Tell the swings voters in your neck of the woods what? That the word “recession” has an actual meaning — and that no matter what the bobble heads on their televisions tell them, we haven’t been in one since the last two quarters of the Clinton administration? What should I do, make a sandwich board and stand on street corners in the Midwest until these people figure out they’re being lied to?
Your friends deciding elections in the Midwest already helped inflict a socialist Congress on their country, added a full point to the national unemployment rate in the process and seem dead-set on putting a Marxist radical in the White House. They don’t like the gas prices? Too bad. Maybe they should have paid some attention to energy issues before gas hit $4.00 a gallon and voted accordingly when they had the chance to do something about it.
There’s nothing I can say to convince these people of anything. They wanta nanny-state to babysit them through life and guarantee their happiness. They’ve completely lost sight of what a Constitutional Republic is supposed to be and don’t have the first clue how to keep it, because they refuse to take responsibility for anything in their own lives. What’s happening in this country is their fault, more than anyone else’s. Honestly, I don’t give a damn what they think about anything. They’re beneath contempt and beyond hope.
Now right here in my own state of Michigan, we still send 9 Republicans of the 15 spots to Congress. That number could vary from 5 to 10 depending on how the voting goes. Ohio has about 4-5 competitive districts. Indiana has four competitive district. Wisconsin at least two or three competitive districts. Same for Minnesota. Illinois has three competitive districts.
Do you want them to vote our way or not? If so, the GOP needs a good plan to stop the governmental f' up of this economy with ANWR blocking, high gas taxes and other taxes, red tape, and bad trade agreements so our industries can get back to work.
Maybe you don't give a damn. You probably don't give a damn if we continue to have Speaker Pelosi. Senate Majority Leader Reid, and President Osama either.
Well, guess what..the people in my neck of the woods (I'm a Michigander) are right, and you are wrong on this one. Michigan has been in a single-state recession for almost five years. That's not just my opinion, either. An article in the Michigan Business Review in February 2008 reported the following:
"Michigan recorded its fourth consecutive year of recession in 2007, a bank economist concluded after reviewing labor market data. Jobs dropped 1.8 percent and the unemployment rate rose 0.4 percent in 2007, reported Dana Johnson, Chief Economist at Comerica Bank. Comerica's Michigan Business Activity Index fell 1 point in December, Johnson reported Thursday, matching the 2007 low set last January. The index averaged 10.6 last year, down 0.7 percent from 2006. "Reflecting the dismal economic backdrop, the exodus from Michigan continued to accelerate," Johnson wrote in his January state economic report. "Last year, more than 90,000 people on net moved to other states from Michigan, more than triple the number compared to just four years earlier." As a result, he said, Michigan's population dropped 0.3 percent, or by 30,000 people last year, on top of a 0.1 percent decline in 2006."
Our current unemployment rate is 8.5%. We're not imagining the problems here. They are real.