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Why is it that the policies of Democratic administrations over the past 30 years have delivered a robust economy (low unemployment, increasing wages, bull markets, healthy dollar) only to have Republican administrations take over and drag us into recession? Time to hunker down.
Where you still in diapers during the Clinton Recession, or are you intentionally ignoring that one?
Bill Clinton was in office when lending standards were loosened, leading to the housing bubble. Just because it took ~10 years for the bubble to burst doesn't make it Bush's fault.
^^^ You realize that graph only represents a 3 point drop. It's another example of the right, once again, manipulating data to tell the story they want.
Here's data you can work with: The Dow rising from 8K in 2008 to a record level of 19K today. I don't know about you, much my portfolio is much more attractive than it was under W. Judging from some of the loonies posting here, however, I look forward to reading how that is directly tied to Republican Lincoln's emancipation of the slaves. After all, as many of you keep posting, it's the fault of the fellow in office before (as long as he's a Dem). Bravo! Very post-truth!
I wonder if some of you actually believe what you're posting. But then again, I imagine many of you also believe Cruz's dad killed JFK.
Dear op..since you have increased your prosperity under Barry and bill ..please send some of it to me..because my taxes have been paying for others in vastly inordinate amount
Income redistribution is good if you're the one receiving it. .
Naw..I don't want anything from you..I pay my way and earn my keep and then some
9 for 8
Every dollar due and not one more cent
Unless it's doper tax . Then go for it...because they cheat
Stinks that they take taxes out of your social security check.
^^^ You realize that graph only represents a 3 point drop. It's another example of the right, once again, manipulating data to tell the story they want........Yada-yada-yada....Dow...Ted Cruz....etc.
Nice try at redirection, but let's keep talking about that 3% drop. It's actually 4, but we'll go with your 3.
See, here it is since 1950. Around 1980 women starting going to work in great numbers and that shows on the graph. It was due to the horrible inflation we had in those years and many families simply could not make do with one paycheck.
Fact is, the labor participation rate is bad, and millions of people have simply given up. We all know that and we all know the government "unemployment figures" ignore it.
The civilian labor force stands at about 158 million today. So that 3% that you sniff about?........That's 4.7 million people. (4% would be 6.3 million)
You can easily check that because there are only 152 million jobs available for our 158 million person work force. Look it up.
152 million jobs is not enough for 310 million people. And that's a fact.
So let's hear all about Ted Cruz again....
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(4% would be 6.3 million)
