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Unemployment Holding Steady — So Is Slow Economic Growth


AFP
Private employers add new workers at weak pace for third straight month, making it more likely economic growth will slow in the coming months, as jobless rate remains unchanged at 9.5 percent. | VIDEO

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/06/unemployment-rate-steady-companies-hire-slow-pace-rd-straight-month/

Any employee that spent trillions of dollars to generate these kind of results would no longer have a job anywhere else except with the Federal Govt.

Only in the liberal world is this economic report good news although 71,000 private sector job creation is less than last month so wonder if that is a downturn?

Liberal logic really isn't any logic at all. Let's recap, almost 16 million Americans are unemployed today and that is after the Stimulus plan was signed which was to keep unemployment from exceeding 8%.

Biggest cheerleader of the Christina Romer, one of the architects of the stimulus plan and chief cheerleader, resigns.

Economy remains sluggish and shows limited growth.

Stock market at 14,000 under Bush bad but stock market at 10.6 under Obama is good.

Bush adds 5 trillion in 8 years bad but Obama adding 3 trillion in 2 years is an improvement.

Bush never had a trillion dollar deficit but Obama has two consecutive trillion dollar deficits good and all Bush's fault.

Thus is liberal logic and thus why liberals lack credibility and why liberalism is a failed ideology

Based upon these results, President Obama and Democrats in Congress, YOU'RE FIRED!!
 
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Any employee that spent trillions of dollars to generate these kind of results would no longer have a job anywhere else except with the Federal Govt.

Well, yeah, except that the government never has been and never will be run as a for-profit operation in and of itself. :lol:

Only in the liberal world is this economic report good news although 71,000 private sector job creation is less than last month so wonder if that is a downturn?

Liberal logic really isn't any logic at all. Let's recap, almost 16 million Americans are unemployed today and that is after the Stimulus plan was signed which was to keep unemployment from exceeding 8%.

Biggest cheerleader of the Christina Romer, one of the architects of the stimulus plan and chief cheerleader, resigns.

Economy remains sluggish and shows limited growth.

Stock market at 14,000 under Bush bad but stock market at 10.6 under Obama is good.

Bush adds 5 trillion in 8 years bad but Obama adding 3 trillion in 2 years is an improvement.

Bush never had a trillion dollar deficit but Obama has two consecutive trillion dollar deficits good and all Bush's fault.

It's called perception management. Both sides do it in equal measure.

Thus is liberal logic and thus why liberals lack credibility and why liberalism is a failed ideology

Both major ideologies are failed. Many of their subscribers apply the tenants only as is convenient for their personal ends, and the politicians who swear to them are especially fickle in their loyalty to their alleged principles. The most popular voices on either side are the ones who are the loudest, who take the ideology to its most extreme and who propose ideal-world solutions to real-world problems. Politics has stopped being about the marketplace of ideas, and has instead become a never-ending game of gotcha.

Based upon these results, President Obama and Democrats in Congress, YOU'RE FIRED!!

TED,
Would rather fire both major parties and try something new, kthx.
 
Well, yeah, except that the government never has been and never will be run as a for-profit operation in and of itself. :lol:



It's called perception management. Both sides do it in equal measure.



Both major ideologies are failed. Many of their subscribers apply the tenants only as is convenient for their personal ends, and the politicians who swear to them are especially fickle in their loyalty to their alleged principles. The most popular voices on either side are the ones who are the loudest, who take the ideology to its most extreme and who propose ideal-world solutions to real-world problems. Politics has stopped being about the marketplace of ideas, and has instead become a never-ending game of gotcha.



TED,
Would rather fire both major parties and try something new, kthx.

Thus the need for term limits to get rid of career politicians. We don't need to do something new, just something constructive, term limits would be a great first step. Amazing how when Bush was in office he was somehow a King that created the mess we are in today but the Democrat Congress was powerless to do anything about it. Now we have a Leftwing President and Congress and they have not solved the problems and it is still Bush's fault. Anyone see a problem with that logic?
 
