Oh oh. I think we need some emrgency tax cuts...Follow

What I find amusing is how Smash has to literally tap dance to get this bit in since the "dramatic slowdown", is relative to the "record growth" of the previous years. Kinda hard to crow about this downturn without also admitting that Bush managed to push us out of a recession in 2001 with equally dramatic increases in 2002 and 2003.


It's all relative folks. You have good growth in the 90s, followed by a "sharp downturn" in 2000 and 2001. That's then followed by a "sharp upturn". When you've got a growth of 5+% a year, just leveling off is a "sharp downturn".


I just find it amazingly funny that no one talks about the huge growth the Bush created with his tax plan that makes this "downturn" seem so large. A 3% growth in GDP (especially since we're only looking at a single quarter in this case) is hardly a disaster guys. It's a bit below ideal growth, but not by much. It's only relatively dramatic because the growth of the previous two years was so large.


As, previously pointed out by me as soon as you see the word "folks" in a Gbjai post it's indicative of completel lack of any understanding of the subject on his part. He figures he can just bluff his way through it.

Growth is growth, but we haven't seen growth at all here. If you want to talk about tap dancing, implying that there's been any "Growth" is the very place to begin.

Income is down for two years in a row for the first time in decades.

That's right, income is down. People are making less money. PARTICULARLY the people you'd want to see make more money if you're infavor of the tax cuts, those in the highest marginal tax brackets.

Bush is going to be the first president since Hoover. That's right, HOOVER, to loose jobs during his Presidency.

Energy costs are higher adjusted for inflation than they were in 1978.

Let me make the very simple metaphor again so that you people who think "growth is growth, we should be more posative" can understand this.

Give me $1000. Let me give you back $100. Now tell me that you've gained $100 and say "Growth is growth."

Because that's what's happening here.

Ahh, I can't wait for November. The exploding economy in '05 and '06 is going to be stunning.

I called my shot. You heard it here first, folks. Like Pavlov's dog, he is.

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I called my shot. You heard it here first, folks. Like Pavlov's dog, he is.


I posted the thread to being with, and you figured out, ALL ON YOUR OWN, that I'd reply to false, ******** comments on my own thread?

Wow, Freud, you've really got me figured out!

Don't stop now. Make more difficult predictions for us, like what day it will be tommorow, what color the sky will be, if the sun will come up, if you'll continue to su[/b]ck Bush's co[b]ck indiscriminatently without even knowing what the issue is out of blind faith?

Enquiring minds want to know.

Edited, Sat Jul 31 03:17:29 2004 by Smasharoo

I predict that the Bush twins will come to my house and beg for sex. Ok I will settle for Paris Hitlon, damn still out of my league ok, I predict that Bush having 4 more years will make things worse then they have ever been, well except for the rich. God I hope those who actually think about things or care about other people win in Novemember.

Nah, for some of us love is pretty steady