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Proud Liberal Dem

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10. I'm not arguing that things are rosy

Reply to HiPointDem (Reply #6)

Fri Jun 22, 2012, 09:17 AM

Jun 2012

but they are arguably better than they were/would have been without the stimulus. At any rate, it should be pretty obvious who is holding the economy back and it ain't President Obama.

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Partially true. hobbit709 Jun 2012 #1

partially? unemployment is still higher than it's been in all but 3 years since 1950, not counting HiPointDem Jun 2012 #5

The facts support the economy doing better and not worse....the facts uponit7771 Jun 2012 #12

yes, 8.1 is better than 10.1. HiPointDem Jun 2012 #14

Are the banks on the edge of collapse? are we losing 750,000 jobs per month? WI_DEM Jun 2012 #15

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yeah, it's down from 10%. it's still been over 7.8% for more than 3 years, the longest such HiPointDem Jun 2012 #6

I'm not arguing that things are rosy Proud Liberal Dem Jun 2012 #10

I muted the entire segment and buried myself in the NYT so I didn't even have to look at him. CTyankee Jun 2012 #9

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