Bush Impeachment Hearing

Lair · 08-01-2008, 03:18 PM

Originally posted by s0urce

/pulls up a chair

:D You might want to make a sandwich. This is going to take a while.

Lair · 08-01-2008, 03:15 PM

Originally posted by Pinepig

I find it amazing that you can remember to breathe.

How many others have noticed this topic is Lair up against everyone else, please let it die.

Everyone is against me?

You mean "everyone on your team" is against me?

The graph is a JOKE, Piney. It's meant to illustrate your team's ability to DENY that there is a problem.

I'm kinda curious - how could anyone NOT see that it was satire?

Pinepig · 08-01-2008, 03:06 PM

Originally posted by Lair

I love graphs.

I'm kinda curious, how can a graph be "not to scale" when there is no scale of any kind.

Great find Lair.:rofl:

Pinepig · 08-01-2008, 03:03 PM

Originally posted by Lair

Of course not. I'm an ignorant liberal turd.

I don't know anything about the economy, politics, or reality.

I find it amazing that you can remember to breathe.

How many others have noticed this topic is Lair up against everyone else, please let it die.

s0urce · 08-01-2008, 03:01 PM

/pulls up a chair

Lair · 08-01-2008, 02:32 PM

Originally posted by rwh11385

And that is what makes you a sheep.

I don't watch Fox or any other news. I know economics and see the numbers and understand business and see how little markets go unchecked and then get adjusted. I'm sorry you are too simple to understand and assume everyone gets told what to think like you do.

Who spoonfeeds your uber-right opinions to you?

You don't have to lie. A lot of people don't know how to think and rely on rightwing propaganda to keep them in line. It's an authority thing.

rwh11385 · 08-01-2008, 02:30 PM

Originally posted by Lair

Of course not. I'm an ignorant liberal turd.

I don't know anything about the economy, politics, or reality.

And that is what makes you a sheep.

I don't watch Fox or any other news. I know economics and see the numbers and understand business and see how little markets go unchecked and then get adjusted. I'm sorry you are too simple to understand and assume everyone gets told what to think like you do.

Lair · 08-01-2008, 02:25 PM

Originally posted by rwh11385

You don't understand anything that's not liberal BS or emotion-based opinion then?

Of course not. I'm an ignorant liberal turd.

I don't know anything about the economy, politics, or reality.

Maybe I should start watching Fox "news" or listening to conservative radio so I can get my head on straight.

Can you give me any recommendations for your type of propaganda? I don't want to worry about anything, so hook me up with the sources that have convinced you that everything is sweetness and light.

rwh11385 · 08-01-2008, 01:35 PM

Originally posted by Lair

I love graphs.

You don't understand anything that's not liberal BS or emotion-based opinion then?

Lair · 08-01-2008, 01:33 PM

I love graphs.

Ryan Stewart · 08-01-2008, 12:39 PM

Haha, jobless highest in 4 years. 4 years is a fucking cycle. Jobs were bloated because of bullshit lending markets and heavy IT spending for nothing. The SAME shit happened under Clinton with a flood of HB1 visas and MOFG THE INTERNETS!

Then the bubble burst. The firms that were not worth a shit fell and the good ones are still here. Same is happening to banks. Service garbage loans and you die, be prudent when everyone else is fucking eachother in the ass and playing chicken little and you will be fine.

rwh11385 · 08-01-2008, 12:09 PM

Originally posted by Lair

Nothing to see here. Business as usual. Move along.

Actually... it is.

Unemployment % by Year

http://www.bls.gov/cps/prev_yrs.htm

it's called an economy, things go up and down. the housing market had it coming. people were stupid with loans and the general fear that media produces tries to get investors scared.

Gross Domestic Product | U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdpnewsrelease.htm

GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT: Second Quarter 2008 (Advance)
REVISED ESTIMATES: 2005 THROUGH FIRST QUARTER 2008

Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property
located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of 1.9 percent in the second quarter of 2008
(that is, from the first quarter to the second quarter), according to advance estimates released by the
Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP increased 0.9 percent.

The increase in real GDP in the second quarter primarily reflected positive contributions from
exports, personal consumption expenditures (PCE), nonresidential structures, federal government
spending, and state and local government spending that were partly offset by negative contributions
from private inventory investment, residential fixed investment, and equipment and software. Imports,
which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, decreased.

http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet

66% of people were unemployed less than 2 weeks... which isn't a bad sign. Some of that is just frictional (changing jobs, etc.)

A lot of the unemployment is also from construction industry, which answer is obvious as to why.

Lair · 08-01-2008, 11:33 AM

Nothing to see here. Business as usual. Move along.

Jobless rate rises to 4-year high of 5.7 percent

GM posts $15.5B 2Q loss, 3rd-worst in its history

U.S. new home prices are down 13%, new home sales have reduced by 39% and property listings are down 22% since the real estate market's historic peak set in March of 2007. This marks the worst real estate bear market since 1970.

U.S. bank failures send stock markets down

Quick! Somebody change my TV to Fox News! All this truth/gloom & doom is harshing my mellow.