both TonyRo76 and LasVegasDave.
Carter’s issues were many times worse than what we have now.
To them, the sky IS falling. They all got so used to playing during the sunshine, they forgot to plan for a rainy day. Guess they will have to cut bloated programs, entitlement spending and nepotistic jobs, and start focusing on only the most basic of services. I am hearing alot of grasshoppers squawking, the ants, not so much. Mind you my personal situation sucks, but I ain’t no entitlement baby. I’ll figure it out, they need to as well.
Every time I hear someone say that it hasn’t been this bad since Hoover, I remind them about Roosevelt.
Strickland is in major CYA mode. He’s done nothing-zip-zero-zilch for OH. Here’s a real quick way for him to raise some cash-reverse the “no smoking in public” policy of the state. Sell “permits” to those restaurants and bars that want to permit smoking ($1000 per permit). He’ll see an increase in tax revenues generated by taxes on beer, wine and liquor sold in restaurants and bars.
It’s those eeeeeevil Alaskan oil companies, making their filthy rotten profits!;)
Hoover’s big mistake was starting the new deal and signing the tariff. FDR pledged to CUT SPENDING AND WARNED OF THE DANGERS OF SOCIALISM!!!!! HE LIED HIS BUTT OFF.
North Dakota says they’re doing fine.
Well, I don’t know about the sky falling..., keeping in mind that we did “make it through” the last Great Depression. We do survive.
I think the point here is not whether the sky is falling, but whether we’re going to have a Great Depression that will be compared (in severity) with the last one that we had.
I think — indeed — this is going to be compared, in severity, with the last Great Depression that we had. It is that bad. But, is the “sky falling”? Well, it depends on whether you are the 25% unemployed or the 75% employed — as in the last Great Depression.
Wait for the year 2009 to get underway (by mid-year, at least, I would say) and you’ll see the “Great Depression” really taking hold.
It will affect all of us, to be sure...
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The tidbit that McCain was too ignorant or stubborn to use was that Alaska had revenue in excess of 2 trillion more than budget costs in 2008 from reports I read. Wouldn’t it have been nice to have a VP with that record?
they never seem to notice that it is the states with the most liberal governors who always seem to be doing the worst....and those lousy governors help screw up the national economy and Bush gets blamed.
You don’t think Gray Davis and Ahhnold have contributed mightly to the economic malaise we have nationally by killing so many jobs in the worlds 5th largest economy in California???
Loon.
The “poor” have big screen TVs, cable, a car, and are fat.
Responding to the title: If you think this is bad, it was much worse under FDR.
It’s a ruse; by March 1, the Democrats will be declaring “morning in America” AGAIN!
How many States are in economic trouble and how many of them are GOP controlled. I would guess the Dems are running a whole lot more red ink than the GOP.
Is anyone going to point out that Hoover stopped being President in 1933 and the economy got much worse under Roosevelt?
"The worst economy since Hoover" is a historical illiteracy perpetuated by the stupid.
Strickland could have just said "I'm a lying idiot" and saved himself 17 words.
And we will soon call it the “Obama Depression.”
now that we have a 6 BILLION dollar budget shortfall, its all Bush's fault donchaknow?
not one cut to teachers and other govt employees...just expand and expand and hope that you don't get caught....
meanwhile, our property taxes approach unsustainable for the average working person...