I'm thankful for the sun in the morning, and the stars at night. I am also thankful for anti-spam software, and limited presidential terms.
Posted by tempus at November 26, 2005 09:16 AMLiberalism-
Give me dead American Soldiers and a Lost War in Iraq. Give me high interest rates and high unemployment. Give me malaize and complete apathy in every American Home. Tear down this Country if necessary, just so long as Hillary wins in 2008.
Whatever it takes, lets find something wrong somewhere so we can BLAME AMERICA AND BUSH FIRST.
Whatever it takes, lets find something wrong somewhere so we can BLAME AMERICA AND BUSH FIRST.Posted by Carpe DiemThink real hard and all the way back to 2000, 5 years ago when we were paying down the national debt, jobs were plentiful and high paying, there was peace in the land, we were building up credit for the pending boomer retirement, the work participation rate was higher, and the number of Americans living in poverty was decreasing, not increasing. It is hard to believe that was only 5 years ago, under a Democratic president. It is hard to fathom that in a mere 5 years, your itty bitty buddy Bush could have destroyed so much of the American economy and sunk the military into another quagmire. I wish you would explain why it is that Republicans like yourself hate American so much that you try to destroy everything about it. Posted by Mike at November 26, 2005 02:40 PM
Liberalism-
Give me dead American Soldiers and a Lost War in Iraq. Give me high interest rates and high unemployment. Give me malaize and complete apathy in every American Home.
Uh, in case you didn't notice, it was your team that accomplished all this.
But thanks for interjecting your dumb-ass opinion anyway.
not
Posted by SnarkyShark at November 26, 2005 05:26 PMjust so long as Hillary wins in 2008
I'm thankful that most liberals aren't the automatons that crappy D-umb (thank you pess.) thinks we are. In fact, so far, I've detected no enthusism on any lefty blog for Hillary.
Posted by rlp at November 26, 2005 05:27 PMHey Pess., Chevez's gift is profiting the Kennedys. Shoes on the other foot now. You're living up to your moniker Pess. The candle burn out.
Posted by peter at November 26, 2005 06:14 PMGet real. The economic downturn started before BUSH, with the dot com bust.... The unemployment rate is now less than when BUSH took office. To realize that 9/11 and the longshoreman strike in 2001 cost 100s of billions of dollars, and hit the economy hard, already in recession... Bush did not make the recession after being in office a few months.. that is liberal propaganda. The fact that tax cuts have foster 2 years of 4-5% growth is a recovery, hurt but not stoped by Katrina, Rita, and the like. 2.6 million new jobs after a loss of 2 million, is about 4.6 million cleaning up the recession left at the BEGINNGING of the BUSH administration. Why is it when 5% uneploywment is good for Clinton, but bad for Bush? 4-6% unemployment rate is considered GOOD or "full" employment with frictional losses in basic macro economics. What book is the DEMS reading. Economics by Chairman MAO? Loss of manufacuturing jobs is a problem, but that is a trend started in the early 70s, and exacerbated by NAFTA and unfreetrade, and sell outs from both sides in congress. Give credit or blame where it is due.
Posted by reality at November 26, 2005 07:56 PMreality,
You should read the fed policy statements during that time. You will see you are wrong.
Yours truly,
The Truth
Posted by The Truth at November 26, 2005 10:03 PMreality,
since I'm such a nice guys I have done the work for you. Enjoy.
Take just a few minutes to read the short statements of the Federal Reserve Bank (Allan Greenspan) about how they felt about economic growth, inflation, unemployment, etc at the end of 8 YEARS of DEMOCRATIC ECONOMIC and FISCAL POLICY.
Remember, they raise interest rates when they think the economy is going too good (to stave off inflation), they lower interest rates when economic growth is too slow, and they keep interest rates the same when they think things are just fine.
http://www.frbsf.org/education/activities/drecon/2004/0409a.gif
Federal funds rate 1990-2005
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/general/2000/20001115/
DEC 2000 (one month after the election) statement by the Federal Reserve explaining why they are MAKING NO CHANGE in interest rates because their constant raising of interest rates has finally slowed demand, but not enough to stave off fears on inflation. The utilization of available workers still remains at “unusually high levels”
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/general/2000/20001003/
OCT 2000 (one month before the election) statement by the Federal Reserve explaining why they are MAKING NO CHANGE in interest rates because they constant raising of interest rates has finally got the economy “moderated to a pace closer to the enhanced rate of growth of the economy's potential to produce.” Still however, they worry the unemployment rate is so low the available pool of workers is insufficient to drive economic growth.
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/general/2000/20000321/
MARCH 2000 statement by the Federal Reserve Board explaining why they are AGAIN raising interest rates to slow down the economy and stave off inflation.
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/general/2000/20000516/
MAY 2000 statement by the Federal Reserve Board explaining why they are AGAIN raising interest rates to slow down the economy and stave off inflation.
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/general/2000/20000202/
FEB 2000 statement by Federal Reserve Board explaining why they are raising interest rates to slow down the economy and stave off inflation.
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/general/1999/19991221/
DEC 1999 statement by the Federal Reserve Board explaining why they are making no change in interest rates despite the economy’s “economy's exemplary performance.”
Take just a few minutes to read the short statements of the Federal Reserve Bank (Allan Greenspan) about how they felt about economic growth, inflation, unemployment, etc at the end of 8 YEARS of DEMOCRATIC ECONOMIC and FISCAL POLICY.
Remember, they raise interest rates when they think the economy is going too good (to stave off inflation), they lower interest rates when economic growth is too slow, and they keep interest rates the same when they think things are just fine.
http://www.frbsf.org/education/activities/drecon/2004/0409a.gif
Federal funds rate 1990-2005
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/general/2000/20001115/
DEC 2000 (one month after the election) statement by the Federal Reserve explaining why they are MAKING NO CHANGE in interest rates because their constant raising of interest rates has finally slowed demand, but not enough to stave off fears on inflation. The utilization of available workers still remains at “unusually high levels”
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/general/2000/20001003/
OCT 2000 (one month before the election) statement by the Federal Reserve explaining why they are MAKING NO CHANGE in interest rates because they constant raising of interest rates has finally got the economy “moderated to a pace closer to the enhanced rate of growth of the economy's potential to produce.” Still however, they worry the unemployment rate is so low the available pool of workers is insufficient to drive economic growth.
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/general/2000/20000321/
MARCH 2000 statement by the Federal Reserve Board explaining why they are AGAIN raising interest rates to slow down the economy and stave off inflation.
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/general/2000/20000516/
MAY 2000 statement by the Federal Reserve Board explaining why they are AGAIN raising interest rates to slow down the economy and stave off inflation.
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/general/2000/20000202/
FEB 2000 statement by Federal Reserve Board explaining why they are raising interest rates to slow down the economy and stave off inflation.
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/general/1999/19991221/
DEC 1999 statement by the Federal Reserve Board explaining why they are making no change in interest rates despite the economy’s “economy's exemplary performance.”
You are full of it.
Posted by reality at November 27, 2005 01:58 AMIf I've learned nothing else from shooting off my mouth on my own blog it's that this is basically the season to accentuate the positive and .
Let's just face it. Happy-talk wins, and it's what people want to hear. The answer to everything is pretty simple, "clap louder." Maybe I'll just keep my mouth full of tofurky and dressing, and it should be easy not to spoil it fo everyone else with my ranting.
Posted by Terrance at November 27, 2005 06:03 AMI meant to say, 'tis the season to accentuate the positive and shut up about the rest. I guess I got something wrong in my HTML.
Posted by Terrance at November 27, 2005 06:06 AM