Debate

Yeah, it is fun to see the liberal press (~~95% of the press) squirming.

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Now that he has his teleprompter fired up, he's fighting back.

Who is Obama anyhow? He reads teleprompters. Who writes that stuff? It's like he's a robot fronting for some unknown evil genius. It's hilarious when he speaks to the NAACP. He uses a ludicrous mashup of ebonics and hill-billy accents, and keeps forgetting to do that now and then.

On my travels across the state line last week I bought $100 in firecrackers and other fireworks( big spender-haha ). I am gonna light them off all night long if Obama goes down.

I tried to get a bet placed on intrade, but it is too hard to get money into them. Pretty much have to wire it in and then I decided that it may be even harder to get it out. But last week you could make $4000 on a $1000 bet (odds at 80% Obama--odds now are about 70%).

It is a zero sum game. Staple merely put other stores out of business. Willard did not create any jobs.

At the worst point, it was something like 28 lies in 38 minutes. It is clear that somebody programmed the Willard-bot's USB flash drive to pretend to be a moderate, but that lead to all the lies.

Well with unemployment down to 7.8%, Willard is toast.

The 7.8% number is a bald-faced lie. 114K/month job creation is only

But you nitwits will reelect Obama. Go for it. Depression and civil war are good for a country... reset all values. ...Jim Thompson

necessity for government oversight to prevent these kinds of things before they occur and not afterwards.

Instead we have the Central Valley region of Californica made into a dust bowl by government regulations to save what... isn't it some stupid creature called the Snail Darter? ...Jim Thompson

You can say that about any business. Every dentist just puts other dentists out of business. Ditto every barber, concrete finisher, airplane maker, and engineer.

It's shocking how many people don't understand simple economics. They mostly vote Democrat.

Really kinda shows miso's values, doesn't it. That plus the U6 was unchanged.

Lots of people understand slightly more complex economics than you and James Arthur - or the Mad Hatter's Tea Party - have mastered and are correspondingly disinclined to vote Republican.

It's one of the benefits of educating the masses. We know why you didn't get educated - you were too busy doing electronics. James Arthur's ignorance may have more complicated roots - he could have been frightened by a socialist during his formative years which might have implanted a persistent set of irrational anxieties.

So what. It's the same bald-faced lie that was circulated under Dubbya.

James Arthur enjoys concocting his own unemployment statistics, and can always find a statistic that supports his own point of view. Jim is less numerically talented.

Dubbya did his best, but the 2008 recession didn't provoke the civil war that Jim Thompson is demented enough to hope for.

I got A's in college Economics, and own a successful electronics business. How about you? How's you economic skill working out for you?

Economics is simple, which is why so many economists, who relish the complexities, are so bad at it.

I've known James for some years, and he's not the type to be bothered by anxieties. Or by cold weather: he always skis in short pants.

You are a troll and not interested in any real discussion.

And the other 30 months were God's own truth?

The BLS statisticians get paid the same no matter what party the President belongs to.

So we need to quit coddling the "job creators" who have failed miserably. Might as well raise their taxes, and start paying down the debt.

What party did Hoover belong to? How about Coolidge and Harding?

necessity for government oversight to prevent these kinds of things before they occur and not afterwards.

There are more people than there is water.

Big drought in the red Midwest states this year -- I guess God is punishing conservatives for warming up His earth.

They naively believe that they should be able to house, feed, and clothe themselves on what they can earn working 40 hours a week.

Slavery ended in America because it cost too much -- you had to house, feed, and clothe the slaves the year around.

We're adding a little over 1% per year population. With about 1/2 of the population available for working (roughly correct), we'd need about 1.5 million net jobs/year = 125,000 / month to keep up.

Likewise, we need about 1% GDP growth to keep up with population, and another 2-3% to keep up with inflation to prevent us getting poorer. That's not happening--Americans are getting poorer. The decline isn't slowing, it's been accelerating.

You can avoid most of the subjective unemployment manipulations by graphing the number of people *with* jobs. With a few clicks you can graph the employment level here, from, say, 1998 to today: (series LNS12000000)

That graph's conservative--it counts temp and part-time O-jobs the same as full-time jobs. Still, you'll see that it's waayyyy below where it should be. PresBO claims all the up-swing, but the inflection point and 4/5ths of the bounce came after the 2010 Tea Party elections.

That's seems imminent in Greece,and Iran.

America's different. People here still want to be free, and mostly instinctively understand that government implements the opposite.

James Arthur

Did you ever read The People's Economist, Paul Kurgman's primer on economics? It's right up your alley.

Here's the installment on prices:

"Progressives" think wealth is a zero-sum game, and redistribution is over-unity. They've clearly not fully mapped that out.

That's why their scheme is ultimately regressive, and, as it fails, authoritarian and repressive.

I guess my 180K/month remembrance was from Bush days ;-)

Unfortunately I think we've reached the tipping point... more people thinking there IS a free lunch, and clueless about cost/where-does-it-come-from than those that can do the arithmetic. ...Jim Thompson