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tanked the economy?
I don't remember the republicans giving away money to people who could not pay it back.
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Originally Posted by Fiddlehead
And those Millennials are falling over themselves to pay homage to the Rush Limbaugh party?
The same people who tanked the economy, funded wars with tax cuts, and left them holding the bag?
Millennials are too busy texting and playing video games to know what is going on. They have been programmed to waste time in trivial things to care ..
This generation of shallow thinkers can vote . They grab sound bites on tv that get their attention but don't take the time to look at the full picture.. they believe the liberal media that will destroy their freedoms as the government forces them to get healthcare or be fined... In 2015 and each year the fines will go up. They will have to pay one way or another..
They may never wake up when they will see the government directing them in every part of their lives . They are government owned zombies.
The 80s recession didn't come close to as bad as the Great Recession. I just talk about this I another thread. I'll keep it simple for this rebuttal but if unemployment was calculated today the same way it was back then, the Great Recession would have exceeded it no doubt. And even with the current calculation unemployment during the Great Recession has spent significantly longer time periods above 9% and 8% compared to the early 80s.
These two recessions aren't even comparable. The 80s were no where near as bad as today.
You might be onto something there. I was a teenager about 1980 and things were real nasty but, got better real fast. This mess in 2014 has been just nasty for about 7 years.
I had good catholic parents too who couldn't afford all these kids. But it was against their religion to take birth control. This isn't about being a liberal
Uh; MOST "Catholics" flip off the church and DO use birth control in 2014.
I have to get some kind of health insurance I don't even need thanks to Obama. If I do or if I don't, either way I'm looking at being in debt for the first time ever. Thanks, Obama.
People vote party lines. It was the conservatives who made obama the messiah and dear leader, not the voters. They voted for a democratic president after 8 years of a republican. That's the way it always is. And the next president should be a republican but we shall see.
I am looking at this guy: I've made a few promises. I promised to never mud sling at another man or woman who seeks the same nomination. I promised to always keep my humility. I vowed to give it everything I've got to ensure a victory and that when we do win, the biggest problems facing this country - illegal immigration, terror, the economy and national debt -- will be addressed immediately and correctly.
Born in 1948 I am a quintessential boomer and with all due respect I will tell you that you don't know what you are talking about.
In November, 1982 President Reagan was dealing with a 10.8% unemployment rate while the highest Obama ever had to deal with was 10.0% in October, 2009. I remember the time well and you are telling me we had great job security and stuff?
Before Reagan we were dealing with Idiot Carter and you ain't lived until you deal with an inflation rate of 14.73% in April, 1980 at a time when unemployment was 6.9% which was 20% higher than it is today and somehow you believe we lived in the good times?
Yeah, I remember when I got my first home loan and thought 14% fixed was a good interest rate.
I remember under Ole' Jimmy Carter when a factory closed up where the men used to make at least $14/hr (this was excellent wages in 1980) and when it reopened as a disposable diaper factory over 500 men who used to earn $14/hr lined up for fork lift driver jobs paying $4 and no benefits. Yeah, good times!
And back under Reagan we didn't have the welfare and food stamps we have today and as far as unemployment extensions they didn't exist either.
I am growing tired of hearing millenials whine and cry how Reaganomics didn't work. Tell you what, let's compare Reagan's employment record vs Obama's, shall we?
Except for the first month after the highest unemployment rate month Reagan beat Obama every single month for 35 straight months. So much for Reaganomics not working. I was in my 30's during Reagan and I wish we could have those good times again.
So what did this, what lowered the unemployment rate? The Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981. You know, Reaganomics?
With all due respect I don't care about what happened when you were a kid. All I said was that I'm doing just fine. Why did the economy tank back then? Was that Obama's fault too? I thought you guys had it all figured out. What kind of policies were you guys voting into place while we were all in middle school?
All I hear from you is how much harder you guys had it compared to us, but just a few posts up your boy is talkin' about how much harder we're going to have it.
You guys are getting confused in your old age.
And for the record, forget about those fork lift jobs. I've installed machines to replace exactly those positions, and they're better at it than their human counter part in every way.
Existing manufacturers are upgrading to computers and robots. You won't need 50 people to manage these machines so you can so goodbye to a lot of low skill, decent paying manufacturing jobs. Today's economy doesn't have room for more people.
People are inefficient. They're weak, they get sick, they want breaks, they expect compensation, they get hurt, they cannot work 24/7, 365 days a week.
I just installed a product line that eliminated it's old plant's staff by about 50%, and the existing employees will not get the OT like they used to be because the robots can do that much more work, in less time. That's right, I'm a JOBKILLER.
Nobody "creates jobs" to give money away to people. A job is something temporary until the person with capital can find a way to do it for cheaper. Sad but true.
So frankly, nothing you've said really means anything to me.
you really need to stop listening to your baby boomer parents, cut the cord and start thinking for yourself.
Republicans are for a free market society unlike the loser you voted for. giving tax cuts to the people who make jobs will create more jobs.
you get what you voted for.
Sorry, but the party of the rich, and the bigoted, and those who believe that poor sick people should not have affordable access to healthcare will never get a vote out of me.
And for the record, the rich have had the lowest taxas for the past decade going back many decades, but job growth is pitiful. I don't buy the trickle down nonsense at all. The rich need to create jobs, or they deserve to be taxed.
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