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frazzled

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24. Um, we've moved far AWAY from that

Reply to Ken Burch (Reply #5)

Mon Jan 26, 2015, 01:16 AM

Jan 2015

At the end of 2014 the unemployment rate was down to 5.6 percent (lowest since 1999--the last time a Democratic adminstration was in power), and economic growth is the highest it's been in a decade:

The U.S. economy is rounding out 2014 in a sweet spot of robust growth, sustained hiring and falling unemployment, stirring optimism that a postrecession breakout has arrived.

A fuller picture of the year-end trends emerged Tuesday when the Commerce Department, in separate reports, said the U.S. economy expanded at a 5% seasonally adjusted annual rate in the third quarter, its strongest pace in 11 years, and reported that consumer spending accelerated last month amid rising incomes and falling gasoline prices.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-third-quarter-gdp-revised-up-to-5-0-growth-1419341481

Maybe you didn't listen to the State of the Union address?

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Will the U.S. ever get a SYRIZA? [View all] Ken Burch Jan 2015 OP

I am sure there is big money working away right now in order to prevent that from djean111 Jan 2015 #1

Well yeah. Ken Burch Jan 2015 #2

The U.S. is not Greece. cheapdate Jan 2015 #3

We are moving towards that, though. Ken Burch Jan 2015 #5

Typically, things DO have to get that bad for radical change. cheapdate Jan 2015 #7

Um, we've moved far AWAY from that frazzled Jan 2015 #24

Things have been getting worse under President Obama? (nt) Nye Bevan Jan 2015 #25

different countries , the situation in the US is not like Greece JI7 Jan 2015 #4

Yet. But the push for austerity and for greater privileges for the few Ken Burch Jan 2015 #6

First overturn Citizens United FLPanhandle Jan 2015 #8

True. We should be getting initiatives on the ballot all over the country to do that. n/t. Ken Burch Jan 2015 #11

Please justify your claim that the only way the Democrats can "regain power" is to become hard-left? brooklynite Jan 2015 #9

not "hard-left"(that's a right-wing slur term, used to accuse people on the left of Stalinism, btw). Ken Burch Jan 2015 #10

...and we won in 2008 and 2012. brooklynite Jan 2015 #13

Republicans belong in the Republican party. Where they belong Ramses Jan 2015 #14

Assuming you can win exclusively with Democratic votes is beyond naive... brooklynite Jan 2015 #15

Then its time to choose sides Ramses Jan 2015 #16

Great to know you stand with them -- do they stand with you? brooklynite Jan 2015 #17

propaganda will only go so far Ramses Jan 2015 #18

I stand with the Democratic candidate who can win the election... brooklynite Jan 2015 #19

If you stand with a candidate who supports Republican policies Ramses Jan 2015 #20

Dear 99%ers: sorry the Republican Administration eliminated the minimum wage and your union rights.. brooklynite Jan 2015 #22

minimum wage and union representation is under assault daily Ramses Jan 2015 #23

No. If people cared they'd vote these people out in the primaries. We have the Democratic party we Chathamization Jan 2015 #12

Well, in much-more-liberal Greece it took 33% unemployment Recursion Jan 2015 #21