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Washington Post: Eight-Year Period Is Weakest In Decades; Job Creation At Lowest Level Since Data Collection Began
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Modern "conservatism" is a morally and econmically bankrupting ideology that espouses the insane belief that the answer to every problem is to simply move more money from the hands of the working classes into the already full pockets of the super-rich.
Welcome to the fallout from 8 miserable years of "conservative" government.
If, when the trickle in Bush''s trickle down economics finally reaches you, it looks and smells like urine...........that''s because it is!- Reply to this comment
- I sure screwed up. I should have been rich with all the money being thrown around.
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- "It''s sad to say, but we really went nowhere for almost ten years %u2026 It''s almost a lost economic decade.
Mark Zandi, Moody''s Economy.com"
What does he mean, "almost." What a frigging disaster. - Reply to this comment
- There were tremendous gains in the fast food service sector. The fake green cards and social security business doubled. Bankruptcy attorneys quadrupled their business. Debt collectors contributed to the phone company profits. Private security showed sharp increases.
Posted by carpriddler
Don''t forget record profits for the oil companies and a spectacular eight years for the defense industry. - Reply to this comment
- There were tremendous gains in the fast food service sector. The fake green cards and social security business doubled. Bankruptcy attorneys quadrupled their business. Debt collectors contributed to the phone company profits. Private security showed sharp increases.
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- Economy Made Few Gains In Bush Years
Well gee, you could have knocked me over with a feather with that headline. To be correct though it really should read poor made no gains and the middle class lost ground. The rich of course prospered big time. - Reply to this comment
- ===You must either not be aware (or have chosen to ignore,) the fact that conservatives STILL berate Bill Clinton.===
Posted by raflin0010
Clinton? Are you kidding? The neocons are still trashing JIMMY CARTER!
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Posted by Rafterman1 at 02:13 PM : Jan 12, 2009
Sometimes we are correct. How will you know? Put away the labels and consider with an open mind. - Reply to this comment
- More to consider:
3. Education and innovation are the ultimate natural resource. Our country has sacrificed both in the name of equality and fair play (im not railing about racial equality so dont start that argument). We choose to not discriminate based on potential, we choose to make sure all opportunities are available to everyone, regardless of abilities.
equal opportunity = no exceptional activities
4. Dreams replace science. Most scientists will tell you that solar and wind power are not likely to provide more than a few percent of our energy needs. Yet we insist on betting a significant share of our wealth on their development.
ignore science = live in a dream world - Reply to this comment
- I am not a Bush fan but there are other explanations for our "tepid" growth. Those other explanations scare me because if they are true (and its likely they are at least in part) we will continue downhill.
Consider:
1. Our country and its leadership economy has been the first to implement new ideas. That has given us a head start on every new development. The last new development was the so-called dot-com industry. Nothing new = tepid growth.
2. When there is nothing new to develop nations must optimize what they have. Our nation is in a turmoil of EPA concerns, alternative energy, and immigration. Its nearly impossible to optimize anything in the midst of such discension. The houseing market succeeded in part because it is mostly immune to this discension.
discension and infighting over regulations - negative growth.
More to follow - Reply to this comment
- ===You must either not be aware (or have chosen to ignore,) the fact that conservatives STILL berate Bill Clinton.===
Posted by raflin0010
Clinton? Are you kidding? The neocons are still trashing JIMMY CARTER! - Reply to this comment
- Congratulations to the Toxic Ideology of the NeoCons:
When do we get more Massive Tax Cuts for poor American Corporations to create millions of good jobs (OVERSEA)?
When do we eliminate Regulations of poor American Corporations so they can create more good jobs (OVERSEA)?
When do we eliminate Environment Protection laws so that our poor American Corportions can create more good jobs (OVERSEA)?
When do we Invest Billions and Billions onto Innovations so that America Corporations will start the Productions or benefit (OVERSEA)?
When do we borrow more from OVERSEAs for our $11 Trillions and counting Federal Budget Deficit.
When do we borrow more from OVERSEAs for the Most Powerful and Advanced Military in the World?
When are Americans going to Sacrifice with Hard Work for this Nation?
"ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. " - Reply to this comment
- We''re still waiting for some of that Trickle-Down, Neocons, as soon as this 8 year Sh*t and Ur*ne Storm lets up.....
