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Now, I'm not accusing anyone. I'm just saying that the pattern of the media could be construed rather easily to support such an assertion.Last edited by DanS; June 4, 2004, 15:51.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891 -
I'm sure there is a good explanation for this rather odd pattern of behavior, an explanation that one of the many wise liberals on this board should provide any minute now...Originally posted by DanS
Now, I'm not accusing anyone. I'm just saying that the pattern of the media could be construed rather easily to support such an assertation.KH FOR OWNER!
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Its crazy how liberals really WANT a crappy economy. I know several people who said it to me. They want people to be out of jobs, they want people to die in Iraq, they want terribly bad things to happen just so we can get rid of Bush.
Of course I want Bush gone too, but I don't want people to be unemployed and shot by terrorists.Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
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Do you seriously think there's that big a liberal conspiracy in the media? Were all the headlines during Clinton's administration rejoicing over good times, while all bad news was burried in the back pages?
Bad news gets front page attention, good news doesn't. That's the way it always is, right or wrong."The French caused the war [Persian Gulf war, 1991]" - Ned
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For people who've had job changes, the overall balance is strongly negative. About 20% make the same or a little more, one (who moved here from out of state) is making substantially more.Originally posted by DanS
All politics is local, as they say. But things as they are, you probably know a lot of people who are getting paid more now than previously.
For people with the same jobs, raises have been token.When all else fails, blame brown people. | Hire a teen, while they still know it all. | Trump-Palin 2016. "You're fired." "I quit."Comment
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I am one who got a new job and am now making more. My base salary is less, but my quarterly bonuses are much larger. You have to like pay for performance incentive structures.“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
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So then there has been no positive job growth? We just returned back to where we were before?Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
Now if you had wage growth in those jobs, that would be nice too. I don't find it terribly thrilling when you have large job losses, then you get job growth back to a point that's almost as many jobs as you had before.
Especially when I know a lot of people who are now making < 50% to ~80% of their previous incomes.
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We even haven't done that, yet. Bush lost far more than a million jobs.So then there has been no positive job growth? We just returned back to where we were before?meet the new boss, same as the old bossComment
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We even haven't done that, yet.
You say that like it's an easy thing to achieve...KH FOR OWNER!
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Strong growth is what we had under Clinton. This is decent growth.
As for the press downplaying it- you did find an article no?
What is the press supposed to report? Over the last few months we have had the kind job growth we had in the mid 90's, though not in the boom years-which means we are perhaps halfway to getting back all the jobs lost, though cost of living is rising, wages have stagnated, the trade deficit has ballooned...Yup, its all champagne and caviar!
The fact is this is not a boom, but simply the kind of growth Bush predicted about 3 years ago..so he is three years late-and he is supposed to gain political capital for that? Too little to late bubb.If you don't like reality, change it! me
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We're not even at that point:Originally posted by MrFun
So then there has been no positive job growth? We just returned back to where we were before?
Despite a nine-month string of payroll gains through May, the Bush administration still is down a net 1.16 million jobs since the start of its tenure."I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best." - Gracie AllenComment
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Strong growth is what we had under Clinton. This is decent growth.
The GDP growth for the past 12 months is higher than anything experienced under Clinton, IIRC. Highest since 1984...KH FOR OWNER!
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I see
So DanS should put his pom-poms back in the closet?A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.Comment
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Why should he? Any recovery from this recession is worth celebrating.Comment
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Ok -- a recovery is a good thing, but as others have pointed out, there is a difference between recovery and positive growth.A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.Comment
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