The name calling continues.

[NMRMN]

Can someone please convince Olaf to stop using emoticons.

Hey, we've got them......why let them sit idle???

Gratuitous use of emoticons at least?

[St. Olaf]

Exactly!

Bravo!

[NMRMN]

Have you looked for a job lately?

I'm retired.

However, the Bush Recession is slowly receding and part of the reason the Stock Market is booming is because the job and housing market is beginning to improve and economic indicators predict that that improvement will continue.

Let me guess that your profession was not economics.

[yuppiejr]

It took me 5 weeks to find an entry level help desk tech offering above market pay using every back channel/ friend of friend network I had and a large corporate HR recruiting team. Seriously, tech is booming.

....doodie heads. (Had to bring it back on topic)

[St. Olaf]

They don't want to hear the truth.

And their mothers wear combat boots anyway.

[FJ540]

It took me less than two years in a call center before learning I'd rather get shot and joined the Army.

[damian_mb]

kids will be kids....both sides are full of them

[45Badger]

It took me less than two years in a call center before learning I'd rather get shot and joined the Army.

That is priceless. Make it your signature...........

[grousemaster]

Have you looked for a job lately?

I'm retired.

However, the Bush Recession is slowly receding and part of the reason the Stock Market is booming is because the job and housing market is beginning to improve and economic indicators predict that that improvement will continue.

Let me guess that your profession was not economics.

Lol, yep. Folks still blaming Bush when major studies have now shown that easy mortgages led to the crisis....brought to us by Democrats

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/12 ... nt-page-2/

[grousemaster]

regardless of which side of the isle you reside on - the plane's going down...

No, that's when you're on the WRONG side.

Things are going fine for the RIGHT side.

Check that stock market!!!

The stock market is doing well only because of government spending and cheap interest rates. Economic growth, incomes, and hiring are stagnant.

[St. Olaf]

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The new state budget forecast says Minnesota's job market will grow modestly and employment could finally return to pre-recession levels this year.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/displa ... job-growth

We're finally making progress in repairing the damage done by Bush and Pawlenty.

[yuppiejr]

Lol, yep. Folks still blaming Bush when major studies have now shown that easy mortgages led to the crisis....brought to us by Democrats

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/12 ... nt-page-2/

It's not a D versus R problem, I'm not aware of anyone driving around putting a gun to people's heads forcing them to buy houses they could not afford or accept mortgage terms that had predictably poor long term prospects. While the government legislation that reduced lending standards was ill conceived, it did not cause the mortgage crisis or housing bubble, individual choices (on a very large scale) can be squarely blamed. Banks and lending institutions took advantage of this national frenzy and were further enabled by government deregulation and quotas, but they were a product of rather than the cause of the resulting bubble-crash.

[grousemaster]

Lol, yep. Folks still blaming Bush when major studies have now shown that easy mortgages led to the crisis....brought to us by Democrats

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/12 ... nt-page-2/

It's not a D versus R problem, I'm not aware of anyone driving around putting a gun to people's heads forcing them to buy houses they could not afford or accept mortgage terms that had predictably poor long term prospects. While the government legislation that reduced lending standards was ill conceived, it did not cause the mortgage crisis or housing bubble, individual choices (on a very large scale) can be squarely blamed. Banks and lending institutions took advantage of this national frenzy and were further enabled by government deregulation and quotas, but they were a product of rather than the cause of the resulting bubble-crash.

The gun was put to the heads of the banks forcing them to make loans to people that wouldn't have otherwise been eligible. Truth. Government is to blame. Nobody was forced into loans, but they never should have qualified for them in the first place.

This isn't my opinion, I'm just quoting a new study by the respected National Board of Economic research.

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorial ... htm?p=full

[St. Olaf]

The gun was put to the heads of the banks forcing them to make loans to people that wouldn't have otherwise been eligible. Truth.

No, gun was needed.

No, the banks took it upon themselves to trick vulnerable people into signing up to buy houses they couldn't afford because the banks could make money at it without risk.

The cause of the Bush Recession was Bush.

He gave the wealthy huge tax breaks, started two unfunded wars and bankrupted America.....and we're still recovering.

Pawlenty just followed the Bush stupidity of failing to tax the rich and instead trying to balance the budget by cutting vital programs, neglecting to build highways, bridges and other infrastructure and continually kicking the can down the road quite irresponsibly--criminally irresponsibly, in fact, because one of the neglected bridges killed a lot of people.

[grousemaster]

The gun was put to the heads of the banks forcing them to make loans to people that wouldn't have otherwise been eligible. Truth.

No, gun was needed.

No, the banks took it upon themselves to trick vulnerable people into signing up to buy houses they couldn't afford because the banks could make money at it without risk.

The cause of the Bush Recession was Bush.

He gave the wealthy huge tax breaks, started two unfunded wars and bankrupted America.....and we're still recovering.

Pawlenty just followed the Bush stupidity of failing to tax the rich and instead trying to balance the budget by cutting vital programs, neglecting to build highways, bridges and other infrastructure and continually kicking the can down the road quite irresponsibly--criminally irresponsibly, in fact, because one of the neglected bridges killed a lot of people.

Wow. My 15 year old cousin has a more through understanding of economics. FYI, both wars combined cost less than our deficit for 2012. Not worth arguing if you can't back up anything with facts.

I just showed you a report by the NEBR which concluded that forcing banks to make these risky loans was the largest contributor to the housing bubble/crisis. Are you refuting their research? If so, what specifically were thy wrong about?

Here is the full paper for your viewing.

http://www.nber.org/papers/w18609

The GOP did not confiscating enough wealth to fix bridges, therefore they are responsible for murder (criminally responsible) at that?

Thanks for logging in today!!!!