ehBeth
 
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Reply Fri 2 Nov, 2012 08:47 am
@sozobe,
When you relate that chart to the historical gas price chart it makes a lot of sense to me.

I was involved with the trucking industry for about a decade. When the prices really zoomed up, starting in late 2006, truckers really started to run into problems. Truck leases were given up, there was a surge in reports of stolen/burned trucks, smaller trucking firms went under, large ones laid off drivers ... things got nasty in the industry in the 3rd quarter of 2007 ... the balance of the economy seemed to follow along about 6 months behind. Truckers are like the canaries in the coal mine of the North American economy.
Cycloptichorn
 
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Reply Fri 2 Nov, 2012 08:50 am
@revelette,
Rasmussen - one of the only polls showing Romney in the lead - has now moved back to a tie today.

Cycloptichorn
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sozobe
 
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Reply Fri 2 Nov, 2012 08:51 am
@H2O MAN,
There were mighty market forces at work -- some of them set in motion by Bush's failed policies, some out of his control -- that could not be instantaneously reversed. The trends that began under Bush continued until Obama was able to get measures in place (like the stimulus) that THEN turned things around.
sozobe
 
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Reply Fri 2 Nov, 2012 08:52 am
@ehBeth,
Interesting...
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H2O MAN
 
  -2  
Reply Fri 2 Nov, 2012 08:57 am
@sozobe,


Maybe so, but all of Obama's policies have been epic failures and the death spiral he has put this country in is
going to very hard to reverse. Four more years of the same failures isn't the solution, give Romney a chance.
sozobe
 
  4  
Reply Fri 2 Nov, 2012 08:59 am
@H2O MAN,
No, that's exactly what the graph shows.

Obama's policies have been working. His economic policies, for example, brought the US back from the brink and outperformed other countries that were buffeted by the same worldwide economic circumstances.
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H2O MAN
 
  -3  
Reply Fri 2 Nov, 2012 09:01 am
@ehBeth,
ehBeth wrote:
Truckers are like the canaries in the coal mine of the North American economy.


The coal mines are being shut down by Obama and this puts truckers out of work.
Finn dAbuzz
 
  -3  
Reply Fri 2 Nov, 2012 09:07 am
Las Vegas Review-Journal wrote:
To return to office a narcissistic amateur who seeks to ride this nation's economy and international esteem to oblivion, like Slim Pickens riding the nuclear bomb to its target at the end of the movie "Dr. Strangelove," would be disastrous.


http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/benghazi-blunder-obama-unworthy-commander-in-chief-176736441.html
revelette
 
  4  
Reply Fri 2 Nov, 2012 09:10 am
@H2O MAN,
Myths And Facts About Coal

http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/coalemployment.jpg
sozobe
 
  3  
Reply Fri 2 Nov, 2012 09:15 am
Quote:
Today's report came with a side of crow for all of us Chicken Littles, because it showed, nearly unmistakably, that we're in a slow, steady recovery — one that could and should be faster and less mistakable, but one with solid positive trajectory nonetheless. ... [T]he numbers do describe, in the clearest terms we've seen yet, that our unemployment crisis is on the mend. And unless you're a partisan hack for whom political momentum is more important than the alleviation of human misery, that's a good thing.


http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/11/jobs-report-call-it-a-comeback.html

(via Daily Dish)
H2O MAN
 
  -3  
Reply Fri 2 Nov, 2012 09:17 am
@sozobe,


What recovery?
sozobe
 
  5  
Reply Fri 2 Nov, 2012 09:19 am
@H2O MAN,
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z7ww2sctoi8/UJO_IoQeloI/AAAAAAAAUg4/_59YucGmVg8/s1600/PayrollOct2012.jpg
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H2O MAN
 
  -4  
Reply Fri 2 Nov, 2012 09:20 am
@Finn dAbuzz,
To return to office a narcissistic amateur who seeks to ride this nation's economy and international esteem to oblivion, like Slim Pickens riding the nuclear bomb to its target at the end of the movie "Dr. Strangelove," would be disastrous.




So true!
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Fri 2 Nov, 2012 09:25 am
@H2O MAN,
Nope, the large-scale problem in trucking in 2006, 2007 going into 2008 was not related to anything to do with Mr. Obama - unless you're claiming he was responsible for the economy in 2006.

In which case, Mr. Bush was really messing up big-time to not notice some guy out of Illinois had taken over managing the U.S. economy.
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Cycloptichorn
 
  1  
Reply Fri 2 Nov, 2012 09:26 am
@Finn dAbuzz,
Finn dAbuzz wrote:

Las Vegas Review-Journal wrote:
To return to office a narcissistic amateur who seeks to ride this nation's economy and international esteem to oblivion, like Slim Pickens riding the nuclear bomb to its target at the end of the movie "Dr. Strangelove," would be disastrous.


http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/benghazi-blunder-obama-unworthy-commander-in-chief-176736441.html


Posting the same thing on two different threads is a shout for attention...

Now that the state polls show Obama winning the swing states he needs, and the national polls have shown that Romney has lost his lead, are you still confident in Romney's victory? If so, why?

Cycloptichorn
ehBeth
 
  4  
Reply Fri 2 Nov, 2012 09:26 am
@H2O MAN,
How did Mr. Obama manage to have such a strong effect on the U.S. economy before he ran for president?
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H2O MAN
 
  -3  
Reply Fri 2 Nov, 2012 09:30 am
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-79p33BL9-Y4/UI60EgfSVCI/AAAAAAAAHPs/yh3eXwQiSQE/s300/_facebook_-1556476848%2BBearded%2BYouth.jpg
sozobe
 
  4  
Reply Fri 2 Nov, 2012 09:31 am
@H2O MAN,
And whaddya know... change it he did!
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jcboy
 
  1  
Reply Fri 2 Nov, 2012 09:49 am
@H2O MAN,
Your posts are always juvenile. Grow the hell up!
 

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