(06-02-2018 03:07 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(06-02-2018 02:54 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(06-02-2018 01:33 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Democrats don't want people working. They want people dependent on handouts. Keep 'em dumb, keep 'em poor, keep 'em dependent on handouts, and you can keep 'em voting democrat.

Exactly... which is why the unemployment rate steadily dropped during the 8 years of President Obama’s tenure.
I think the only person who got dumber over the past decade was you. Must be about to start drawing Social Security.

No. Unemployment dropped (but not "steadily," see paragraph below) under Obama because he took over just as a recession bottomed out. In that situation unemployment is going to drop significantly unless government does something to hinder that. And there is some reason to believe that Obama's policies made the recovery slower, and therefore kept unemployment higher than it would have been without those policies.

Plus, you will note from the graph that unemployment didn't really start to drop until republicans retook the house and began to rein in some of Obama's most extreme policies.

Nothing ever really happens until the Republicans take over.

Sweet partisanship

I of course was not an Obama fan. Never did I have the hate for him the left has for Trump. Looking back, it was a blessing he never accomplished anything positive, so I didn't have to make a jackazz out of myself here trying to diminish his achievements when he actually did do something positive for this country like Trump has already done in less than two years in office.

Nobody likes a sore loser Nan.

(06-02-2018 05:04 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(06-02-2018 03:07 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(06-02-2018 02:54 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(06-02-2018 01:33 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Democrats don't want people working. They want people dependent on handouts. Keep 'em dumb, keep 'em poor, keep 'em dependent on handouts, and you can keep 'em voting democrat.

Exactly... which is why the unemployment rate steadily dropped during the 8 years of President Obama’s tenure.
I think the only person who got dumber over the past decade was you. Must be about to start drawing Social Security.

No. Unemployment dropped (but not "steadily," see paragraph below) under Obama because he took over just as a recession bottomed out. In that situation unemployment is going to drop significantly unless government does something to hinder that. And there is some reason to believe that Obama's policies made the recovery slower, and therefore kept unemployment higher than it would have been without those policies.

Plus, you will note from the graph that unemployment didn't really start to drop until republicans retook the house and began to rein in some of Obama's most extreme policies.

Nothing ever really happens until the Republicans take over.

Sweet partisanship

You noticed that too? These mental snowflakes have a special condition that has no cure.

(06-02-2018 08:34 AM)usmbacker Wrote:  families hit with soaring new costs under the Republicans’ watch

Ummm the Republicans tax cust means one *huge* cost, maybe the second/third highest in the home, has fallen off.

(06-02-2018 08:10 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  

(06-02-2018 08:34 AM)usmbacker Wrote:  families hit with soaring new costs under the Republicans’ watch

Ummm the Republicans tax cust means one *huge* cost, maybe the second/third highest in the home, has fallen off.

Just so people don't misunderstand, that is Sour Nancy's quote.....

(06-02-2018 02:54 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(06-02-2018 01:33 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Democrats don't want people working. They want people dependent on handouts. Keep 'em dumb, keep 'em poor, keep 'em dependent on handouts, and you can keep 'em voting democrat.

Exactly... which is why the unemployment rate steadily dropped during the 8 years of President Obama’s tenure.

What was it when the GOP took hover the house in 2010?

I'm literally laughing out loud at certain posters here....

They post a chart to try and prove something about 'the left' and then when people point out the details in their chart that prove something about 'the right', they act as if the chart they produced (or using it) is partisan

(06-02-2018 01:33 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Democrats don't want people working. They want people dependent on handouts. Keep 'em dumb, keep 'em poor, keep 'em dependent on handouts, and you can keep 'em voting democrat.

Quoteth Dim President Lyndon Baines Johnson.

I’ll give him credit though, he was as prescient as a Nostradamus

(06-02-2018 05:04 PM)Marc Moron Wrote:  Look, squirrel!

(06-02-2018 09:53 PM)ODUsmitty Wrote:  

(06-02-2018 05:04 PM)Marc Moron Wrote:  Look, squirrel!

