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Your thread wasn't about if times were good or credit.
It was about jobs.
Unemployment was at historic lows under Bush.
How many democrats were whining about a lack of jobs under Bush? None.
How many troops were in Iraq and Afghanistan who were either not on the unemployment roles or kept their job replacements, here at home, off of the unemployment roles?
There is a lag in unemployment from a tanking economy just as there is a lag in
unemployment recovery after a recovering economy. The economic damage that led to the unemployment in 2009 happened under Bush's clock.
OK, here's mine...
1. NAFTA
2. Permanent most favored nation trading status for China
3. GLBA (repealed Glass-Steigall)
4. CFMA (prohibited regulating CDOs)
5. CRA mandates for Fannie and Freddie (see NINJA loans)
Um, tax cuts for the rich, not getting rid of NAFTA or reinstating Glass-Steigall, billions on the credit card when we have no money. How are we paying for the 600 billion spent in Iraq? We owe China all that money, how are we gonna pay them?
I have to deal with your opinion it because you say so? I don't even know you, but I have to deal with you. LOLS. You sound like a 7th grader.
I have a job. Unemplyment is not my concern.
We had internet jobs under Bush? How is that possible? I thought things were bad under Bush?
And partisan? Ha. I never voted for a republican in my life.
I think we all would be a lot better off had government never been invented in the first place.
I don't believe you (on the partisan thing).
And yes, that is the nature of internet message boards. You have to deal with other peoples' opinions if you're going to respond to their threads.
7th grader? I think you are projecting given the fact that your logic is pretty indicative of someone who thinks that just saying things makes them true. Which is something teens are given to.
Oh my gosh, I sure do remember the howling and wailing when UE was at 5%, 6% during Bush's tenure. Oh my gosh, we all remember the claims of "underemployment" from the Left, we all remember the claims that 100,000, 200,000 jobs created was insufficient and just horrible numbers, don't we?
The UE rate was 4.6% when the dems took control of congress.
I sure do remember the wailing from the Left about 5% UE...don't you?
Oh my gosh, I sure do remember the howling and wailing when UE was at 5%, 6% during Bush's tenure. Oh my gosh, we all remember the claims of "underemployment" from the Left, we all remember the claims that 100,000, 200,000 jobs created was insufficient and just horrible numbers, don't we?
"Between May 1999 and May 2009, employment in the private sector sector only rose by 1.1%, by far the lowest 10-year increase in the post-depression period.
Oh my gosh, I sure do remember the howling and wailing when UE was at 5%, 6% during Bush's tenure. Oh my gosh, we all remember the claims of "underemployment" from the Left, we all remember the claims that 100,000, 200,000 jobs created was insufficient and just horrible numbers, don't we?
No! Provide links or some sort of proof. Perhaps a video.
Remember, as you wrote on another thread: if there is no video, it didn't happen.
"Job growth was too modest to allay concerns about whether job opportunities will expand in coming months," Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the ranking Democrat on the congressional Joint Economic Committee, said in a written statement. "Staying the course on the president's policies has failed to deliver greater prosperity and economic security for most families, which is why America needs a new direction."
Oh my gosh, I sure do remember the howling and wailing when UE was at 5%, 6% during Bush's tenure. Oh my gosh, we all remember the claims of "underemployment" from the Left, we all remember the claims that 100,000, 200,000 jobs created was insufficient and just horrible numbers, don't we?
The UE rate was 4.6% when the dems took control of congress.
I sure do remember the wailing from the Left about 5% UE...don't you?
Things were good under Bush, i agree. Just like i could go to Best buy today and buy a big screen TV, X-Box 360 and a new phone and get it with a credit card. That would be awesome, but when the payment comes, it wont be fun, cause i don't have the money for that.
Spin away though, and cling to averages when it's the SWING that really matters. Bush's average wouldn't have been possible had he been handed off a 7.3% rate like Clinton did. Which makes Clinton's UR% swing much more impressive.
Spin, spin, spin.
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