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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 05:31 AM Original message |
Thus far, Obama has been unable to get us out of the Bush Depression. |
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John_Adams (110 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 05:47 AM Response to Original message |
1. Huh...? This is not a depression (see 1930). |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 05:50 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Couldn't resist, huh? |
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John_Adams (110 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 06:07 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. If you don't know the difference, spend 10 or 15 minutes doing some research. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 06:13 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. A recession is when your neighbor loses his job.. |
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John_Adams (110 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 06:51 AM Response to Reply #9 |
25. You can say "depression" when you see 25% unemployment and a 25% drop in GDP. |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 07:56 AM Response to Reply #25 |
37. Ever been to Detroit? It is significantly worse than that |
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John_Adams (110 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 08:06 AM Response to Reply #37 |
39. Whatever...if you choose to base your economic summation on one city, rather than the whole |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 08:21 AM Response to Reply #39 |
41. 1% of the country is getting richer while the other 99% is getting significantly poorer |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 09:12 AM Response to Reply #41 |
48. Not that things aren't pretty bad now, but still, compared to the 1930s... |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 09:42 AM Response to Reply #48 |
51. All those problems were problems of the era, and would have lingered without the depression |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 04:59 PM Response to Reply #51 |
87. Definitely technology provides us with a higher baseline, but that's my point |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 06:27 PM Response to Reply #87 |
93. That is not sufficient reason to dismiss the comparison |
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StarsInHerHair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 12:49 AM Response to Reply #48 |
115. here's something you might want to read |
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StarsInHerHair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 01:26 AM Response to Reply #115 |
117. WHAT? LOOK HERE!! |
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ProfessionalLeftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 08:10 AM Response to Reply #25 |
40. How do you know it's not at 25%? If they calculated it the way they used to |
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John_Adams (110 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 08:48 AM Response to Reply #40 |
44. So, is everyone supposed to disregard the entire dataset used to compile economic statistics, |
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Demeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 09:42 AM Response to Reply #44 |
52. Just Ignore the "Official Lies" |
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John_Adams (110 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 12:22 PM Response to Reply #52 |
63. Mr. Williams appears to be using the same dataset, as his plots track |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 09:44 AM Response to Reply #44 |
53. When the numbers are intentionally misleading.... Yes, absolutely |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 02:47 PM Response to Reply #44 |
79. The government economic numbers are manipulated BS. |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 10:48 AM Response to Reply #25 |
58. All depressions are not the Great Depression |
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John_Adams (110 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 12:25 PM Response to Reply #58 |
64. The problem with your hypothesis relates to the fact that the economy is actually growing. |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 12:46 PM Response to Reply #64 |
68. If you count the 60,000 jobs by McDonalds... |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 02:48 PM Response to Reply #64 |
80. The economy was growing in 1934, too. That doesn't mean the Depression was over. |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 01:31 PM Response to Reply #25 |
105. Foreclosure rates are higher than during the "depression". |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 06:14 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. And I like your sigline also. |
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John_Adams (110 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 06:33 AM Response to Reply #10 |
18. No, I don't care much for democracy--it's unconstitutional. |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 07:16 AM Response to Reply #18 |
31. "LIBERTY!" Oh PLEASE don't tell me you're one of those Paul people. |
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John_Adams (110 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 07:56 AM Response to Reply #31 |
38. What are your objections to "liberty?" |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 01:02 PM Response to Reply #38 |
72. Because several visitors who mention the word "liberty" . . . |
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John_Adams (110 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 07:07 PM Response to Reply #72 |
95. I don't "worship" the founding fathers, but I think that they did a masterful job |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 02:49 PM Response to Reply #18 |
81. I think you are at the wrong website. That's a RW extremist talking point. |
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John_Adams (110 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 03:27 PM Response to Reply #81 |
83. My, how times have changed. During the time it was enacted, the Constitution |
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indepat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 09:22 AM Response to Reply #10 |
50. The US will never get out of the Bush Depression by continuing almost all of junior's major |
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StarsInHerHair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 12:54 AM Response to Reply #10 |
116. this very could be an artificial person, a bot, made by that software prograam |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 06:15 AM Response to Reply #1 |
12. I once heard that is was called a "Depression" |