BOO HOO

When Obama left office in January 2017 the workforce participation rate among 25-54 year olds was 81.4%. It's now 81.9%. So you have the double whammy of lower unemployment with higher participation. When Obama took office the rate was 82.9% and bottomed out at just over 80%. That nearly 3% drop in participation by the core demographic of America's workforce helped Obama's numbers more than anything he did.

(06-02-2018 05:04 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(06-02-2018 03:07 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(06-02-2018 02:54 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(06-02-2018 01:33 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Democrats don't want people working. They want people dependent on handouts. Keep 'em dumb, keep 'em poor, keep 'em dependent on handouts, and you can keep 'em voting democrat.

Exactly... which is why the unemployment rate steadily dropped during the 8 years of President Obama’s tenure.
I think the only person who got dumber over the past decade was you. Must be about to start drawing Social Security.

No. Unemployment dropped (but not "steadily," see paragraph below) under Obama because he took over just as a recession bottomed out. In that situation unemployment is going to drop significantly unless government does something to hinder that. And there is some reason to believe that Obama's policies made the recovery slower, and therefore kept unemployment higher than it would have been without those policies.
Plus, you will note from the graph that unemployment didn't really start to drop until republicans retook the house and began to rein in some of Obama's most extreme policies.

Nothing ever really happens until the Republicans take over.

In this case it clearly didn't. Look at the chart.

And I'm not a republican.

(06-02-2018 05:04 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(06-02-2018 03:07 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(06-02-2018 02:54 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(06-02-2018 01:33 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Democrats don't want people working. They want people dependent on handouts. Keep 'em dumb, keep 'em poor, keep 'em dependent on handouts, and you can keep 'em voting democrat.

Exactly... which is why the unemployment rate steadily dropped during the 8 years of President Obama’s tenure.
I think the only person who got dumber over the past decade was you. Must be about to start drawing Social Security.

No. Unemployment dropped (but not "steadily," see paragraph below) under Obama because he took over just as a recession bottomed out. In that situation unemployment is going to drop significantly unless government does something to hinder that. And there is some reason to believe that Obama's policies made the recovery slower, and therefore kept unemployment higher than it would have been without those policies.

Plus, you will note from the graph that unemployment didn't really start to drop until republicans retook the house and began to rein in some of Obama's most extreme policies.

Nothing ever really happens until the Republicans take over.

Sweet partisanship

Correction:
Nothing GOOD ever really happens until the Republicans take over. That's the truth. Deal with it.

(06-02-2018 09:53 PM)ODUsmitty Wrote:  

(06-02-2018 05:04 PM)Marc Moron Wrote:  Look, squirrel!

bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

(06-02-2018 01:33 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Democrats don't want people working. They want people dependent on handouts. Keep 'em dumb, keep 'em poor, keep 'em dependent on handouts, and you can keep 'em voting democrat.

It's worked well for them since about 1964.

(06-02-2018 04:55 PM)450bench Wrote:  

(06-02-2018 02:54 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(06-02-2018 01:33 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Democrats don't want people working. They want people dependent on handouts. Keep 'em dumb, keep 'em poor, keep 'em dependent on handouts, and you can keep 'em voting democrat.

Exactly... which is why the unemployment rate steadily dropped during the 8 years of President Obama’s tenure.

I think the only person who got dumber over the past decade was you. Must be about to start drawing Social Security.

Wow, you sound bitter...Trump has kicked your azz so badly you've simply lost focus, I guess

Democrats didn't need for that to happen to be bitter.

(06-02-2018 05:33 PM)usmbacker Wrote:  I of course was not an Obama fan. Never did I have the hate for him the left has for Trump. Looking back, it was a blessing he never accomplished anything positive, so I didn't have to make a jackazz out of myself here trying to diminish his achievements when he actually did do something positive for this country like Trump has already done in less than two years in office.

You mean like our resident wannabe MENSA member?

(06-02-2018 09:53 PM)ODUsmitty Wrote:  

(06-02-2018 05:04 PM)Marc Moron Wrote:  Look, squirrel!

HA! Nicely done. +3