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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (164755)	3/18/2010 6:02:23 PM
From: Kevin Rose	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Bus is going down a mountain road. Veering from side to side, driver is distracted and not too competent. Bus takes a wild turn towards the cliff - passengers scream and panic. Right before the bus falls off the cliff, the driver stands up and announces to the passengers: "My shift is over. Barry will take over from here. Have a nice trip" and leaps out the window.

To: Bill who wrote (164755)	3/18/2010 7:20:30 PM
From: Kevin Rose	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Sorry, the facts get in the way of your argument. Obama inherited not just a huge deficit and rampant unemployment, but an economic environment that was heading south quickly. See the following charts: economix.blogs.nytimes.com And the following: online.wsj.com Clearly, Obama cannot be responsible for the job losses at the beginning of his term, before any of his policies had an impact. If you measure the jobs lost (in the WSJ interactive chart) from Jan 2008 to Apr 2009 (one quarter into Obama's term), and then those after, you see: Bush: 5.889 Million jobs lost Obama: 0.981 Million jobs lost As far as the deficit, again you're wrong (5x?). But, deficits will remain high, because it will take trillions to repair the damage of the Bush years. Sorry, the numbers don't back you up. You need to wait a number of years for revisionism to have any real chance. Try again in, say, 30 or 40 years. Maybe you can jump on the 'McCarthy was a hero' revisionism bandwagon...