What happened to all of the doom and gloom economic threads?

[4est_4est_Gump]

So, you cannot, or will not provide the quote?


Still pinging away at side issues...

"If you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things."
Presidential Nominee Barack Hussein Obama, 2008

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Former Obama supporter Mort Zuckerman writing in the Wall Street Journal:

We are still almost five million payrolls shy of where we were at the end of 2007, when the recession began. Think about that when you hear the Obama administration’s talk of an economic recovery.

The key indicator of our employment health, in all the statistics, is what the government calls U-6. This is the number who have applied for work in the past six months and includes people who are involuntary part-time workers-government-speak for those individuals whose jobs have been cut back to two or three days a week.

They are working part-time only because they’ve been unable to find full-time work. This involuntary army of what’s called “underutilized labor” has been hovering for months at about 15% of the workforce. Include the eight million who have simply given up looking, and the real unemployment rate is closer to 19%.

In short, the president’s ill-designed stimulus program was a failure. For all our other national concerns, and the red herrings that typically swim in electoral waters, American voters refuse to be distracted from the No. 1 issue: the economy. And even many of those who have jobs are hurting, because annual wage increases have dropped to an average of 1.6%, the lowest in the past 30 years. Adjusting for inflation, wages are contracting.

The best single indicator of how confident workers are about their jobs is reflected in how they cling to them. The so-called quit rate has sagged to the lowest in years.

Older Americans can’t afford to quit. Ironically, since the recession began, employment in the age group of 55 and older is up 3.9 million, even as total employment is down by five million. These citizens hope to retire with dignity, but they feel the need to bolster savings as a salve for the stomach-churning decline in their net worth, 75% of which has come from the fall in the value of their home equity.

One more number representing the utter failure of Obama’s policies: 8 million Americans have quit looking for work.

We are in uncharted waters as far as jobs are concerned. It’s fair to say we are in a jobs depression given the massive numbers of unemployed, discouraged workers, and involuntary part-time workers.

Zuckerman agrees:

We are experiencing, in effect, a modern-day depression. Consider two indicators: First, food stamps: More than 45 million Americans are in the program! An almost incredible record. It’s 15% of the population compared with the 7.9% participation from 1970-2000. Food-stamp enrollment has been rising at a rate of 400,000 per month over the past four years.

Second, Social Security disability-another record. More than 11 million Americans are collecting federal disability checks. Half of these beneficiaries have signed on since President Obama took office more than three years ago.

These dependent millions are the invisible counterparts of the soup kitchens and bread lines of the 1930s, invisible because they get their checks in the mail. But it doesn’t take away from the fact that millions of people who had good private-sector jobs now have to rely on welfare for life support.

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/09/0...s-worse-than-you-can-imagine/?singlepage=true

 

[mercury14]

Your response time shows that you didn't take the time to read it.

People can read tiny half-page articles in less than three minutes. Can't you?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

People can read tiny half-page articles in less than three minutes. Can't you?

Then where's the quote?

 

[mercury14]

Then where's the quote?

I'm still waiting on a quote from you that I requested 90 minutes ago. You fail to provide one and then demand one from me? That's just your moronic double standard though which you're unable to get past and I've come to accept that.

What quote are you asking me for?

 

[Busybody]

If we're doing so fine, as I have discovered after three pages of pure tripe...



Why is the Presidential race not over, locked up and in the bag?

the race is over

Obama will win

 

[Busybody]

I'm still waiting on a quote from you that I requested 90 minutes ago. You fail to provide one and then demand one from me? That's just your moronic double standard though which you're unable to get past and I've come to accept that.

What quote are you asking me for?

STFU, DOOFUS

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I answered you. You acknowledged it in a very negative manner and now you're playing stupid, so I will type slower...

Where

did

I,

the

article,

or

anyone

blame

the

recession

on

Obama?


(See, I think that's an ascription, something only non-Democrats engage in...)

 

[Busybody]

The Democrats’ GM Fiction
The Editors, NRO
September 10, 2012



Fiction???

When TV is reality?

Who are you going to believe? Democrats or their lying critics?

I posted UP THERE^^^^

The fact

That about 70% of all GM sales are to Government and GE

They will go BK after the election

Cause they are micromanaged and forced to produce cars NO ONE WANTS by the FUK

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

the race is over

Obama will win

I have said that, REPEATEDLY!, but in order to have people to bash, the Democrats cannot hear or see that.

It was on TV,
So it's not reality...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I posted UP THERE^^^^

The fact

That about 70% of all GM sales are to Government and GE

They will go BK after the election

Cause they are micromanaged and forced to produce cars NO ONE WANTS by the FUK

Every government worker will be issued a green government car, only it will be black, white, red...,

 

[mercury14]

I answered you. You acknowledged it in a very negative manner and now you're playing stupid, so I will type slower...

