Where is the US economy headed?

@parados,

parados wrote:

If that was truly the standard then okie would hate his country based on Bush's governance.

Okie equates 'love of country to thinking like okie". If you don't agree with him then you must hate the country.

Any dolt can tell that Obama does not have a good attitude towards his own country, that is anyone that is intellectually honest and doesn't drink the Democrat koolaid daily.

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@plainoldme,

plainoldme wrote:

He says he has children and grandchildren.. Their lives have to be living hell with okie playing "the man behind the curtain" and the kids and grandkids all playing the part of the Scarecrow in the okie production of the Wizard of Oz.

More baseless insults from pom. Frankly you are sickening, pom.

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@okie,

Glad to serve you. Wouldn't be surprised if that comment wasn't a sparkling mirror held up to your face.

Apply some common sense here. You act like a petty dictator. One has the feeling that even your pajamas have epaulets. You can not be as dictatorial as you are here and be sweetness and light at home. You had to have deprived every member of your family of a voice.

Not too long ago, you made a point of baiting me and psychoanalyzing me with your limited skills and your narrow vision. Well, guess what you look like to the outside world . . . like a rather petty dictator.

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@okie,

If Obama were a white man, you wouldn't use such harsh rhetoric.

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@cicerone imposter,

Love of country is not shown by running it into the ground.

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@plainoldme,

plainoldme wrote:

If Obama were a white man, you wouldn't use such harsh rhetoric.

More baseless and ridiculous insults. Can you muster an apology? I doubt it very seriously. So far I find absolutely no reason to respect you at all, sorry to say.

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@plainoldme,

plainoldme wrote:

Love of country is not shown by running it into the ground.

Which is what Obama is doing to our country. Don't you care?

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@okie,

Show us how Obama has run this country into the ground? You do have evidence, don't you?

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@okie,

You have no idea where the ground is. I have been a social worker, a teacher and a political activist. I was an environmentalist since the early 60s, when I was also a civil rights and anti-war activist.

The person who doesn't care is you because you haven't taken the personal responsibility of educating yourself. You are still working out adolescent fantasies of being a rebel without a clue, smearing mud into the faces of your long dead parents for having been what you describe as Roosevelt Democrats.

Based on the idiocy you rain on us about Hitler and god know who else, I suspect that your parents probably listened to Father Couglin's radio show and voted for Alf Landon!

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@plainoldme,

plainoldme wrote:

You have no idea where the ground is. I have been a social worker, a teacher and a political activist. I was an environmentalist since the early 60s, when I was also a civil rights and anti-war activist.

Thanks, that explains much about you and why you post such nonsense and drivel.

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The person who doesn't care is you because you haven't taken the personal responsibility of educating yourself. You are still working out adolescent fantasies of being a rebel without a clue, smearing mud into the faces of your long dead parents for having been what you describe as Roosevelt Democrats.

Again nonsense and insulting. I loved my parents, they were great people, and they quit voting Democrat a very long time ago when they woke up to the fact that the party was morphing into a party of radicals and extremists. My dad for example, was a Pacific war vet, and he absolutely detested Clinton and considered him a traitor.

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Based on the idiocy you rain on us about Hitler and god know who else, I suspect that your parents probably listened to Father Couglin's radio show and voted for Alf Landon!

I never heard of Father Couglin, and I doubt my parents did either, and I don't think they voted for Alf Landon, no, no chance.
Good night, pom, I hope you feel great about all the baseless insults and nonsensical crap you've posted tonight. Actually I hope you feel as rotten as you should feel. You still have time to repent and change your ways.

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Wow! He never heard of Father Coughlin. That is hard to imagine!

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@plainoldme,

We should start a Father Coughlin thread.

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@okie,

okie wrote:

Any dolt can tell that Obama does not have a good attitude towards his own country, that is anyone that is intellectually honest and doesn't drink the Democrat koolaid daily.

Huh? So you can provide us with evidence of this attitude that is factual and not open to interpretation based on bias? Or are you just using "dolt" because it is the only argument you can make?

Let's see..
US has a growing economy.
US has a high unemployment rate that is slowly coming down. This is similar to the way the US has recovered from just about every recession.

I wonder what facts you have okie. Let's see your "intellectually honest" arguments. I doubt you will have any that can't be torn to shreds with a minimum of effort.

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@parados,

parados wrote:

US has a high unemployment rate that is slowly coming This is similar to the way the US has recovered from just about every recession.

Your mouth to Murphy's ear. I don't know where the unemployment rate will be in a year because I don't know how many workers will drop out of the labor force altogether. But I'm pretty confident in predicting that employment as a percentage of the labor force will be lower than it is now.

None of this, of course, validates the evidence-free snickering from the usual suspects. I can't believe you and plainoldme are still bothering to argue with them.

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@Thomas,

As I once said, it is a little like heroin. Totally addictive and totally bad.

I have some more things to post from the Harvard MAgazine article but I am going to pull poison ivy before going to work and will not post them now. We all need to listen to real economists.

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@parados,

okie is a classic case of calling foul when he himself insults our president day in and day out, but he wants to sue people that insults him.

Does anyone here who have read okie's post know of any charge okie has made against the president support his claim with reliable evidence?

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@cicerone imposter,

What you or I might consider reliable evidence, most folks on the right shun.

Then, there is the problem of using something neutral, like the dictionary, or something that strives to be neutral, like wiki, and interpreting what is written to match a preconceived notion.

I like to find evidence I can collaborate. If I can find a statement and an analog or two, I am comforted.

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@parados,

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US has a high unemployment rate that is slowly coming down

Lets see, it was at 7.7% when Obama was sworn in, it rose to 10%, and now its dowm to just over 9%.
So you are correct, it is coming down.
However, since it is still higher then it was when he wassworn in, it wont really be coming down,IMHO, till it gets down to what it was when he was sworn in and goes lower then that.

To use an analogy (and I admit its a poor analogy), after the 9th ward in N.O. got flooded after Katrina, would you have been willing to allow Bush to brag about how the water level was coming down, when it was on his watch that those homes got flooded?

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@mysteryman,

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Lets see, it was at 7.7% when Obama was sworn in, it rose to 10%, and now its dowm to just over 9%.

So have you completely abandoned your argument that we should judge from the time of Obama's first budget?

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@parados,

During the Vietnam War, when no civilians could find work, there was speculation that any published joblessness statistics were one-half what they were in reality.

At that time, there was no concept of the underemployed. Nothing was said about people who had given up.

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