Credo fought to end the war in iraq. At&t helped elect bush-cheney

[BettorsChat]

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The war cost us more than $1 trillion, while the cost to our international relations and our own democracy is immeasurable. Think of the words that Bush and Cheney have added to our lexicon: Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, extraordinary rendition, Blackwater, WMD, Halliburton, waterboarding and more.

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[kbsooner21]

Still blaming Bush? Wake up Monte, the year is almost 2012

[umreb78]

"That’s in addition to more than $70 million that we’ve raised since 1985 for groups like Human Rights Watch, Center for Victims of Torture, Women for Women International, Center for Antiwar Action and the ACLU."

How nice that they give us a list of their favorite causes. Not much surprising in that list. It's like a who's who of American Leftist Enterprises. But, I'll bet that the $115 million that CREDO got in the Porkulus Giveaway has little to do with their political leanings. No thanks, but was nice to be informed that Americans should look into CREDO.

This is the same ACLU who are winning their war against Christmas and Christians, right?

[Watchtower76]

The following are 50 economic numbers from 2011 that are almost too crazy to believe....Last couple are great...

Obama rules



#1 A staggering 48 percent of all Americans are either considered to be "low income" or are living in poverty.



#2 Approximately 57 percent of all children in the United States are living in homes that are either considered to be "low income" or impoverished.



#3 If the number of Americans that "wanted jobs" was the same today as it was back in 2007, the "official" unemployment rate put out by the U.S. government would be up to 11 percent.



#4 The average amount of time that a worker stays unemployed in the United States is now over 40 weeks.



#5 One recent survey found that 77 percent of all U.S. small businesses do not plan to hire any more workers.



#6 There are fewer payroll jobs in the United States today than there were back in 2000 even though we have added 30 million extra people to the population since then.



#7 Since December 2007, median household income in the United States has declined by a total of 6.8% once you account for inflation.



#8 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 16.6 million Americans were self-employed back in December 2006. Today, that number has shrunk to 14.5 million.



#9 A Gallup poll from earlier this year found that approximately one out of every five Americans that do have a job consider themselves to be underemployed.



#10 According to author Paul Osterman, about 20 percent of all U.S. adults are currently working jobs that pay poverty-level wages.



#11 Back in 1980, less than 30% of all jobs in the United States were low income jobs. Today, more than 40% of all jobs in the United States are low income jobs.



#12 Back in 1969, 95 percent of all men between the ages of 25 and 54 had a job. In July, only 81.2 percent of men in that age group had a job.



#13 One recent survey found that one out of every three Americans would not be able to make a mortgage or rent payment next month if they suddenly lost their current job.



#14 The Federal Reserve recently announced that the total net worth of U.S. households declined by 4.1 percent in the 3rd quarter of 2011 alone.



#15 According to a recent study conducted by the BlackRock Investment Institute, the ratio of household debt to personal income in the United States is now 154 percent.



#16 As the economy has slowed down, so has the number of marriages. According to a Pew Research Center analysis, only 51 percent of all Americans that are at least 18 years old are currently married. Back in 1960, 72 percent of all U.S. adults were married.



#17 The U.S. Postal Service has lost more than 5 billion dollars over the past year.



#18 In Stockton, California home prices have declined 64 percent from where they were at when the housing market peaked.



#19 Nevada has had the highest foreclosure rate in the nation for 59 months in a row.



#20 If you can believe it, the median price of a home in Detroit is now just $6000.



#21 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 18 percent of all homes in the state of Florida are sitting vacant. That figure is 63 percent larger than it was just ten years ago.



#22 New home construction in the United States is on pace to set a brand new all-time record low in 2011.



#23 As I have written about previously, 19 percent of all American men between the ages of 25 and 34 are now living with their parents.



#24 Electricity bills in the United States have risen faster than the overall rate of inflation for five years in a row.



#25 According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, health care costs accounted for just 9.5% of all personal consumption back in 1980. Today they account for approximately 16.3%.