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John_Adams (110 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 06:47 AM Response to Reply #12 |
22. It is no doubt possible that the US (and world) could experience a depression |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 02:51 PM Response to Reply #12 |
82. Actually, it was because Hoover didn't want to use the term "financial panic". |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 06:59 AM Response to Reply #1 |
28. "Sit down, John! Sit down, John! |
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LiberalLoner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 07:33 AM Response to Reply #28 |
34. LOL I love that play! Saw it years ago in Ford's theater in DC, good times! n/t |
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John_Adams (110 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 08:41 AM Response to Reply #28 |
43. Great show...! Saw it on Broadway in the 90s. |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 08:52 AM Response to Reply #28 |
47. Nevuh!!!!!!!!!! |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 10:01 AM Response to Reply #1 |
56. "Wealth inequality is as extreme today as it was during the Great Depression years. |
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John_Adams (110 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 12:28 PM Response to Reply #56 |
65. What you cite is a problem, but unless the definition of the word "depression" |
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SugarShack (979 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 12:40 PM Response to Reply #1 |
67. Ben Nelson and Mary Landrieu are why we still have a Bush recession.... |
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snot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 02:20 PM Response to Reply #1 |
74. Here's the analysis: |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 02:43 PM Response to Reply #1 |
77. The economy was mostly growing again after 1933, it was still a depression. |
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obxhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 05:49 AM Response to Original message |
2. Here's a solution to try: |
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PuffedMica (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 06:14 AM Response to Reply #2 |
11. We need an Apollo moon shot program for clean, renewable energy sources |
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John_Adams (110 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 07:27 AM Response to Reply #11 |
33. The Renewable energy industry is in its infancy... |
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Hassin Bin Sober (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 08:48 AM Response to Reply #33 |
45. "most innovative lobbyists" |
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PuffedMica (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 09:13 AM Response to Reply #33 |
49. Why not pick the American people to be the winners and get off the "free market will save us" crap |
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John_Adams (110 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 12:17 PM Response to Reply #49 |
62. The only way the American people win is when they do the "picking." |
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PuffedMica (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 12:47 PM Response to Reply #62 |
69. Oh, now it is "Anti Matter" will save us |
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John_Adams (110 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 07:10 PM Response to Reply #69 |
97. No, I don't have the solutions, but I am an optimistic dreamer... |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 12:50 PM Response to Reply #62 |
70. There is no such thing as a monopoly.. |
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John_Adams (110 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 07:12 PM Response to Reply #70 |
99. You have accurately identified many of the problems... |
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Demeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 05:52 AM Response to Original message |
4. Yes, when one throws gasoline and blows oxygen on a raging fire |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 06:25 AM Response to Reply #4 |
16. Yep, exactly |
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Holden_C (26 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 05:57 AM Response to Original message |
5. The difference is that |
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JTFrog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 06:06 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. It's President Obama.... Not "O". |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 06:21 AM Response to Reply #6 |
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JTFrog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 06:22 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Enjoy your stay. n/t |
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savalez (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 12:30 AM Response to Reply #14 |
114. lol |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 06:24 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. This is the Democratic Underground. |
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Holden_C (26 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 06:30 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. I know it is |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 06:39 AM Response to Reply #17 |
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JTFrog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 06:42 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Not. Even. Close. |
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Holden_C (26 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 06:48 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Gee what will make you happy? |
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Number23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 08:25 PM Response to Reply #13 |
110. ROFL Holy Shit! |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 06:49 AM Response to Reply #5 |
24. If the Republicans actually delay .. |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 06:57 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. I haven't forgotten.. |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 08:51 AM Response to Reply #5 |
46. So the brave thing to do is to let us live with the consequences of |
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SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 06:11 AM Response to Original message |
8. "Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R - Mission Accomplisher) |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 07:05 AM Response to Original message |
29. What Obama has tried has been more of the same |
