Everyone agrees the economy is in the shitter, except, of course, the hard core Republicans who seem to think that
- we're winning the war in Iraq
- P.A.T.R.I.O.T. is a necessary curtailing of all our rights
- the economy is doing great.
The dollar is worthless, the price of oil is up 400% in less than eight years, 200% of that rise within eight months.
"Oh but those liberals... those liberals are looking for a recession where there is none."
I see. Well, anecdotal evidence that people are working fucking harder for less, and now this:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080606/..._ec_fi/economy
5.5% unemployment? Might as well be in CANADA.
I'd wager that if you looked at that 0.9% growth in the economy, it's everyone's 20% down, but them oil wells gouging people are raking money in hand over fist, and averaging the two looks like growth.
Kind of like the average WA software engineer makes $475,000 a year. Take my salary, that of a bunch of other people, add in Bill Gates, divide by the number of people.....
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