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skafather84
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09 Nov 2010, 2:09 pm

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So where are the jobs?

Obama's policies have not decreased the rate of unemployment appreciably.

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It is much easier to destroy than to create.


You're expecting 8 years of destruction to be rebuilt in 2?


Of course, it's easier to build with a hammer and nails than it is to build with mere words about how important building is.


Then everyone complains about they money used in buying the hammer and nails. :roll:


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10 Nov 2010, 3:54 pm

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wtfhodsf


Enjoy. :D


Damn. He's on his way to making Santa Claus unemployed. :roll: Anywhere on the site about how all of these goodies are going to be paid for?


See the second version I posted just a couple posts back.


Sorry but I don't see anything in any of your recent posts about either cutting some other program to fund these ones, or somehow increasing revenues via increased taxes, harsher enforcement of existing laws, etc. Could you kindly post a link? Thanks.


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11 Nov 2010, 11:36 am

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Except that we're already at war, and have been at war continuously for the past eight years, and the Bush Administration's reckless spending on Iraq and Afghanistan is one of the primary reasons the U.S. went from having a Clinton-era surplus to a massive deficit. While the defense contractors might be happy about another war, it's unlikely to stimulate the economy to the degree that WWII did because the U.S. no longer has the industrial structure it had in the late 1930s. Many of those manufacturing jobs have been outsourced, to places like Taiwan, Russia, and Italy. Much of the outsourcing occurred under Bush.



By the way, the economy tanked in the last year of the Bubbah Administration (late 1999 to november of 2000). It was the effect of the "dot com" bubble to which you refer. And much of the credit goes to a republican congress which prevented the implementation of "Hillary Care".

As to our perpetual wars, we have not made war the Number One priority as we did starting in Dec of 1941 through the fall of 1945. We don't have rationing. We don't have restrictions on what is produced and what is not. No private automobiles were made between 1942 and 1946 (the first post war model year). All of American industry was channeled to producing war goods.

The U.S. has not taken any war seriously since the end of WW2. And that was the last war we won.

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