Posted on 04/09/2016 9:36:49 PM PDT by EinNYC
Because 46 - 52% of our nation are truly brain-dead - having been thoroughly brain-washed by a youth time in gov. education and an adulthood of mainstream media.........
Brainwashed Marxists - soon to put another Marxist in office by any means possible........
Accomplish doesn’t have to mean adding in more stupid laws
It could also mean taking away stupid laws we don’t need.
We need more then just “inspiration”
If you reject what God says, you’re going to think Obama is a schoolboy by comparison.
You do realize the markets have been artificially pumped up by the cheap money from the FED, assisted by the High Frequency Trading programs (written by the banksters), to raise the Animal Spirits and get everyone spending again, right? Straight Keynsianism, and the same thing done in more rudimentary form during the 30's
The situation with jobs is not as good but actually more jobs have been created under Obama than under Bush
Sure - while lots of full time jobs are gone, they've been replaced with 2 or 3 part time jobs. Do enough of that and you could potentially triple the number of jobs...
Also per capita GDP is up a lot more under Obama.
The Government bean counters have made some changes to the what gdp is measured - for one they made an explicit addition for research and development even though it was already part of business numbers, so they are double-counting it. I don't think we've yet stooped to what the Europeans are doing now - estimating the dollar value of drug deals and prostitution and adding it to gdp (although I could have missed it).
The US dollar is extremely strong compared with other currencies right now, which means that foreigners also have faith in the US economy compared with their own.
While they do have greater faith in us than their own countries, we are also engaged in a currency war...
Also the whole situation with our foreign oil dependence has improved dramatically.
DESPITE government, not because of it. Luckily, Obama hasn't been able to get his agencies to ban fracking, although he did renew the ban on drilling for oil in much of the US and coastal waters.
So part of Obama's approval rating is due to the fact that people are starting to believe that the economy is actually improving.
???? Or they just believe the happy news on the network morning shows. I've seen some of those in waiting rooms lately, and it's pretty scary - idolizing anything the president does, ridiculing anything a conservative does, with lots of happy, happy human interest stories in between.
Is it who they are polling, or who is asking the questions? I'd like to know if Obama is rated as highly on non-human polls. I know plenty of people who would say he was GREAT if being asked by a minority - after all with your phone number (especially land line) they can find out where you live...
Simple, everyone in history knows this: The republic is doomed once the people can vote money for themselves from the treasury.
Politicians promise favors of money in exchange for votes. They bribe the people who will sell their futures for coin today.
Because the polls showing that result are administered by the same people that pronounce that we have less than 5% unemployment..........
People today - rightly or wrongly - feel they have been ripped off...by “them.” Candidates who hold up socialist solutions are promising to get back at “them” for you. It’s an attractive prospect if one doesn’t examine too closely how the socialists plan to do it.
Answer to both is gimme sum thin for nutun crowd wants the freebies.
I share your depression regarding “feel the Bern mania” and “she is woman vote for Hillary.”
Hillary is a crude, female LBJ but much more radically Left, much more boisterous, much more calculating and much more ambitious and evil.
Bernie Sanders is a fad and he’s surprised by his success. He’s the #NeverHillary vote whether he and Hillary realize that fact or not.
The Demonic-rats are in deep-doo-doo with Hillary as their nominee. She will have to pick that young Latino guy from Texas as her VP to have a chance to win in November.
When did the decline and dumbing down of America start?
I’ll say in 1954-1956 when most households got TV’s.
G-d bless and keep you.
(Praying for NY to come through big time for Mr. Trump - 60% would make me very happy).
Yeah, you’re quite right. I tend to think more about our foreign imports legal as well as illegal because that’s what we have in my part of SoCal. You’d be amazed at how many highly successful legal immigrants vote Democrat. It appears to be a third world thing.
The markets are high because people believe that companies are going to become more valuable. Part of that is that they believe that the Fed is helping the economy, i.e. that the economy is getting better. Low interest rates only help stock prices if people believe that they will stimulate growth. They would not believe this if they thought the economy was hopelessly "trashed" at the present time.
The Fed ended its third quantitative easing (bond purchase) program in 2014. This whole process would not have been necessary if the economy had not crashed in 2008, from which the country has been recovering ever since.
High frequency trading can go either way and would tank the stock market if there were signs that things were not so rosy.
Madness, you say?
43 years ago this country accepted the madness that unborn babies aren’t people, and may be slaughtered at a whim.
All the other madnesses are small potatoes compared to that.
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