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CBS News: Good Economic News Doesn't Help GOP
CBS News ^
| 10/16/06
| Dotty Lynch
Posted on 10/17/2006 10:30:53 AM PDT by presidio9
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To: presidio9
See-BS: "Don't we do a wonderfully biased job of ensuring that there is no good news when Republicans are in office? All economic statistics can be distorted to tell whatever story we want to tell......."
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posted on
10/17/2006 10:40:24 AM PDT
by
Enchante
(There are 3 kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Drive-By Media)
To: presidio9
Both she and Cook say the market is irrelevant to most voters.
Man, if this isn't an argument for the vote being taken away from the common man, I don't know what is. I'm beginning to think this country is ill-suited for democracy with the amount of ignorance Americans are besotten with.
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posted on
10/17/2006 10:40:26 AM PDT
by
MikeA
(Foley has resigned. Bin Laden has not. That's what's at stake in this election, not some pervert.)
To: presidio9
and still more than a majority of voters feel they are falling behind economicallyAh, yes. FEEEEEEEEEEEELINGS
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posted on
10/17/2006 10:40:29 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: E. Pluribus Unum; b4its2late; frogjerk; The Duke; Salvey; MikeA; Henry Wilson; EagleUSA
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posted on
10/17/2006 10:40:32 AM PDT
by
presidio9
(Make Mohammed's day: Shoot a nun in the back.)
To: presidio9; Timesink; martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; GOPJ; ...
SeeBS News does not help the GOP
But Dan Ratherbiased is GONE GONE GONE and I'm sure that still smarts. I think it's gonna leave a mark.
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posted on
10/17/2006 10:40:40 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: frogjerk
In fact, the recent CBS/Times poll found that 46 percent said they were making just enough to get by . . . It's pretty amazing what kind of living standards people who say they are "making just enough to get by" actually have. I bet most people buying $3,000 plasma televisions think they are living in poverty and need a hand-out.
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posted on
10/17/2006 10:41:29 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
To: COBOL2Java
If we ran off the illegal immigrants, there would be a lot of employers looking for workers.
Those wouldn't be NEW jobs but they'd be jobs.
And maybe the hate-wal-mart types would protest the construction crews and farmers and restaurants to pay the REAL wages for those jobs.
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posted on
10/17/2006 10:42:38 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: Alberta's Child
It's pretty amazing what kind of living standards people who say they are "making just enough to get by" actually have. I bet most people buying $3,000 plasma televisions think they are living in poverty and need a hand-out.Yep. The parking lot at he local Best Buy isn't getting any less crowded anytime soon.
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posted on
10/17/2006 10:43:00 AM PDT
by
frogjerk
(REUTERS: We give smoke and mirrors a bad name)
To: Alberta's Child
I'm so poor I can only afford dialup for my 1.2GHz computer. I'm still running Windows XP SP1 < /s >.
And talk about tv, I can only afford basic cable and a cellphone with roaming charges, and the 2 titles at a time Netflix plan, and...
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posted on
10/17/2006 10:44:25 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: Henry Wilson
wait... I thought it was always "about the economy, stupid"
guess when it comes to a robust GOP created economy, that doesn't apply..
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posted on
10/17/2006 10:44:49 AM PDT
by
fhlh
(Polls are for Strippers.)
To: rightinthemiddle
"If you expect a 3% rise in income and you get 2.5%, you're disappointed," says Ken Goldstein, an economist at the Conference Board, a private research group in New York. So their answer is to blame the GOP or the president??? Yet these same dumbasses refuse to support tax cuts, the one thing govt. could do to boost their incomes.
Maybe if you idiots didn't support over-taxation and regulation of industry and enable the satanic Democrats from enacting then protecting these taxes and regulations there'd be more money for your pay raises. And maybe your job performance sucks and you don't deserve a bigger pay raise. Ever think of that? Idiots. My raise this year was a bit disappointing, but I blame that on the amount of taxation my employer has to pay in the State of California including a VERY costly audit by the IRS which found nothing askance that kept our company's profits down this year. I keep the books here and I see how much has to be paid out in payroll, federal, state, county and city taxes. It's no wonder pay raises are more meager than we'd like. But the morons blame it on Bush. I give up on this country. Stupidity has won.
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posted on
10/17/2006 10:45:17 AM PDT
by
MikeA
(Foley has resigned. Bin Laden has not. That's what's at stake in this election, not some pervert.)
To: Alberta's Child
It's pretty amazing what kind of living standards people who say they are "making just enough to get by" actually have.If you spend more than you make, you will feel that way. That's the case whether you make $20k a year, or $800k per year. Life is so much simpler when you live below your means.
To: presidio9
The figures on national consumer sentiment are fairly old, but the Chicago figures usually anticipate them fairly accurately.
I thought I had heard that sentiment was up recently, and sure enough I just found this:
U.S. Economy: Chicago-Area Manufacturing, Confidence Rise
By Shobhana Chandra and Bob Willis
Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Manufacturing in the Chicago area unexpectedly accelerated this month and Americans grew more confident as the effects of declining fuel prices rippled through the U.S. economy.
The National Association of Purchasing Management-Chicago said today that its regional index rose to a 14-month high of 62.1, from 57.1 in August. Consumer sentiment as measured by the University of Michigan's rose to a five-month high.
I'd say this is more likely to be accurate than some biased left-wing reporter's report of street corner interviews.
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posted on
10/17/2006 10:46:11 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: weegee
Those wouldn't be NEW jobs but they'd be jobs. Technically, they would be new jobs, because illegals usually don't pay taxes. The simpler solution is to get rid of welfare. That would put an end to the nonsense of "jobs Americans don't want to do."
"Mow that lawn or your kids don't eat," is a valuable motivator.
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posted on
10/17/2006 10:46:23 AM PDT
by
presidio9
(Make Mohammed's day: Shoot a nun in the back.)
To: presidio9
LOL, that man-beast just screams liberal, doesn't it?
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posted on
10/17/2006 10:46:59 AM PDT
by
MikeA
(Foley has resigned. Bin Laden has not. That's what's at stake in this election, not some pervert.)
To: presidio9
CBS Says:
"Good Economic News Doesn't Help GOP . . .
And BAD ratings for Couric don't hurt us!"
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posted on
10/17/2006 10:49:13 AM PDT
by
blues_guitarist
(Black, conservative, Christian . . . . . . and I play guitar!)
To: presidio9
In fact, the recent C
BS/Times poll found that 46 percent said they were making just enough to get by and another 17 percent said that they weren't making enough to pay their bills.
Where did the pollsters go to find these results? The ghettos? One problem with this poll is that many people try to live outside their income. People who max out all credit cards and have to pay the high interest rates are not smart money managers.
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posted on
10/17/2006 10:49:21 AM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(DBM - still trying to create a nonexistent legacy for BJ Clinton.)
To: presidio9; A. Pole
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posted on
10/17/2006 10:50:46 AM PDT
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: blues_guitarist
"Good Economic News Doesn't Help GOP . . .
And BAD ratings for Couric don't hurt us!"
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posted on
10/17/2006 10:51:37 AM PDT
by
presidio9
(Make Mohammed's day: Shoot a nun in the back.)
To: presidio9
"Nothing will help the GOP! NOTHING! WE WILL WIN! WE WILL WIN!! WE WILL WIN!!!"
Getting a bit tedious at this point and we've still three weeks to go. Sheesh.
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