Thread: US unemployment reaches highest for 26 years; 10.2%

Quote: Originally Posted by meyerpl This, coming from a guy who said the economic meltdown was years, multiple administrations, in the making. Absolutely. I am just countering what the other guy said. I still say it is a 50/50 split between socialists Bush and Clinton.

Quote: Originally Posted by ys http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/11/...ion/index.html Poll: Public shifting blame for recession May numbers: GOP to blame - 53%, Donkeys to blame - 7% Nov numbers: GOP to blame - 38%, Donkeys to blame - 27% Lets try next May .. and then next Nov.. Come on now ys. These types of polls make no sense at all. All it illustrates is that a "select" few "feel" a certain way. It?s a...

Quote: Originally Posted by ys Really? I thought it was strange that recession started exactly one year after we got Donkey-controlled Congress. What a weird coincidence. This, coming from a guy who said the economic meltdown was years, multiple administrations, in the making.

Quote: Originally Posted by ys Are you just a liar as every other communist? Or are you imagining things? Could you quote me in this thread, as you said, with 'Stimulus plans never work.' or something of that kind before you have "presented a successful stimulus plan", svp? I mistook you and Williamswer for the same person. The talking points started to blend together.

Quote: Originally Posted by ys Really? I thought it was strange that recession started exactly one year after we got Donkey-controlled Congress. What a weird coincidence. TRUTH

Quote: Originally Posted by meyerpl A great post, until the last paragraph, which rubs me as being gratuitous and mean spirited. It's incredibly insulting, not just to RVD, but to a lot of people. I'm sorry that I had 2B so mean-spirited, but I respect the hard-working black working class just as much as the white working class. And the elitist in the WH (I don't give a damn what color he is, I'm talking about him keeping...

Quote: Originally Posted by ys Not necessarily Was crisis in Zimbabwean economy cyclic? No,it was systemic. So is ours. I think that we should abandon our feverish attempts to spend our way from 10+% unemployment, and we should rather learn to live with it, as whether we like it or not, it is here to stay, just as well as mountains of debt that we are creating right now. Its not a Zimbabwe cycle here. Its behaving more like an European...

Quote: Originally Posted by Donny ys in this thread: 'Stimulus plans never work.' *is presented with a successful stimulus plan* *makes up reasons as to why that situation doesn't apply* It must be fun to make up your argument as you go along, ys . Almost as fun as making up quotes as you go along, eh?

Re: US unemployment reaches highest for 26 years; 10.2% Buffett, Gates tell students worst is behind us By TALI ARBEL, AP Business Writer Tali Arbel, Ap Business Writer – 1 hr 6 mins ago NEW YORK – Capitalism is still alive and well, say the world's two richest men, despite lingering shocks from the longest, deepest recession since the Great Depression. "The financial panic is behind us," said famed...

Re: US unemployment reaches highest for 26 years; 10.2% __________________ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" ~ Benjamin Franklin