanks rolling into central Baghdad, Iraq's information minister denied in a rooftop news conference Monday that the Americans were in the city, declaring: "Be assured Baghdad is safe, secure and great."
"They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind," Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf said. "There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad at all."
Sahhaf, speaking outside the Palestine Hotel to a crowd of foreign reporters, said amid sirens and clouds of dust that Saddam Hussein's forces had given invading coalition forces "poison and bitterness."
"Their forces committed suicide by the hundreds. ... The battle is very fierce and God made us victorious. The fighting continues," he said. "Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them."
Sahhaf said coalition forces pushed one of the armored carriers and tanks into the city and "we killed most of them and we will get of rid of them soon. Baghdad will be their graveyard."
Reacting to reports that the U.N. Security Council was to meet Monday, he called on the United Nations to denounce the war "before the United Nations becomes a place for prostitution under the feet of the Americans."
Greatest hits of Baghdad Bob
Something to consider for T. J. Holmes.....
Submitted by big.league.slider on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 10:27pm.
There may be other explanations for the rise in divorce cases that T.J. Holmes did not consider.
With the lousy economy under Obama, there are lots of attorneys without clients. One of the biggest expenses in the divorce are attorney fees. These lawyers are now willing to work cheap, so someone getting divorced can save a bundle on legal fees.
Another thing to consider is the high unemployment rate. An chronically unemployed husband would end up paying much less alimony than one that was gainfully employed. Especially after the 99 weeks of unemployment cash has run out.
And then there's ObamaCare. The husband would be relieved of paying the significant child support costs from health care, since the burden of these costs could now be dumped on the taxpayers under ObamaCare.
Saving money in a divorce has never been easier.
incredible!
Submitted by scarletandgold on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 10:44pm.
these progressives are insane..micheal savage was absolutely right liberalism is a mental disorder..
Holmes is a moron. Our economy is very rapidly imploding
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 1:04am.
And there is no possibility of a turnaround until the fraud going by the name of Barack Hussein Obama has been removed from office and arrested (yes, I am talking hog-tied and in shackles here), and his communistic, nation-destroying policies have been reversed in their entirety.
Or we can just sit around with our thumbs up our asses (as we have been doing for the last 28 months) and watch our country die.
It's your choice, America.
Get off your asses, morons.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Slavery is freedom. Poverty
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 4:07am.
Slavery is freedom. Poverty is wealth!
Obama's 'Spending Plan' is NOT a Budget
Submitted by Retired Geek on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 7:21am.
Barack Obama has NEVER issued a 'Budget' since becoming President - Barack Obama has only presented 'Spending Plans'.
A Budget consists of an itemized summary of estimated or intended expenditures for a given period along with proposals for financing them. Barack Obama only presents expenditures - NOT how to pay for those expenditures.
We will examine some methods Barack Obama would have to use to 'Pay' for his 'Spending Plan' for 2011 of 3.762 Trillion Dollars.
Confiscate and Sell ALL Automobiles:
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There are approximately 250 million automobiles in the United States. If 'EVERY" Automobile in America were confiscated and sold for 10,000 dollars each on average, that would fund the Barack Obama 2011 spending "Plan" for 248 Days or 68% of his 2011 spending "Plan".
http://thpatriots.blogspot.com/2011/04/retired-geek-obamas-spending-plan...
There are lies, damned lies,
Submitted by ricklail on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 9:08am.
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics, Mark Twain.
TJ opens his mouth and...
Submitted by Red Jeep on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 9:29am.
removes all doubt. Here's your card, TJ.
how freaking simple minded can you get?
Submitted by Patriot II on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 10:11am.
Where in H does cnn get these embeciles?
Mike B. Which recession is TJ speaking of? The "Neuralyzer"
Submitted by Gary Hall on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 12:26pm.
I got a kick out of this (the self-directed gap in TJ's memory):
Indeed, 2000, the year of the March, 2000 Dot.com bubble economy collapse is the year just before the early 2001 recession, is it not?
What happens to all of them (MSM folks)? Did the "Men in Black" visit them, wearing their protective shielding eyewear, reach into their pocket and pull out their handy dandy little pocket Neuralyzer?
Things which Bush inherited - factual events - have been craftily Neuralyzed from the minds of our national MSM.
(;~> gary
PS - The divorce rate is going up TJ because people of lost "hope," because of "change."
Let's see
Submitted by TheHistorian on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 1:16pm.
We now have signs that the economy is getting better of:
Every one of these is a sign of increased human misery. Yet the economy is improving? These clowns are not just the Kool-aid drinkers, but the manufacturers and packagers. Obama has given us an economy reminiscent of the 1930's, and like the 1930's, we remain stuck in a non-recovery post-recession.
It is too bad that Barack is such a smart President. I will take a boob like Reagan or Bush 43 are reputed to be, but which got us into a post-recession recovery. The "smartest man in the White House" needs to go back to Chicago where his policies and politics play well.
Dennis Prager