11:16 AM on 09/07/2012
Me:
The reason the unemployment rate will be less than 8% before the
election is because the people who make the numbers are lying to you.
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-us-economy-added-96000-jobs-in.html
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-us-economy-added-96000-jobs-in.html
02:30 PM on 09/07/2012
I've had comment exchanges with endless lefties who are convinced that their facts are correct and and facts to the contrary are just wrong republican talking points. The Althouse article I linked to asks this question:
"How does the
unemployment rate fall when you're only getting 64% of the new jobs you
need to keep up with the growing population?"
This person is convinced that their side is correct, and yet ignores this very obvious question. Their side is always right after all.
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The traitorous Republicans from the start made the American worker
the guinea pig for their bold-faced attempt to paralyze the
administration. The overall trend is still up. We cannot reward the
party of depression under Bush and Herbert Hoover with four years to
plunge us yet into another depression.
Stay the course, or millions more go into the breadlines. [Can't you just feel the love?]
Why not do what worked during the Gilded Age? Increase liberty and decrease the size of government.
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Federal government wasn't reduced under and liberty wasn't either. The Republicans at the federal level and decidedly at the state level built up a considerable bureaucracy. Where the railroad barons set up rate commissions and agencies to buy land with bribes for everyone in the state legislature. The idea of a gilded age nirvana of small government comes from loony rightists inhaling or smoking something they shouldn't.
This person is convinced that their side is correct, and yet ignores this very obvious question. Their side is always right after all.
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10:56 AM on 09/07/2012
Stay the course, or millions more go into the breadlines. [Can't you just feel the love?]
Me:
Both Bush and Hoover spent and spent and spent just like Keynes said they should, and using the same logic of today's democrats.
"This formula for economic success—cut the national debt, produce a sound currency, and cut taxes—has been drastically violated during the economic stagnation of the last five years. From 2007-2012, the U.S. has sharply increased its national debt, has undermined its currency in part through quantitative easing, and is raising taxes (or trying to raise taxes) and putting stringent regulations on American businesses. Why not do what worked during the Gilded Age? Increase liberty and decrease the size of government." -http://www.burtfolsom.com/?p=1896
"This formula for economic success—cut the national debt, produce a sound currency, and cut taxes—has been drastically violated during the economic stagnation of the last five years. From 2007-2012, the U.S. has sharply increased its national debt, has undermined its currency in part through quantitative easing, and is raising taxes (or trying to raise taxes) and putting stringent regulations on American businesses. Why not do what worked during the Gilded Age? Increase liberty and decrease the size of government." -http://www.burtfolsom.com/?p=1896
03:32 PM on 09/07/2012
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Federal government wasn't reduced under and liberty wasn't either. The Republicans at the federal level and decidedly at the state level built up a considerable bureaucracy. Where the railroad barons set up rate commissions and agencies to buy land with bribes for everyone in the state legislature. The idea of a gilded age nirvana of small government comes from loony rightists inhaling or smoking something they shouldn't.
He's totally ignored my point:
"Both Bush and Hoover spent and spent and spent just like Keynes said they should, and using the same logic of today's democrats."
How could I have made it more clear?
"ITS ALL BUSHES FAULT! YOU STUPID PERSON ON DRUGS WHO DISAGREES WITH ME!!!!"
