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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 09:56 AM
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Gee, high unemployment, record forclosures, record energy and food prices, repubublicans in control
for the past 8 years

I suspect the people are feeling a lot of pain because of the republican economic policies

There was a willful degradation of the U.S. dollar which has contributed to the high energy prices

There was the invasion into Iraq based on a lie, which destabilized the entire region, and contributed to the high energy prices

There was the Phil Graham enron energy loophole, which deregulated energy, especially in regard to futures trading, both policies supported by bush and mccain

This election should speak volumes
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 10:06 AM
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1. even the spin machine couldn't cover up this pile.
I often wonder what the real unemployment number is.
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 10:38 AM
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5. I don't think so either /nt
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KillCapitalism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 10:09 AM
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2. It's awful.
Please check out my poll by the way.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3396092
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 10:50 AM
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11. It is definitely a recession, but with gas and food prices as high as they are
it isn't a depression yet

That doesn't mean it won't happen though
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El Pinko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 10:13 AM
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3. Stock market crash, Reagan sold weapons to Iran, Beirut embassy bombing...
...unemployment at 11% in 1982, women forced to enter the workforce to make ends meet, but POS Bush Sr. STILL won in 1988.

Never underestimate the idiocy of the American public.

(Okay, I will admit that Obama is a bit more of an appealing candidate than Dukakis was...)
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 10:39 AM
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6. I don't, but I think a lot more people are feeling the effects this time /nt
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El Pinko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 10:54 AM
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12. You're probably right.
Although those affected by the 1981-82 mini-depression were affected severely, large areas of the country outside of the rust belt did relatively okay.

Now people throughout the sun belt are getting smacked by the results of their long debt binges.
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 11:02 AM
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14. Good point /nt
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 10:13 AM
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 10:43 AM
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7. The Democrats control Congress now, and that is barely
In the Senate, it is barely, and with lieberman, it really doesn't exist

However, I do not disagree with your point that what the Democrats have done the last eight years have not been particularly admirable.

Not because they had control, because they really didn't, but because many didn't fight for the right thing
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 10:47 AM
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9. you are a tool
"democrats" haven't been noteworthy, but they've had two years of very marginal "control," facing the most obstructionist minority (by FAR) in American history, a margin that is not veto-proof and a "president" who has vetoed damn near every bill they've passed.

the current economic meltdown lies squarely at the feet of repuke economic policy.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 10:56 AM
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 11:40 AM
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16. I know you are, but what am I?
I'm rubber, you're glue...


Listen mister "1 post-er," you can't pin the current US economic meltdown on democrats. This has repuke written all over it, inside and out, up and down, backwards and forwards.

The congressional "democrats" have been pathetic as an opposition party, but our troubles were conceived, created, implemented and executed by repukes. Economic policy since raygun has been founded on fundie neocon/theocon supply-side principles. They don't work.

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devilgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 11:06 AM
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15. I really need to keep the cat in the house...
look at what he dragged in now!

Bad kitty! :spank:
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 10:44 AM
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8. don't forget the repukes controlled congress for even longer
UTTER disaster for the country

Americans are so frigging stupid and gullible
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 10:48 AM
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10. Absolutely, and the control in the Senate was barely /nt
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