A moment of Sunday thought...then and now

Nice email sent me this morning. Whether you agree makes no difference to me, but facts are facts.

AMERICA ASKED FOR A CHANGE

A little over one year ago:
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we've seen:
1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.

America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!

The most significant accomplishment by the Democratic controlled
Congress in 2007:

THEY VOTED TO INCREASE THEIR PAY !!!!

 

I'll only say this: If that was where consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 yr high, think of how low it had actually fallen.

Am sure that none of these problems were inherited, right? Just like the GOP said it inherited all the economic woes at the beginning of the first term, because the economy was already on a slide under Clinton? (It was, but you can't have it both ways.
Perhaps the problem isn't the Democratic Congress but the Republican in the White House?

 

Oh wait - but no one here is acknowledging the fault of Clinton passing on economic woes to Bush. So why should we blame Bush for what change during the Pelosi era?

 

Of course, most (if not all) of that would never have occurred If the GOP hadn't spent most of the past decade confidently running the ship of economic state aground.

 

That's right. Utilize the "victim" approach. Poor Nancy is just helpless as Speaker of the House.

It happened in the last year. That midterm revolution was supposed to save us.

Hell is also not anywhere near freezing.

 

No. It was just supposed to stop the war and possibly investigate widespread GOP corruption the previous six years.

Any salvation, if it were to come, was never going to come before Jan. 20, 2009.

 

Well, then I say they've still failed.

 

Well then, we're all certainly applauding the current presidential campaign like it's a new reality TV series.

 

The problems you listed can be traced to the 2000 and 2004 elections.