Why It’s Worse Than You Think

Wow! Everyone is so pessimistic about our future. I am on the other hand an optimist. We are smart people, and I am sure we can figure out something, but WE ALL HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER! Stop arguing with each other and lets do something about it.

Are you Republicans sure you don't want to give Bill Clinton the blame for the last six years,
Obama has yet to be elected Commander in Chief! Do you have the two mixed up, or is what
most of us are feeling right now just a blip on George Bushes Air Force Ones radar screen?
I realize he can only take credit for about 2 months of current domestic events for his entire time in office, because his but was flying around taking care of you republicans favorite foreign countries with our shortage of OIL. I take that back, he did fly to Arizona to campaign for Mcain, again on Air Force One! Has anyone noticed there is no shortage of oil for NASCAR, Airlines, ETC,ETC. and on and on!

With talk of gas prices rising to $6 in the near future the federal minimum wage needs to be raised to at least double that in order to make up for it. Where I am people can't afford to pay their rent let alone buy gas. I don't even work right now because with wages as they are any job I get will only provide enough pay to cover day care costs so what's the point I ask...... With little help from the government and the impossible task of affording health care. people are going in way over their heads and living off of credit cards to get by, but what happens when they max out? Thank you to our lovely economy for forgetting who we have here. I support my troops but we did it on our own, every time we get attacked we take care of ourselves whereas whenever we attack someone we go rebuild their economy leaving the average Joe on the street begging for food. By the way the countries we have rebuilt in the past have done nothing to help us in our time of need so I say forget them and take care of your own before you meddle in the business of others that's what itr's going to take to get us back!!!!!!!!!

With talk of gas prices rising to $6 in the near future the federal minimum wage needs to be raised to at least double that in order to make up for it. Where I am people can't afford to pay their rent let alone buy gas. I don't even work right now because with wages as they are any job I get will only provide enough pay to cover day care costs so what's the point I ask...... With little help from the government and the impossible task of affording health care. people are going in way over their heads and living off of credit cards to get by, but what happens when they max out? Thank you to our lovely economy for forgetting who we have here. I support my troops but we did it on our own, every time we get attacked we take care of ourselves whereas whenever we attack someone we go rebuild their economy leaving the average Joe on the street begging for food. By the way the countries we have rebuilt in the past have done nothing to help us in our time of need so I say forget them and take care of your own before you meddle in the business of others that's what itr's going to take to get us back!!!!!!!!!

The only thing you have not mention is the fact of where are Americans going to get extra income to start spending again. i think overall earning has remained stagnate in the past 7 years. The whole bush economy is run on credit not real earnings. Also since we buy so much from China and India wont they suffer too when we stop spending.

The real initial problem that has cause all the turmoil comes from the out sourcing to thriving countries. If any one is to blame it is the corporations cutting corners by producing cheaper items and cheaper labor by countries booming to a point where they need as much resouces as we do.
Want to fix this? Close the borders to all imports and lets go back to a working America to use our own resources. Think about it and see if this fits into your puzzle.

Where do these economists get their ideas? Do they live in the 'real world'? The economy is going to continue to fall until the price of oil drops to below $80 a barrel or we come up with an alternative energy source, such as water or used cooking oil. Ethanol is NOT the answer. I'd rather walk than put that stuff in my gas tank. BTW, I've greased my bike chain AND trained my horse to pull a carriage. I use my car 1x wk.
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Absolutely - 'bread and circuses' , read : fast food and 'American Idol', worked for the Romans, and its working now here, with a good dose of fear invested as well. Listen yankees, America is great for making money, but you have a fooked up society, and absolutely NO culture. Oh, I'll be retiring in the South of France on my vineyard, but thanks for asking patriotic sucka !!

Why Newsweek fact checking is Worse Than you Think -

ex-Wachovia CEO Ken Thompson is not commonly known as G. Thompson Kennedy last time I checked. This article is such a slapdash collection of random snippets and quotes ("the price of store-bought brownies has DOUBLED!"; "a bad economy hurts the INCUMBENT PARTY!"), that it's not surprising traditional MSM can't make a dime off subscriptions anymore.

Try to create some cogent analysis and check your sources before you go to print, and hopefully you won't go out of business.

Our problems lie outside of our country as much as if not more than within it making it unlikely that any potential POTUS can truly fix this mess. The biggest problem is that we don't manufactuire things anymore. Why? Because we can't and shouldn't have to compete with a billion Chinese communist slaves. This problem is exacerbated by the rising costs of energy. The declining power of the dollar as compared to other major currencies further compounds our problems. We're in a hole and will need to climb out by ourselves because nobody in the world is going to lower us a rope unless it's to hang us with.

Our problems lie outside of our country as much as if not more than within it making it unlikely that any potential POTUS can truly fix this mess. The biggest problem is that we don't manufactuire things anymore. Why? Because we can't and shouldn't have to compete with a billion Chinese communist slaves. This problem is exacerbated by the rising costs of energy. The declining power of the dollar as compared to other major currencies further compounds our problems. We're in a hole and will need to climb out by ourselves because nobody in the world is going to lower us a rope unless it's to hang us with.

Wag the Dog!

When Bush took over, the U.S. had a 10 trillion dollar budget surplus, $1.29 / gallon gas, a valuable dollar and revered standing in the world. I honestly can't think of anything he's done right, outside of making some ocean around Hawaii a federally protected fishing reserve.

I can't help but wonder exactly what our governmental officials were thinking as they allowed more and more of our jobs to go offshore. Certainly they are taking some sort of money from Walmart, as we all know that wonderful $600 economic stimulus was spent at stores that purchase over 50% of their products offshore. Oops, there goes that stimulus - at least it will help other countries. Now, bottom line - until we start establishing some sort of made in America tax incentives or penalties for offshoring, we are in for the same as Japan has been living with for over 10 years. Currently the cheap dollar makes made in America goods a great buy. And thank goodness, for without that cheap dollar, we would be facing one heck, the likes of which I've never seen, of an economic resession, boarding on depression. We need jobs, not empty economics. stimulus