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(@ben-purvis)
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Don't worry, the worst is yet to come!

Saw this on a bumper sticker today and just hope it's been on there for quite a while.

 
Posted : July 13, 2010 11:38 am
(@handyman6047)
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Oh boy, your going to get it now from Kent. This is obviously a right wing nut case, [tea partier] rant against BHO. 😉

You "HOPE"? Yea, political 😉

 
Posted : July 13, 2010 12:27 pm
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Yep, worst is yet to come.

Yep, the worst is yet to come.

[Teapartiers] and conservatives will sweep into office in November and they're gonna completely choke the life out of what's left of our economy by killing off the last few things out there still keeping things afloat and generating economic activity, along with further rewarding of the bankers and others who screwed our economy in the first place with grotesque, deficit-deepening tax cuts.

 
Posted : July 13, 2010 1:25 pm
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Yep, worst is yet to come.

Let's hope they sweep in and pass some strong business incentives like HUGE, GIGANTIC, and Sweeping tax cuts. That's the surest way to get the economy back moving again. They'll also need to make quick work of the health care fiasco to give small businesses some much needed confidence in the future.

 
Posted : July 13, 2010 1:40 pm
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Posted : July 13, 2010 1:54 pm
(@kent-mcmillan)
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Either "Medical Emergency" or "Politics & Religion"

> Let's hope they sweep in and pass some strong business incentives like HUGE, GIGANTIC, and Sweeping tax cuts. That's the surest way to get the economy back moving again.

Okay, now this is a problem. Sure, it's obviously political, but it's also obviously delusional. So is this a medical emergency? I'm thinking probably so. Which takes precedence? Tough judgment call there, but it seems as if reality bats last these days.

 
Posted : July 13, 2010 2:25 pm
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Steve,

That's a lot of jobs
Send some of those my way

 
Posted : July 13, 2010 2:42 pm
(@gunter-chain)
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Yep, worst is yet to come.

All you have to do is look at the evidence.

The Bush tax cuts did not create any meaningful jobs.

The Bush tax cuts did not create any meaningful economic growth.

The Bush tax cuts increased the deficit.

The conclusion is obvious, tax cuts will not accomplish anything useful and will only worsen our economic condition.

Lay off the kool-aid.

 
Posted : July 13, 2010 3:08 pm
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Yep, worst is yet to come.

What was the worst quarter of unemployment during the Bush Administration? What has been the best under Obama?

Thein lies the answer to what is going to happen in November. Read it and weep, ye of hope and change.

 
Posted : July 13, 2010 3:49 pm
 Ed
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Yep, worst is yet to come.

Forget Bush. Forget Obama. The banksters run the world. They always have. They can make it whatever they like. Heck, they can leap tall buildings in a single bound. The Bushes and Obamas are mere puppets. Figureheads. We're living "1984" right now. The sooner you figure that out and react accordingly, the better off you'll be.

 
Posted : July 13, 2010 4:00 pm
(@plparsons)
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Yep, worst is yet to come.

Agreed, so how is maintaining status quo going to improve things?

 
Posted : July 13, 2010 4:07 pm
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Yep, worst is yet to come.

The worst months of job loss we've seen all happened through the end of Bush's term, when we were losing upwards of 600,000 jobs a month.

 
Posted : July 13, 2010 5:10 pm
(@daniel-s-mccabe)
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Yep, worst is yet to come.

?

 
Posted : July 13, 2010 5:36 pm
(@the-pseudo-ranger)
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Yep, worst is yet to come.

They were talking about job growth and tax cuts on CNBC last week. It was said that Bush had the worst job growth numbers of any president since WWII and that what little job growth we saw under Bush was due entirely to the creation of new GOVERNMENT jobs.

 
Posted : July 13, 2010 6:53 pm
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Yep, worst is yet to come.

When unemployment is below 7%, you have pretty much everyone who wants a job working. Factor into the equation all the off the books work being done and the number gets lower.

If you are presently working as much or more than you were 3 years ago, pardon my rambling.

If you are spending more time finding work than actually working, feel your pain, am there doing that.

If you haven't worked in a while nobody has to tell you what to think, just look around you.

In 38 years in the workforce, I've never seen it this bad, even in the early 1980's.

 
Posted : July 13, 2010 7:23 pm
(@kent-mcmillan)
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Yep, worst is yet to come.

Yes, it's pretty clear that the folks who wanted the federal government's stimulus spending scaled back were quite wrong. Krugman argued at the time that it likely wasn't enough to avoid a double-dip recession and he may unfortunately be proven right.

 
Posted : July 13, 2010 7:50 pm
(@ben-purvis)
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Yep, worst is yet to come.

The real question is why the stimulus didn't go to those who needed it the most, small businesses and middle class taxpayers. That money would have helped in two ways: those struggling would be helped significantly and it would have still made it's way back into the economy and therefore right into the banks who got it anyway.

Why in the world liberals always rail against Wall Street, big corporations, and bankers yet turn a blind eye when their own leaders bail out giant corporations is highly disingenuous if not outright hypocrisy. Is it "too big to fail", keeping the union vote, or just plain old corporate control of democrat politicians?

 
Posted : July 14, 2010 6:42 am
(@gunter-chain)
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Yep, worst is yet to come.

Who you kidding?

You guys didn't want to help anybody and now you're whining about who did or didn't get helped?

No credibility there.

 
Posted : July 14, 2010 4:27 pm