Sorry, you took an excellent thread and degenerated into the jism post..... Just so typical and pathetic... 309 American dead in Iraq, no chemical weapons, bo biological weapons, no nuclear weapons, no Sadam..... (facts) but it's all about the jism....
While I agree it's tough out there, Supafan, the unemployment rate is not the worst it has been since the Depression. It is only a bit worse than the recession of 1991-94 that cost Bush, Sr. re-election. You have to go back to the days of Jimmy Carter to find the last time the U.S. had double digit unemployment. From what my parents tell me, the economy REALLY SUCKED back then. The first signs of economic recovery are starting to show, but it takes months of resurgence before companies start hiring and expanding again. I remember a TIME Magazine issue in 1996 that said on the cover "Boom for Whom?", and basically complained of the same thing your complaining about: If the economy is recovering, why is unemployment still high? Why aren't people getting jobs? Well, just three years later, the unemployment rate hit it's lowest ever number, 3.9%. Give it some time. You can rest assured the economy will not be down forever. Sooner or later, somebody up on Wall Street is going to see a business oppurtunity and jump on it. Then we'll be off to the races once again.
Re: Sorry, you took an excellent thread and Thats right no Sadam. He may be alive but he is not in power and his sons are dead. The world (and Iraq) is a better place. It was justified. I know it was your first attempt so nice try at facts but I thought we were talking about the economy. Can you give us economic facts like the GDP over the past six years using one of your famous pictographs? "jism"Do not blame me for your boy's indiscretions with an intern. It was such a great image for America. You use "just so typical and pathetic" a lot. Please can't you be more original. Can you post without putting people down? You have called me a redneck, pathetic, and so on. Again why are you so angry and hateful? I thought liberals were supposed to love everyone! By the way the only one of your pictures that I do have a problem with is your picture of Bush picking his nose. Who has not ever picked their nose? I say let thou who is without a pick cast the first booger.
You are wrong about the unemployment rate. Like Jetstorm stated it was double digit with Carter along with double digit inflation. What is your field?
The only reason the unemployment rate was lower in the 70s was because the definitiion of the work force changed. The work force included college students, the chronic homeless, and other able bodied groups who refused to work in the past. Today the workforce only consists of the willing and able. This causes a lower and more accurate unemployment rate. When you here that 51% of African Americans in New Orleans are unumplyed that is using the old definition. By todays definition that number is much lower. My point is comparing the unemployment rate today with what it was in the past is like comparing apples and oranges. Use a standardized definition and you will see unemployment is hire now.
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Keep repeating the RN mantra... Sadam has no power, Sadam has no power,Sadam has no power.... 300+ Americans dead, 140,000 troops, and the US begging the UN for help.... (facts) The unemployed vote..... Poppy (fact) Personal attacks? No just proving you wrong again and again....
Re: Keep repeating the RN mantra... Your mind works in mysterious ways. You have never proved me wrong. You quote facts like the sky is blue. Duh! I think you are just not used to somebody actually challenging the fiction like "the Economy sucks" you usually post on this board. You still yet to say anything about the economy except for the second time " the unemployed vote" Duh! again. Being unemployed does not take away your right to vote. Thanks for the obvious Sherlock. I am sure they also voted when the rate was in the 4's and 5's in the 90's. Yes we have over 300 dead heroes. According to people like you it was going to be 30,000 by this time. Most thought the major battles would still be going on? How many Kurds are safer now? Even with the bombing at the Mosque have many Shiites are now safer from Sadam. I support the War even though it did and still might include my father being there, and my father does as well. "Begging for help" please have you even seen the resolution. It is like you find a line that you think is funny and you keep using it over and over again, but it never really answers anything. Except for starting this thread you have added nothing of substance since. Wait I am sorry you did teach me that the unemployed vote, and I am forever in your debt. And yes you do result to calling people pathetic, rednecks, sheep, ... etc I guess that and "angry" pictures are all you have. Thank you for proving that liberals do not have a shot at the 2004 election. I am laughing at your hatred of Bush and wish you continued misery until Jan 2009. Do not let it consume you this much though? I would not want you to have a heart attack and die before Bush wins again.
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