Beating around the ...Bush

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Doubletaptap said:
President Bush said Monday the economy is growing steadily and jobs are plentiful, but America must work harder to break its dependency on foreign oil.
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He is exactly right; the economy is growing (based on latest jobs report), jobs are plentiful (unemployment is lower now than during Clinton's Administration), and we need to use our own oil (rather than Saudi and Venezuela oil). All true statements.
 
Uh, yeah. It's at 4.6% and declining. The lowest it's been in 5 years and almost at the point of the 1999 4.2% that Clinton "lovers" point to. Please get the facts straight.

The unemployment rate is a misleading indicator for economic health, because it does not take into account the people who have run out of unemployment benefits, only the new unemployment claims.



MoW,

Kloos is right, but he didn't mention the several categories of people that the unemployment numbers do not take into account:

1) People who have stopped looking for work, have dropped out of the labor market and are living off of savings or in their parents' basement.

2) People who have not been able to find jobs and instead of continuing to look, have retired, even though they would liked to have kept working.

3) People who want to be employed full time but only get 20 or 30 hours a week.

4) The underemployed -- people with Ph.D.s that take jobs in a nonprofessional field for a fraction of what they used to make.




4.6% my foot.
 
battery-operated cars and allows people to fuel their vehicles with ethanol, particularly in Farm Belt states. And he made a fresh push for greater development of nuclear energy.
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The batteries will be made in China probably
Ethanol is a band aid for the fuel problem. You will still be using some fuels in the production of ethanol.
Most energy producing plants use coal not gasoline or diesel.

Political Rhetoric......
 
"Good example of reality denial... is up down as well in your world?"


Ummmm......is that really how you're choosing to respond to what I said? :confused:

Do you just cover your ears, close your eyes and yell "LA LA LA LA LA" when someone says something you don't want to hear?

What I said about the unemployment numbers is true. Go look it up. Or would that shatter your bubble? Don't want to let the truth into your little shell!
 
By the time a thread reaches three pages, most everthing that can be said about a topic has been said and the level of discussion will begin to degrade.

This thread is no exception to that rule.

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