Ummm...yes you did. My question was:
Your typically dishonest question was in the form of a "Have you stopped beating your wife?" fallacy, and no, I will not dignify it further than to explain that which actually needs no explanation, namely that people choose to enter and leave the workforce for all sorts of individual reasons that have nothing whatsoever to do with any ability to find what they might consider to be a suitable job. Indeed, many of those who choose to exit the workforce leave just such a job behind them in their wakes. How foolishly short-sighted of you not to have realized that.
Race card? Have you gone right off the deep end?
No. It doesn't matter whose "boy" you refer to, the implication is obvious enough that any sentient person would have thought to reword the statement unless he or she had intended that the implication be drawn. A defense of
Oh, you're right, I was typing in a hurry and didn't catch it at the time would have been acceptable. This one isn't.
I demand an apology from you on this. And when I do not get one - because I think I know you - I will report this to the mods.
How has that worked out for you in the past? Get embarrassed, call a mod.
And btw - I am NOT a right winger.
Well, you certainly are as befuddled, disoriented, and dishonest as one, so I guess it's an easy mistake for people to make.
let's see what he has done:
- he ramped up the deficit by about $6 trillion.
Want to try that again? Debt and deficit are two different things. What portion of each of them by the way has been directly attributable to the effects of the Great Bush Recession?
- food stamp usage has skyrocketed by about 40%
Because the Great Bush Recession has forced tens of millions of Americans out of their jobs and out of their homes. What are the income limits for food stamps again? If Republicans would stop manufacturing poor people at such a dizzying pace with their ignorant economic policies, fewer people would need food stamps simply to meet their basic nutitional needs.
- average new home prices are WAY below what they were
How did that happen again? Did the Great Bush Recession play any part in it?
- the unemployment rate is worse
Employment is a lagging variable. More than 4 million jobs have been added since the Great Bush Recession hit its employment bottom. The unemployment rate has meanwhile declined by two percentage points from its peak.
- the participation rate is the worst since 1981
Why would you think higher was better and lower was worse? Meanwhile, the LFPR was projected 20 years ago to begin a decline by the late 1990's, but it held on for a couple of years thanks to the great economy we had back then. Since 2001, both the demographic and cyclical components underlying the LFPR have turned negative. The reasons for this have been explained to you many times before. Your continued raising of this claim serves only to underscore the level of your dedication to deliberate disinformation.
- he ramped up the war in Afghanistan with disastrous consequences.
He quite plainly campaigned on a plan to leave Iraq and return to the more important war that Bush had so foolishly abandoned, thus handing back to the Taliban a victory that we had won. And what meanwhile have been the disastrous consequences of this return? The death of bin Laden? The destruction of al Qaeda?
- Gitmo is still open (despite some people's delusional thoughts that it is closed)
LOL! There have been no arrivals at Gitmo. Only departures. The last 170 or so -- half of whom have already been cleared for release -- are being held captive at Gitmo by Republicans who refuse to fund their relocation to anywhere else at all because the Ayatollah Boehner values these hostages as partisan political assets.
- he has NEVER posted a deficit of less then a trillion dollars
Again, what on earth did you expect to result from the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression? Anyone expecting fiscal balance would have been quite the fool indeed, especially as the FY 2009 deficit was already projected at $1.2 trillion by the day Obama was first sworn in.
And these are just off of the top of my head.
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