...like decline. The irony of the numbers is that, contrary to Fox lure, much of the unemployment trouble stems mainly from the cutting of jobs in the government sector. There have been 1 million government sector cuts since May 2010. Obama’s private sector numbers look much better. The economic outlook is also entirely different....
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...to as “Real GDP”. You can read up on GDP here. How does Reagan fare when that’s factored into the equation? Adjusted for inflation we see: Real GDP by PresidentThe first thing I notice is Lyndon Johnson at 29.99% but darn that pesky conflict in Southeast Asia screwing up his chances…. Then I...
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I’ve had it with this guy. I’m tired of people making excuses for this cheerleader who just makes up things as he goes along and then manages to get countless people to buy into his completely incorrect misinformation as fact. Take, for example, a single segment taken from his “Freedom Tour” on his first...
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One of the final jobs reports before the election next month was released today and it found unemployment dropping to 7.8% for the first time since Barack Obama took office. Unemployment was on a steady rise from a low of 4.6% (in August 2007) and had reached 7.8% when he was sworn in. Republicans like...
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...have forgotten—especially Republicans—that unemployment under Reagan wasn’t a shining statistic for him to point to during his initial four years. It reached the highest point to-date other than the Great Depression at 10.8% and slowly came back down. Click to Enlarge Today’s unemployment figures have been released and we find ourselves at 8.1%....
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...is that if you actually did do that you’d find how absolutely paper-thin their stance is because Reagan was a staunch opponent of nuclear arsenals. He tried, at every turn, to reduce our missile arsenal. There are over 150 direct quotes of Reagan saying exactly that. As I’ve pointed out before Reagan had an...
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A friend sent me a link this morning to a blog on The Daily Beast about how Republicans don’t seem to have the ability or desire to remember President Ronald Reagan as he actually existed. I found it quite compelling reading as I’d written virtually the same thing eight months ago on my own...
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...little people think when they decide to set a path that takes them over thin ice. Does it not occur to Republican strategists that by using this phrasing that they’re admitting that all of their input from 1989-1992 and 2001 straight through to 2008 has been, is and will continue to be a complete...
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A Place At The Table
A Place At The Table
Barbara
Barbara
Disconnect
Emperor
Emperor
Epic
Fast & Furious 6
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
Gimme The Loot
Harvest of Empire
Harvest of Empire
Hava Nagila (The Movie)
Iron Man 3
Iron Man 3
Koch
Kon-Tiki
Long Distance Revolutionary
Mud
My Brother the Devil
Oblivion
Oz The Great and Powerful
Oz The Great and Powerful
Reality
Spring Breakers
Star Trek Into Darkness
Stoker
Stoker
The ABCs of Death
The Angels' Share
The Angels' Share
The Big Wedding
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
The Hangover Part III
The Iceman
The Incredible Burt Wonder...
The Place Beyond The Pines
The Sapphires
The Sapphires
The Silence
The Sweeney
Trance
Upside Down
