Why do Democrats do such a piss poor job of standing by and talking up their own accomplishments. The Republicans have no problem sticking to even ridiculous talking points like death panels and accusations of fascism. But the democrats can't even show a chart of the actual national debt for and spending by President Bush vs. President Obama, a chart of the stock market, or a chart of monthly job losses since the recession started, in 2007. Every month, the number of jobs losses had been going up, higher and higher, month after month until a few months into Obama's term when the taxcuts and the stimulus were implemente into law. Since then, the job loss number have been steadily going down, month after month, at nearly the exact same rate they went up. Right till this month when job losses stopped completely, and the economy has finally started to add new jobs again. The dow jones was at 6000 a year ago. Now, a year after the bailouts that successfully saved key industries, including the entire US auto industry, on the verge of failure, the dow is back up to 11,000. And companies have started reporting profits and have started hiring again. The stimulus paved the way for the recovery.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Plagiarism
Lifted verbatim from Daily Kos, 'cos I like it:
Why do Democrats do such a piss poor job of standing by and talking up their own accomplishments. The Republicans have no problem sticking to even ridiculous talking points like death panels and accusations of fascism. But the democrats can't even show a chart of the actual national debt for and spending by President Bush vs. President Obama, a chart of the stock market, or a chart of monthly job losses since the recession started, in 2007. Every month, the number of jobs losses had been going up, higher and higher, month after month until a few months into Obama's term when the taxcuts and the stimulus were implemente into law. Since then, the job loss number have been steadily going down, month after month, at nearly the exact same rate they went up. Right till this month when job losses stopped completely, and the economy has finally started to add new jobs again. The dow jones was at 6000 a year ago. Now, a year after the bailouts that successfully saved key industries, including the entire US auto industry, on the verge of failure, the dow is back up to 11,000. And companies have started reporting profits and have started hiring again. The stimulus paved the way for the recovery.
Why do Democrats do such a piss poor job of standing by and talking up their own accomplishments. The Republicans have no problem sticking to even ridiculous talking points like death panels and accusations of fascism. But the democrats can't even show a chart of the actual national debt for and spending by President Bush vs. President Obama, a chart of the stock market, or a chart of monthly job losses since the recession started, in 2007. Every month, the number of jobs losses had been going up, higher and higher, month after month until a few months into Obama's term when the taxcuts and the stimulus were implemente into law. Since then, the job loss number have been steadily going down, month after month, at nearly the exact same rate they went up. Right till this month when job losses stopped completely, and the economy has finally started to add new jobs again. The dow jones was at 6000 a year ago. Now, a year after the bailouts that successfully saved key industries, including the entire US auto industry, on the verge of failure, the dow is back up to 11,000. And companies have started reporting profits and have started hiring again. The stimulus paved the way for the recovery.
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Hee hee...its funny. The Conservative (Tory) party in Canada has always been the underdog...never completed a term in the last thirty years, its the Liberals who considered themselves the "natural ruling party". Then the "natural ruling party" stepped out of line one too many times, and were voted out, and the Tories got in. Spending was brought under control, the insurance companies licences to sell securities was revoked, the gun registry was sunk with a dozen other expensive plans, the abortion issue went to a free commons vote, we have increased our military and foreign aid commitments to near record levels in an attempt to rebuild foreign lands, and generally speaking, good governance has prevailed. The howls from the right and the radical separatists has nearly drowned out the realization that we did not turn into a jack booted fascist state, the economy has not faltered, jobs by and large were not lost in a Wall Street manufactured recession, and in fact, things are better now than they were under the whigs!
So the rhetoric is like, totally familiar!
(It would be an understandable error to think of the Liberal party as Democrats and the Conservative party as Republicans, but all things are relative. Our idea of "conservative" is pretty much your idea of "wild long haired liberal socialist radical!, but in general, the labels are not far wrong)
Its that kind of observation that fuels why I read The Economist. We're all fighting the same battles.
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