Posted on 04/29/2009 3:11:22 PM PDT by Flavius
It's official. The United States is mired in its worst economic downturn in half a century, the U.S. Commerce Department reported Wednesday.
Data released by the department show that the U.S. economy shrank by 6.1 percent during the first three months of the year a full percentage point worse than what analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had been predicting.
(Excerpt) Read more at bizjournals.com ...
But... but.... but I thought they said in 1992 that it was the WORST economy EVER! Like in the history of the world!!!
But, but, but, but the Dow is up 168
Seems like I heard that back in 199 too
199=1999
I remember 1959 as an idyllic time. Unfortunately, later that year JFK was elected president. But, 1959 was still Eisenhower and a great time. Maybe they are talking about the early 60’s with JFK and then LBJ. Not such a great time under LBJ. But then I was just a kid. Maybe it was a real dire time in 1959 and I just didn’t notice it.
50 years makes no sense. 50 years ago would be 1959, but the economy was not bad in 59.
I mean, we heard in 2004 and 2008 that we had the worst economy since the Great Depression, so that would be at least 64 or 68 years...
I mean, John F. Kerry (he served in Vietnam, you know) and Barack H. Obama (a highly regarded community organizer) wouldn't lie to us, would they?
Media in lockstep with the ONE. Create a crisis. Solve the crisis. Everyone fist bumps.
Ahhh, Ike. The last President to actually BALANCE the budget and pay down the national debt! No one since has ever actually had a surplus - the national debt has increased every year.
Merle Haggard;
Stop rolling down hill like a snowball headed for hell?
Stand up for the Flag and let’s all ring the Liberty bell.
Let’s make a Ford and a Chevy,
That’ll still last ten years, like they should.
‘Cos the best of the free life is still yet to come,
An’ the good times ain’t over for good?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auyVyFnOEvQ
LLS
haggard smoked a doobie with willie and then went down and voted for hussein.
LLS
Why, that dirty, low down... RAT! Used to like his music too.
I know... and he used to hate hippies too! ;-)
LLS
We don’t wear our hair long and shaggy,
like the hippies out in San Francisco do.
JimRob, glad to see you posting. I’m a veteran of FR and glad to see you posting still. God Bless You.
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