Thus the need for term limits to get rid of career politicians. We don't need to do something new, just something constructive, term limits would be a great first step.

That's not a sufficiently fundamental change. The problem isn't the reelection rate, the problem is that there's no real choice at the polling place. You could make the term limit 2 weeks, but it wouldn't matter if all people have to choose from are candidates brought to you by The Machine(tm).

Amazing how when Bush was in office he was somehow a King that created the mess we are in today but the Democrat Congress was powerless to do anything about it. Now we have a Leftwing President and Congress and they have not solved the problems and it is still Bush's fault. Anyone see a problem with that logic?

Of course I do. I blame both sides in equal measure, seeing as how they're both the same side.

American politics isn't two sides of the same coin -- it's a Möbius strip.
 
That's not a sufficiently fundamental change. The problem isn't the reelection rate, the problem is that there's no real choice at the polling place. You could make the term limit 2 weeks, but it wouldn't matter if all people have to choose from are candidates brought to you by The Machine(tm).



Of course I do. I blame both sides in equal measure, seeing as how they're both the same side.

American politics isn't two sides of the same coin -- it's a Möbius strip.

Our form of Govt. worked well for over 200 years but over the last couple decades the education system has failed the American people. Growing up and in school I learned personal responsibility and the value of hard work, dedication, and commitment. Today there is no such thing as personal responsibility thus no consequences for failure. Bleeding heart liberals keep throwing dollars at the problem bailing out people who made poor choices. Today scores aren't being kept at youth sporting events. At school trying is better than achieving and kids are taught to have tolerance for the failures of others and failure needs sympathy and collective help.

This is all the product of liberalism and a fundamental change in the vision our Founders had for this country. I have absolutely no use for liberal Democrats and Republicans and their massive abuse of the American people all in the name of compassion. There is no compassion in creating govt. dependence.
 
Our form of Govt. worked well for over 200 years but over the last couple decades the education system has failed the American people. Growing up and in school I learned personal responsibility and the value of hard work, dedication, and commitment. Today there is no such thing as personal responsibility thus no consequences for failure. Bleeding heart liberals keep throwing dollars at the problem bailing out people who made poor choices. Today scores aren't being kept at youth sporting events. At school trying is better than achieving and kids are taught to have tolerance for the failures of others and failure needs sympathy and collective help.

This is all the product of liberalism and a fundamental change in the vision our Founders had for this country. I have absolutely no use for liberal Democrats and Republicans and their massive abuse of the American people all in the name of compassion. There is no compassion in creating govt. dependence.

Actually, it started early in the 20th century, culminating in the degradation of the educational system and the fourth estate within the last 40 years or so.

Both parties and both ideologies have participated equally in this degradation of these pillars of our society.
 
Actually, it started early in the 20th century, culminating in the degradation of the educational system and the fourth estate within the last 40 years or so.

Both parties and both ideologies have participated equally in this degradation of these pillars of our society.

Cannot help from noticing that Obama supporters always run from the debate when confronted with anything that refutes their own opinions. there appears to be little interest in even trying to defend their support for the failed policies of this adminstration as evidenced by actual results. Wonder when Obama supporters are going to show any maturity and admit they were duped by the empty rhetoric from our campaigner in chief?
 
Cannot help from noticing that Obama supporters always run from the debate when confronted with anything that refutes their own opinions. there appears to be little interest in even trying to defend their support for the failed policies of this adminstration as evidenced by actual results. Wonder when Obama supporters are going to show any maturity and admit they were duped by the empty rhetoric from our campaigner in chief?
perhaps you should consider his opinion a little more instead of dismissing it outright, and starting in with your empty rhetoric about obama supporters....just sayin'
 
perhaps you should consider his opinion a little more instead of dismissing it outright, and starting in with your empty rhetoric about obama supporters....just sayin'

It does appear that as usual you have nothing of value to offer, no specifics, just more baiting, bye!!:2wave::2wave:
 
Cannot help from noticing that Obama supporters always run from the debate when confronted with anything that refutes their own opinions. there appears to be little interest in even trying to defend their support for the failed policies of this adminstration as evidenced by actual results. Wonder when Obama supporters are going to show any maturity and admit they were duped by the empty rhetoric from our campaigner in chief?

