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In reply to the discussion: I am stunned .... political discussion at work. I may be going to hell. [View all]progree
(10,864 posts)102. Why I post on news.yahoo.com's comment section - because of the abysmal ignorance
She talked about how bad the economy is and blamed it on Obama. I asked if she knew how many jobs the country was losing per month at the end of the Bush administration. Of course she did not. I got on line and showed her that 800,000 jobs per month were being lost when Bush left office. I asked if she knew if there has been growth in private sector jobs since Obama took office or is the country still losing jobs. She did not. I showed her the chart of the growth in private sector jobs under Obama. She said it must be government jobs because Obama has expanded the government....
I've been ridiculed for wasting my time posting on the comments section on various articles at news.yahoo.com. People tell me only hard-core righties and lefties read the comments (no evidence for that is given of course) (many articles garner thousands of responses). But when I see something like the above that you wrote, it makes me more determined to be a "LibTard" and keep posting what I've shown below in blue (I usually keep my posts shorter, in keeping with the norm of news.yahoo.com comments, but I draw on the below for my posts on the economy).
On another subject, Obama has very definitely lowered lower- and middle-class taxes - Google "Making Work Pay Tax Credit" and the partial payroll tax holiday. And taxes overall. The "a 1% tax on checks that are direct deposited from employers" is sheer fiction.
Oh by the way, I have a ton of facts like the below in blue about the economy -- along with the official sources, at http://www.democraticunderground.com/111622439
Then there's CabCurious's thread full of economic facts and charts and graphics -- see my signature line. In case I change my signature line, its at http://www.democraticunderground.com/125170175
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It took 8 years for Bush to ruin the growing economy that Clinton handed him (and turn a budget surplus into a near doubling of the national debt (1.86-fold increase, thanks Bush), and you CONNEDservatives are complaining that Obama hasn't completely reversed 8 years of Republican economic ruination in 3 1/2 years?
Do you really want to hand the keys back to the people who drove the economy off the cliff? When Bush left office, he handed Obama an economy that had already shed 4.3 million jobs in Bush's last 10 months, and the GDP was contracting at a 8.9% annual rate (Q4 2008). At the end of the Bush presidency, the unemployment rate was 3.5 percentage points higher than when he began his presidency.
4.6 million payroll jobs have been created in the last 30 months. Bush only created 1.1 million payroll jobs in his entire 8 year presidency - ironically by creating 1.8 million government jobs and destroying 0.7 million private sector jobs
Ruinous Republican policies also drove the U.S. stock market (S&P 500) down 37% during those 8 Bush years -- from 1343 to 850. As an investor, I'd rather go with Obama -- its up to 1466 as of Friday 9/14 close, up 72% since he took office. (Google: Historical Prices - Yahoo Finance S&P 500 ). Clearly the business and investor community has a lot more confidence in Obama than it did in Bush.[/font]
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I am stunned .... political discussion at work. I may be going to hell. [View all]
Tennessee Gal
Sep 2012
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I would have mentioned that she has no right to discuss the economic condition of the
sinkingfeeling
Sep 2012
#3
Good for you. If you talk to her again, ask her how she feels about Stericycle and Romney making $$
progressivebydesign
Sep 2012
#5
Yes. Repubs want war against everyone and want to starve the poor. But as long as they SAY they are
anneboleyn
Sep 2012
#63
I think you presented the case well. The only thing I would like to know how she feels is if she
still_one
Sep 2012
#8
For future reference: Keystone Pipeline is to ship Canadian oil to countries other than the USA...
rfranklin
Sep 2012
#9
She actually was not pushy. She was cordial and it was a good discussion.
Tennessee Gal
Sep 2012
#30
She wants to make HER religious view of the world mandatory for the rest of us...
renie408
Sep 2012
#37
Yes, I noticed those "probably" inserts. She didn't have it in her to say
Tennessee Gal
Sep 2012
#53
You should tell her Romney was pro-choice when he was Governor of Mass
NYtoBush-Drop Dead
Sep 2012
#25
Jesus knew all about rich people using their "faith" to try and get out of paying taxes
Tigress DEM
Sep 2012
#106
Whenever I think of what the person Christianity was founded on was really like,
LittlestStar
Sep 2012
#42
Well it was the utterly brainwashed notion that "god" wants his flock to be against abortion
LittlestStar
Sep 2012
#85
Someone alerted on it and it is gone. It wasn't me, although I did think about it. nt
Tennessee Gal
Sep 2012
#64
Could remind her that US Catholic bishops slammed Ryan's budget for brutalizing the poor
anneboleyn
Sep 2012
#61
Yes, that is one I will try to remember, as well as the Nuns on the Bus! nt
Tennessee Gal
Sep 2012
#65
Upon reflection since leaving work, more of the conversation is coming back to me.
Tennessee Gal
Sep 2012
#71
I FORGOT THE BEST PART! I sold her more than $500 worth of product after this discussion!
Tennessee Gal
Sep 2012
#82
Another way to look at it is to make the point that if Romeny is elected
Tennessee Gal
Sep 2012
#101
Why I post on news.yahoo.com's comment section - because of the abysmal ignorance
progree
Sep 2012
#102
Well done, don't be offensive, but firmly show them they cannot take for granted
BlueStreak
Sep 2012
#103
That's a Fort Knox of information! That's a wrongney's secret book-keeping of information!
calimary
Sep 2012
#134
It has occurred to me that should I get the chance it might be effective
Tennessee Gal
Sep 2012
#118
I once lost a friend at work when she was going on about "pro abortion" people,
maddiemom
Sep 2012
#125
I just googled private sector job growth and came up with one to show her.
Tennessee Gal
Sep 2012
#135