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KharmaTrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 07:21 AM Response to Original message |
32. It's Worked For Those Who Matter...The Ones Who Write The Big Checks |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 07:37 AM Response to Original message |
35. One has to wonder what happened to the 2.5 million jobs and the |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 09:57 AM Response to Reply #35 |
55. Private sector has added 2.1 million jobs in the last 15 months. |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 12:37 PM Response to Reply #55 |
66. If 'added' did not mean 'replaced some that were lost', there would not |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 02:34 PM Response to Reply #66 |
75. ... you can't read the graph apparently. |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 03:28 PM Response to Reply #75 |
84. GITMO simply has to do with failed (empty) promises. At least 50K |
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Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 07:42 AM Response to Original message |
36. You can't just make up definitions for words and be taken seriously |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 10:43 AM Response to Reply #36 |
57. I disagree... |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 01:20 PM Response to Reply #57 |
103. There's 'Depression' as you use the term and then there is 'Depression' |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 08:38 AM Response to Original message |
42. Too much credit to a dude that couldn't pour piss out of a boot... |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 09:46 AM Response to Original message |
54. The stimulus was sort of a joke. Every non ideological economist |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 01:31 PM Response to Reply #54 |
104. I bash Obama as much as the next progressive, but every non- |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
59. Where Obama has failed |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 01:33 PM Response to Reply #59 |
106. I blame Rahm. He, of course, called me and my kind 'fucking retarded' so |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 11:09 AM Response to Original message |
60. Agree it's a depression .... however Obama's stimulus was only 20% or less of what was required .... |
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theophilus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
61. He should have focused on jobs first. I don't really think Mr. Obama is |
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me b zola (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
71. He has been "unable" because he is using the republican ideology |
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bhikkhu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 01:03 PM Response to Original message |
73. 54,000 new jobs is suddenly bad, and the sky is falling? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 02:45 PM Response to Reply #73 |
78. The needs at least 150,000 new jobs per month to keep up with population growth. |
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bhikkhu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 07:06 PM Response to Reply #78 |
94. If its really a population problem, we might as well say so |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 01:36 PM Response to Reply #94 |
107. The economy IS NOT in phenomenal shape. U6 figure is approaching |
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bhikkhu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 07:44 PM Response to Reply #107 |
108. and how much of that is population added since 2000? |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 07:55 PM Response to Reply #108 |
109. You said the economy is in 'phenomenal shape' (your words) and |
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bhikkhu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 08:49 PM Response to Reply #109 |
111. Now this is changing the subject a bit - |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 09:39 PM Response to Reply #111 |
112. I'm not aware of any textbook that puts forth your theory, probably |
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bhikkhu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 11:31 PM Response to Reply #112 |
113. Yes, an abundant cheap energy source would do it |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
76. All Obama has done is empower those who CAUSED the depression in the first place. |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
85. Actually, |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 05:04 PM Response to Reply #85 |
88. Why the discrepencies in these graphs? |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 05:42 PM Response to Reply #88 |
90. That |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 06:10 PM Response to Reply #90 |
92. Interesting, thanks for the clarification. The second seems more accurate, |
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lame54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 04:29 PM Response to Original message |
86. Has he tried ending the wars and and killing the Bush tax cuts? |
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Little Star (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 05:18 PM Response to Original message |
89. I don't know why he hasn't tried some new deal type programs.... |
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martymar64 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 06:01 PM Response to Original message |
91. Bear in mind, Bush dug us into a pretty deep hole . . . |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 07:07 PM Response to Original message |
96. "Tried everything?" Uh, no. n/t |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 07:17 PM Response to Reply #96 |
100. I think you misquote? |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 11:43 AM Response to Reply #100 |
101. "Americans can be counted upon to do the right thing, after they've exhausted the alternatives." |
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franzia99 (479 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 07:11 PM Response to Original message |
98. He needs to try harder: jobs program, public inv projects, bring jobs back to U.S. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
102. And, unwilling to get us out of Bush's wars. |
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jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 02:29 AM Response to Original message |
118. Look a little closer at that stimulus |
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Distant Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 03:58 AM Response to Original message |
119. Pres has 1 chance to "WIN THE FUTURE" by focusing "stimulus" on "new industry" job creation |
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