Clueless about the economy

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-17-2006
Clueless about the economy
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Tue, 09-16-2008 - 7:37am
Does John McCain really believe that our economy is fundamentally sound? Is this guy out of his freakin’ mind? He is either too old or too stupid to be president. Umployment is down. Wages are down. The price of everything is up. The deficit is up. The national debt is up. Yeah, sounds like the economy is in great shape, John. Perhaps it is time for another tax break for those who make over $250,000 a year. We could use some of that Reagan trickledown voodoo economics about now.
Perhaps when McCain is elected, his new treasury secretary Phil Gramm will straighten all of us whiners out?
The guys seem to be clueless about the economy.

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Registered: 01-12-2004
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 4:36pm

The pundits who you are listening to are right, although its hard to blame Clinton (except for the absence of a veto.)

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Registered: 08-31-2003
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 4:39pm
Thanks for your response.
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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-09-2008
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 4:43pm

*** The US side was was dark with high unemployment and the Canadian side with bright with low unemployment.

Looks like the sun is shining pretty equally on both sides of the falls...

Following a decline in July, employment edged up by 15,000 in August. The unemployment rate remained unchanged at 6.1%. Since the start of the year, employment has increased by 87,000 (+0.5%), a much smaller increase compared to the 221,000 (+1.3%) of the first eight months of 2007.
http://www.statcan.ca/english/Subjects/Labour/LFS/lfs-en.htm

The unemployment rate rose from 5.7 to 6.1 percent in August, and nonfarm payroll employment continued to trend down (-84,000). In August, employment fell in manufacturing and employment services, while mining and health care continued to add jobs.
http://www.bls.gov/cps/

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-10-2008
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 4:43pm
No it is not fundamentally sound and if you can't understand that basic concept then don't dispute anything on this blog because you clearly lack any sort or responsible fiscal reasoning.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-09-2008
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 4:52pm

*** No it is not fundamentally sound and if you can't understand that basic concept then don't dispute anything on this blog because you clearly lack any sort or responsible fiscal reasoning.

Oh, well, if you say so...LOL! Why don't you explain to us how the foundations of our economy are crumbling...and please, don't toss off "hey, the unemployment is up" and :gas prices are up"...those are not the foundations of our economy.

*** John McCain implied the economy is good because he knows no better and that is why his aides sent him back out with a different statement/spin.

Clearly you don't actually know what McCain said and are content with the lies and distortions that Obama is feeding you. Why don't you try and get the facts before you attack them?

*** Silly you, go ahead and GOOGLE the truth, maybe that will help you.

Can you actually google "Obama's lies and distortions?" Hey, you can!

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-03-2008
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 4:56pm
Yep, and come up with more lies and distortions from right wing blog machines.
iVillage Member
Registered: 06-16-2008
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 5:13pm

Sorry - I didn't word that right.

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-12-2004
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 5:14pm
Sorry, I'm reading (and typing) really quickly today.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-09-2008
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 5:55pm

*** What I should have said (and this still might not come out right) was that two of the people on GMA went out Monday night and interviewed some people in Niagara Falls and they were telling them of the high unemployment and they sounded pretty discouraged. On the American side there were very few lights shining because a lot of the businessed had closed and on the Canadian side the lights were pretty bright.

Say, didn’t Charlie Gibson work on GMA? I think I’m smelling an alphabet soup of bias here. ; ) But seriously (actually, the bias thing was pretty serious) it sounds like a pretty spurious comment. The lights they’re seeing in Canada are the casinos. Canada has legalized gambling and the US sides doesn’t…where would you vacation?

*** I don't mean to imply that our northern neighbors do everything right but we can still learn.

We could learn that people like to gamble…but I think we pretty much figured that out in Las Vegas. Besides that, I haven’t seen Canada take the lead on very many critical issues. Still, as you say, we should always be open to hearing about a good idea.

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-06-2001
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 6:06pm

**His wife being the Beer Queen a product that has caused people to become alcoholics, to become drunk and drive, how many peoples lives have been runied by the product her old man made millions on?**


 

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