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The Truth Of Our Current Election Cycle
Posted by: Thomas Sowell ()
Date: October 17, 2012 11:54AM

Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic.

Economist Edward Lazear has cut through all of Barack Obama's claims about "creating jobs" with one plain and inescapable fact — "there hasn't been one day during the entire Obama presidency when as many Americans were working as on the day President Bush left office." Whatever number of jobs were created during the Obama administration, more have been lost.

How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?

The know-it-all smirks and condescending laughs of Vice President Joe Biden, when Congressman Paul Ryan was speaking during their debate, were a little much from an administration presiding over economic woes at home and disasters overseas — and being caught in lies about both. Like Barack Obama, Joe Biden has all the clever tricks of a politician and none of the wisdom of a statesman.

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Re: The Truth Of Our Current Election Cycle
Posted by: Thomas Sowell ()
Date: October 17, 2012 11:58AM

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Re: The Truth Of Our Current Election Cycle
Posted by: MrMephisto ()
Date: October 17, 2012 12:07PM

Thomas Sowell Wrote:
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> Economist Edward Lazear has cut through all of
> Barack Obama's claims about "creating jobs" with
> one plain and inescapable fact — "there hasn't
> been one day during the entire Obama presidency
> when as many Americans were working as on the day
> President Bush left office."

Exactly! Just like that guy I stabbed the other night was still alive when he went to the hospital. If he died while under the doctors' care, then really, it was the doctors that killed him.

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Re: The Truth Of Our Current Election Cycle
Posted by: You people are so dumb ()
Date: October 17, 2012 12:20PM

You have to be a pretty ignorant economist to compare figures on the exact day of the election or the inauguration as if the effect of the policies take effect instantly or the momentum of the economy immediately changes in one day.

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Re: The Truth Of Our Current Election Cycle
Posted by: TheMeeper ()
Date: October 17, 2012 12:22PM

Thomas Sowell Wrote:
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> Not since the days of slavery have there been so
> many people who feel entitled to what other people
> have produced as there are in the modern welfare
> state, whether in Western Europe or on this side
> of the Atlantic.
>
> Economist Edward Lazear has cut through all of
> Barack Obama's claims about "creating jobs" with
> one plain and inescapable fact — "there hasn't
> been one day during the entire Obama presidency
> when as many Americans were working as on the day
> President Bush left office." Whatever number of
> jobs were created during the Obama administration,
> more have been lost.
>
> How are children supposed to learn to act like
> adults, when so much of what they see on
> television shows adults acting like children?
>
> The know-it-all smirks and condescending laughs of
> Vice President Joe Biden, when Congressman Paul
> Ryan was speaking during their debate, were a
> little much from an administration presiding over
> economic woes at home and disasters overseas —
> and being caught in lies about both. Like Barack
> Obama, Joe Biden has all the clever tricks of a
> politician and none of the wisdom of a statesman.
>
> http://www.creators.com/opinion/thomas-sowell.html

This is so profound and moving that I've just decided to break out my checkbook and donate a thousand dollars to Rick Santorum,

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Re: The Truth Of Our Current Election Cycle
Posted by: Eddie Murphy ()
Date: October 17, 2012 12:38PM


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Re: The Truth Of Our Current Election Cycle
Posted by: ferfux ()
Date: October 22, 2012 08:04PM

Eddie Murphy Wrote:
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Aahh heee heee heee heeee

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Re: The Truth Of Our Current Election Cycle
Posted by: Sealed ()
Date: October 22, 2012 08:18PM

Does anybody have one of those "everybody on the team gets a trophy" from little league days?

I'd like to give the trophy to the OP for the weakest argument ever.

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