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The people that protested against that got scorned and dismissed as well, just by a different group of people.

It's no fucking wonder why apathy is such an attractive option. If you dare to express an opinion, doesn't matter what it is, you're at risk of getting shouted down by the screeching lunatics on one side or the other of the political spectrum.

 

True. I was one of the former. Remember it quite clearly.

But at least many of the people who protested the war then are still protesting the surge now. They're just as vocal about Obama's handling of the war as they were with Bush.

Not the case for the "teabaggers," who sure were quiet about our economic policies earlier in this decade. Where were their "principles" then?

 

The November jobs report was revised to a positive 4000.

Didn't realize that many Santas were hired this year.

 

Our president was white then.

Oh, and if half of what some of the lead teabaggers are saying was remotely true, I might listen to them. As it is, they're resorting to the same scare tactics and lies that politicians use. The Nazi, Socialism, Communism, death panels, etc -- all meant to stir stuff up. They don't know how to have a real discussion. Just make the signs, chant the chants, throw some tea bags around, and do it all again tomorrow.

 

They were scornful of Bush's spending (just not his war spending). The line usually went something like, "I don't like Bush's spending . . . but the other guy would have spent more and just given it away in entitlements instead of protecting 'merica."

 

Damn close.

 

Four percent of the civilian workforce has been unemployed 26 weeks or more...That's a record.

 

American capital has learned it has little or no need for American labor.

 

I have to beg to differ on that point. I was never in favor of the wasteful spending done by Bush 43. I liked him, but I really was against many of his spending practices. As were a large number of people on my side of the asile.

 

I never call out people but this is ignorant. Just because you hang out with well off people doesn't mean the rest of the country is just like you. That's so stupid. Look outside yourself to find things that are going on. Unemployment is in batches of cities. If you mapped it out, you'd see the batches are everywhere and it's just not the ghetto. It's a lot of formerly middle-class whites who never got their college degree, worked their asses off for 35 years at the same company then got laid off for no reason.

 

And the left isn't partisan? The Daily kos indiots and the Oberlman and Maddow sycophants aren't partisan. Please, stop pretending it's one-sided.

 

That number is called the U-6 unemployment number. That includes the people filing for unemployment as well as part-time workers, people making a fraction of what they made before they were laid off, and people whose 26 weeks (or however long) has run out and they've given up looking.

Yes, it's high (too high), but it's higher in some areas than others. I think it may be 50% in Detroit, for example. But in North Texas it's probably a little above 10%. I haven't seen half of Michigan move here yet, but it's coming.