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I'll be using this quote---often. ;^D
Red
First I judge industrial production by the number of semi trucks on interstates 71 and 70. Both run through my area of the USA (Central Ohio). A year and a half ago few trucks were on these highways compared to today. Weekdays one will often see 10 to 15 semi's running in a line in the right lane of the interstate. A year and a half ago a large number of semi tractors were parked in the grass of horse race track just south of Columbus, Ohio. None are there today.
My second measure is the number of cars in the fast food drive through lanes. A year ago I could pull into any McDonalds drive though and not have more than one or two cars ahead of me. Most of the time I was the only car going through the drive through. Now during meal times there are 6 to 8 cars in line at every Mickey Dees I pass.
The third measure is the number of checkout lines open and the number of people in each line at Wal Mart. I checked a Walmart in Circleville Ohio a week after a local Thompson RCA picture tube plant announced closing. Every isle was open and there were 3 to 4 customers in every isle. This Wal Mart does not have a supermarket in it. So the customers were not buying food.
These three measures scream the economy is booming. Working class people are the primary McDonalds customers. Working class people in fear of losing their jobs or out of work can't afford a lot of fast food. When they are working they eat fast food frequently.
When factory production is down, the semi trucks have little to haul. This spring every truck is no the road, hauling lots of stuff that someone is making and selling.
When times are tough people stop buying things they don't need. They can get by with out a new pair of jeans, or stuff for the car, entertainment gadgets, and playthings for the kids. This spring they are lined up at Walmarts to buy them.
One of the dumbest things a candidate can do is tell people things they know are not true.
Here is my take on what Kerry is doing wrong in his campaign
Democrats and Kerry are trying to tell the American people things they know are not true. That hurts the teller, not George W. Bush.
You can't make even uneducated people believe the economy is bad, when every week or so they get introduced to the new people just hired in their work place. When the boss is hiring they do not fear losing their job.
You can't tell people the economy is going south, when everywhere they go to buy stuff they have to wait in line.
Here is a thought on gasoline prices. When I was a boy minimum wage was 50 cents an hour. Gasoline as 25 cents a gallon. Today minimum wage is $5.15. By the standards of the 1950s gasoline should be $2.57 cents a gallon.
Gasoline at $1.89 a gallon is better buy than it was in the 1940s and 1950s. Perhaps that explains why SUV sales are at an all time high. Camper sales are also up and those babies really drink the gas.
All of this says the economy is booming. And lying about it to the people is a dumb thing to do.
Use only as directed. Side effects may include losing in November.
Maalox for Kerry Ping
Strangely enough people DON'T know about it. Talked to one last week. She was shocked that there was one. Another brain washed peon is now educated a tad more.
Many Democrats are still living in the Vietnam Era. They think that events like the Fallujah atrocities will have the same effect on Americans that say, the Tet Offensive had. Indeed, many of these Democrats are longing to see the American people take to the streets to protest the war like they did in the 1960s. But this war isn't like the Vietnam War. The Vietnamese did not bomb Pearl Harbor nor did they fly hijacked airplanes into our buildings. The Democrats just don't get it. We WANT to see this war against terrorism succeed.
They also think that Americans are like Europeans, a quivering mass of sissies who will cut and run as soon as the body bags start arriving. They just don't get it.
But, when will Democrats admit Reaganomics has worked for over 20 years, though it paused in 1990 after a 1987 market pullback when Greenspan raised the Fed Funds rate to 10.5% to force inflation to "0", before going on to create 21 million jobs beginning in 1991 when Bush41 was president. Clinton's tax hikes had nothing to do with it. He simply didn't muck up the surging economy he inherited.
Clinton is to Hoover as Bush43 is to Roosevelt: both Bush43 and FDR inherited a suffering economy. However, because of FDR's tax hikes, it took 5-6 years before employment made a rebound in 1937 as the country mobilized for war. Bush43 gets my vote for pulling the country out of his inherited recession in record time by mid 2001.
I understand why Democrats voted against every economic stimulus bill and tax cut proposed -- because if the economy made a comeback, their goose was cooked as John Podhoretz describes so well.
What I don't understand is why certain Republicans like Chaffee, Snowe, Voinovich, McCain and Specter stood in the way of stimulating the economy so it would produce jobs. They have a lot of explaining to do. Go Toomey!