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Aw isn't that cute! PapaG has a Deadmau5 avatar. I bet you even say "five" too! Do you still claim to be not a republican too?
Who ever knows where those figures come from, but I can tell you that all the people I know that are unemployed or under employed are finding job hunting a daunting task like I never experienced. I also know that incomes are down.
Westnob, what did you think about the chart? Do you think most of the figures are either made up or grossly distorted?
Both candidates are really lackluster this year. I actually dislike Romney a great deal and think that he has no idea what the average American has to deal with, nor do I think he cares. Obama is most likely in the same boat as Romney in that regard too. The only saving grace of this whole election for me is that most presidents do the majority of their work in the second term because they no longer have to pander for the reelection vote. Either way the Senate (which is the worst Senate in US history) is going to attempt to stonewall whoever gets elected if they majority are not from their party.
Overall, I fully agree. My general thinking is that the democrats had the opportunity, carte blanc, to do whatever they wanted and screwed up the country so bad it is questioned if it is even possible to recover. So why not let the republicans have a shot and see what they can do? They may not do any better, but they can't do any worse.
I'm curious why is says March 2012, when it's September now. I"m also curious what those numbers would look like say three months into Obama's term, not inauguration day. Last time I checked, you typically get a couple months of grace period. I know at my work we tend to blame someone that was fired for a couple months of the left over shit they leave behind before it starts to be the person that is new in the job's fault. PS how are these bush tax cuts for the last 10 years working out for us?
Think of all the millions of jobs saved by those tax cuts. If that "logic" works for Obama, it works for everyone.
And elephants paint their feet pink to hide in grapefruit trees. I get your point, there is no control test.
gas took a sudden drop late in the summer, which is why that fact is kind of hollow. It's not like gas had been cheap for a LONG time and all the sudden rose. It was expensive as fuck, then it dropped to a reasonable price, and slowly built up. To blame, or credit the president on that, is pretty pathetic.
Most Americans disagree that Obama inherited a level playing field, and blame Republicans for the bad numbers in Denny's chart. P.S. The gas price was manipulated by investors. Look at the graph. I knew it at the time. Someone now has something similar from PapaG in his signature, predicting that gas prices will be low on election day.
However, I recall when Bush announced he was going to use some of our oil reserves it had immediate gas price lowering results. The point is that while I agree with you in general, sometimes the US President can have some influence- either directly or indirectly.
Westnob, 2 posts above mine, reminds us in his signature that PapaG said, "It will be $2.50/gallon by election day. Put that one on a bookmark." I bring that up so that when the board rightists ridicule my gas price assertion as conspiracist, they will have to simultaneously defend one of their own saying something similar.
of course the we've heard it all before ad was first done a couple months back from the other side [video=youtube;oWdZEJW1vWY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWdZEJW1vWY[/video] STOMP
Well Using his inauguration day numbers is misleading, yes. He inherited a shitstorm created by Bush and expecting him to bring it to a halt instantly is unrealistic, and it didn't bottom out until 9 months after his inauguration date. So yes, I think the chart distorts that a little bit. Bringing up gas prices is just lame.
