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Back to what? A stock market and banking collapse? Massive job losses? Two unfunded wars?
How easily some forget. It's called ROMNESIA.
Funny. I remember four years ago the US on the verge of economic collapse, with the banking/financial system in tatters, DJIA plummeting, fighting in Iraq, jobs being shed at the rate of 800,000/mo., with the US being hated as being an overbearing bully.
Today, finally, DJIA is back over 13,000, we are out of Iraq, stopped the job losses. Overall, the Titianic is heading in a better direction, and our foreign relations are based on reasonable discourse instead of cowboy, knee-jerk diplomacy.
This was not your father's recession. It is unrealistic to expect a recovery in three years when we were shedding jobs throughout 2009 and 2010. In the 80s we still had our manufacturing base and banking system. Today there are no jobs to come back to. And, the banks are still skittish about lending after their near-death experience in 2009.
The scenario of the 2009 recession is unique, akin to that of The Great Depression.
Funny. I remember four years ago the US on the verge of economic collapse, with the banking/financial system in tatters, DJIA plummeting, fighting in Iraq, jobs being shed at the rate of 800,000/mo., with the US being hated as being an overbearing bully.
Today, finally, DJIA is back over 13,000, we are out of Iraq, stopped the job losses. Overall, the Titianic is heading in a better direction, and our foreign relations are based on reasonable discourse instead of cowboy, knee-jerk diplomacy.
This was not your father's recession. It is unrealistic to expect a recovery in three years when we were shedding jobs throughout 2009 and 2010. In the 80s we still had our manufacturing base and banking system. Today there are no jobs to come back to. And, the banks are still skittish about lending after their near-death experience in 2009.
The scenario of the 2009 recession is unique, akin to that of The Great Depression.
I suspect you, too, may be a victim of ROMNESIA.
I saw this same post earlier . . . can't come up with something original? Just cutting and pasting?
I don't need to refer to "my father's recession." I am probably older than your father. I have my own recession memories which I lived through.
No one is going to change your mind about who you are voting for.
For the rest of us who have watched the dollars signs tick up by the second on the national debt, who have waited for the promises that were not fulfilled . . . it isn't a matter of memory . . . it is life as we have known it for the past four years.
Back to what? A stock market and banking collapse? Massive job losses? Two unfunded wars?
How easily some forget. It's called ROMNESIA.
Funny. I remember four years ago the US on the verge of economic collapse, with the banking/financial system in tatters, DJIA plummeting, fighting in Iraq, jobs being shed at the rate of 800,000/mo., with the US being hated as being an overbearing bully.
Today, finally, DJIA is back over 13,000, we are out of Iraq, stopped the job losses. Overall, the Titianic is heading in a better direction, and our foreign relations are based on reasonable discourse instead of cowboy, knee-jerk diplomacy.
This was not your father's recession. It is unrealistic to expect a recovery in three years when we were shedding jobs throughout 2009 and 2010. In the 80s we still had our manufacturing base and banking system. Today there are no jobs to come back to. And, the banks are still skittish about lending after their near-death experience in 2009.
The scenario of the 2009 recession is unique, akin to that of The Great Depression.
I suspect you, too, may be a victim of ROMNESIA.
Purely because it is propped up by QE-Infinity. 3Q earnings for many companies were horrible, the increase you see in the DJIA and S&P have nothing to do with actual fundamentals, its just another big bubble set to burst any day now.
No, Cons just like to LIE, deceive and drag us in WAR......
What was it Obama promise to do about GITMO . . .
And what was it he said about getting our soldiers out of both countries immediately after he was elected. . . and how many are still in the middle east . . .
Silly me. I am sure this is somehow all George Bush's fault.
I saw this same post earlier . . . can't come up with something original? Just cutting and pasting?
Facts need to be repeated, even more than lies, before they sink in - especially if the reader is suffering from selective Romnesia.
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I don't need to refer to "my father's recession." I am probably older than your father. I have my own recession memories which I lived through.
Doubt that. I'm 70 y/o. My father's been dead for years. More likely, I'm older than you.
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No one is going to change your mind about who you are voting for.
True. So, why are you posting here?
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For the rest of us who have watched the dollars signs tick up by the second on the national debt, who have waited for the promises that were not fulfilled . . . it isn't a matter of memory . . . it is life as we have known it for the past four years.
Bush was the spender-in chief. Romnesia, again:
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In the 2009 fiscal year — the last of George W. Bush’s presidency — federal spending rose by 17.9% from $2.98 trillion to $3.52 trillion. Check the official numbers at the Office of Management and Budget. • In fiscal 2010 — the first budget under Obama — spending fell 1.8% to $3.46 trillion. • In fiscal 2011, spending rose 4.3% to $3.60 trillion.
There has been no huge increase in spending under the current president, despite what you hear.
So we can add Ph.D to the list things Obama thinks he is?
I think you mean M.D. Yes, indeed. Dr. Obama has got the cure for Romnesia - and this cure even covers preexisting conditions. So, even though afflicted with Romnesia for years, Mitt will be covered.
Quick, one of you Obamabots, run and edit Wikipedia! Oh wait, Obama doesn't count, he doesn't have an MBA! In fact, I believe only 8% of his Cabinet have any background in business, the lowest percentage in history.
Throw the slacker out and let's get America back to work!
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