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These graphs don’t give a valid comparison because the method used by the fedgov to compute unemployment has changed greatly over the years, each change resulting in LESS unemployment indicated by their fudged figures. Thus, any graph that doesn’t take this into account is garbage. The major changes were made in 1980 and during the Clinton era. Thus, the 1974 figure is much inflated compared to the current much more fudged rate. These are the real rates for today:
http://shadowstats.com/alternate_data
#16 Fusion:
Bush was certainly NOT a Libertarian.
“None of you have stepped up and said, “Here is my plan”
So anyone without a plan can’t complain? I *hate* that kind of BS logic.
That’s like saying you *have* to vote to have a right to complain. What-evar. I elect people to make the plan, and when they fail, I complain, and rightfully so.
“Remember, you lost the election. Badly.”
Oh, so *now* you like that Electoral College. Look at the popular vote – it’s a 7% diff. But since the gap was bigger in the college, you’ll quote that one.
Sigh, and our solution to the recession caused by runaway government spending? Why its to have government spend even more money. Someday this is all going to come back and bite us all big time, maybe sooner than most people think.
#10 – jbesnson2,
Be careful when citing blogs as a source. First, the other graphs all seem to turn around while the current is not yet showing any sign of doing so. Second, it seems to me that the current crisis has a lot more to it than job loss. I would like to see a graph that compares current economic conditions with those of 1929-1939.
Sorry GOP, your herbert hoover left office in 2008.
You know its bad when racist republicans now have more confidence in a black man with an african/muslim name than in one of their own old rich white guy from texas.
To # 16. The incompatents running Congress then and on vidio preventing steps that would have avoided at least part of the melt down are still in Congress and in charge of the same positions.
And while I’m not a Bush fan the vidio’s clearly show that wasn’t one of Bush’s numerous blunders nor were most of the key people Reps. They had already lost control by then.
Well one Democratic Congressman from Idaho has proposed a stimulus of about $100 billion, with all spending to happen by 2010, unlike the current plan.
Sorry, this graph is not normalized for today’s much larger work force vs prior recessions and is misleading. The correct graph is shown here:
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/02/job-losses-during-recessons.html
#22, brm,
Bush was certainly NOT a Libertarian.
Ya, I know.
The Republicans disowned him too.
So did the conservatives.
And the neo-cons.
And the Evangelicals.
And his father.
So who the hell voted for that clown?
#29 – Mr. Fusion,
Bush was not a libertarian because he opposed social liberties and gave huge amounts of welfare, albeit corporate welfare.
Bush was not a conservative because he was a typical borrow and bomb republican running up debt like crazy, which does cause huge tax increases, just not during one’s own administration.
Old school republicans probably don’t like him either, as old school republicans were basically libertarians.
For new school republicans to have disowned him makes no sense. He was a perfect new school republican using typical gush-up Reaganomics.
The organizations that had all of their members voting for him wer likely No Billionaire Left Behind. and the National Organization of Morans.
Something doesn’t add up. Two weeks ago I drive to Detroit, and one of the bigger suburban shopping areas (Canton Twp) looked like Christmastime. Traffic was jammed up, and all the parking lots were full.
This weekend closer to home, Best Buy’s parking lot was mostly full. Lowe’s was busy. Walmart jammed. Etc.
WTF? It’s the middle of winter, supposedly the slow part of the retail season, but looks like early December. People just driving around and window shopping?
#30, Scott,
the National Organization of Morans.
Classic, geeze, I’m laughing so hard my eyes are watering.
I don’t see how the unemployment rate goes down when the current stimulus plan rolls back welfare reform to put more people on welfare with no work requirements.
Mr Fusion,
>None of you have stepped up and said, “Here is my plan”.
From the Washington Post:
“There seems to be a set of folks who—I don’t doubt their sincerity—who just believe that we should do nothing,” he said.
But in truth, few of those involved in the stimulus debate are suggesting that the government should not take action to aid the cratering economy.
Many of the president’s fiercest congressional critics support a stimulus package of similar size but think it should be built around a much higher proportion of tax cuts than new spending. Others have called for a plan that is half the size of the one headed for a House-Senate conference—still massive by historical standards.
#34, Lyin’ Mike,
From the Washington Post: …
I have no idea who said anything nor what context it was said in. Please try and supply a link to the story. I have no intention of reading every story in the WaPo for the past few days to find that one sentence. Until then it is bullshit.
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Let me make it easy and I will teach you how to post a link.
Pull up the page you want to quote from.
Move your mouse cursor to the address bar. LEFT click one time on the address. The whole address will become highlighted.
Keep your cursor on the highlighted address and RIGHT click one time.
You will get a small dialogue box pop up. LEFT click on “copy”.
Go back to where you want to put the address.
Put your cursor where you want to place it. RIGHT click on that spot and then LEFT click on “paste”.
To copy and paste text, do it the same BUT
At the beginning of the text you want to copy, LEFT click and hold the button down. Move your cursor to the end of the passage to be copied. When all the text you want is highlighted, release the left button. Sometimes, with some text, it takes a little wiggling to just get the text you want and not the whole thing.
Then RIGHT click and LEFT click the “copy”. Go to where you wish to paste it.
Mike, I don’t post these steps to be rude or condescending. Many people don’t know how to do this and try to get along by not doing it. If you already know then great. It didn’t cost you anything. If you didn’t know, then maybe you can learn. Everyone has to learn sometime and trust me, it didn’t come naturally for any of us.
This could be practiced by using a word processor such as WORD or WORKS. This procedure works the same in almost every program I am aware of.
As much as I tease about you being stupid, you have shown us you are bright and do have something important to you to say. Help us see your point.
And if you want to add a smiley face, just add the colon key “:” along with the right, rounded bracket “)”
#31 – Olo Baggins of Bywater,
An Employee from the Toyota dealership for North Tampa told me that 65% of their car purchases are in CASH. These are $30,000 to $40,000 vehicles.
As I see it, there must be some money left over from the housing boom, and many people now can only shop at Wal-Mart.
#30, Scott,
Bush was not a libertarian
Not by a long shot.
because he opposed social liberties and gave huge amounts of welfare, albeit corporate welfare.
If you want to know how Libertarians feel about Bush:
http://tinyurl.com/8eswqs
#37, My previous link seems to have stopped working.
http://campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=10
Try this one instead.
DVORAK!!!! How can you say that about Steve??? You know nothing of his condition. He *could* be back by June. It is possible, you know. I say your sources are crap!
Oops.. My mistake. You see, it’s just that everything I ever think of and/or say revolves around Steve & Apple.
Why Leibertarians love Bush