Well I hope you are ignorant of what Orbán did to Hungary. Like you are ignorant of a hundred other things. because if you think Hungary is a fair democracy after knowing what it is…then you are against American tradition and for authoritarianism.
so which is it? Ignorance or approval of authoritarian government?
What did he do? You're ignorant of the fact that he's popular in Hungary.
the Biden Boom continues. Best new unemployment claims numbers since the Johnson administration. Jobs for everyone is pretty good, nu?
New applications for U.S. unemployment benefits fell last week to a near 54-year low as employers held on to workers in a tight labor market. Initial jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 166,000 during the week that ended on April 2, compared with a revised 171,000 the prior week, the Labor Department said Thursday. Economists expected 200,000 new claims last week. The four-week average for claims, which smooths out volatility, fell to 170,000
the Biden Boom continues. Best new unemployment claims numbers since the Johnson administration. Jobs for everyone is pretty good, nu?
New applications for U.S. unemployment benefits fell last week to a near 54-year low as employers held on to workers in a tight labor market. Initial jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 166,000 during the week that ended on April 2, compared with a revised 171,000 the prior week, the Labor Department said Thursday. Economists expected 200,000 new claims last week. The four-week average for claims, which smooths out volatility, fell to 170,000
You're on the Titanic bragging about the new deck chairs....
the Biden Boom continues. Best new unemployment claims numbers since the Johnson administration. Jobs for everyone is pretty good, nu?
New applications for U.S. unemployment benefits fell last week to a near 54-year low as employers held on to workers in a tight labor market. Initial jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 166,000 during the week that ended on April 2, compared with a revised 171,000 the prior week, the Labor Department said Thursday. Economists expected 200,000 new claims last week. The four-week average for claims, which smooths out volatility, fell to 170,000
You're on the Titanic bragging about the new deck chairs....
"Employment is down by 1.6 million, or 1.0 percent, from its pre-pandemic level in February 2020."
Over 6 MILLION "new" jobs created by Biden and we're still 1.6 MILLION workers short of where we were in February 2020.
yes, it's true that the trump years were a disaster and all the lost jobs in that era are taking some time to get back. As usual, a Republican administration ended in recession and millions of job losses.
Is that how simplistic you want to talk, Adult? And still call yourself an 'adult?' because if you want simple but stupid I can do that too. I just did it.
Or we can be more mature and say something like below:
Of course we lost millions of jobs because of covid and early retirements. but the jobs are coming back faster than just about anyone expected. it's a very sharp V shape recovery, due to Joe-nomics and the power of the US economy.
But because of the aging of the US population jobs numbers will have a drag until the boomers die off - many older people are retiring and we dont' have enough young people to replace them anymore.
"Employment is down by 1.6 million, or 1.0 percent, from its pre-pandemic level in February 2020."
Over 6 MILLION "new" jobs created by Biden and we're still 1.6 MILLION workers short of where we were in February 2020.
yes, it's true that the trump years were a disaster and all the lost jobs in that era are taking some time to get back. As usual, a Republican administration ended in recession and millions of job losses.
Is that how simplistic you want to talk, Adult? And still call yourself an 'adult?' because if you want simple but stupid I can do that too. I just did it.
Or we can be more mature and say something like below:
Of course we lost millions of jobs because of covid and early retirements. but the jobs are coming back faster than just about anyone expected. it's a very sharp V shape recovery, due to Joe-nomics and the power of the US economy.
But because of the aging of the US population jobs numbers will have a drag until the boomers die off - many older people are retiring and we dont' have enough young people to replace them anymore.
Isn't that better?
You're so blinded by partisanship you've lost sight of reality.
Pre-Covid the economy was booming. Even if it was booming today no one would be able to tell because Biden has inflation in double digits.
No one believes the spin you're trying to sell.
65% of the country believes Biden has the country on the wrong track.
52% of the country dislikes Biden in even the friendliest of polls.
56% of the country thinks Biden is doing a bad job on the economy in even the friendliest of polls.
As the media slowly turns on Joe Biden, maybe we will get some of these questions answered (though I am pretty sure he will run off like a coward with his back to the press) ...
yes, it's true that the trump years were a disaster and all the lost jobs in that era are taking some time to get back. As usual, a Republican administration ended in recession and millions of job losses.
Is that how simplistic you want to talk, Adult? And still call yourself an 'adult?' because if you want simple but stupid I can do that too. I just did it.
