Now let's have some fun.
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Originally posted by theantibush:
7.2% - you know why? just after 9/11 the GDP growth dropped and has been recovering since. now its back up, but this is all because of bills that the Dubya passed into law, which only the american business elite get into enjoy.
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You dumb sonofabitch. What kind of economy do we have? I'll give you a hit, it
starts with Capital- and ends with -ism.
If you'll notice, a capitalist economy is one in which production, distribution, and business are controlled privately (ie - not the government). So tell me, why do you think a President has so much control of the economy? You might be confusing our economic system with a
one you probably advocate.
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Originally posted by theantibush:
the regular working men and women benefit from this in only one way: he or she has a BETTER chance at getting a job. well, there are two and a half million people who are unemployed, and those are just the people who are registered. thats thirteen and three quarter billion dollars to pay them all for one hour of work.
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Since you're so smart, you obviously know that actual job creation is the last part of the economic cycle, right?
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Originally posted by theantibush:
according to national census, 90% of the workforce have a high school education or higher. out of that 90% only 32% have a college education.
now, lets take that percent (roughly 720,000 workers) take away 30%, 'cuz only about 70% of workers with college educations get hired annually. Now, that means you must beat the first 504,000 people that have degrees that you are competing with for that job. now let's take this even further.
don't forget about ex-convicts (all 3 million of them), plus the 4.5 million currently on probation or parole, excluding the 2.2 million behind bars as of December 02, 2003, and you have 9.7 million people last in line to get a job. suddenly things don't look so bright.
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Blah blah blah. Quoting statistics doesn't make you sound smart at all. Especially since they aren't pertinent to the topic at hand. Something else though, I work in a bloody factory where the people who get hired don't have high school degrees, much less college degrees, did you take that into consideration when doing your math?
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Originally posted by theantibush:
here, i'd go into war costs, and other tabs the Dubya is racking up, but i wont to save myself the hassle of people trying to blur lines.
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I agree that he's spending too much, its just too remincient of the left.
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Originally posted by theantibush:
the financial elite do not represent me or the main body of americans. a few may profit, but the economy, in the end, doesn't.
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What do the financial elite own? Businesses. How do businesses run? Normal people. The two go hand in hand. The economy succeeding is the number one concern of the "finacial elite". This last quote of yours is such an empty phrase. You're not really saying anything, just making some lower class appeal to emotion.
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Originally posted by theantibush:
7.2% or not, U.S. economy fails.
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Like UB said, you make me laugh. The greatest economic machine ever, and you outright say it "fails".