A moment of Sunday thought...then and now

No, it's a fallout of an economic bubble of the 1990s that burst at the turn of the century. Jesus, we were having ECONOMIC PROBLEMS on 9/10/2001.

 

Fortunately, facts are on my side.

2001: Bush takes office with an $86 billion budget surplus thanks to sound economic management by the previous administration.

2008: The surplus was wasted. Bush's budgets have run up a $527.9 billion budget deficit, 4 percent of the United States' annual gross domestic product.

Under the Bush-Cheney administration, American real gross domestic product has grown at an average annual rate of 2.8 percent. In the 51 years prior to that, real GDP grew at an average annual rate of 3.5 percent.

Under the Bush-Cheney administration, personal income has grown at an average annual rate of 1.8 percent. In the 51 years prior to that, personal income grew at an average annual rate of 3.4 percent.

Under the Bush-Cheney administration, payroll jobs have grown at an average annual rate of 0.2 percent. In the 51 years prior to that, payroll jobs grew at an average annual rate of 1.8 percent.

Only a complete idiot would postulate that the past 7 years of colossal economic malfeasance could be undone by Congress with a hostile presence in the White House.

 

Well then so much for their pledges to do so. And all the triumphant chest-pounding from this peanut gallery. Because nothing they wanted and proclaimed they could do has been done. I'd come close to saying government as a whole is a dismal failure, period.

 

END. OF. DEBATE!

 

Any government with the GOP at the top is an absolute failure. The numbers prove it.

 

It's in an e-mail chain letter! It must be true!

I looked into your #2 fact. Untrue.


Short-term (two-year) chart showing average gasoline prices in the United States. Data is for regular-grade unleaded gasoline, taken at one-week intervals and averaged nationwide. Prices are nominal (not adjusted for inflation). Prepared from data at the U.S. Department of Energy.

More here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_price_increases_of_2004-2006

 

And to think that the Democrats only want to help us all is a prelude to much laughter.

 

I don't know where you live, but gas was never below $2.40 here at any point in 07.

 

Yes, of course, why would the US DOE have any insight into the average national price of gasoline? You have an email chain letter on your side.

 

Say what?

 

MUAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!

Yawn, exposed once again as the kid in the back of the short bus.

Complete fucking fraud.