Or we can be more mature and say something like below:
Of course we lost millions of jobs because of covid and early retirements. but the jobs are coming back faster than just about anyone expected. it's a very sharp V shape recovery, due to Joe-nomics and the power of the US economy.
But because of the aging of the US population jobs numbers will have a drag until the boomers die off - many older people are retiring and we dont' have enough young people to replace them anymore.
Isn't that better?
65% of the country believes Biden has the country on the wrong track.
blah blah blah. Americans almost never think the country is on the right track.:
“Seven out of ten Americans think America is heading in the wrong direction.” Most of us heard poll numbers along these lines this heading into Tuesday’s midterm elections. And the election results made it clear that voters blamed President Obama and Democrats for leading our nation down the wrong path. But here’s the thing: Over the past 40 years, polls have consistently found that a solid majority of Americans have not been happy with the direction of our nation. Sure, there have been a few bright spots, but they are far outweighed by the times we have not been satisfied with the way things are going. Reportedly it was in August 1971 that a pollster first asked voters the question: “Do you feel that things in this country are generally going in the right direction today, or do you feel that things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track?” So what was the response back then? Well, 63 percent of those polled felt that country was on the wrong track. Keep in mind that in 1971, unemployment had risen to 5.9 percent from below 4 percent in the late 1960s, inflation was climbing, plus the Vietnam War was causing domestic turmoil. I reviewed as many polls as I could find from the 1970s to today on this question. Want to guess when the highest percentage of Americans thought our nation was not just on the wrong track, but had fallen off the tracks and landed in a ditch? The correct answer is six years ago, in the fall of 2008. That, of course, is when our economy imploded. Per Gallup, between September through about November 2008, only 7 to 9 percent of the country thought the country was heading in the right direction (that was probably just the Bush and Cheney families.) A whopping 91 percent believed the nation was heading on the wrong track. So when have Americans felt the most satisfied with the direction of our country? Actually the there were three times in the past 40 plus years that a solid majority of Americans, for a sustained period of time, believed that the nation was on the right track. From 1984 to 1986 during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, Gallup found that a slight majority to 60 percent of Americans thought the nation was on the right track as the economy came back to life from a punishing recession. (That was up from approximately 30 percent in Reagan’s first four years.) But by 1987 that number had fallen to 45 percent and would not break 50 again during Reagan’s term.
yes, it's true that the trump years were a disaster and all the lost jobs in that era are taking some time to get back. As usual, a Republican administration ended in recession and millions of job losses.
Is that how simplistic you want to talk, Adult? And still call yourself an 'adult?' because if you want simple but stupid I can do that too. I just did it.
Or we can be more mature and say something like below:
Of course we lost millions of jobs because of covid and early retirements. but the jobs are coming back faster than just about anyone expected. it's a very sharp V shape recovery, due to Joe-nomics and the power of the US economy.
But because of the aging of the US population jobs numbers will have a drag until the boomers die off - many older people are retiring and we dont' have enough young people to replace them anymore.
Isn't that better?
You're so blinded by partisanship you've lost sight of reality.
Pre-Covid the economy was booming. Even if it was booming today no one would be able to tell because Biden has inflation in double digits.
No one believes the spin you're trying to sell.
65% of the country believes Biden has the country on the wrong track.
52% of the country dislikes Biden in even the friendliest of polls.
56% of the country thinks Biden is doing a bad job on the economy in even the friendliest of polls.
You're in denial.
Aren't you the one who said, "Americans are idiots"?
And then you cite polls of Americans to back up whatever point you are trying to make?
the state ranked 43rd of 50 on K-12 education is...cutting taxes.
Once again, Republicans doing what they do: Hand money to rich people and believe that will help everyone. it's like a joke how blind they are to reality. Of course the richer states are rich partly because they spend on K-12 education. Not Mississippi. They are poor and will spend less on K-12. To make rich people richer I guess. Yo, confederacy! Try emulating the rich blue states, not the poor third world!
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The largest tax cut in the Magnolia State’s history. Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves is scheduled to sign a bill Tuesday that would phase in more than $500 million in tax cuts over the next four years.
the state ranked 43rd of 50 on K-12 education is...cutting taxes.
Once again, Republicans doing what they do: Hand money to rich people and believe that will help everyone. it's like a joke how blind they are to reality. Of course the richer states are rich partly because they spend on K-12 education. Not Mississippi. They are poor and will spend less on K-12. To make rich people richer I guess. Yo, confederacy! Try emulating the rich blue states, not the poor third world!