#26 One study found that approximately 41 percent of all working age Americans either have medical bill problems or are currently paying off medical debt.



#27 If you can believe it, one out of every seven Americans has at least 10 credit cards.



#28 The United States spends about 4 dollars on goods and services from China for every one dollar that China spends on goods and services from the United States.



#29 It is being projected that the U.S. trade deficit for 2011 will be 558.2 billion dollars.



#30 The retirement crisis in the United States just continues to get worse. According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, 46 percent of all American workers have less than $10,000 saved for retirement, and 29 percent of all American workers have less than $1,000 saved for retirement.



#31 Today, one out of every six elderly Americans lives below the federal poverty line.



#32 According to a study that was just released, CEO pay at America's biggest companies rose by 36.5% in just one recent 12 month period.



#33 Today, the "too big to fail" banks are larger than ever. The total assets of the six largest U.S. banks increased by 39 percent between September 30, 2006 and September 30, 2011.



#34 The six heirs of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton have a net worth that is roughly equal to the bottom 30 percent of all Americans combined.



#35 According to an analysis of Census Bureau data done by the Pew Research Center, the median net worth for households led by someone 65 years of age or older is 47 times greater than the median net worth for households led by someone under the age of 35.



#36 If you can believe it, 37 percent of all U.S. households that are led by someone under the age of 35 have a net worth of zero or less than zero.



#37 A higher percentage of Americans is living in extreme poverty (6.7%) than has ever been measured before.



#38 Child homelessness in the United States is now 33 percent higher than it was back in 2007.



#39 Since 2007, the number of children living in poverty in the state of California has increased by 30 percent.



#40 Sadly, child poverty is absolutely exploding all over America. According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 36.4% of all children that live in Philadelphia are living in poverty, 40.1% of all children that live in Atlanta are living in poverty, 52.6% of all children that live in Cleveland are living in poverty and 53.6% of all children that live in Detroit are living in poverty.



#41 Today, one out of every seven Americans is on food stamps and one out of every four American children is on food stamps.



#42 In 1980, government transfer payments accounted for just 11.7% of all income. Today, government transfer payments account for more than 18 percent of all income.



#43 A staggering 48.5% of all Americans live in a household that receives some form of government benefits. Back in 1983, that number was below 30 percent.



#44 Right now, spending by the federal government accounts for about 24 percent of GDP. Back in 2001, it accounted for just 18 percent.



#45 For fiscal year 2011, the U.S. federal government had a budget deficit of nearly 1.3 trillion dollars. That was the third year in a row that our budget deficit has topped one trillion dollars.



#46 If Bill Gates gave every single penny of his fortune to the U.S. government, it would only cover the U.S. budget deficit for about 15 days.



#47 Amazingly, the U.S. government has now accumulated a total debt of 15 trillion dollars. When Barack Obama first took office the national debt was just 10.6 trillion dollars.



#48 If the federal government began right at this moment to repay the U.S. national debt at a rate of one dollar per second, it would take over 440,000 years to pay off the national debt.



#49 The U.S. national debt has been increasing by an average of more than 4 billion dollars per day since the beginning of the Obama administration.



#50 During the Obama administration, the U.S. government has accumulated more debt than it did from the time that George Washington took office to the time that Bill Clinton took office.

[vols fan]

Still blaming Bush? Wake up Monte, the year is almost 2012

It's amazing how clueless dems are. My IQ drops just reading stupid threads like this

[Watchtower76]

Now it's russia,china and germany vs USA....this is getting interesting boys

And so risk assets go to the OFF position following the latest statement from the IMF's Christine Lagarde, who until very recently was France's FinMin, and thus personally responsible for the current economic crunch:

IMF'S LAGARDE SAYS EUROPE DEBT CRISIS `ESCALATING'
IMF'S LAGARDE: CRISIS REQUIRES ACTION BY COUNTRIES OUTSIDE EU
Well, we know the UK is now out, courtesy of idiotic statements such as this one by Christina Noyer. So who will step up? Why Russia it seems.

