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That’s true, and in another ‘great minds’ moment, I just commented on it elsewhere.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — November 8, 2012 @ 7:07 pm - November 8, 2012
ILC, great point about the most powerful form of bias being what the media doesn’t say.
Have also been trying to get cite for the link in Taranto’s Best of the Web where he compared how NYT treated near identical unemployment numbers for September 2004 and September 2012.
Comment by B. Daniel Blatt — November 8, 2012 @ 7:18 pm - November 8, 2012
Can’t wait for the multitude of small and large companies firing people (hopefully all zero voters). Big lesson for conservatives: never hire liberals in the first place, they will always vote against your interest
Comment by susan — November 8, 2012 @ 7:27 pm - November 8, 2012
Over at Bookworm Room we’ve been discussing the options and it’s been a very interesting conversation
Comment by lee — November 8, 2012 @ 7:32 pm - November 8, 2012
I predict over the next few months that a lot of people shift from full time work to part time.
I am very curious to see the revisions to the jobs outlook. I am willing to bet there will be huge one.
Love how the media sits on news until after the election-although I think most Obama voters are stuck in a “all Bush’s fault” mindset.
Comment by Just Me — November 8, 2012 @ 7:36 pm - November 8, 2012
I’m expecting unemployment to top 8% again… just from data revisions. I never believed the 7.8% number when it came out.
A recesion would then push it back over 10%.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — November 8, 2012 @ 7:54 pm - November 8, 2012
Who cares? Gay marriage and abortion are way more important than a good economy.
Comment by V the K — November 8, 2012 @ 8:40 pm - November 8, 2012
To be fair, the article said:
The US is growing but not fast enough do the “fiscal cliff” might cause a recession.
Spending cuts might cause a recession
Higher taxes might cause a recession
Doing nothing might cause a recession
Susan – you really “can’t wait” for people to get fired? I can’t believe that’s true.
What I can’t wait for is the GOP in the House hold the president accountable so he cuts spending and allow for new revenue to shore up programs.
At this point right after election we need compromise ASAP from both sides.
Comment by mike — November 8, 2012 @ 10:52 pm - November 8, 2012
You don’t see the pattern, do you? The pattern is that anything, everything might cause a recession. Because the economy is that fragile and tapped-out. Because Obama has done that poor a job, these last four years.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — November 8, 2012 @ 11:03 pm - November 8, 2012
No, mike doesn’t see that, ILC, because Obama promised him free stuff and that he would punish those people who mike hates.
Mike doesn’t see a lot of things. He doesn’t see, for example, how hard you and I work, or what we did without to save up for a rainy day, or how we put ourselves through college. All he sees is that we have more than he does, and thus it must be taken from us in the name of “good governance” so that he and his fellow looters and moochers who didn’t scrimp, didn’t save, and didn’t work can have it.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — November 9, 2012 @ 12:53 am - November 9, 2012
Mike, if you cut spending, that means programs get cut. They don’t need ‘cutting’, they need to be nuked from orbit.
Comment by Annie — November 9, 2012 @ 1:50 am - November 9, 2012
“Because Obama has done that poor a job, these last four years.”
Agree and I have said it many times
Comment by mike — November 9, 2012 @ 3:51 am - November 9, 2012
“Susan – you really “can’t wait” for people to get fired? I can’t believe that’s true. ”
no mike, read well, I said I cannot wait for obama voters to be out of work. Sounds fair to me. After all, those are the people that at the question “are you better off now than 4 years ago” they said yes. It is only fair to make them equal with the rest of the population
FAIRNESS! EQUALITY!
Isn’t it your mantra?
Comment by susan — November 9, 2012 @ 4:03 am - November 9, 2012
Obama could not have won re-election without securing a big chunk of white voters. I suspect that just as they hold him to a much lower standard than they would a white politician, they excuse all his failures because they never had high expectations of him anyway. Are liberals racist? You bet. Why else would they proclaim a mediocre thinker and speaker the smartest President ever? The media condescension towards him is palpable. Sure, they are over-the-top in their self-conscious praise and protection. But it’s due to their inner conviction that as a black man, he can’t do it on his own, they have to “help” him. They also want to prove themselves Obammier-than-thou. Groupthink of the herd at its finest!
Comment by JuJuBee — November 9, 2012 @ 11:23 am - November 9, 2012
You are a bunch of frigging Republican idiots.. Please go drown yourselves
Comment by JIM Jones — November 9, 2012 @ 3:18 pm - November 9, 2012
Ah yes #15 shows why so many people think ‘out reach’ is not worth it.
Conservative: I believe in smaller government and more liberty.
Liberal: I believe you should die.
And yet the Conservative is suppose to compromise, what’s that to the Liberal? Slip into a coma but not die? Massive organ failure?
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