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The largest tax cut in the Magnolia State’s history. Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves is scheduled to sign a bill Tuesday that would phase in more than $500 million in tax cuts over the next four years.
Funding has never been the problem with American education.
Test scores are generally low because the kids' 35 year old grandmother can't help them with their homework because she's at work, the mom is passed on crack somewhere, and no one has any idea who the father is.
Throwing money at the wrong symptom has never solved a problem in the history of the world.
the state ranked 43rd of 50 on K-12 education is...cutting taxes.
Once again, Republicans doing what they do: Hand money to rich people and believe that will help everyone. it's like a joke how blind they are to reality. Of course the richer states are rich partly because they spend on K-12 education. Not Mississippi. They are poor and will spend less on K-12. To make rich people richer I guess. Yo, confederacy! Try emulating the rich blue states, not the poor third world!
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The largest tax cut in the Magnolia State’s history. Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves is scheduled to sign a bill Tuesday that would phase in more than $500 million in tax cuts over the next four years.
Funding has never been the problem with American education.
Test scores are generally low because the kids' 35 year old grandmother can't help them with their homework because she's at work, the mom is passed on crack somewhere, and no one has any idea who the father is.
Throwing money at the wrong symptom has never solved a problem in the history of the world.
sort of agree with you. funding isn't always the problem.
And on test scores...american kids just don't take standardized test scores seriously. I read a study once that gave american kids $1 per correct answer on an international 'compare test scores' exam...and boom the Americans were right up with the kids in nations with highly rated schools. And giving money to foreign kids didn't improve their scores. they did the same, money or no money.
In other words, US kids don't do their best on standardized scores, which makes us look like dolts, inaccurately.
Funding has never been the problem with American education.
Test scores are generally low because the kids' 35 year old grandmother can't help them with their homework because she's at work, the mom is passed on crack somewhere, and no one has any idea who the father is.
Throwing money at the wrong symptom has never solved a problem in the history of the world.
sort of agree with you. funding isn't always the problem.
And on test scores...american kids just don't take standardized test scores seriously. I read a study once that gave american kids $1 per correct answer on an international 'compare test scores' exam...and boom the Americans were right up with the kids in nations with highly rated schools. And giving money to foreign kids didn't improve their scores. they did the same, money or no money.
In other words, US kids don't do their best on standardized scores, which makes us look like dolts, inaccurately.
If the kids don't have parents telling them to care they won't care.
Perhaps incentivizing broken homes wasn't a great idea.
the state ranked 43rd of 50 on K-12 education is...cutting taxes.
Once again, Republicans doing what they do: Hand money to rich people and believe that will help everyone. it's like a joke how blind they are to reality. Of course the richer states are rich partly because they spend on K-12 education. Not Mississippi. They are poor and will spend less on K-12. To make rich people richer I guess. Yo, confederacy! Try emulating the rich blue states, not the poor third world!
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The largest tax cut in the Magnolia State’s history. Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves is scheduled to sign a bill Tuesday that would phase in more than $500 million in tax cuts over the next four years.
Funding has never been the problem with American education.
Test scores are generally low because the kids' 35 year old grandmother can't help them with their homework because she's at work, the mom is passed on crack somewhere, and no one has any idea who the father is.
Throwing money at the wrong symptom has never solved a problem in the history of the world.
Better funded schools do have better results, particularly for low-income students. Recent research is pretty conclusive on that one. You have to spend the money wisely, but it definitely makes a huge difference.
sort of agree with you. funding isn't always the problem.
And on test scores...american kids just don't take standardized test scores seriously. I read a study once that gave american kids $1 per correct answer on an international 'compare test scores' exam...and boom the Americans were right up with the kids in nations with highly rated schools. And giving money to foreign kids didn't improve their scores. they did the same, money or no money.
In other words, US kids don't do their best on standardized scores, which makes us look like dolts, inaccurately.
If the kids don't have parents telling them to care they won't care.
Perhaps incentivizing broken homes wasn't a great idea.
once again, your theory comes up against a brick wall of reality. Red states usually have higher divorce rates than blue states, but you go and believe your nonsense. the real problem is poverty, and red states are simply poorer than blue states, which makes marriage more difficult. The red states should emulate their more educated, richer blue state fellow Americans.
