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Poll: Do you think the economy is getting better or worse?
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| 20 Aug 04
| BellSouth
Posted on 08/20/2004 7:41:07 AM PDT by everlast
Do you think the economy is getting better or worse? 3 options: Better, Worse, About the same.
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KEYWORDS: economy; freeppoll; poll
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posted on
08/20/2004 7:41:07 AM PDT
by
everlast
To: everlast
2
posted on
08/20/2004 7:43:26 AM PDT
by
everlast
To: everlast
41% Better
42% Worse
15% Same
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posted on
08/20/2004 7:45:21 AM PDT
by
Choose Ye This Day
(Kerry: a strange man with nothing to say about anything that has happened since the early 1970s.)
To: everlast
Depends where you live....in the good sized city 60 miles away its picked up over the last two years...
IN the small rural community where I now live (SW WI.)...its worse...three of the top ten companies
have laid everybody off and relocated to Mexico...
Its tough for people to sell their houses when so many are laid off and without replacement jobs there are few buyers...
imo
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posted on
08/20/2004 7:49:44 AM PDT
by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: everlast
Better 42% 3686 Votes
Worse 41% 3623 Votes
Same 15% 1341 Votes
Total: 8650
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posted on
08/20/2004 7:50:17 AM PDT
by
theDentist
("John Kerry changes positions more often than a Nevada prostitute.")
To: everlast
Better or worse than what?
Better than it was in 2001? Definitely.
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posted on
08/20/2004 7:53:15 AM PDT
by
Pest
(I will choose Free Will!)
To: everlast
Better 43% 3782 Votes
Worse 41% 3631 Votes
Same 15% 1345 Votes
Total: 8758
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posted on
08/20/2004 7:56:11 AM PDT
by
Semper Vigilantis
(Kerry learned 1 thing in Nam: A moving target is harder to hit. flip, flop, dodge, weave, flip, flop)
To: everlast
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posted on
08/20/2004 7:58:39 AM PDT
by
Momaw Nadon
(Goals for 2004: Re-elect President Bush, over 60 Republicans in the Senate, and a Republican House.)
Comment #9 Removed by Moderator
To: everlast
The employment end is not much better, and Bush would be well advised to USE HIS BULLY PULPIT to get after the jobs outsourcing robber Barron's, or is he totally in the pocket of business interests?? If I were him, the first thing I would have done is sign an executive order that any companies contracting with the federal government cannot use foreign outsourced labor to fulfill government contracts, because we now have the sorry spectacle of working taxpayers tax receipts going not to US citizens but flowing out of the country to god-knows-where... Shameful!!!
To: aspiring.hillbilly
So let's see...you would rather have your tax paying dollars wasted on bloated, wasteful unions that have employees that can show up to work drunk, literally, and not be fired.
What you are basically advocating is that Bush open up the furnace and start shovelling money into probably the most bloated, unproductive sector of society.
Instead, what he is doing, which seems prudent to me, is looking for the most qualified, competitive bid and handing the work out to that bidder.
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posted on
08/20/2004 8:20:56 AM PDT
by
ay101
To: everlast
Yet another poorly worded poll.
If you ask someone "do you think the economy is getting better, worse, or is staying the same?" you are asking to take into account everything they hear and read in the news (doom and gloom kind of stuff) and they will vote accordingly.
If I approached the news uncritically, I would say "it is getting worse" simply because of the volume of news that says that it is. After all, the homeless have once again become a problem lately and everyone is having their jobs shipped overseas. /sarcasm
A better poll is to ask the voter whether his or her economic status has improved, gotten worse, or has stayed the same.
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posted on
08/20/2004 8:37:58 AM PDT
by
APFel
To: ay101
Did I say the word """"UNION""" in my post? Did I advocate hireing more govt workers? All I said is that contractors who work for the govt should hire American citizens instead of foreign outsourced labor,,,who has a problem with that?
BTW,learn to read the words and not read things into someones posts here..
To: everlast
Poll question ...
Do you think?
1) All the time
2)Sometime
3)Once in a while
4)Not if I can help it
5) Never
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posted on
08/20/2004 8:56:22 AM PDT
by
G.Mason
(A war mongering, red white and blue, military industrial complex, Al Qaeda incinerating American.)
To: ay101
So let's see...you would rather have your tax paying dollars wasted on bloated, wasteful unions that have employees that can show up to work drunk, literally, and not be fired.I don't like to see my tax money wasted on those outfits either, but the bigger problem is that the skills and infrastructure go overseas. If it goes to China, we are aiding our future enemy.
There was a movie some years ago called "The Second American Civil War" and they had a scene when American tanks couldn't move. No parts were available as they had to get them from overseas.
Not too far off the mark.
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posted on
08/20/2004 10:18:05 AM PDT
by
Oatka
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