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Originally posted by Valhall
I don't remember hearing about daily suicide bombings in Iraq prior to us invading it.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Probably because no one cared to report it. Attacks-a-plenty were going on. Not every day ... but there were plenty.
www.thereligionofpeace.com...
You may be able to say that there weren't many homicide bombers but the fact is that Saddams' government killed many times more, and raped many times more, than the homicide bombers now.
Originally posted by Vitchilo
Please show me a report .......
Originally posted by Vitchilo
and more than 655.000 iraqi in 3 years.
"Worst economy since Herbert Hoover," John Kerry said in 2004, while that year's growth (3.9 percent) was adding to America's gross domestic product the equivalent of the GDP of Taiwan (the 19th-largest economy). Nancy Pelosi vows that if Democrats capture Congress they will "jump-start our economy." A "jump-start " is administered to a stalled vehicle. But since the Bush tax cuts went into effect in 2003, the economy's growth rate (3.5 percent) has been better than the average for the 1980s (3.1) and 1990s (3.3). Today's unemployment rate (4.6 percent) is lower than the average for the 1990s (5.8) -- lower, in fact, than the average for the past 40 years (6.0). Some stall.
Economic hypochondria, a derangement associated with affluence, is a byproduct of the welfare state: An entitlement mentality gives Americans a low pain threshold -- witness their recurring hysteria about nominal rather than real gasoline prices -- and a sense of being entitled to economic dynamism without the frictions and "creative destruction" that must accompany dynamism. Economic hypochondria is also bred by news media that consider the phrase "good news" an oxymoron, even as the U.S. economy, which has performed better than any other major industrial economy since 2001, drives the Dow to record highs.
Originally posted by HimWhoHathAnEar
posted by regenmacher
Considering Bush's policies has created more terrorists and strengthened their resolve
I keep hearing this, but the fact is, we haven't had an attack on US soil by these Hordes of newly created Terrorists! So where are They? Talk about scare tactics.
Originally posted by HimWhoHathAnEar
posted by regenmacher
The war is here and it doesn't take a bomb to destroy America either. Bush is doing more damage to the economy than Osama could ever have hoped for
Unemployment 4.4%, taxes revenues soaring, deficits falling. I don't know what country you're livin' in, but America is THRIVING!
posted by clipper
The only thing that keeps it afloat is borrowed money.
Madrid, London, Istanbul. Egypt, Bali to name a few, plus as many Iraqis a month shot and blown to death a month as on 9/11.
United Kingdom $201.4 Billion
we own that much?
I wish my debts could be a percentage of what I make in a year! Closer to a hundred percent for 10 years for me.
posted by clipper
You sum up what is wrong with America's economy. It keeps ticking only because of borrowed money.