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

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Uh huh, that's a nice non-answer...

What caused the global financial meltdown?

A lot of things and it starts at the feet the democrats and the republicans made it worse. We need something to drive the economy after the dot com bubble.
Early in the 90`s there was people saying the shit wasn't going to work within the government they got shit canned over it.
 
No ass clown people like you look to the government for answers.
I just told you we got stop looking for government to fix what's wrong there the problem to start with.


Yes, government is the solution to the problem of seniors not having health care. And no, government is not the problem to begin with.
 
Yes, government is the solution to the problem of seniors not having health care. And no, government is not the problem to begin with.

I assume this is a Merc truth.

Is it okay if I, and others join Reagan in saying gov't is the problem?
 
Bra_man, you are so correct. I know I'm going to regret chiming in here when you're dealing with Dailey and his idiotic views. He tried to convince me that Chicago public schools with a 40% drop out rate is a wonderfully efficient system...LOL.

You hit the nail on the head. Move to North Korea. Bash me all you want Dailey. I'm not paying attention to you anyway. You're a left wing looney toon. Go occupy somewhere.

You lost the shit out of that argument, and you know it. Feel free to bump it with a response if you want, and I'll continue to make you look dumb.


He says capitalism is unsustainable but he's crazy. Socialism has failed everywhere it has been tried. And Obama is failing because he's attempting to bring it to the US. Self reliance, freedom of choice and the founding principles of the country are what has made the US the greatest engine of upward mobility in history.

Where did I mention socialism?
 
Idiot daily. If you don't think capitalism is perfect then you're a socialist. I swear you act like such a fucking noob.
 
Idiot daily. If you don't think capitalism is perfect then you're a socialist. I swear you act like such a fucking noob.

And here I thought that I came out pretty clearly in favor of individual ownership rights for business... silly me!
 
Although you'd never know it to read its materials, [Center for Immigration Studies] was started in 1985 by a Michigan ophthalmologist named John Tanton — a man known for his racist statements about Latinos, his decades-long flirtation with white nationalists and Holocaust deniers, and his publication of ugly racist materials. CIS' creation was part of a carefully thought-out strategy aimed at creating a set of complementary institutions to cultivate the nativist cause — groups including the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and NumbersUSA. As is shown in Tanton's correspondence, lodged in the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Tanton came up with the idea in the early 1980s for "a small think tank" that would "wage the war of ideas."

Through it all, CIS pumped out study after study aimed at highlighting immigration's negative effects....These studies have hardly been neutral. One of them concludes that because foreign women ("Third World gold-diggers") can obtain work permits by marrying American citizens, it's obvious that fraudulent marriage applications are "prevalent among terrorists." Another claims that because many immigrants have worked in Georgia since 2000, it's clear that unemployment among less educated native workers is up. A third says that because immigration levels have been high recently, immigrants make up a growing share of those drawing welfare.

But every one these claims, each of them at the heart of a different recent report from CIS, are either false or virtually without any supporting evidence. That came to fore again last September, when CIS organized a panel to accompany the release of yet another new report, this one claiming that municipalities in substantial numbers were permitting non-citizens to vote. When challenged, the panelists could only come up with a single possible example of the purported trend.



http://www.splcenter.org/publicatio...of-intolerance/cis-the-independent-think-tank
 
Although you'd never know it to read its materials, [Center for Immigration Studies] was started in 1985 by a Michigan ophthalmologist named John Tanton — a man known for his racist statements about Latinos, his decades-long flirtation with white nationalists and Holocaust deniers, and his publication of ugly racist materials. CIS' creation was part of a carefully thought-out strategy aimed at creating a set of complementary institutions to cultivate the nativist cause — groups including the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and NumbersUSA. As is shown in Tanton's correspondence, lodged in the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Tanton came up with the idea in the early 1980s for "a small think tank" that would "wage the war of ideas."

Through it all, CIS pumped out study after study aimed at highlighting immigration's negative effects....These studies have hardly been neutral. One of them concludes that because foreign women ("Third World gold-diggers") can obtain work permits by marrying American citizens, it's obvious that fraudulent marriage applications are "prevalent among terrorists." Another claims that because many immigrants have worked in Georgia since 2000, it's clear that unemployment among less educated native workers is up. A third says that because immigration levels have been high recently, immigrants make up a growing share of those drawing welfare.

But every one these claims, each of them at the heart of a different recent report from CIS, are either false or virtually without any supporting evidence. That came to fore again last September, when CIS organized a panel to accompany the release of yet another new report, this one claiming that municipalities in substantial numbers were permitting non-citizens to vote. When challenged, the panelists could only come up with a single possible example of the purported trend.



http://www.splcenter.org/publicatio...of-intolerance/cis-the-independent-think-tank

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Let's see if the jobs report coming out in ten minutes has to be adjusted downward next week, after the election.


+171,000 jobs, way better than analysts' prediction of 125k. The U3 rose (less than) 0.1% to 7.9, because...

The civilian labor force rose by 578,000 to 155.6 million in October, and the labor
force participation rate edged up to 63.8 percent. Total employment rose by 410,000
over the month.

Vette will rejoice at the awesomeness of these details. +578,000 new workers entering the workforce? This is exactly what Vette sees as a fantastic monthly report.
 
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