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This ad gets my vote as the weirdest commercial of the campaign to date.
If you haven't seen it, I have attached the YouTube link. Can anyone explain it to me? I am having a hard time trying to figure out what his motive is in running this.
As someone who does not vote along party lines and chooses the candidate I think will do the best job for this country, he certainly isn't placing my confidence in him or the Dems. Sounds to me like he is condemning both parties in telling us that no one, Reps or Dems, can make changes. So, what are we expected to do? Vote for him and hope for the best? LOL. Unless when he says "this has to stop" he is referring to the war in Iraq. But, it isn't clear to me. Maybe it is clear to one of you. IMO, I think this ad really works against him.
lol @ the Total Gym. I share your view on the Chuck Norris endorsement, or any celebrity endorsement for that matter. I am not voting for someone because some "star" tells me how great the person is. Now if they gave me a new car and a chicken in my stew pot - I might consider!
I'm just not buying this "you can't be for the poor if you're rich", crap.
But that is not what I said . I specifically said John Edwards was the hypocrite . What ? You say he's not ? Then how does one explain him railing about predatory financial institutions when in fact he recently worked for a hedge fund. When he was caught he said he did it for the research about financial markets and their relationship to poverty . lol Even worse ;while employed at the Hedge fund Edwards claims he had no knowlege that their business was sub-prime loans . lolololol He learned well, because he earned so much money even he is afraid to divulge the amount . But we do know that he has $16 million invested in Fortress funds, a company that forecloses on Hurricane Katrina victims .
This is the same John Edwards who takes shots at Walmart all the time and then had flunkies contact Walmart to go to the front of the line when the new Playstation 3 went on sale.
John Edwards is the one who only recently demanded that we give up our big cars, a demand he made despite the fact that he owns a house with two large garages, for the two SUVs he owns .
This is the John Edwards who demands socialized medicine built on the back of taxpayers, even though it was his type of slip and fall faux scientific lawsuit that helped drive up insurance rates ;driving up medical costs;helping drive millions of people right out of the medical system altogether.Then he would garnish wages from us if we failed to sign onto his dictatorial idea about mandatory health insurance.
The Bush economic boom is now in it's 6th year making it an almost historical economic expansion. Forecasters are predicting a slow down to 2-3 % growth next year .That would still make it a period of economic expansion. Recessions occur when there is high unemployment, high inflation and only then is defined by two successive quarters of negative GDP. We are no where's close to that . Unemployment is at almost historic lows .The fed and Tresury has managed inflation well. At the current levels of revenue the deficit will be erased by the middle of next year .
I'm sure it has absolutely nothing to do with the war machine and its related industries, also any president can print money and grow the debt perversely.
I'm sure it has absolutely nothing to do with the war machine and its related industries, also any president can print money and grow the debt perversely.
First of all, NK, you are again showing you lack of understanding of economics and finance.
1) Presidents do not print money.
2) There is no "war machine" in the current war.
The "war machine" of WWII was a complete economic change from a peacetime economy to a wartime economy. EVERY COMPANY was producing war products, from food to clothing to weapons to vehicles. There was no such thing as a sector of the economy that wasn't part of the war effort. THAT was the war machine that pulled the country out of the Great Depression.
By contrast, only a very small portion of our national economy is involved in the war in Iraq. The actuall effect of the war on the economy has been EXTREMELY small. The past 6 years of economic boom have had NOTHING to do with any "war machine", and everything to do with 2 major tax cuts that created lots of jobs.
actually it is the service sector which includes retail, education and healthcare positions which grew by 127,000 more jobs in November. Right now construction is weak due to the housing bubble but American exports are growing enough to balance that. Attribute that to the weak dollar if you will. That only proves that a weaker currency is not necessarily a bad thing .It also says that world economies are expanding and that the demand for US goods will continue. I see nothing negative in this .
I note that Canadian purchases of goods in the US this month caused a reversal in the tempory rate exchange in favor of the loon.
Tom, I was referring to the viewpoint of the general populace.
By the way, unemployment figures are only verifiable through those that are still collecting unemployment. They don't include the people who have fallen off the map, so to speak. Those that haven't been able to find a job and are no longer eligible to collect. I know a number of people in this situation.
Tom, I have no problem with you continuing to defending the current administration, while the rest of us keep watching the national debt, gas, oil, grocery, ... prices soar through the roof, and RE prices, dollar valuation,... tumble down. People are scared and the general populace views it as an economic downturn. Most people aren't students of economics. I go by the grumblings of my friends and neighbors. As for myself, I am only a mere widow living on a set income that until recently left me in a decent position, and, is now posing some very real life dilemmas for me.
yes I admit that if I was unemployed it would be little comfort to me that unemployment is low. You are correct that perceptions mean alot. That goes back to another thread discussion about how the media creates perceptions . I guarantee if we were in the 6th year of the AL Gore boom the media would be trumpetting it.
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