What do you say to Republicans

[nevergiveup]

who keep quoting double digit unemployment rates in the 70's as proof that the economy is not as bad off as reported.

[Lint Head]

1. The republican party is dead.

:dem:

[elleng]

2. 'Is that a GOOD idea?'

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[wilt the stilt]

3. tell them we may have had double digit unemployment

but we did not lose value on our houses. there is nothing worse than devaluation.

[muntrv]

4. I retort with "IT'S WORSE!"

[Clear Blue Sky]

5. When the stimulus kicks up the economy, they will find themselves

way on the wrong side of this issue and in oblivion as a permanent minority party.

[Demobrat]

6. That was before they stopped counting people

after their unemployment runs out.

[peace13]

7. Nothing...I have quite all 'communication' with rethugs.

It is truly sad but my family actually got worse after the election. Why did I think that they would adjust like we had to for eight long years with *ickhead? I have put all on ignore because they immediately started sending me 'bash the liberals' email. Oh well.

[Bad Thoughts]

8. We didn't always count unemployment the same way

The standard U3 numbers no longer count those who have exhausted welfare.

[santamargarita]

9. Why are you people always somewhere your not welcome?

I've always said that and pissed off hundreds of right-wing assholes over the past 25 years.

[Old Codger]

10. Well

I really don't try to repubs anything, a large waste of time and air.....

[patrice]

11. What was the rate of off-shoring our jobs in the 1970s?

[jillan]

12. I tell them we lost 80,000 jobs in two days and to stfu.

This is not a contest. This is reality.

[Urban Prairie]

13. Re: What do you say to Republicans

That the Bureau of Labor Statistics method of calculating the unemployment rate is a joke, 60,000 "households" sample survey for four months in a year?? Then a resurvey for three more months before each "sample" is left for good and a new one is contacted??

LMAO!!!

[kiranon]

14. I say "Good-bye" because they will soon be out of office.