NNN0LHI
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Sun Aug-02-09 07:23 PM
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Anyone see the terror on the Rethugs faces today because the economy is rebounding? |
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Saying the reason for improvement can't have anything to do with the Democratic policies. It has to be something else they were saying.
If this economy is really coming back the Republicans are fucked.
Don
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Sun Aug-02-09 07:27 PM
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1. the Obama presidency rides on the state of the economy |
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and always has. If people are feeling good about their personal circumstances, the Limbaughs and Becks lose their ability to scare them.
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Sun Aug-02-09 08:55 PM
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15. It can't possibly get worse that "the worst" so he's looking at kudos some day! |
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Edited on Sun Aug-02-09 09:11 PM by timeforpeace
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Mon Aug-03-09 06:53 AM
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Sun Aug-02-09 07:28 PM
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obviously Bush's 2001 tax cuts, that have finally had their effect on the economy. All of Bush's "robust" stimuli will be having their intended effects in the order they were enacted... eight years later.
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Sun Aug-02-09 07:37 PM
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4. CNBC's Dennis Neil has already said the |
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economic turnaround was the result of GWB's groundwork last fall.
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Sun Aug-02-09 07:46 PM
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Proof against "Intelligent Design". He and Larry Kudlow compete for biggest idiot award but Dennis has the edge.
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Sun Aug-02-09 07:56 PM
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10. Do the people watching these guys THINK about what they're hearing? |
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Unfortunately, there's a lot of "perception IS reality" on CNBC. It's the (fake) culture they've manufactured. Buy on the RUMOR. It's not REALITY, it's what people THINK.
THESE are the guys who are really hurting America...
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Sun Aug-02-09 08:15 PM
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11. I think the laissez-faire policies Hoover implemented in 1929 |
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are kicking in and boosting the economy. Good economic policies don't necessarily generate their effects overnight.
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Sun Aug-02-09 09:17 PM
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The number you add/subtract/multiply/divide by from the number you have to get the number you want.
Hence, my Republican friend who insists that it takes 2-10 years for a economic policy to have any effect. The variable number is to account for times when it was plainly a Democratic President's policies.
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Sun Aug-02-09 07:36 PM
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3. Now let's get health care and balance the budget. |
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Restore the Bush tax cuts. The top two percent are sucking the blood out of the middle class!
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Sun Aug-02-09 08:26 PM
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14. Restore the Bush taxcuts??? |
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Sun Aug-02-09 07:41 PM
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5. Boy, will THEY be relieved when the bottom drops completely out. |
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As it will when everyone realizes that America doesn't manufacture anything any more, and therefore has nothing of value to sell to the rest of the world.
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Sun Aug-02-09 07:50 PM
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7. Ssshhhhhhh! Next you'll be telling us that money is just paper. |
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Sun Aug-02-09 08:16 PM
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12. It USED to be paper back when it was worth something. |
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You could at least wipe your ass with it. Now it's ust electrons and magnetic charges and stuff.
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Sun Aug-02-09 07:52 PM
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8. That's why they want to stop the "cash for clunkers" program... |
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Because it may jumpstart the economy. It has been more successful than dreamed.
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Sun Aug-02-09 08:23 PM
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13. Time for them to pull another MIHOP, I think. nt |
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Sun Aug-02-09 09:05 PM
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16. What's funny is that.. |
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Edited on Sun Aug-02-09 09:06 PM by sendero
.. anyone thinks that this economy is in any way "improving" in in for a big surprise. When you stop losing blood at a liter a minute and fall back to 3/4 a liter, you are still dying.
A small blip in auto sales and existing home sales at huge discounts are not green shoots.
They are a result of the "frugality fatigue" and pent up demand that results from months of denial. Company profits suck, employment sucks, sales tax receipts suck, banks are failing at record levels and there is no fucking recovery.
I feel sorry for the fools that actually believe we have turned the corner and act on that belief.
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Sun Aug-02-09 09:07 PM
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18. That is almost word for word what the Rethugs were saying this morning on TV |
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Mon Aug-03-09 06:50 AM
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.... wait and see. Hell, they engineered this entire fiasco, they should know.
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Sun Aug-02-09 09:06 PM
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17. Graphic detail of that econ growth here: |
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