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Stupidity of the American Voter?

poweRob said:
Better yet... read it to us rather that just cutting and pasting. Stand on your own two feet. Tell me what it's saying... then it'll be a breeze to tell you what you are missing.
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Just as I thought, you don't understand the BLS data. What that chart shows is well over a million discouraged workers each month in 2010 and more months in later years all over a millions which even basic math tells you is much higher than 700,000. Those people aren't counted as unemployed but certainly are unemployed
 
US Conservative said:
Its not politically feasible, especially while the IGM boomers are around.
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That and the GOP itself would implode over any potential solutions- just as it had before.
 
poweRob said:
Whatever economic metric you want to use it will be better. Unemployment? MUCH better. GDP... much better because it's growing rather than collapsing. The only one I think isn't much better is the median income because jobs lost under the Great Bush recession are coming back but at lower wages in general.
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The electorate didn't buy it because there isn't one economic number that is better than the Bush averages for his entire term but you are right, debt is much higher, discouraged workers are much higher, GDP growth is lower but as the architect of Obamacare said the liberal base is ignorant.
 
Conservative said:
Just as I thought, you don't understand the BLS data. What that chart shows is well over a million discouraged workers each month in 2010 and more months in later years all over a millions which even basic math tells you is much higher than 700,000. Those people aren't counted as unemployed but certainly are unemployed
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What U measure are you using?
 
Conservative said:
The electorate didn't buy it because there isn't one economic number that is better than the Bush averages for his entire term but you are right, debt is much higher, discouraged workers are much higher, GDP growth is lower but as the architect of Obamacare said the liberal base is ignorant.
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LOL... I particuarly like how you use totals instead of end results because if you looked at results you fail more than miserably. So you sweep in that golden economy Clinton handed off to Bush and credit Bush with that. Why don't you like to observe trends Conservative? huh? Why not look at where is started vs where it ended under Bush? I wonder why? Because he tanked our economy. That's why.
 
US Conservative said:
If this is true it wouldn't be because they are not solutions, but because they aren't politically feasible solutions.
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Explain "politically feasible"... because it sure as hell looks like a conservative way of being Politically Correct in calling the electorate too stupid to know better.
 
poweRob said:
Why not? Do the Repubs think the electorate too stupid or something? Why not run on it?
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Because those who spend decades paying in (boomers, and older) would not like the sound of that. Nevermind us chumps who are stuck paying into a system that wont be around for us, and even if it could survive, I can do better.

Why merely survive when you can thrive.
 
US Conservative said:
If this is true it wouldn't be because they are not solutions, but because they aren't politically feasible solutions.
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The solution itself may not be politically feasible for a rising opposition Party, but even within the advocate Party there were too many divisions over whether Bush's ideas were too radical or too weak. It toppled any legislative mandate the man had.
 
Fiddytree said:
The solution itself may not be politically feasible for a rising opposition Party, but even within the advocate Party there were too many divisions over whether Bush's ideas were too radical or too weak. It toppled any legislative mandate the man had.
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True but thats to be expected. The point, was that they were better than the existing "solution", and thats not very hard frankly.
 
US Conservative said:
True but thats to be expected. The point, was that they were better than the existing "solution", and thats not very hard frankly.
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It would be expected now, but then in 2005 it was not. It was rather unexpected what had happened inside the Republican Party and became a sign of things to come a few short years later.
 
Conservative said:
Discouraged worker data which is part of the U-6 number
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Here's the U-6 charted out so that everyone can see the trends... TRENDS. That thing you can't stand:

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link to easier to read blown up version.

Oh look at that. Bush drove up the U-6 numbers to the horrific levels and it's been declining every since the economy rebounded after Bush disappeared from office. Go freegin' figure. Learn to read Conservative.

Here's one more up to date. Enjoy Con.

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Oh look Conservative... Here's that GDP you were crowing about...

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Pretty amazing what comes to light when you put date trends into the equation ain't it Con?

time for you to disappear right after you throw a slew of personal insults. THAT... is your trend.
 
poweRob said:
Oh look Conservative... Here's that GDP you were crowing about...

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Pretty amazing what comes to light when you put date trends into the equation ain't it Con?

time for you to disappear right after you throw a slew of personal insults. THAT... is your trend.
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Dude, YOU are insulting HIM. I'd insult you too if you came at me like that.

Just sayin'. Carry on.
 
Captain America said:
Dude, YOU are insulting HIM. I'd insult you too if you came at me like that.

Just sayin'. Carry on.
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Feeding him the crap he brought... I've not problem with this. Just take a trip back to post #621.
 
Captain America said:
Aaron Rogers sez, "Relax." :peace
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Perhaps you're right. Just tired of his BS schtick. It's so formulaic. He comes out insulting the entire left... the he gets confronted on his statements... posts crap he doesn't even know how to read then when you show him how wrong he is often using his very own data, he just goes into personal insults telling you how ignorant you are because YOU can't read and other such crap then disappears.

Fraud boy is a fraud.
 
US Conservative said:
I already told you-people who already have nest egg in this flawed system would never want to jeopardize it.
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Why not? Do they just not understand how much better they could have it?
 
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