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Apr 4, 2008, 4:47 GMT
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more libnazi lies. The real good news is the surge is working.
And 97% of the 4000 american deaths in Iraq happened after 'mission accomplished' and 'end of major combat'announced by Bush in May 2003.
Just how far removed from rationality are you SP4 ? The men in white coats most be knocking on your door
Considering the poll was of only 1,364 people with a 3% margin of error and the current US population is 303 million people. I do not believe that is a large enough sampling to conclude that this is what 81% percent of Americans think.
I never posted on this article, before now.
Nonetheless, the counterfeiter above is correct.
Let's get rid of a guy as president who used drugs, never served, had minimal experience, and replace him with someone who used drugs, never served and has minimal experience.
Barak! Who says he has nothing in common with GW Bush?
Doug - your knowledge of information placed in front of you appears abysmal - what do you think 3% margin means? Answer - 78% to 84% - which takes care of all your whinges about the sample size.
So 'a very large proportion - between 78% and 84% thinks this way !
The good news is that SP4 is delusional. Paying the so-called
'Awakening' ex-terrorists $300-400/month, and other factors, has probably been more temporarily effective than the surge in containing violence in Iraq. The bad news is that the surge should have happened in Pakistan, where we should have gone after liberating Afghanistan from the Taliban and al-qaeda in 2002.
Even though SP4 believes that the polls are just 'libnazi lies', I find it more than curious that the highest percentage of respondents who thought that we were going in the right direction peaked in the months right after 9/11, when we had the mission to get osama bin laden and the terrorist al qaeda gang responsible for 9/11 in Afghanistan/Pakistan.
Is there a correlation between our not getting osama bin laden, and not destroying the al-qaeda in Pakistan, and the poll respondents lack of satisfaction with the direction of our country?
nineteen percent made the first post on this thread. He thinks the economy is just fine and everything is hunky-dory in Iraq. Bush has the bull by the horns and McCain will just pick up where Bush left off.
Two days ago this last Wednesday, I decided to go to my local Kroger to pick up a few groceries and buy gas (at $3.19 per gallon!). I noticed that the store was unusually heavily trafficked. So while browsing the aisles and waiting to check out, I decided to do my unscientific study. I checked to see if there had been a change in how people shopped, and ALAS, there had been.
People NOW took their times checking for bargains, and used stacks of coupons. I had never seen that before. If that doesn't give you a good picture of what the economy is doing to folks, nothing else will!
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CBS News?!...C'Mon , who'd put any faith in those manufacturers of news?
They project an 81%of the population label on their slanted little poll and you people print the results as if they were for real or even credable. What a bunch of MAROONS!This is the same kind of research that caught Rather and is psudo-journalism at best. My poll says 100% of Americans with an IQ higher than that of a carrot know CBS is full of 'coprolites'!
We don't need polls to tell us that the country is in trouble - just look around. Anyone who can't get it better get out of the cave they've inhabited for almost 8 years!!
Bugsy, you are probably one of those who thinks the country is headed in the right direction.
RE the inevitable:
'more libnazi lies. The real good news is the surge is working.'
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You should see how lousy YOUR polls are, right here. Grow a brain, putz.
How's the new career going as a crash test dummy?
We may not have constructed a viable Iraqi military, but it looks like al-Maliki has the White House press office down cold.
www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/world/middleeast/04iraq.html?_r=2&ref=world& oref=slogin&oref=slogin
BAGHDAD — More than 1,000 Iraqi soldiers and policemen either refused to fight or simply abandoned their posts during the inconclusive assault against Shiite militias in Basra last week, a senior Iraqi government official said Thursday. Iraqi military officials said the group included dozens of officers, including at least two senior field commanders in the battle.
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Considering the poll was of only 1,364 people with a 3% margin of error and the current US population is 303 million people. I do not believe that is a large enough sampling to conclude that this is what 81% percent of Americans think.
