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Sat Jan-10-09 02:54 PM
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TYT: Who created more jobs? Clinton or Bush? |
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Edited on Sat Jan-10-09 03:17 PM by ejbr
I'll give you three guesses and the first two don't count. HughBeaumont has an excellent pre-election analysis that ties into this topic.
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Sat Jan-10-09 02:58 PM
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1. How Many Jobs Did We Lose In 2008? |
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Sat Jan-10-09 03:07 PM
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Bewsh-o-nomics failed us. Miserably.
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Sat Jan-10-09 03:18 PM
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I included it in the body of my post for more exposure. Thanks for sharing.
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Sat Jan-10-09 03:26 PM
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4. Who has been the utter most nightmare for the past eight years? |
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Sat Jan-10-09 04:06 PM
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5. K & R, good video, goes beyond the thread title. n/t |
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Sat Jan-10-09 06:29 PM
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6. Repubs glowingly point to Reagan's job creation record. |
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On a per annual basis, he didn't do much better than Jimmy Carter. Under four years of Carter, about 9-million new jobs were created. Under eight years of Reagan, it was 19 million. Even arch-conservative columnist Warren Brookes conceded that much of Reagan's job creation was from the massive increase in military spending under his watch.
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Sat Jan-10-09 08:12 PM
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7. Stop perpetuating these lies |
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The unemployment rate is not 7%. It is way more than that. The government doesn't count anybody who has given up looking for work. The government doesn't count anybody who has taken a job at 1/4 their normal salary just to have some income. The government doesn't count the millions of people that we put in prison, many of whom committed crimes primarily because they were not employable.
Put these factors into the mix and we aren't' that far off of where the country was during the Great Depression.
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Sat Jan-10-09 11:00 PM
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Sun Jan-11-09 11:11 AM
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9. Well, that depends... by some measures Bush created more |
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I mean, we are talking about absolute values, right?
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Sun Jan-11-09 11:47 AM
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Then Barry Bonds on steriods is a better ballplayer than Babe Ruth????
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Sun Jan-11-09 01:45 PM
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13. exactly... that's why we need the all-drug sports leagues |
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Sun Jan-11-09 10:03 PM
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16. You had me worried there for a minute! |
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Sun Jan-11-09 12:07 PM
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11. Please supply the measures... |
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...by which Bush comes out better in the job-creation department.
Do you have a citation or any support for your assertion that "by some measures Bush created more"?
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Sun Jan-11-09 01:44 PM
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12. Did you read my whole post or just the subject? |
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I said "we are talking about absolute values, right?" there...
There were -1,200,000 jobs 'created' in 2008 - assuming that there were something like 1,000,000 jobs created in 1998 (I just made up that number - this was a joke after all), then the absolute value of jobs created in 2008 would be greater that the absolute value of jobs created in 1998.
I don't have a citation or any support for my joke.
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Sun Jan-11-09 05:51 PM
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14. I did read your whole post... |
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...did you listen to the whole clip? About halfway through, Cenk points out that in Bush's 8 years in office, 3 million new jobs were created. While by comparison, in Clinton's 8 years in office, 21 million new jobs were created. So yeah, it wasn't obvious to me that you meant it as a joke, seeing as how even by absolute values, Clinton's record was 7 times better.
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Sun Jan-11-09 06:17 PM
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15. Does terrorist count as a job? |
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