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Old 08-29-2012, 10:11 AM
 
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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I am just thinking back to how much i used to complain about the Bush economy in the early 2000s. I used to criticize Bush for having such high unemployment... up around 6%. It wasn't just me... everyone was ripping Bush at the time, around 2003-2004 timeframe.

Wow, do i ever want to stick my foot in my mouth. We had no idea how good things we had it back then! What most of us wouldn't give for 6% unemployment these days.
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Old 08-29-2012, 10:21 AM
 
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Exactly! And our 8.3% unemployment rate isn't even the REAL unemployment rate. It doesn't factor in the people who have given up on working and have applied for disability or those that have a degree and had to go to work bagging groceries because they can't find a job in their field. I don't know why anyone still has faith in obama.
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Old 08-29-2012, 10:27 AM
 
Location: My beloved Bluegrass
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Kind of makes one nostalgic, doesn't it?
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Old 08-29-2012, 10:31 AM
 
Location: Limbo
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I'd rather stick it out and see what the future holds instead of going back to the Bush years. 8 years with him was enough.
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Old 08-29-2012, 10:53 AM
 
Location: Texas
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And yet the policies and practices they enacted just before and during that recession have done more to hurt and inhibit our country than any other administration.
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Old 08-29-2012, 10:57 AM
 
Location: Long Island
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And yet the policies and practices they enacted just before and during that recession have done more to hurt and inhibit our country than any other administration.
really now..........hmmmmmm

talk about revisionist history

the problems we face today....much due to clinton


fact most of the problems we faced in 2008/09/today....came from.....the clinton era

and the TWO MAIN problems that is caused 'wall street' to collapse............JOBS and HOUSING...and they go back to BEFORE bush



let this INFORM you, these problems stem from: 1993, 1995, and 1999 and you can thank the liberals for it, and most of it goes back to the clinton era. why because ECONOMICS run in 10(+/-4) year CYCLES and what we are facing NOW is in DIRECT RELATION to what happened back in the 90's

1993 NAFTA-originally pushed by Brezezenki and his puppet carter,,moved along by reagan----negotiated by another brezezenki puppet bush1--- passed in 1993 by the democrat controlled congress, pushed by clinton, signed by clinton-inceased with CAFTA by bush2--the consequence ...... 60+ million HIGH PAYING jobs have been lost, 2 trillion worth of debt from the lost wages.(and obamy wants to increase it too,,,hmmm)

1995 clinton (through his chief of HUD (Henry Cisneros and later his second chief andrew coumo)) eased the rules on obtaining mortgages allowing more 'exotic' mortgages and 'no-doc/low doc' mortgages---------the consequence ............housing SKYROCKETED causing low inventories causing a 'not normal' increase in home prices, sellers got greedy, buyers got even greedier (looking to PROFIT in a skyrocketing market by flipping) and bought THINKING that prices would still increase and their ADJUSTABLE mortgage would pay it self off in MINIMUMAL years...EVEN THOUGH THESE INCREASES IN HOME VALUES WERE TOTALLY UNHEARD OF, AND MORTGAGE RATES WERE AT 40 YEAR LOWS( what did they think an adjustable mortgage gotten at 40 year lows would do in the term(3 months-3years) when it adjusted...of course it would go up, their CONTRACT even said after the term it would be 6% PLUS PRIME)))
For many potential homebuyers, the lack of cash available to accumulate the required downpayment and closing costs is the major impediment to purchasing a home. Other households do not have sufficient available income to to make the monthly payments on mortgages financed at market interest rates for standard loan terms. Financing strategies, fueled by the creativity and resources of the private and public sectors, should address both of these financial barriers to homeownership."
The above is the start of the mortgage meltdon: Clinton's National Homeownership Strategy

1996 clinton signed The Telecommunications Act of 1996 (The Act was claimed to foster competition. Instead, it allowed industry consolidation whose actions reduced the number of major media companies from around 30 in 1993 to 10 in 1996, and reducing the 10 in 1996 to 6 in 2005.) causing MONOPOLIES, which can RAISE PRICES


1998 clinton does not allow drilling for OUR OWN OIL..the liberals say 'it will take ten years before we seee the oil'...guess what its been ten years


1999 Clinton DEREGULATES the banking industry


2000 clinton signs the China trade bill


2000 clinton signs the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000..(which paves the way for ENRON)


2000/1 clinton pushes to get china into the world bank


2003/4/5 republicans try to reighn in fanny and freddie...the liberal opposition leaders (barney frank and cris Dodd) say "there is nothing wrong with fanny/freddy..its a witch hunt"........boy does barney have egg on his face now



it aint the gop.....its the liberals that have cost us
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Old 08-29-2012, 11:05 AM
 
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Clinton was not a liberal. Not by a long shot. He was a right-leaning centrist.
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Old 08-29-2012, 11:42 AM
 
Location: North America
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I am just thinking back to how much i used to complain about the Bush economy in the early 2000s. I used to criticize Bush for having such high unemployment... up around 6%. It wasn't just me... everyone was ripping Bush at the time, around 2003-2004 timeframe.

Wow, do i ever want to stick my foot in my mouth. We had no idea how good things we had it back then! What most of us wouldn't give for 6% unemployment these days.

Similar to the 8.4 + during Reagan's time.
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Old 08-29-2012, 12:00 PM
 
Location: OH->FL->NJ
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NAFTA LOL.

Complaining about NAFTA is like having a tantrum at a Mexican Mouse wearing a sombrero in the corner, meanwhile there is a Chinese Tyrannosaurus Rex looking hungry behind you....

About half of Mexico's exports to the US is OIL. Drive an SUV? LOOK IN THE MIRROR!
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