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58 Facts About The U.S. Economy From 2015 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
TheEconimicCollapseBlog ^ | December 23rd, 2015 | Michael Snyder

Posted on 12/25/2015 8:46:07 PM PST by iowamark

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1 posted on 12/25/2015 8:46:07 PM PST by iowamark
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Links to sources at the blog.
2 posted on 12/25/2015 8:49:49 PM PST by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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So what is your proposal to counter this?
3 posted on 12/25/2015 8:51:28 PM PST by Fungi
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Well, Merry Christmas everybody!


4 posted on 12/25/2015 8:53:56 PM PST by Dogbert41 (All the days of my life were written in your book before there was one of them!)
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To: Fungi

Shoot each and every communist? It would have a salutary effect on policy and remove half the mouths to feed (including almost all the useless ones).


5 posted on 12/25/2015 8:58:49 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Fungi

He’ll sell you a set of books that will tell you how to get through the crisis without losing a penny for only $49.95 if you call within the next ten minutes.


6 posted on 12/25/2015 8:59:23 PM PST by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost,in time, like tears in rain.)
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To: Fungi

FUBO and Uniparty.


7 posted on 12/25/2015 8:59:37 PM PST by Carthego delenda est
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To: iowamark

Crazy, man. We’re doomed.


8 posted on 12/25/2015 9:02:27 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Fungi
$10 I send you CD. We make deal!


9 posted on 12/25/2015 9:08:00 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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Thanks Obama.

Strange how you never see any news stories about all the homeless people, children going to bed hungry and Joe Average working two or three jobs to try and make ends meet when there’s a democrat in the White House.


10 posted on 12/25/2015 9:16:27 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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Our poverty stats are inflated by 10-20 million illegal immigrants and their children, which also depress wages and increase the unemployment rate for natives.
Deporting them decreases the number of poor in this country, as well as helps everything from the crime rate to the graduation rate.


11 posted on 12/25/2015 9:18:01 PM PST by tbw2
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I am so screwed.


12 posted on 12/25/2015 9:18:21 PM PST by Lazamataz (It has gotten to the point where any report from standard news outlets must be fact-checked.)
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To: Fungi
So what is your proposal to counter this?


13 posted on 12/25/2015 9:24:20 PM PST by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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Poverty increases with increasing socialism or communism. That’s what has happened since 2008 - why do these statistics surprise this author?


14 posted on 12/25/2015 9:27:08 PM PST by indcons (Lurker mode mostly)
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Obama is now vacationing in Hawaii which has the worst homeless situation in the United States. Thousands of people are living on the streets on Oahu.

The Secret Service went through Kailua beach and cleared out hundreds of homeless so they would not be seen near Obama.

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/29949108/kailua-residents-concerned-with-growing-number-of-aggressive-homeless


15 posted on 12/25/2015 9:39:28 PM PST by kaehurowing
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You’re so right. A lot of the numbers would jump if we didn’t have so many illegals.

It’s not the entire problem, of course. Obama is probably more to blame for many of the other problems as well. The economy would be shifting anyway, but he’s making it harder for ordinary people to move with it.


16 posted on 12/25/2015 9:41:25 PM PST by HarborSentry
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My recent experience just a couple of days ago:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3376438/posts?page=18#18


17 posted on 12/25/2015 9:45:35 PM PST by kaehurowing
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For anyone lacking the time or patience to read the list, I'll summarize:

Socialism is expensive, and very bad for the economy.

18 posted on 12/25/2015 9:49:55 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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A lot of those are valid, but there are a number of them that are either pointless or BS. The $2 a day one is particularly stupid, I can find $2 a day by eyeball laying on the ground, in cash. Given no particular effort, just when I happen upon it while working I’ve pulled in close to $1000 dollars in metals and cash in a year, and that’s not counting my hobby of metal detecting.

” poverty level” is meaningless if you’re going to pay people $29,999 a year to sit on their ass and subsequently define poverty as making less than $30,000 a year...( not the exact numbers, but representative of them).

Also, most of these statistics are either directly related to democrat policies, or a complete failure by both parties to enforce laws on the books against the banking/investment industries.


19 posted on 12/25/2015 10:46:15 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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bump


20 posted on 12/26/2015 1:51:01 AM PST by gattaca (Republicans believe every day is July 4, democrats believe every day is April 15. Ronald Reagan)
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