Are you actually responding to my post, or are you just talking to yourself?

TED,
Not an Obama supporter. :lol:
 
Are you actually responding to my post, or are you just talking to yourself?

TED,
Not an Obama supporter. :lol:

Making a comment indirectly related to your post but more importantly directing it to those who have reviewed this thread but haven't commented.
 
Making a comment indirectly related to your post but more importantly directing it to those who have reviewed this thread but haven't commented.

We understand your message.

Liberals are ugly, conservatives are physically attractive.
Liberals are evil, conservatives are a gift from God.
Liberals are stupid, conservatives are brilliant.

You don't like liberals we got it. A Conservative once told me something that may apply here: "Stop whining."

As to the story in the OP, one has to wonder what the numbers would be if we did what the opposition suggested.
 
It does appear that as usual you have nothing of value to offer, no specifics, just more baiting, bye!!:2wave::2wave:
i couldnt agree more with you, that is exactly what you are doing, and it is refreshing to see you admit the error of your ways.;)
 
Making a comment indirectly related to your post but more importantly directing it to those who have reviewed this thread but haven't commented.

What I find quite telling is the silence on the part of Obama supporters when confronted with the actual results of his first two years in office and their continual rhetoric about blaming Bush. Democrats along with Obama in Congress controlled the legislative agenda since January 2007 and now with Obama in the WH and Democrats with overwhelming numbers in both houses have a strangle hold on the govt. yet that "dumb cowboy" from TX couldn't be stopped by the Democrat controlled Congress in 2007-08 and now cannot solve the economic problems we have today.

What we do have are results to look at and those results are 15.8 million unemployed Americans, trillions spent to get those numbers, and now 3 trillion added to the debt. Democrats so quick to blame Reagan and Bush for their contribution to the debt are now amazingly quiet when one of their own has put spending on steroids and created the largest deficits in U.S. history. No other President has created trillion dollar deficits so the Obama legacy is 16 million unemployed Americans and trillion dollar deficits. How is that "Hope and Change" working out for you?
 
What I find quite telling is the silence on the part of Obama supporters when confronted with the actual results of his first two years in office and their continual rhetoric about blaming Bush. Democrats along with Obama in Congress controlled the legislative agenda since January 2007 and now with Obama in the WH and Democrats with overwhelming numbers in both houses have a strangle hold on the govt. yet that "dumb cowboy" from TX couldn't be stopped by the Democrat controlled Congress in 2007-08 and now cannot solve the economic problems we have today.

What we do have are results to look at and those results are 15.8 million unemployed Americans, trillions spent to get those numbers, and now 3 trillion added to the debt. Democrats so quick to blame Reagan and Bush for their contribution to the debt are now amazingly quiet when one of their own has put spending on steroids and created the largest deficits in U.S. history. No other President has created trillion dollar deficits so the Obama legacy is 16 million unemployed Americans and trillion dollar deficits. How is that "Hope and Change" working out for you?

A couple things...

It is harder when you actually pay for your spending.

If you think that breaking the bank by borrowing and spending until they were out of power so they could complain that the Dems would either not do anything or have to introduce spending about it is a better, more responsible way to conduct business, you don't have much of an argument.

The numbers would be worse had nothing been done.
 
Making a comment indirectly related to your post but more importantly directing it to those who have reviewed this thread but haven't commented.

The next time you quote my post, could you actually respond to it?

When you quote another member in your post, it's fair to presume you're talking to them; anything else just gets confusing.
 
The next time you quote my post, could you actually respond to it?

When you quote another member in your post, it's fair to presume you're talking to them; anything else just gets confusing.

Will do, my apology
 
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