Jobless rate falls to a 5 year low

[rpm]

I'd say your view that the consevatives are always the thieves.

I never said that. You were talking about the mortgage bubble and the S & L's. So was I.

Dred I was talking about the actual cost of living, not a cost of living wage increase. A 1% net over the actual cost of living is good. Not great, not spectacular, but good. And I agree, greed knows no party lines.

[bj229r]

Originally posted by rpm
I never said that. You were talking about the mortgage bubble and the S & L's. So was I.

Dred I was talking about the actual cost of living, not a cost of living wage increase. A 1% net over the actual cost of living is good. Not great, not spectacular, but good. And I agree, greed knows no party lines.

The answer I was looking for is "conservatives". This was during the heyday of the "Born Again" religious right movement. Keating was a prime example of their hypocrisy.

--Do ya even know if Keating WAS a conservative? I know Nixon appointed him to an anti-porn thing that LBJ started, but Nixon appointed some liberal judges as well

[rpm]

Originally posted by bj229r
--Do ya even know if Keating WAS a conservative? I know Nixon appointed him to an anti-porn thing that LBJ started, but Nixon appointed some liberal judges as well

Keating was the King of Konservatives.

[bj229r]

Originally posted by rpm
Keating was the King of Konservatives.

based upon what?

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

RPM says so. That should be enough. Conservatives are evil. How can you be so foolish as to not see that?

[tedrbr]

Enjoy it while it lasts.

Possible senerio:

Congress manages to force President to pull troops out of Iraq, (Remember, it was popular opinion, Congress, and prevalent 'war fever' that allowed President to send them in in the first place under weak reasoning)  
leaving them to the mess that we, for the most part, created ourselves (not enough troops initially deployed, disbanding the Iraqi military and police forces entirely, not securing munitions depots all over the country so they could be raided and later used against the troops).

Lid comes off the region as everyone struggles to fill the power gap and become the dominate power in the region.  Sunni, Shiia, Kurd, Secular, Hard line, tribal, terrorists, clan, Iams, Ayatollahs, militias..... it all comes apart.

Price of sweet crude jumps to $150 a barrel amid the destruction of a few oil tankers and burning oil fields.  Look at what the capture of a few British Marines did to world wide oil prices?  What will the deployment of mines in the Gulf, anti-ship missiles, burning oil wells, and open conflict throughout the region to on the stock market?

Unemployment jumps to 25% as western economies collapse.

Boo!!!!

[john9001]

Originally posted by tedrbr

Unemployment jumps to 25% as western economies collapse.

Boo!!!!

so then you are saying all the illegals will go home because there is no work?  See there is some good in this.

oh , and china will lose over half of it's export business (USA) and suffer a deep recession.

and with the collapse the there will be a drop in CO2 emissions and global warming will not destroy the world.

yeah, win win.

[x0847Marine]

Originally posted by Ripsnort
Nice economic news that shows how well our economy is doing with a Republican in charge.



Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/business/20070406-103239-7292r.htm

Define what the .gov considers "unemployed", politicians like to change definitions to suit themselves.

During the 1980s the Government changed the definition of "unemployed" from those who "claim", to those who "register" unemployment... and guess what?, the stats changed. Many unemployed people vanished since they did not register as "unemployed".. just saying "I don't have a job" wasn't good enough for bureaucrats who demanded a form be filled  out. At the same time those under 18 were removed from the unemployment numbers, unless they had a job.. then they were included.

The Government also excluded people in work-related training and added them to the so called "workforce" generating a technical fall in unemployment rates.

[rpm]

Originally posted by bj229r
based upon what?

Umm, history? Seriously, Google is your friend. If that's too hard, watch The People vs Larry Flint.

[Lye-El]

The unemployment rate fell to a five-year low of 4.4 percent as job growth picked up to 180,000 last month — a show of strength that bolstered hopes that the economy will endure the turmoil in the housing and mortgage markets without major harm.

Above 11% in my county.

[Shuffler]

I feel a person is a failure at life once he pokes the moniker "Politician" to his/her name.

[Dago]

Amazing watching the liberals and Bush haters close their eyes, put their hands over their ears and mumble "bush is bad, bush is bad" to drown out any positive information that might reflect well on the administration.  Not surprising that none rise to answer Toads questions.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Lye-El
Above 11% in my county.

Learn how to build better cars

[midnight Target]

So the boom of the 90's was a fake bubble caused by the internet, but the boom of the 80's and 2000's were both due to republican administrations?

got it..

[bj229r]

Originally posted by rpm
Umm, history? Seriously, Google is your friend. If that's too hard, watch The People vs Larry Flint.

The People vs Larry Flint is a reference source? Common knowledge that Keating was anti-porn, and worked with a government agency under Nixon, but porn victimizes women, and that view is typically construed as liberal.

We DO know this: He had somewhat more influence with Democrats than with Republicans: (ahem--McCain is the only Republican--one might conclude his political allegiance is to the green kind

Some regulators noted the danger and pushed for more oversight, but Congress refused. Some of this may be due to the Keating Five, five Senators (Dennis DeConcini, Alan Cranston, John Glenn, Don Riegle and Keating's good friend John McCain) who had received some $300,000 from Keating in the 1980s. They later met twice with regulators who were investigating American Continental Corp., in an attempt to end the investigation. (In 1990, they would be rebuked to various degrees by the Senate Ethics Committee.)