how can we vote them out when things are so good ?

Question

stocks are up , unemployment is lower than ever , home ownership has tripled , interest rates are low . the economy is really moving forward , why dont the whining crybabies shut up ?

Answer 1

There is no reason for not voting for the administration if the economy is good, there is low unemployment rate and as the whole the country is improving. Thus, to have status quo, vote for them again.

Answer 2

The caps are melting. We're in a quagmire in Iraq, Islamic extremism is on the rise, and Afghanistan is looking bad. Our government is corrupt and incompetent. Our freedoms are being eroded. Our debt is skyrocketing.

Home ownership has not tripled - that's false. In fact, foreclosures are up. Unemployment is not at its lowest ever - Mar 2007 it's at 4.4% - it was at 4.0% as an avg in the year 2000. Average earning power is down, and the tax burden on the middle class is rising steadily and credit card debt is exploding.

The neo-cons have failed at all they've attempted, foreign and domestic. The only thing they were ever good at was getting people to believe lies, and now that is starting to fall apart. Do you think people elected Dems in 2006 because they felt liberal all of the sudden? The neo-cons had their chance - they had sole ownership of this government for 6 years and botched it on every level. Good luck with the lies, though - some people are sure to fall for it (for a while).

Voting in a new crop of people may not fix everything, but at least it puts them on notice that their jobs are at least somewhat conditional on performance.

Answer 3

More of us are slaves than ever before to an ever hungry government thats hell bent on destroying its own economy.

Interest rates and corporations are under the control of the Federal Reserve and its member banks who it answers to.

The Economy stinks because the dollar is sliding into the toilet. The Dow has lost over 50% of its value since 2001, despite its recent gains. Put another way, if you bought all the stocks in the Dow Jones Industrials back in 2001, the purchasing power of your investment today would be less than half what it was back then. In fact, for the Dow to regain the purchasing power it had six years ago, it would have to double to more than 24,000!

And the only candidate for president that has mentioned a freeking word of this is Ron Paul, who is barley in the race now.. People.. wake up and use some common sense, this is a HUGE issue.. forget about abortion and healthcare for this one and fix our money!

Answer 4

If you haven't seen the news in the last year, here is a brief update, stocks are up and down unpredictably, why housing market burst homes are not selling and foreclosures are skyrocketing with a 2007 estimate of 2 million foreclosures. The enconomy for the last quarter slowed down fearing recession, now I've given a bit, now go find out the rest.

Answer 5

If all you want to do is toe the line, keep your nose to the grindstone and your head in the sand then I say "stay the course" If you'd like your constitutional rights back, if you'd like a sustainable economy that at least pretends to try and protect he environment, workers health and safety and has a desire to provide a quality education for all of it's citizens then warm up the tar and I'll go get a couple truck loads of feathers.

Answer 6

Where do we start? How do we organize? In these times of excessive greed how do we bring about the needed changes? Is there anyone out there taking the lead? Are we going to sit on our butts and wait till the impoverished rise out of hunger and start a civil war? I search and search for answers but can find no one to follow. Lee Iacocca writes a good book but won't run for president. My job shows me on a daily basis the sad, selfish, greed filled land my America has turned into. Where have all the leaders gone?

Answer 7

Unemployment is high-the only new jobs being created for regular working class people (in retail and lower paying jobs) are temporary with no health insurance or benefits.

People are being laid off because companies no longer want to pay Americans , when they can get jobs done overseas for less money.

I saw an article the other day about Circuit City letting go of the people who were there the longest, because it supposedly could not afford to pay them higher wages. They could be hired back on, if they were willing to take a huge pay cut and there is a cap on how high their pay will go, regardless of work performance or seniority.

Walmart is doing the same thing, but is not advertising it-and they do not rehire those people. My sister worked there until recently, and she said they put a cap on all positions pay, and anyone that was over the new cap, is going to be fired (they are finding ways to get rid of them-all sorts of little stuff to write them up over) Obviously Walmart can afford to pay their people, since they make more than any other grocery store in this country, they just don't want to. They also will no longer pay people for their prior experience-you get minimum wage, which in Kansas is only $5.15 (last I checked) or whatever the minimum wage is nationally.

Another company, Kroger (goes by Dillons, here) is also doing the same thing-paying everyone the same starting pay regardless of experience and capping pay.

These are the places I know of, personally, because I've always worked in retail since I was 17.(I'm 27 now)

I personally experienced a layoff in 2002. I worked for Albertson's and was a Department Manager. I made $11.25 per hour, and had health insurance. I was there for one month shy of five years. Many other people were there for ten or twelve or longer, and they laid us all off and closed the stores here with only one weeks notice. They did this in several states all around the country.

The stores here in my city, and many of the others they closed turned a pretty good profit. The store I was at made $150,000 a day and double that on weekends. We heard a rumor that one of the ceos got a huge bonus for closing these stores.

The saddest thing to me, because I and many of the other employees were very loyal to Albertson's up and to that point, was that they turned around and told that unemployment office that we were all offered jobs with another company(not true-we had to apply and interview with the company that bought the stores, just like anywhere else) apparently to try to get out of paying unemployment.

Ultimately I think their stockholders wanted more profit.

Many companies no longer care about their workers-the people who made them rich, they only care about making more money.

Obama addresses this issue in his book "The Audacity of Hope" and I really think he is the only politician that is not going to only listen to the rich business men of our country.

He is not accepting lobbyist money (He refused $50,000 a couple weeks ago when he found out it was from a lobbyist group)

Please look beyond the media and do research for yourself on everything, because the media loves to spin things one way or the other to divide us, and sell more papers or get higher ratings, they also love to make people out to be good or bad (more often bad) because a lot of Americans love reading about scandals.

Answer 8

One reason foreclosures are up is because Americans buy things they cannot afford. That's not Bush's fault.

If you took out the Iraq War, history would probably be kind to Bush. However...

http://votein2008.blogspot.com/

Answer 9

You obviously don't know squat about economics. The dollar is at a record low, we are in hock up to our eyebrows to the Chinese, our jobs are coninuously being exported, the housing market is collapsing. 5 million more people are living in poverty than in 2000. Yea Bush.

Answer 10

Why don't you ask that question after a family member has been deployed to Iraq for two years to preotect oil...idiot.