It may seem counterintuitive, but divorce rates are higher in religiously conservative "red" states than "blue" states, despite a Bible-based culture that discourages divorce. In a new study titled "Red States, Blue States, and Divorce: Understanding the Impact of Conservative Protestantism on Regional Variation in Divorce Rates," which will be published later this month in the American Journal of Sociology, demographer and University of Texas at Austin professor Jennifer Glass set out to discover why divorce rates would be higher in religious states like Arkansas and Alabama -- which boast the second and third highest divorce rates, respectively -- but lower in more liberal states like New Jersey and Massachusetts.
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yes, it's true that the trump years were a disaster and all the lost jobs in that era are taking some time to get back. As usual, a Republican administration ended in recession and millions of job losses.
Is that how simplistic you want to talk, Adult? And still call yourself an 'adult?' because if you want simple but stupid I can do that too. I just did it.
Or we can be more mature and say something like below:
Of course we lost millions of jobs because of covid and early retirements. but the jobs are coming back faster than just about anyone expected. it's a very sharp V shape recovery, due to Joe-nomics and the power of the US economy.
But because of the aging of the US population jobs numbers will have a drag until the boomers die off - many older people are retiring and we dont' have enough young people to replace them anymore.
Isn't that better?
You're so blinded by partisanship you've lost sight of reality.
Pre-Covid the economy was booming. Even if it was booming today no one would be able to tell because Biden has inflation in double digits.
No one believes the spin you're trying to sell.
65% of the country believes Biden has the country on the wrong track.
52% of the country dislikes Biden in even the friendliest of polls.
56% of the country thinks Biden is doing a bad job on the economy in even the friendliest of polls.
You're in denial.
You calling someone else blinded by partisanship is rich.
1) The economy was booming pre-Covid all the way back to March of 2009 when the boom began after The Great Recession that GWB handed off to Obama.
2) PART of the reason the US did so poorly with jobs, etc. during the pandemic was Trump's horrible handling of it, politicizing the virus.
3) PART of the reason the jobs came back so quickly is that Biden made it a priority (spent MONEY on it) to get shots in arms.
4) Inflation is NOT in double digits. The inflation is high enough for you to make that a point without lying about how bad it is. The Fed is going to be attacking this. Gas prices have already fallen from their highs. Are you going to credit Biden for the gas price drop? Are you going to credit Biden when inflation numbers begin to get better (because they will)?
5) What agip is doing there is NOT spin. It is reality. In many key indicators, the US economy is booming.
6) There are some economic headwinds. Some experts have predicted a recession in 2023. Fair enough. That is NOT the case right now though, and it may not happen. As a snapshot in time, the US economy is doing pretty well, even with the stupid drag on it from the war in Ukraine. Unemployment is down, wages are up, supply chain issues are still present, but that has improved.
7) The mid-term elections will go to Republicans, unless there is a big event that keeps that from happening. That's how mid-terms go...people vote away from the party in the White House. You've already said that election will be "glorious." Simpletons think that way. Whatever the vote in November, it's just how things typically go. It's not a rebuke of Biden. Tell that to other 2-term Presidents whose party did poorly in the mid-term elections. GWB was one of the rare exceptions, but his party's popularity went up due to 9/11.
8) You are very ill-informed on all things political. The discussions that go on in this thread are above your intellect and knowledge. You believe conspiracy theories that have no basis in fact. You would be better off finding another subject to discuss. This is not for you.
yes, it's true that the trump years were a disaster and all the lost jobs in that era are taking some time to get back. As usual, a Republican administration ended in recession and millions of job losses.
Is that how simplistic you want to talk, Adult? And still call yourself an 'adult?' because if you want simple but stupid I can do that too. I just did it.
Or we can be more mature and say something like below:
Of course we lost millions of jobs because of covid and early retirements. but the jobs are coming back faster than just about anyone expected. it's a very sharp V shape recovery, due to Joe-nomics and the power of the US economy.
But because of the aging of the US population jobs numbers will have a drag until the boomers die off - many older people are retiring and we dont' have enough young people to replace them anymore.
Isn't that better?
You're so blinded by partisanship you've lost sight of reality.
Pre-Covid the economy was booming. Even if it was booming today no one would be able to tell because Biden has inflation in double digits.
No one believes the spin you're trying to sell.
65% of the country believes Biden has the country on the wrong track.
52% of the country dislikes Biden in even the friendliest of polls.
56% of the country thinks Biden is doing a bad job on the economy in even the friendliest of polls.
You're in denial.
I don't think agip even believes his own posts like that.
I wonder what will happen if a recession happens in the next 3 years on Joe's watch (which he must know is possible). He will regret all these simpleton arguments.
