How did Bush get a second term?

[MrBates2]

Easy answer, the economy was booming! Unemployment was under 5%, The economy didn't fall apart till a year after the Dems won the House and Senate. It actually started to decline right after the minimum wage increase went into effect.

 

[mercury14]

Easy answer, the economy was booming! Unemployment was under 5%, The economy didn't fall apart till a year after the Dems won the House and Senate. It actually started to decline right after the minimum wage increase went into effect.

The economy fell apart following the housing bubble burst and foreclosures crippled lenders, credit, and spending power. Blaming the recession on minimum wage workers making a few more cents per hour is a novel concept I've never heard before though.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Yes, the minimum wage raise was part of the problem.

Commodity ceilings and floors are classic Broken Windows systems/sophism/fallacies.

They have the political value of an immediate benefit for a particular group that can be portrayed as victims and most of the general population is so uneducated of the economy as a whole that they look no further than benefit and reject and person(s) who point out the unintended consequences as people of insufficient feeling for the plight of the "victim" group.

But John Forbes Kerry was the wrong person to use to fight for the downtrodden and oppressed...

And, he faked his combat record.

 

[Shagly]

It's all in the chads.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

i kinda miss bush in the whitehouse, along wit the pimp of all presidents, MR. CLINTON

 

[Beco]

The economy fell apart following the housing bubble burst and foreclosures crippled lenders, credit, and spending power. Blaming the recession on minimum wage workers making a few more cents per hour is a novel concept I've never heard before though.

the bust was in 2007, no? The question is, how did Bush get a second term.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

the bust was in 2007, no? The question is, how did Bush get a second term.

because of his father maybe??

 

[mercury14]

In 2009/2010, a mere 6% of workers made minimum wage. And probably far less than 1% of total payroll went to minimum wage workers. Suggesting that the problem here is that people who make no money make too much money is colossally stupid.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2010.htm

 

[Beco]

because of his father maybe??

go away!

 

[mercury14]

the bust was in 2007, no? The question is, how did Bush get a second term.

The decline started in 2006 but Dec 30, 2008 was when housing plummeted off the cliff.

 

[richard_daily]

Easy answer, the economy was booming! Unemployment was under 5%, The economy didn't fall apart till a year after the Dems won the House and Senate. It actually started to decline right after the minimum wage increase went into effect.

There's also the fact that he bought the election by rigging voting in the state of Florida.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

i kinda miss bush in the whitehouse, along wit the pimp of all presidents, MR. CLINTON

*sniff* *sniff*

Remember algore?

The Pimp with a Gimp!

 

[Beco]

There's also the fact that he bought the election by rigging voting in the state of Florida.

It shouldnt have come down to Florida.....Bush was an idiot, right?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

because of his father maybe??

Luke, Ah ahm yer Faddah!

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

Luke, Ah ahm yer Faddah!

hahah

sup 4est!

where were you yesterday all day??? it was dead as fuck around here to post.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

*sniff* *sniff*

Remember algore?

The Pimp with a Gimp!

hahah yea

i wanted him to get elected that yr, just because he was trying to legalize weed for all of us.

 

[Busybody]

The decline started in 2006 but Dec 30, 2008 was when housing plummeted off the cliff.

No

June 2008

It was Obama's FAULT, as I have written often

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

hahah

sup 4est!

where were you yesterday all day??? it was dead as fuck around here to post.

Drinking Drunken Hulks (Green Nyquil and Bourbon) while snoozing through college game day.

My K-State Wildcats kicked some ass!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

hahah yea

i wanted him to get elected that yr, just because he was trying to legalize weed for all of us.

You would think President Obama would have done something about if just for the tax revenue...

You're not paying enough in cig and booze taxes.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

No

June 2008

It was Obama's FAULT, as I have written often

I thought the decline started in 2000...


You know, when General Republican Philosophy turned us into a Burger King economy...

 

[Beco]

The decline started in 2006 but Dec 30, 2008 was when housing plummeted off the cliff.

Answer the question, Private!!!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The economy fell apart following the housing bubble burst and foreclosures crippled lenders, credit, and spending power. Blaming the recession on minimum wage workers making a few more cents per hour is a novel concept I've never heard before though.

True. But the price of gasoline went to $5 during the Summer of 2008. I figgered gas pushed us over the edge.

 

[Busybody]

I thought the decline started in 2000...


You know, when General Republican Philosophy turned us into a Burger King economy...

despite 9/11 which was a big hit on the economy and Katrina which was as well

The over the cliff started in June 2008, EXACTLY WHEN OBAMA TOOK THE LEAD vs HIDEOUS ROTTEN CLITBITCH and was a shoo into win.......and WE ALL KNEW THE CONSEQUENCES OF THAT

 

[mercury14]

Answer the question, Private!!!

Nobody asked me a question.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

You would think President Obama would have done something about if just for the tax revenue...

You're not paying enough in cig and booze taxes.

yeah, ciggs over here cost $10.00 for a pack of newports.

an beer, i get free beer.. so i dont care