CBS News: Good Economic News Doesn't Help GOP

CBS News ^ | 10/16/06 | Dotty Lynch

[Enchante]

See-BS: "Don't we do a wonderfully biased job of ensuring that there is no good news when Republicans are in office? All economic statistics can be distorted to tell whatever story we want to tell......."

[MikeA]

Both she and Cook say the market is irrelevant to most voters.

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Man, if this isn't an argument for the vote being taken away from the common man, I don't know what is. I'm beginning to think this country is ill-suited for democracy with the amount of ignorance Americans are besotten with.

[Puppage]

and still more than a majority of voters feel they are falling behind economically

Ah, yes. FEEEEEEEEEEEELINGS

[presidio9]

[weegee]

SeeBS News does not help the GOP

But Dan Ratherbiased is GONE GONE GONE and I'm sure that still smarts. I think it's gonna leave a mark.

[Alberta's Child]

In fact, the recent CBS/Times poll found that 46 percent said they were making just enough to get by . . .

It's pretty amazing what kind of living standards people who say they are "making just enough to get by" actually have. I bet most people buying $3,000 plasma televisions think they are living in poverty and need a hand-out.

[weegee]

If we ran off the illegal immigrants, there would be a lot of employers looking for workers.

Those wouldn't be NEW jobs but they'd be jobs.

And maybe the hate-wal-mart types would protest the construction crews and farmers and restaurants to pay the REAL wages for those jobs.

[frogjerk]

It's pretty amazing what kind of living standards people who say they are "making just enough to get by" actually have. I bet most people buying $3,000 plasma televisions think they are living in poverty and need a hand-out.

Yep. The parking lot at he local Best Buy isn't getting any less crowded anytime soon.

[weegee]

I'm so poor I can only afford dialup for my 1.2GHz computer. I'm still running Windows XP SP1 < /s >.

And talk about tv, I can only afford basic cable and a cellphone with roaming charges, and the 2 titles at a time Netflix plan, and...

[fhlh]

wait... I thought it was always "about the economy, stupid"

guess when it comes to a robust GOP created economy, that doesn't apply..

[MikeA]

"If you expect a 3% rise in income and you get 2.5%, you're disappointed," says Ken Goldstein, an economist at the Conference Board, a private research group in New York. So their answer is to blame the GOP or the president??? Yet these same dumbasses refuse to support tax cuts, the one thing govt. could do to boost their incomes.

Maybe if you idiots didn't support over-taxation and regulation of industry and enable the satanic Democrats from enacting then protecting these taxes and regulations there'd be more money for your pay raises. And maybe your job performance sucks and you don't deserve a bigger pay raise. Ever think of that? Idiots. My raise this year was a bit disappointing, but I blame that on the amount of taxation my employer has to pay in the State of California including a VERY costly audit by the IRS which found nothing askance that kept our company's profits down this year. I keep the books here and I see how much has to be paid out in payroll, federal, state, county and city taxes. It's no wonder pay raises are more meager than we'd like. But the morons blame it on Bush. I give up on this country. Stupidity has won.

[Henry Wilson]

It's pretty amazing what kind of living standards people who say they are "making just enough to get by" actually have.

If you spend more than you make, you will feel that way. That's the case whether you make $20k a year, or $800k per year. Life is so much simpler when you live below your means.

[Cicero]

The figures on national consumer sentiment are fairly old, but the Chicago figures usually anticipate them fairly accurately.

I thought I had heard that sentiment was up recently, and sure enough I just found this:

U.S. Economy: Chicago-Area Manufacturing, Confidence Rise

By Shobhana Chandra and Bob Willis

Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Manufacturing in the Chicago area unexpectedly accelerated this month and Americans grew more confident as the effects of declining fuel prices rippled through the U.S. economy.

The National Association of Purchasing Management-Chicago said today that its regional index rose to a 14-month high of 62.1, from 57.1 in August. Consumer sentiment as measured by the University of Michigan's rose to a five-month high.

I'd say this is more likely to be accurate than some biased left-wing reporter's report of street corner interviews.

[presidio9]

Those wouldn't be NEW jobs but they'd be jobs.

Technically, they would be new jobs, because illegals usually don't pay taxes. The simpler solution is to get rid of welfare. That would put an end to the nonsense of "jobs Americans don't want to do."

"Mow that lawn or your kids don't eat," is a valuable motivator.

[MikeA]

LOL, that man-beast just screams liberal, doesn't it?

[blues_guitarist]

CBS Says:

"Good Economic News Doesn't Help GOP . . .

And BAD ratings for Couric don't hurt us!"

[Arrowhead1952]

In fact, the recent C^BS/Times poll found that 46 percent said they were making just enough to get by and another 17 percent said that they weren't making enough to pay their bills.

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Where did the pollsters go to find these results? The ghettos? One problem with this poll is that many people try to live outside their income. People who max out all credit cards and have to pay the high interest rates are not smart money managers.

[Incorrigible]

Dismal Scientist Bump

[presidio9]

"Good Economic News Doesn't Help GOP . . .

And BAD ratings for Couric don't hurt us!"

[Billthedrill]

"Nothing will help the GOP! NOTHING! WE WILL WIN! WE WILL WIN!! WE WILL WIN!!!"

Getting a bit tedious at this point and we've still three weeks to go. Sheesh.