lol. seriously? I can't tell when thrax is flaming and when he's being serious.

Im hoping its:
"My taxes went up, Im concerned that this money isn't being used well" -Serious
"It's a record cold winter, therefor, global warming is a myth" - Flaming
"Obama is purposefully hurting the country" - Flaming
"The amounts of debt accrued by the Obama and Bush administrations are totally comparable...who cares what the reasons were" - Flaming

A: more of a flame
B: fully serious - global warming is a complete myth
C: did I say that? "IF" I said that it would be a quasi-flame
D: serious........but you're right, they aren't comparable.......Obama's is MUCH worse

But "D" will eventually subside because he'll do what every other dem does and simply raise taxes on the middle class. More income = smaller defecit.


Wanna go to an ODU game this month JP?

To be fair, it's not every dem. JFK lowered taxes, for example.

I was born in 1980 so I don't count what happened before then.

So, I just reread some of my posts from earlier. Monte, i can see how you would think that I am some kid. I really ought to start editing these longer posts of mine.

Also, with respect to an earlier post.
"BTW, when does it actually become "Obama's economy", and the current issues become "Obama's issues"?
How about now...job losses have gone from 800K a month to virtually nothing."
the second part of this statement is completely uninformed. here are a series of quotes from an article based on the monthly US report on labor. The article was published Jan 8 2010
"When discouraged workers and part-time workers who would prefer full-time jobs are included, the so-called "underemployment" rate in December rose to 17.3 percent, from 17.2 percent in November. That's just below a revised figure of 17.4 percent in October, the highest on records dating from 1994."

"Friday's report caps a disastrous year for U.S. workers. Employers cut 4.2 million jobs in 2009. And the unemployment rate averaged 9.3 percent. That compares with an average of 5.8 percent in 2008 and 4.6 percent in 2007. Nearly 15.3 million people are unemployed, an increase of 3.9 million during 2009."

I'm pretty sure I don't need to explain why these support my argument, but I will explain if needed. In all fairness to the discussion these are only 2 excerpts from an article. If you would like to read the full article here it is.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34764269/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/

http://www.measuringworth.org/usgdp/

this is a pretty useful tool for this debate. you can look up gdp, gdp per capita and purchasing power (per capita) for any year from 1780 until 2008. I wouldnt rely on the earlier years though since those records are incomplete and largely based on probate records.

thanks dete but obama sucks

the warming of the earth is a natural occurance, so is the cooling of the earth. but (in a nutshell without spouting off too much science) what we have done by pumping all sorts of gases and pollutants into the atmosphere is cause the climate to go the extremes faster

Greek i couldn't agree with you more.