On May 10, 9:21 pm, "Jeff Strickland" <cr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Stray Dog" <straydog2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > (BPOking's post is quoted in full at the end of my comments; BPOking
> > always loves to talk about the negatives of the US economy without
> > acknowledging the positives. So lets just look at a few. WSJ, May 9,
> > 2008, page A2: "US Jobless Claims Fell in Latest Week" (not that I'm
> > that impressed with govt stats, but this is anything but a cra****ng
> > economy). Front page and more on page A2 about inflation: Half of
> > economists in poll say that inflation is being driven by demand from
> > China/India (so all you guys can blame China and India for all of the
> > world's inflation woes, and those woes are amplified in another
> > article on page A9: "Inflation Concerns Keep Europe's Rates on Hold"
> > and the graphic shows inflation all over Asia two to three times
> > higher than US, Euro, and Japan. Now, lets look on page B2: "U.S.
> > Retail Sales Rose in April" *yeah, last month, sales went higher. Sure
> > does not look like a cra****ng economy to me (BPOking and "ather" and
> > others who can't see the forest for the trees, probably can't think,
> > either). Now lets look on page C2 and first page of "C" section for
> > the headline "The financial crisis is '75-85% done,' says Dimon of
> > J.P. Morgan Chase" (sure does not look like an economy in a crash to
> > me). Also on page C1 is this article "Trade Deficit May Extend Its
> > Shrinking" and the graphic shows the monthly trade deficit for the
> > last 1-2 years going down, long term. Sure does not look like a
> > cra****ng economy to me.
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> > So, why are these guys dancing in the streets over a small number of
> > relatively minor problems in the US and totally ignoring the positive
> > news? Are they mentally unbalanced? Or, incompetant? Or, just backing
> > up their prejudice and bias with propaganda?
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> They're Democrats, and Democrats need a faltering economy to win in
> November. They call it good bad news.
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> Bad good news is when the WSJ re****ts an up month in April, or lower
than
> expected job losses, or that the economic troubles are actually caused
by
> policy matters elsewhere in the world. That is all good news for
America,
> but bad news for Democrats.
I don't favor either party...they are all a bunch of crooks.
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