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What's your point? Is it going to get under 8 by election day?
The question should be...Does it matter anymore? The answer is No. Those old "rules" and "highway markers" are no longer as relevant. We are in a new era and the unemployment number being over 8% does NOT automatically make the other Presidential candidate a "better" choice (especially when his party is responsible for the unemployment rate and the economy in the first place)
People still remember the GWB years so Romney doesn't have that to coast on. He would actually have to show what he would do that would turn the economy around and somehow I seriously doubt that his package of pro 1% policies can be sold to the 99%ers in great numbers.
So don't conservatives strongly feel that we need to give tax cuts to rich people in order to
stimulate job growth.
Certainly.
2 trillion more uninvested than on 1/20/09. Just half of that invested = millions more employed.
Might even get the 4 mill who quit trying to work since 1/20/09 to rejoin the workforce.
Might even reduce the 5.2 mill long-term unemployed back to the 2.6 million it was on 1/20/09.
The question should be...Does it matter anymore? The answer is No. Those old "rules" and "highway markers" are no longer as relevant. We are in a new era and the unemployment number being over 8% does NOT automatically make the other Presidential candidate a "better" choice (especially when his party is responsible for the unemployment rate and the economy in the first place)
People still remember the GWB years so Romney doesn't have that to coast on. He would actually have to show what he would do that would turn the economy around and somehow I seriously doubt that his package of pro 1% policies can be sold to the 99%ers in great numbers.
No president since the FDR has ever been re elected with a unemployment rate above 7%.
An utterly meaningless "stat." The opposition still has to offer a better choice then the incumbent, imo, Romney is not that choice.
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Originally Posted by calipoppy
The question should be...Does it matter anymore? The answer is No. Those old "rules" and "highway markers" are no longer as relevant. We are in a new era and the unemployment number being over 8% does NOT automatically make the other Presidential candidate a "better" choice (especially when his party is responsible for the unemployment rate and the economy in the first place)
People still remember the GWB years so Romney doesn't have that to coast on. He would actually have to show what he would do that would turn the economy around and somehow I seriously doubt that his package of pro 1% policies can be sold to the 99%ers in great numbers.
What's your point? Is it going to get under 8 by election day?
Nope i was told even last year from a high profile banker i know, that by this time, things would be much much worse, in every possible way. That we need to get Obama out.
I even wrote about it on this forum last year, that things would be worse, everything i have been told, has come to pass, and it looks like he is right again.
Infact unemployment is going to get much worse, along with our housing crisis, which is lasting way way too long under this administration.
You may have a job now, but what about tomorrow........................... think it is so easy to find another one, ask all of the unemployed americans, about that!
An utterly meaningless "stat." The opposition still has to offer a better choice then the incumbent, imo, Romney is not that choice.
Well said.
LMAO, umemployment is a "meaningles" stat? Tell that to all the people who don't have jobs. I like how libs are now saying that 8% unemployment is the "new standard." LMAO!
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