[Clintonfatigued]

“When will Americans rise up as those in Tunisia and Egypt did and before that in former Soviet-bloc nations and tear down their corrupt and dysfunctional government?”

I thought we had done that on election day last year.

[Morpheus2009]

Nah, it’s funny remembering how the one party who claims fiscal responsibility only cared about debt when they whined. The party who must not be named...

[blam]

Inflation Versus Hyperinflation, The Crucial Difference

[2ndDivisionVet]

Unemployment Rate - U6
http://portalseven.com/employment/unemployment_rate_u6.jsp

[Uncle Ike]

” None of any of this, of course, matters much to the rich and powerful Upper Class that is doing just fine and buying more luxury things. And the fat cats on Wall Street and in the financial sector are giving themselves huge bonuses and salaries. “

The author was doing just fine until he took off on the sudden Class Envy tangent....

[Sacajaweau]

I was listening to one report....no inflation...but it excludes food and fuel. Bas*****

[NWFLConservative]

Josef Göbbels on the "Big Lie":

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State"

Sound familiar to anyone???

[evad]

Real unemployment is 18%
Real inflation is 10%

[ProtectOurFreedom]

One of the hallmarks of communism was complete phony numbers in every category from employment, to defense, industrial production, agriculture, and inflation. The West distinguished itself with transparency and honest number. No more. We are looking like the old Soviet Union more and more with each passing day.

[Armaggedon]

Low unemployment, jobs galore, no inflation, no illegal aliens, no drugs, no deficit problem. Things could not be better. Thanks Obama. Glad you told me. We no longer need any more hope and change.

[Ciexyz]

People are not stupid, they are just beaten down. I have brought up the theme in my posts on this board many times about the unfair deal given Social Security recipients and federal retirees about being cheated out of their COLAs due to false manipulation of the data. Everyone who shops knows there is inflation. However we never hear one word about this from politicians of either party. This has to be intentional. They need our money to buy more votes.

[JerseyHighlander]

Very sloppy article deisgned to appeal to the echo chamber.

[DB]

What crap.

Everything would be so much better if we just taxed “the rich” more... Bla, bla, bla...

We could take everything “the rich” have and the government would still be running in the red.

Screw these people that are constantly trying to blame successful productive people for all the economic problems we have today. Most of our problems today are due to people who think they are entitled to others hard work instead of pulling their own weight.

[lmr]

Do you still believe that voting in different Republicans or Democrats will fix things?

Name a third party that has the apparatus to give either of the other two a run for it's money? I'm waiting...

You see, that isn't the solution, either. It's a false dichotomy. The solution isn't Democrat/Republican vs. Something else. Who knows what the solution is? It's probably hopeless because of how tribal we've all become. Laments for a third party are unrealistic. We're only further fragmenting and balkanizing ourselves each day.

Americans need to come together and do the right things if we are going to get out of this mess. If we can't do that, we're done for. It's that simple.