RUSSIA CONSIDERS PROVIDING UP TO $20B TO IMF, DVORKOVICH SAYS
Why's that? Because like China (more on that in an upcoming post), Russia just dumped US bonds for the 12th straight month and instead both Russia and China are now focusing on making Europe their vassal state. So now we know where the money is coming from - sales of US debt of course!



Source: TIC

Is the US quietly becoming increasingly isolated in global affairs?

[Watchtower76]

It's amazing how clueless dems are. My IQ drops just reading stupid post like this

amazing isn't it vols

[Watchtower76]

stay hot obama

We doubt many will be surprised by the latest presidential polling update from Gallup, and certainly not the record nearly 50 million Americans on foodstamps, but here it is nonetheless, from US News: "President Obama's slow ride down Gallup's daily presidential job approval index has finally passed below Jimmy Carter, earning Obama the worst job approval rating of any president at this stage of his term in modern political history. Since March, Obama's job approval rating has hovered above Carter's, considered among the 20th century's worst presidents, but today Obama's punctured Carter's dismal job approval line. On their comparison chart, Gallup put Obama's job approval rating at 43 percent compared to Carter's 51 percent." One can only imagine what would happen to Obama's ratings if indeed the Iranian hostage situation escalated and the president was forced to get involved, in addition to oil spiking to "doomsday" levels of course as Pimco's worst case predicts: "Back in 1979, Carter was far below Obama until the Iran hostage crisis, eerily being duplicated in Tehran today with Iranian protesters storming the British embassy. The early days of the crisis helped Carter's ratings, though his failure to win the release of captured Americans, coupled with a bad economy, led to his defeat by Ronald Reagan in 1980." And while some may say this is merely a one time blip, a longer-term average shows otherwise: "Gallup finds that Obama's overall job approval rating so far has averaged 49 percent. Only three former presidents have had a worse average rating at this stage: Carter, Ford, and Harry S. Truman. Only Truman won re-election in an anti-Congress campaign that Obama's team is using as a model." On the other hand, neither Ford nor Carter has such erudite opponents as Herman "I did not sleep with those 999 women" Cain.

Here are the job approval numbers for other presidents at this stage of their terms, a year before the re-election campaign:

Harry S. Truman: 54 percent.
Dwight Eisenhower: 78 percent.
Lyndon B. Johnson: 44 percent.
Richard M. Nixon: 50 percent.
Ronald Reagan: 54 percent.
George H.W. Bush: 52 percent.
Bill Clinton: 51 percent.
George W. Bush: 55 percent.
That's right. Not one, but both Bushes...

[flarendep1]

I opened this thread against my better judgment. Next time I will listen to my better judgment.

[vols fan]

I opened this thread against my better judgment. Next time I will listen to my better judgment.

I have never seen more worthless threads in my life. Yet they just keep coming

[BettorsChat]

What's amazing is how little Republicans get anything. Newt and Perry are both Idiots. Ron paul is the best candidate that you have running and probably won't get the vote to run.

[BettorsChat]

I opened this thread against my better judgment. Next time I will listen to my better judgment.

I can't how many times I've opened a thread of your's against my better judgement.

[BettorsChat]

It's amazing how clueless dems are. My IQ drops just reading stupid threads like this

Keep on drinking that Kool Aid

[vols fan]

Keep on drinking that Kool Aid

The Kool Aid is alot better than the brainwashing drink you have been drinking. Thank God we only have to deal with these kinda threads once every 6-8 weeks. Keep up the good work

[vols fan]

I can't how many times I've opened a thread of your's against my better judgement.

Did Obamas teleprompter not tell you to say "I can't COUNT how many times I've opened a thread of your's against my better judgement"?

I swear you Dems can't speak for yourselves without sounding like idiots unless you copy it exactly from CNN.