Isn’t there some saying out there relative to doing the same thing over and expecting different results — along with something about liberalisn/progressive-ism/socialism/COMMUNISM — being a MENTAL disorder — huuuummmm??
Jimmy Carter has left Habitat for Humanity and is now writing Obie’s speeches!!!
Either that or old Plagiarizing Biden is at it again…
Smorgasbord
13 years ago
Curt,
Your playing the two ex-president’s statements together makes me think that if a vote were taken as to who is the worst president, it would be a tie. They both have high marks for failing the USA. Could it be that that is/was their intention?
How about having a FA contest for what should go on their headstones?
I will submit, “I tried to bury the USA deaper than I am buried.”
By November 2001 the recession was officially over, just one month under Bush’s own budget, weeks after 9/11 and just 10 months into a Bush Presidency. It was an historically short and shallow recession. From 2003 through 2006, all under President Bush and a Republican Congress, real GDP grew over 3% per year, considered a healthy and sustainable pace. By early 2008, the real economy had grown about 20% since Bush took office. Since President Bush took office, the economy has grown in every single fiscal quarter; there has been no quarter of negative real growth.
——————— Personal, disposable, inflation-adjusted income grew 9% in the first six years under Bush. Since Bush has been President, the unemployment rate has remained under 6.3% and averaged 5.2% (In Clinton’s eight years it remained under 7.3% and also averaged 5.2%.)
On Bush’s watch, the US lost 1.8 million jobs over his eight years; whereas Obama shed 2.3 million jobs by June of 09! But it gets worse, he has caused 4.4 million Americans to lose their jobs to date, and he is just getting started. – Source
So what was this you were saying about the “bullshit” Bush economy?
BTW, every year Bush was in office, our GDP was higher than China’s.
Carter’s speeches and presidency sucked then, and Obama speeches and presidency suck now. The one important lesson that came from the Carter years was ignored by both parties. I never hear any of them replaying all those speeches how we need to be free of the oil addiction, and how we would be by 1999. Cars , boats, and houses just got bigger, as drilled less for oil here at home, and we all became even bigger, badder oil junkies with the Middle East as our pusher. And here we are again in the same damn boat.
politicians suck.
Nan G
13 years ago
@Ivan:
No one loves living in China, not even the Gold Medal Olympians.
~~~~~~~Top Chinese gymnast found begging on the street~~~~~~~~
One of China’s most promising young gymnasts, who seemed destined for Olympic glory before his career ended in injury, has been found begging on the streets of Beijing, prompting criticism of the country’s Soviet-style sports system.
Zhang Shangwu, 28, a specialist on the still rings, had even sold the two gold medals he won at the World University championships in 2001 for just £10 in order to buy food.
Mr Zhang said there were others like him who had found themselves in a desperate situation after being cut loose from China’s state-run sports system.
Born into a peasant family in Baoding, Hebei province, Mr Zhang was sent to a local gymnastics academy at the age of five. After seven years of gruelling training, he showed enough promise to be selected to China’s national team and in 2001 he was entered by officials into the World University Games, despite not having an education outside his sport.
His gold medal-winning performance was the highlight of his career, and he seemed certain to make the cut for the 2004 Athens Olympics until he broke his left Achilles tendon in training in 2002.
He never fully recovered, missed the games…………
“After I left the sports system, I got a job as a food delivery boy, but after a while my injury got worse and worse so eventually I couldn’t run or even walk for long periods”.
His savings were wiped out, he said, when his grandfather had a brain haemorrhage. “That used up all my remaining money, and then I was forced to sell my medals because I did not have any money for food.”
Shortly afterwards, in 2007, he turned to theft and was arrested in Beijing, only being released in April this year. “Since I got out, I have been begging and I was sleeping overnight in an internet café,” he said.
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Other Chinese sportsmen have also struggled after leaving the protective blanket of the national team. Ai Dongmei, a former marathon champion, sold the 10 medals she had won in international competitions in order to support her family after her husband was laid off. Zou Chunlan, the national female weightlifting champion, worked at a public bathhouse as a masseuse.
Regular folks work so many hours in factories that they simply go to the bathroom at their work stations as a set of grooves leads the pee & poo down to a central hole.
Isn’t there some saying out there relative to doing the same thing over and expecting different results — along with something about liberalisn/progressive-ism/socialism/COMMUNISM — being a MENTAL disorder — huuuummmm??
Oh my Goodness! A walk, “Through The Looking Glass” and we have a Carter retread.
History repeats itself through the blind ideology of failed Socialist policies once again.
A good one Curt! It needs more exposure.
So we finally have proof!
Jimmy Carter has left Habitat for Humanity and is now writing Obie’s speeches!!!
Either that or old Plagiarizing Biden is at it again…
Curt,
Your playing the two ex-president’s statements together makes me think that if a vote were taken as to who is the worst president, it would be a tie. They both have high marks for failing the USA. Could it be that that is/was their intention?
How about having a FA contest for what should go on their headstones?
I will submit, “I tried to bury the USA deaper than I am buried.”
@Skookum:
While I agree with you, notice that China is THE world’s superpower now, and they are a communist government.
Not sure you saw it, but their most recent GDP reading is +9.5%. KICKING ASS on the the bullshit GDP of the “Bush recovery”.
@Ivan: You said:
Really Ivan? You wanna go there?
The US economy expanded on average by 2.3% a year under Bush. What has it done under Obama?
From the American Thinker:
On Bush’s watch, the US lost 1.8 million jobs over his eight years; whereas Obama shed 2.3 million jobs by June of 09! But it gets worse, he has caused 4.4 million Americans to lose their jobs to date, and he is just getting started. – Source
So what was this you were saying about the “bullshit” Bush economy?
BTW, every year Bush was in office, our GDP was higher than China’s.
Any questions?
Carter’s speeches and presidency sucked then, and Obama speeches and presidency suck now. The one important lesson that came from the Carter years was ignored by both parties. I never hear any of them replaying all those speeches how we need to be free of the oil addiction, and how we would be by 1999. Cars , boats, and houses just got bigger, as drilled less for oil here at home, and we all became even bigger, badder oil junkies with the Middle East as our pusher. And here we are again in the same damn boat.
politicians suck.
@Ivan:
No one loves living in China, not even the Gold Medal Olympians.
And those are the cream of the crop in China!
Regular folks work so many hours in factories that they simply go to the bathroom at their work stations as a set of grooves leads the pee & poo down to a central hole.
Lovely.
RE: My post #6, I didn’t think Ivan would have a rebuttal.