Where

did

I,

the

article,

or

anyone

blame

the

recession

on

Obama?


(See, I think that's an ascription, something only non-Democrats engage in...)

The article blames Obama because it blames him for the mess he walked into in January 2009. For example, you know that -600,000 job BLS report Obama received eleven days after his inauguration? Your article squarely blames him for all those job losses and includes it in their jobs deficit calculations.

The article is stupid irrational partisan tripe meant to get Republicans elected. By the way, is this article AJ-approved or not? It's so hard to tell since you usually don't distance yourself from your own articles until we've held them up as falsehoods.

 

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[4est_4est_Gump]

The article blames Obama because it blames him for the mess he walked into in January 2009. For example, you know that -600,000 job BLS report Obama received eleven days after his inauguration? Your article squarely blames him for all those job losses and includes it in their jobs deficit calculations.

The article is stupid irrational partisan tripe meant to get Republicans elected. By the way, is this article AJ-approved or not? It's so hard to tell since you usually don't distance yourself from your own articles until we've held them up as falsehoods.

So, no quote, just your "interpretation."

Now, when I did that first thing this morning, you jumped all over me for ascription, so just show us the direct quote or you're engaging in ascription, and by the way you reacted, real men don't resort to ascription...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

This is what happens when Democrat silver ponytails have a better idea:



Obama Chevy Volt loses $49,000.00 a unit:

Insight: GM's Volt - The ugly math of low sales, high costs

(Reuters) - General Motors Co sold a record number of Chevrolet Volt sedans in August — but that probably isn't a good thing for the automaker's bottom line.

Nearly two years after the introduction of the path-breaking plug-in hybrid, GM is still losing as much as $49,000 on each Volt it builds, according to estimates provided to Reuters by industry analysts and manufacturing experts.

Cheap Volt lease offers meant to drive more customers to Chevy showrooms this summer may have pushed that loss even higher. There are some Americans paying just $5,050 to drive around for two years in a vehicle that cost as much as $89,000 to produce.

Rest here:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/10/us-generalmotors-autos-volt-idUSBRE88904J20120910

OH YEAH!!!

Well, let's put those numbers in proper perspective; let's talk FISKAR!!!



Or, maybe




tee



hee




F-150...

 

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[4est_4est_Gump]

Like the German wolf pack in the grim days of WWII, liberal idealists with little real knowledge and swollen glands are wreaking havoc with the free enterprise system and the better ideas of everyone else, they are driving up the costs of everything and turning America into a losing proposition.

B-b-b-but vetteman, they've been to the very best of colleges and universities, they're educated, they head up all the land-grant colleges where they spread their ideas like manure on fertile minds, why, they have even reached down into the ranks of the Jesuits snatching out the best minds and showering them with government appointments and directing them to use their super-powers and magical knowledge to seek out and point out ascription everywhere in the land where opposition to education may be fermenting like last year's apple cider....

If you quietly accept and go along no matter what your feelings are, ultimately you internalize what you're saying, because it's too hard to believe one thing and say another. I can see it very strikingly in my own background. Go to any elite university and you are usually speaking to very disciplined people, people who have been selected for obedience.
Noam Chomsky

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Come on merc, show me the quote or you're an ASCRIBER!

Run, rabbit run. 

Dig that hole, forget the sun, 

And when at last the work is done 

Don't sit down it's time to dig another one. 



For long you live and high you fly 

But only if you ride the tide 

And balanced on the biggest wave 

You race towards an early grave. 



 

[kbate]

Like the German wolf pack in the grim days of WWII, liberal idealists with little real knowledge and swollen glands are wreaking havoc with the free enterprise system and the better ideas of everyone else, they are driving up the costs of everything and turning America into a losing proposition.

This may be the least rational simile ever.

 

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[unregistered]

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

We used to have captains of industry, now we have committees of liberal captains manning the bridge of our sinking ship of state.

Indeed. Apt metaphor. Bill Ayers loves sailing metaphors...

 

[kbate]

We used to have captains of industry, now we have committees of liberal captains manning the bridge of our sinking ship of state.

I am going to gather all of your posts of this nature and re-publish them in book form. It will sell like rotten fruit, but the critical reviews will make it worth the effort anyway. I'll give you 40% of the profits, just to make sure you are paid for your intellectual efforts in accordance with Rand.

 

[RobDownSouth]

This may be teh least rational simile ever.

He's attempting, once again, to conflate liberalism with teh NAZIs.

It's one of AJ's and Vetty's favorite parlor games when they get bored.

 

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