New Policy For Transgender Homeless

[hondarobot]

Actually, I'm feeling much better now. I too quit smoking pot a few years ago, I was beginning to think it was causing my lack of motivation, but I have since discovered that I was just being extremely lazy. Getting high was fun, and left me with a gazillion hilarious stories, but it got old after awhile.

At least I think they are hilarious stories, I also use to find people drinking until they puked at parties a laugh riot, so perhaps I have different standards for comedy.

[Quinn]

I too quit smoking pot a few years ago, I was beginning to think it was causing my lack of motivation, but I have since discovered that I was just being extremely lazy.

LMFAO. Well done.

-Quinn

[Felicia Katt]

However, if you are going to say Clinton "created" those jobs, here is a document which says Bush created x jobs as well. If you recall, job creation was a big reelection thing in the Bush camp right?
http://www.atr.org/content/html/2004...bs_11-5-04.htm

Now you are comparing apples with oranges, or maybe Apples, with Apple sauce, because jobs numbers refer to net growth, not gross.
Unemployment has averaged 5.8% over the past year, and most recently hit 6.1%, two points above the 2000 rate of 4%. Since then, over 3 million more persons have been added to the ranks of the unemployed. Private-sector payrolls are down 260,000 this year and are down by 3.1 million, or 2.8%, since the recession began in March of 2001, the largest percentage decline in any post-WWII recession.Persistently high unemployment has caught up with wage growth; for the first time since the 1990s, real median earnings fell for the last four quarters in a row.
http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/we...owth_testimony
George Bush is the first president since the Great Depression to lose jobs. Unemployment rates have increased in 46 states under Bush. The national unemployment rate has increased from 4.2 percent to 5.4 percent. A total of 46 states have higher unemployment rates today than when Bush took office. If millions of Americans had not given up looking for work and dropped out of the labor force entirely, the national unemployment rate would be 7.4 percent. This is according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Recent job gains lag far behind historical norms. Last year's 2 million new jobs represented a gain of 1.5%, a sluggish growth rate by historical standards. Over the last half century, the only 12-month spans with job growth as low as 1.5% were those that actually included recession months, occurred just before a recession, or were during the "jobless recovery" of 1992 and early 1993
http://www.jobwatch.org/

The recession was already in progress. It didn't happen in a few months. Clinton had the reigns for the prior 8 years, he is responsible. I do not agree with your "debunked" comment.

By every standard economic definition, the recession did not start until after Bush was in office. According to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the recession began in March 2001, two months after President Bush took office. NBER is widely recognized by economists as the official arbiter of the start and finish of economic recessions. The Economy was still growing, albeit more slowly, when Clinton left office.

Clinton took office with the first Bush recession's effect still lingering. He turned that around to 8 years of unprecedented prosperity. The Budget Deficit was $290 billion deficit in 1992 -- the highest dollar level in history Clinton turned that into the first budget surplus in a generation -- the largest dollar surplus on record. Unemployment was 7.5% when Bush was in office and 4.5% in 1998 -- the lowest in 29 years and lowest peacetime rate in 41 years. Median Family Income was down $1,835 under Reagan Bush and up $3,517 under Clinton. Real Hourly Wages were down 5% under Reagan Bush and up about 2.5% under Clinton-- the fastest real wage growth in over 20 years. Private-Sector Growth 2.4% under Reagan Bush and 3.9% -- the fastest rate since Johnson was President, under Clinton. Business Investment was1.9% under Reagan Bush and 12.1% -- the fastest rate since Kennedy was President, under Clinton. Inflation was 4.2% under Reagan Bush and 2.5% -- the lowest since Kennedy was President, under Clinton. If you want to be cute, you can say M O N I C A was under Clinton, but he screwed a chubby intern, not the poor and the middle class. And don't try to impugn my source here, its from the official White house web site.

You don't know what my political party is. Since I am a registered independent, I don't really have one. If it looks like I favor a party on an issue, its because the facts or principles do, not because of partisanship. Given your professed positions on abortion, drugs, prostitution, pornography and gay rights, your viewpoints favor the Democrats too.

FK

[Felicia Katt]

[a bunch of off topic, irrelevant conspiracy facts

Jamie, if we stipulate that compared to you, we are all just sheep, will you get the flock out of this thread?

FK

[chefmike]