Is The Economy Improving

Ethereal said:

In other words, you made an assumption and argued as if it were true, ignoring Cephus's points about the dangers of massive and prolonged deficits.

Well, since he’s cleared it up for you, why don’t you try addressing his points without making an erroneous assumption.

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I've responded to this many times.... but will again:

When Obama took office we were on the verge of another Great Depression. ......We aren't anymore & while improvement is slower than we would all like....It is nonetheless improvement & jobs always lags behind which is why the GOP/Fox News is trying to distract us once again by pointing to jobs as the real measure of improvement....It isn't.
This is not a jobless recovery....My 41 year old daughter is a public school teacher who would be out of a job if it wasn't for Obama injecting money into our economy.

Devil505 said:

When Obama took office we were on the verge of another Great Depression. ......We aren't anymore & while improvement is slower than we would all like....It is nonetheless improvement & jobs always lags behind which is why the GOP/Fox News is trying to distract us once again by pointing to jobs as the real measure of improvement....It isn't.

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We could still be in a depression, all Obama has done is put off the inevitable while pumping imaginary money we don't have into immediate feel-good projects that don't solve anything. He has refused to address the real issues that caused this problem, just like Bush did before him. No political party will ever address the core problems: overspending on a national scale. People don't want to hear they have to be fiscally responsible and live within their means. People don't want to hear that they can't spend more money than they have on luxuries. People don't want to hear that credit needs to be limited to people who have earned it. People want to continue to live in a fantasy world. That's not going to sustain us, sorry. Fundamental changes have to be made, like it or not. Otherwise you're just trying to put off the inevitable until someone else is in office, which is what Bush did and now Obama is doing.

This is not a jobless recovery....My 41 year old daughter is a public school teacher who would be out of a job if it wasn't for Obama injecting money into our economy.

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Of course it's a jobless recovery, you're not talking about creating new jobs, just artificially propping up existing jobs through borrowing we can't afford to do. The military has been doing it for years, spending money to keep their engineers busy when there's really no need to be wasting the cash. It's a boondoggle, nothing more.

Whether or not the economy is improving, I guess depends on whether or not you've got a job!

I work in the transportation industry. I see fewer trucks on the road than 1 year ago, and I don't see as much freight going to places like WalMart, CostCo, ShopKo, and the other big retailers.

However, I looked at my paycheck for today and my YTD gross is only $275 less than at this time last year (10/9/08).

I am beginning to see more trucks hauling building materials - plywood, lumber, sheetrock - than in the past 4-6 months, so maybe the economy is slowly improving.

Yes my thoughts are that the economy is slowly improving and Obama deserves credit for it.

We should thank him for atleast attempting to revive this ridiculous-ass country full of f*cking idiots. Unfortunately Americans are too damn distracted trying to finish their ice-cream sandwiches and steak burgers to even notice anything positive from the government anymore.