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- Congratulations to the Toxic Ideology of the NeoCons:
When do we get more Massive Tax Cuts for poor American Corporations to create millions of good jobs (OVERSEA)?
When do we eliminate Regulations of poor American Corporations so they can create more good jobs (OVERSEA)?
When do we eliminate Environment Protection laws so that our poor American Corportions can create more good jobs (OVERSEA)?
When do we Invest Billions and Billions onto Innovations so that America Corporations will start the Productions or benefit (OVERSEA)?
When do we borrow more from OVERSEAs for our $11 Trillions and counting Federal Budget Deficit.
When do we borrow more from OVERSEAs for the Most Powerful and Advanced Military in the World?
Anybody wants more Toxic Ideology? - Reply to this comment
- Congratulations to the Toxic Ideology of the NeoCons:
When do we get more Massive Tax Cuts for poor American Corporations to create millions of good jobs (OVERSEA)?
When do we eliminate Regulations of poor American Corporations so they can create more good jobs (OVERSEA)?
When do we eliminate Environment Protection laws so that our poor American Corportions can create more good jobs (OVERSEA)?
When do we Invest Billions and Billions onto Innovations so that America Corporations will start the Productions (BENEFITs) oversea?
Anybody fan of more Toxic Ideology? - Reply to this comment
- The number of jobs in the nation increased by about 2 percent during Bush''s tenure, the most tepid growth over any eight-year span since data collection began seven decades ago. Gross domestic product, a broad measure of economic output, grew at the slowest pace for a period of that length since the Truman administration. And Americans'' incomes grew more slowly than in any presidency since the 1960s, other than that of Bush''s father.
So the Shrub Crime Family presided over the two largest transfers of wealth from working class to Ruling Elite in American History......well duuuuh... - Reply to this comment
- Journalism has died in America. Doesnt matter whether you like Bush or hate him. You cant trust the American press to tell it like it is. People on these boards even argue over where they get their information (liberal media vs conservative media, Sean Hannity vs Chris Mathews). Its sad that we are entering what may be the most dangerous period since the great Depression (economic AND international challenges) and we have no consistent and credible source for information. The government will be free to tell us whatever they want and we wont be able to verify it.
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- Is this information any secret? We''ve all known it for years. The only growth industry has been the privatization of our nation''s military functions so that the Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld families and those like them could get richer on taxpayer dollars.
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- walt1944
THANK YOU ! ! ! ! !
AMEN! ! ! - Reply to this comment
- babalu59
allow me to assist you, anything is better than 8 years of failed years of a weak ,cowardly ,failed administration..
hold tight I so am not done as yet,
one said George Herbert Walker Bush President of United States alleges he graduated from YALE UNIVERSITY,
HE DIDN''T KNOW
... Congress must declare war before the president can undertake war. ...
Article I, Section 8 (11) of the constitution says flatly that %u201CThe Congress shall have Power%u2026To declare War,%u201D but no Congress has declared war for the past 60 years. They%u2019ve passed resolutions, they%u2019ve passed authorizations, and they%u2019ve passed budget authorities, but they haven%u2019t declared war. The 108th Congress certainly never declared war on Iraq.
something tells me Ozzy Osbourne had a clue ... - Reply to this comment
- It has been determined that over the past 8 years, the Great Emperor Bush II did "diddly squat" about the economy, despite rantings to the contrary by loyal "Bushies"!
This news, naturally, comes as nothing new for the average person who has been trying to "get ahead" over the past 8 years, and has ended up falling back 3 steps for every step taken.
In this respect the past 8 years of "Bushism" can be compared to a mountain of sand with you trying to climb up to the top! The only ones able to reach the top, are the elite who own the corporate jets to fly them to the top!
However, although historians and economists are in agreement that the past 8 years of "Bushism" have been a disaster and the Great Emperor Bush is the ABSOLUTE WORSE leader EVER, those stupidly-loyal Neocon Fascist Nazis who insist that the Great Emperor Bush II can "walk on water", can get their "fix" of "Bushie propoganda" by visiting the Bush Library in Dallas.
After January 21, the then Ex-Great Emperor Bush II can greet them at the front door handing out Nazi armbands!!!
SIG HEIL, WE HAVE AN ARMY OF ILLIGALS SEWING THEM RIGHT NOW!!!, BUSH!!! - Reply to this comment
