Swing States Get their "Reward"

[whell]

Originally Posted by icenine

Oh Obama is elected and the economy is the new normal....what about Bush? you kill me

Obama has been president for 4 years now, You're still blaming Bush? When the average recession lasts 13 months? And of course earlier in this thread, there was the obligatory blaming of Reagan.

You guys should really think about putting "apologist" on your resumes.

[Bigerik]

Originally Posted by whell

Obama has been president for 4 years now, You're still blaming Bush? When the average recession lasts 13 months? And of course earlier in this thread, there was the obligatory blaming of Reagan.

You guys should really think about putting "apologist" on your resumes.

There is absolutely nothing "average" about this recession. The closest comparison would be the depression which lasted a decade.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by whell

Obama has been president for 4 years now, You're still blaming Bush? When the average recession lasts 13 months? And of course earlier in this thread, there was the obligatory blaming of Reagan.

You guys should really think about putting "apologist" on your resumes.

Why? Who here is apologizing for anything?

So, tell me;

Is there anything at all the Republican Party has ever done wrong?
Or, is every failure, no matter how blatant and obvious, the result of some (imaginary) insideous left wing plot?

Maybe people hear the GOP lay out their vision for the future and honestly think it sucks? (Or stinks of some sort of perverse mix of theocracy and corporate plutocratic fascism...............like I do?)

Regards,
Dave

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by whell

In the 16 U.S. recessions since 1919, the average length has been 13 months, although the recent recessions have been shorter. Thus if the 2008 recession followed the average, the downturn in the stock market would have bottomed around November 2008. The actual US stock market bottom of the 2008 recession was in March 2009.

This recession is a damn sight closer to the one in 1929 that lasted for ten years - ask me how I know.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by whell

How 'bout these numbers:

"New figures released by the Census Bureau this week found a spike in poverty numbers last year, going from 49 million in 2010 to 49.7 million last year. The numbers may come as a surprise to Congress, which estimated in September that the poverty rate would drop to 46.2 million. One of the most startling findings showed that almost 20 percent of American children continue to live in poverty."

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/...cans-affected/

Because wages for the workers have actually been declining, probably so they can hand out those fat bonuses to Mahogany Row.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Reactionary employers having an juvenile temper tantrum is all it is.

Someone should take them behind the barn and make eunuchs out of them.

Assholes.

Regards,
Dave

Fixed it for you.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Fixed it for you.

Thanks.

Dave

[piece-itpete]

Whell ANY bad news during Obama's reign is obviously someone else's fault.

His lazer vision didn't work very well.

Pete

[whell]

Originally Posted by Bigerik

There is absolutely nothing "average" about this recession. The closest comparison would be the depression which lasted a decade.

Really? I've yet to hear the Administration or refer to it as a depression? In fact, quite the opposite. We've heard about the "recovery" in the stock market, and we have had positive (though somewhat anemic) economic growth. Since there's positive economic growth, that's generally not the economic formula for a recession, much less a depression. In fact, we were told that the current recession ended in 2009.

You got some inside scoop that no one else does Erik?

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by whell

Obama has been president for 4 years now, You're still blaming Bush? When the average recession lasts 13 months? And of course earlier in this thread, there was the obligatory blaming of Reagan.

You guys should really think about putting "apologist" on your resumes.

Bush did drive the economy into the ditch, whell. That's a fact. And when you say that the average recession lasts 13 months, toy fail to take into account that this was far from an "average" recession. It was the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression so the fact that it took 17 or 18 months to get out of this recession is far from surprising.

I wonder if you're as bad a winner as you are a loser.

I doubt I'll ever have the chance to find that out.

John