Originally posted by t2p
Jimbo and Mav:
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I will recite the tried-and-true GW lines:
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Economy is improving. We are out of recession. Job market is picking up.
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For every two jobs gained, we loose one, at least that my unofficial count as i browse through the daily business section, and those gained have much lower salary averages than the ones lost..im no expert, but that isnt very encouraging to me...

Market is up.
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the market always goes up after a presidential election, time will tell if its sustainable..i hope for the best, my few stocks are worth less than one quarter of what they were five years ago. i want them to go up, ill need that money for retirement since there wont be any social security left by the time im ready... sorry i spent little "extra " refund awhile ago, donated it to a family so they could buy winter coats for their daughters for christmas..i wont be able to use thatin 30 years, i guess ill start collecting cans now...

Tax reform in place.
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sure, if youve got a couple million in the bank, unfortunately, i dont qualify..

'No Child Left Behind' implemented.
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And grossly underfunded, lets fix that , its important....

75% of Al Quaida (or whatever) captured ........

um, that was just the known leadership, no one knows exactly how many of them are still around, many beleive theyve grown vastly in strength.. a couple of em did a fine job of blowing my freinds face half off a few months back, theyre far from nuetralized.
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Afghanistan and Iraq liberated ........

the better part of Afgahanistan is still run by fuedal warlords, and Iraq, well, just watch the news..its in chaos. Liberated isnt exactly the word id use to describe it..they dont line the streets and throw roses at our troops, they try and kill them..
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Homeland Security dept established and security improved

If you feel safer because of this, im happy for you..I know better, im in the protection business, listening to the speeches on how much safer we are today is like listening to a tragic comedy to me..wholely talored to make people who dont know , feel safer..sometimes i wish i was one of them.....
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You guyz need to remember this admin inherited a recession and the country was attacked. Serious deficiencies in the security of this country had to be addressed.
im not an economist, but i know there are cycles for everything. i beleive that the decisions made after 9/11 resulted in much worse conditons than should have been...but like i said, i dont know, i just know i didnt agree with allot of them...


im still waiting for that 'feel good" reply, show me something solid, give me hope, prove im wrong. I really want to believe things will improve, this shouldnt be hard if you guys are right..im easy to convince, but not with party rhetoric, show me steadfast results and youll make me a believer...... or at least post up a nice pic of a kitten so i feel better, kittens make everyone feel better, until they turn into cats anyhow.....