This is rich, http://www.nrcc.org/issues/default.asp?ID=47

"Thanks to Republican economic policies, the U.S. economy is robust and job creation is strong.

Republican tax cuts are creating jobs and continuing to strengthen the economy, "

 

Tax cuts over and over again have made the economy stronger. What is not to understand about that? Don't even say that these policies have created the current situation. Your buddies barney frank (the fudge packer) and freinds caused most of the problems with the bank scandels they sponsored. The community redevelopment act in 1977 started it. The community redevelopment act revisit in 1995 sealed the fate of the banking problems. Man up.. face facts. The democrats have caused this almost exclusivly. Remember jimmy carter? obama is carter on steroids. It will get much worse now.

 

I seem to remember the economy doing pretty good until energy speculators put everyones money into futures, and overvaluing the energy market. Who was was behind it, I only wish I knew. But there will be a conspiracy uncovered in the future, and we'll know who caused it
I don't believe it was coincidence.

 

Can someone point me in the direction of job creation? Because I am having a hard time finding it, let alone a job that still exists. Maybe I can try....never mind they laid people of recently. How about.....nope them too. Or......nope out of business.

 

The point is, TODAY, January 24th, 2009, their (there for Chris) web site says "the U.S. economy is robust and job creation is strong". Come on Tumba, how out of touch is that?

 

No, the economy is bust, I've seen no fix for it. I do believe we are on different wave lengths. The economy was living in a bubble, and someone intensionally burst it with the energy cost. Who in your opinion who caused that. I'm at a loss, but it does seem as though it was intentional.

 

So since Obama is planning to cut taxes on companies that create jobs (GASP, he's giving BIG BUSINESS a tax break), will you give the credit to the Republicans who had the idea or B.O. who knows its a good idea???

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So is it robust or bust?


On a serious note, around Christmas here if you went to any shopping mall in town, you would never know there is a problem with the economy.

People were jammed in nice and deep racking up their charge cards.
We don't have quite the housing bust you guys have though, so maybe that's a big part of it.

I sincerely hope things get better for everyone on both sides of the border.

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You can have black and white as far as opinions go. Lets say Chris is black and you are whtie. Any opinion in between is gray. The more opinions you have , the grayer the area becomes.
Two different ideologies. But the actual facts are in the gray area. One side does not compromise with the other. Nothing is accomplished.
Neither side is right neither is wrong. but the actual ability to fix is in the middle.

 

As the debt rises people will fall. the wealthy will own the poor.

 

Employment/Unemployment is a problem of monetary and economic policy enacted by our wonderful leaders of both parties over many decades. The inflationary monetary scheme of fractional-reserve banking is also a culprit in the boom-bust cycle. You want permanent job growth? Get this country back on the gold standard with lower taxes and government depredations.

The removal of the gold standard permits run-away deficit spending, discouraging more investment in private business where real job growth is created. Stimulus packages do not work. The New Deals of Hoover and Roosevelt did not end the Great Depression. WWII did.

 

The point of the thread isn't who caused it, it's that Republicans are saying everything is fine and dandy.

There's no opinion in my OP, it's a fact that our economy is presently not robust and there is no job creation, yet the NRCC seems to think everything is OK.

 

Was it maybe the industrial advances that kept the economy growing after the war. Our problem is dependency on foreign energy. The Dem's keep blocking the effort to free us from it.
Also protectionisms decline brought higher standards to our market. Somewhere in the gray area a balance has to be found.

 

Head over to this site, check the unemployment rate history from 1948 to present, then tell me whose policies are better for employment.

 

If I had the answer I'd be shouting it from the rooftops.
It's a little to complex for me to grasp at a definitive answer.