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Why Is The Economy So Bad?
The American Dream ^ | May 28 2011

Posted on 05/29/2011 3:58:14 AM PDT by GonzoII

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To: GonzoII

Fundamental Transformation of America and Hope-and-Change

You stupid people who voted in this Communist president into the White House get what you deserve. Unfortunately, the rest of us are along for the ride.

O-B-A-M-A


121 posted on 05/29/2011 6:58:17 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: GonzoII
Why does it seem like it is harder to get a job today than it used to be? Well, it is because there are far fewer jobs available and far fewer people are getting hired.

Not according to some Freepers who says its because those on unemployment are simply lazy...

122 posted on 05/29/2011 7:07:11 AM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour (With The Resistance...)
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To: Will88
"The Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act was especially harmful to agriculture because it caused farmers to default on their loans. This event may have worsened or even caused the ensuing bank runs in the Midwest and West that caused the collapse of the banking system."

--- Winkopedia article on "Causes of the Great Depression"

The collapse of the banking system led to great mistrust in same by the people, and played a part in the great shrinkage in the velocity of money, despite government stimulus, and the great contraction.

In a complex system, small fluctuations can result in large changes, as any math major can attest. This "economist" Ian Fletcher, seems to think not, his compelling argument... NOT SO MUCH!

123 posted on 05/29/2011 7:07:42 AM PDT by GregoryFul (Obama - Jim Jones redux)
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To: central_va

Poppycock!


124 posted on 05/29/2011 7:09:19 AM PDT by GregoryFul (Obama - Jim Jones redux)
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To: GregoryFul

Wikipedia is now a source?

Weak.


125 posted on 05/29/2011 7:09:41 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (BUY AMERICAN. The job you save will be your son's, or your daughter's)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

So long as we have epa, nlrb, eeoc, et al, nothing ewill improve.


126 posted on 05/29/2011 7:13:27 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote (F U B O ! ! !)
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To: GonzoII
In a nutshell, the government is literally out of control. It picks winners and losers in a so-called free market economy, usurps authority daily, rewards its cronies and punishes its enemies, turns politicians into power-broking millionaires that flit from government to “consultants” to lobbyist jobs the way a butterfly goes from flower to flower, and is crushing underfoot the economic engine that traditionally set the US apart under a mountain of laws, regulations, red tape, legal hoops, and taxes which threaten its hegemony and power.
127 posted on 05/29/2011 7:15:26 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Wikipedia is generously footnoted in many articles. It is one of a number of sources that provides similar information. If you think different, then you are very narrow in your reading.


128 posted on 05/29/2011 7:15:49 AM PDT by GregoryFul (Obama - Jim Jones redux)
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To: GregoryFul

There’s always “factcheck”.

Maybe they’ve got something you could use as resource, as well. :)


129 posted on 05/29/2011 7:17:15 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (BUY AMERICAN. The job you save will be your son's, or your daughter's)
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To: Spktyr
1. Critical parts of many goods have to be made outside the US because the EPA says we cannot make them here.

Address this issue, please. Tariffs will not encourage US manufacture until this enormous stumbling block is removed.

Yes but the average libtard has been so deluded into thinking the EPA has fixed the problem instead of just driving the problem off-shore that only a nasty wake up call about the true cost of their policy will bring enough people back into reality to change the situation.

It's already starting with gasoline prices. But that only affects the "rich" people living in the suburbs. I've had to down size from my pick up to a compact car and it's now starting to cost me 50 bucks again to fill up my tank. But hurting me is preaching to the choir. The EPA needs to be gutted along with the rest of the bloated federal government.

Until we get through to the 40% block of voters that continually vote Democrat or we split this country in two. I don't see any choice but to go through a world of hurt.

130 posted on 05/29/2011 7:27:47 AM PDT by stig
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Fact Check doesn’t seem to have anything to say about Smoot-Hawley.


131 posted on 05/29/2011 7:29:33 AM PDT by GregoryFul (Obama - Jim Jones redux)
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To: stig
or we split this country in two

Now you're talking my language.


132 posted on 05/29/2011 7:32:33 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: GregoryFul

(I was kidding)

Factcheck is the leftist group which “verified” Obama’s COLB proved he was born in Hawaii.


133 posted on 05/29/2011 7:32:46 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (BUY AMERICAN. The job you save will be your son's, or your daughter's)
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To: GonzoII

The question must be rhetorical because the answer is near self-evident: we have an Idiot in the White House who is surrounded by a crapload of corrupt and academic idiots with virtually no business experience, etc. :duh: =.=


134 posted on 05/29/2011 7:42:47 AM PDT by cranked
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To: JohnLayden

Thanks.


135 posted on 05/29/2011 7:55:35 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: JohnLayden
Steel production 2010:

Aluminum Production 2010:

I guess were are OK unless we need to make a bunch of airplanes, ships and tanks in a real war..../sarc

136 posted on 05/29/2011 8:08:30 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

If we slap a 100% import tariff on everything we import, what will other countries do with the products we export to them? Sounds like a good way to get into a full-fledged global trade war to me.

I like the idea of going the other way...creating a pro-growth, business-friendly environment by significantly reducing the cost of doing business, which would involve massive regulatory reform and eliminating all capital gains taxes on businesses and corporations (as part of a total overhaul/reform of our tax system) for starters.

This would encourage business startups, expansion, higher paying jobs, etc. This strategy would also entail being able to tap into markets outside this country for a portion of businesses’ customer base-which would be almost impossible if we were to slap a 100% tariff on all our imports.


137 posted on 05/29/2011 8:23:54 AM PDT by Let_It_Be_So
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To: GonzoII
Because demoralized interior decorating "Fithcally Conthervative" Log-Cabin Rainbow RINOs gave us this...
 

B.O.H.I.C.A.

 

What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country. 
 
It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages.
 
The first stage being "demoralization"....
 
---KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov
---Soviet Subversion of the Free Press (Ideological subversion, Destabilization, CRISIS - and the KGB)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2095202/posts
 

138 posted on 05/29/2011 8:24:01 AM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: Let_It_Be_So

We are already in a global trade war.

Against America.


139 posted on 05/29/2011 8:25:20 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (BUY AMERICAN. The job you save will be your son's, or your daughter's)
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To: bert
>>it is Chicaps not Chicoms that have made the economic gains by revolutionizing what and how things are done
 
Chicaps / Chicoms.
 
You pretend there's a difference?  
 
They are two faces of the same thing - subjugation of the Individual to the will of the Collective Fascist Corporatist/Communist State where...
 

 
 
 
 
 

140 posted on 05/29/2011 8:30:12 AM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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