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Obama: No Deal Without Tax Hikes

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If business has less money to invest in shipping jobs overseas, that is A Good Thing.

Right now, corporate america has record-setting profits, but they're not investing in american jobs. There is insufficient demand for goods and services for business to get businesses to invest in creating jobs no matter what the income tax rate is. Cutting taxes does not create jobs and never has
It almost sounds like you're complaining, which is strange because this is what you voted for.

Of course corporations are raking in profits from overseas operations serving overseas markets. Obama's monetary policy of quantitative easing and weakening the dollar has made overseas profits especially lucrative - the only side effect being higher prices on commodities back home. That may sound bad, but really... who's going to complain about higher gas prices so long as American oil companies are making record profits??

Helping to keep those profits overseas and away from problematic job creation back home is that wonderful corporate tax shield, highest in the world, protecting all you little guys - the working people who aren't doing much working right now. Obama, of course, has pledged to maintain this job shield firm and in place, thereby protecting it and us from those with more devious intentions, those who would bring the guard down and allow a few jobs to slip through.
 
yup, you're gonna have to extend that Y AXIS, alright

LOL!
 
The more things change

ppp is a dem pollster (out of south carolina)

quinnipiac (from connecticut) has been famously wrong in florida for years, at least since crist whalloped jim davis in 06

for example, qn had crist beating rubio (who won his 3 way by 20) as late as august

fyi
 
yup, you're gonna have to extend that Y AXIS, alright

LOL!

When they update it, it'll be so tall that the info you see now will look like fine print.
 
maybe the link is somewhere at the top?
 
So long as we remain blinded by partisan politics, we'll never fix the real problem.
Yes, because if history has taught us anything, it's that all of the real problems are fixed when one party controls all three branches of government so it no longer has to bother with partisan politics. Better yet, perhaps we should go back to that point in our history where there was no partisanship - nodisagreement in government whatsoever.

After all, the founders designed the system so that it would be easy to get things done. This is best exemplified by their elegant decision to create a separate house and senate consisting of delegates from each state to assist the executive -- no doubt recognizing that hundreds of minds could more quickly reach a solution to a problem than just one.
 

Another thing … if your tax and spend policy works so well … then maybe you can explain to me .. while during the Clinton terms … we had the largest tax hike in modern history, we cut defense spending to bare bones … we had the dot com economy that created more millionaires faster then any time in our history, we fought no major wars .. (unless you count the few times Clinton lobbed some bombs around to deflect from being caught lying to the grand jury) and we still.... with all that .. managed to go another 1.5 trillion dollars in debt...? I'll await your answer. ​
 
Yes, because if history has taught us anything, it's that all of the real problems are fixed when one party controls all three branches of government so it no longer has to bother with partisan politics. Better yet, perhaps we should go back to that point in our history where there was no partisanship - nodisagreement in government whatsoever.

After all, the founders designed the system so that it would be easy to get things done. This is best exemplified by their elegant decision to create a separate house and senate consisting of delegates from each state to assist the executive -- no doubt recognizing that hundreds of minds could more quickly reach a solution to a problem than just one.

It's not like this became an issue yesterday. It's been an issue for a long time. It's their job to make a budget, and they REFUSE to do so. Each side just points the finger at the other, and that's what's bogging us down. Not legitimate debate; but partisan politics in some attempt to make the other side look bad.
 
the obama white house promised us in january of 2009 that passage of the stimulus would lead us to a place that, today, for example (july, 2011), would see unemployment at about 6.5%

Romer and Bernstein on stimulus - NYTimes.com

neither romer nor bernstein work for obama anymore, by the way
 
What is it about the word 'promise' that you don't quite understand?
 
the obama "recovery" is the slowest---by far---in modern american history

Nearly two years after the economic recovery officially began, job creation continues to stagger at the slowest post-recession rate since the Great Depression.

The nation has 5% fewer jobs today — a loss of 7 million — than it did when the recession began in December 2007. That is by far the worst performance of job generation following any of the dozen recessions since the 1930s.

In the past, the economy recovered lost jobs 13 months on average after a recession. If this were a typical recovery, nearly 10 million more people would be working today than when the recession officially ended in June 2009.

Job creation limps along after recession - USATODAY.com

doesn't mother jones do graphs that DON'T stop in 2008?

LOL!
 
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the obama "recovery" is the slowest---by far---in modern american history

Oh really? "By far", as well?

Mitt Romney Says "This Is the Slowest Job Recovery Since Hoover" [Rated FALSE]

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We compared the unemployment rate at the end of the 23-month period to what it was at the beginning of the period.

By this measure, too, the current recovery is not the weakest. Three recoveries actually saw an increase in the unemployment rate after 23 months (ones under George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush and Carter/Reagan), while another (under President Richard Nixon) produced a smaller decline in the unemployment rate than the current recovery has. (Because a budding recovery can entice discouraged workers back into the labor force, it’s not unusual for the unemployment rate to rise in a recovery.)

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Where does this leave us? Romney has a point that the current recovery is relatively weak by historical standards. But it’s inaccurate to say that "it’s the slowest job recovery since Hoover." Depending on what yardstick you use, it’s either the third worst or the fifth worst recovery since World War II. That’s not a great accomplishment for the Obama Administration, but we’re checking Romney here, and he chose to make his point in a way that isn’t accurate. So we rate the claim False.
 
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ppp is a dem pollster (out of south carolina)

quinnipiac (from connecticut) has been famously wrong in florida for years, at least since crist whalloped jim davis in 06

for example, qn had crist beating rubio (who won his 3 way by 20) as late as august

fyi

we've seen the procession to the statehouse steps in Ohio -- petitions in hand, thousands and thousands of signatures -- we've seen the mass protests in Wisconsin, the consistent low approval for these Republican governors. Whatever you think of these individual polls and pollsters, you can't ignore "the lay of the land," as you put it. That's the thing about democracy -- it's all about comrpomise. Don't dare overstep.
 
Across a wide range of measures—employment growth, unemployment levels, bank lending, economic output, income growth, home prices and household expectations for financial well-being—the economy's improvement since the recession's end in June 2009 has been the worst, or one of the worst, since the government started tracking these trends after World War II.

Wall Street Journal Online - WSJ

Payroll employment today is 5% lower than it was before the recession began 41 months ago. That places the current economic recovery far below all other recessions dating back to the 1960's.

The US Jobs Gap

it is what it is, an historically slow recovery
 
"By far", as well?

usa today, may 20: "that is by far the worst performance of job generation following any of the dozen recessions since the 1930's"

link above
 
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Thank you for this, although I'm a little worried as to why you keep leaving Obama off these charts. I hope it's not because he's black.

Nonetheless, it took me back to Bush's first term, when the media was blasting the "jobless recovery" and dems were going on about how only the rich people were benefiting from the recovery, how nobody could find work, and how a jobs record that bad hadn't been seen since the great depression.

I don't know why we're not hearing anything like that from them about Obama. I hope it's not because he's black.

Bush's awful jobs performance that first term is really highlighted when you plot the unemployment rate, with a job record this bad, it's a wonder he was able to squeak by for that second term:

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That's the thing about democracy -- it's all about comrpomise. Don't dare overstep.

tell it to cuomo, rahm, moonbeam, malloy, omalley, quinn, the massachusetts house, the springfield house, the trenton house...
 
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