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Back to Statistics 101 for you, knucklehead. 81 percent is definitive, and since imbeciles like SP4 refuse to admit to reality, the number is likely higher than that.
www.publicagenda.org/polling/polling_error.cfm
The bigger the sample, the smaller the margin of error, but once you get past a certain point -- say, a sample size of 800 or 1,000 — the improvement is very small. The results of a survey of 300 people will likely be correct within 6 percentage points, while a survey of 1,000 will be correct within 3 percentage points, a lower margin of error. But that is where the dramatic differences end — when a sample is increased to 2,000 respondents, the margin of error drops only slightly, to 2 percentage points.
(The public some somewhat resigned to Iraq's remaining a disaster so long as the GOP is in office. The economy, however, hits everyone directly)
www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/business/04cnd-econ.html?hp
The economy shed 80,000 jobs in March, the third consecutive month of rising unemployment, presenting a stark sign that the country may already be in a recession.
Sharp downturns in the manufacturing and construction sectors led the decline, the biggest in five years. The Labor Department also said employers cut far more jobs in January and February than originally estimated.
The unemployment rate ticked up to 5.1 percent from 4.8 percent, its highest level since the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in September 2005. More Americans looked for work than in February, when many simply took themselves out of the job market. But employment opportunities remained sparse.
unemployment rose to over 5%. In the last year over 1 million workers became unemployed. Add in the wives and children, that is probably over 4 million people affected. What about the businesses affected by those people who can no longer buy food, cars, dish washers, etc? And what about those people who work at those businesses? How secure are their jobs? Anybody who says the economy is fine is a person who needs a reality check.
SP cannot say anything intelligent or on-topic. I quote: 'Let's get rid of a guy as president who used drugs, never served, had minimal experience, and replace him with someone who used drugs, never served and has minimal experience.'
Is SP turning on his hero, good ol' GW Boosh?
What is SP doing, when he is an admitted grower and user? Just a wee bit of hypocrisy here.
Bugs- what faith should one put on the statement- Everyone believed that Iraq had tons of WMD. ?? What faith should one put on the statement- Everyone believed that Iraq was responsible for the 9/11 attacks. ?? How about- Don't you know, everyone believes that osama bin laden is living in Iraq. ?? How was the world's public led to believe this?
Let me guess- the evil MSM, like Monsters&Critics.com is to blame.
We're popping a bubble based on lower interest rates under Greenspan leading to overvalued housing, and the banks and other institutions over-leveraged themsekves based on inflated mortgage values. Credit went to too many who should not have qualified.
Labor-intensive manufacturing continues to move overseas, while the country's economic success is based on design and engineering skills, and high-tech prodycts that require less direct labor and more automation.
The dollar's fall helps with exports, but is ultimately inflationary as the Fed prints more money, and oil is priced in dollars. Purchasing of foreign components used to build U.S.-built products increases our manufacturing costs, and the labor force then gets cut again.
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From George Soros' new book - I cannot go to the extremes that he does, but there are still the fundamental problems identified:
'The United States is facing both a recession and a flight from the dollar. The decline in housing prices, the weight of accumulated household debt, and the losses and uncertainties in the banking system threaten to push the economy into a self-reinforcing decline.
Measures to combat this threat increase the supply of dollars. At the same time, the flight from the dollar has set up inflationary pressures through higher energy, commodity, and food prices.
The European Central Bank, whose mission is to maintain price stability, is reluctant to lower interest rates. This has created a discord between U.S. and E.U. monetary policy and put upward pressure on the euro. The euro has appreciated more than the renminbi, creating trade tension between Europe and China.
The renminbi can be expected to catch up with the euro both to avoid prote ctionism in the United States and increasingly in Europe, and to contain imported price inflation in China. This will, in turn, increase prices at Wal-Mart and put additional pressure on the already beleaguered U.S. consumer.
Unfortunately this administration shows no understanding of the predicament in which it finds itself.'
I'd like to see SP4 call 7.8 million people unemployed a libnazi lie. Maybe that's why SP sits on this site. He's unemployed. As a drug addict, he also unemployable. Drop the bong SP, get a life, get a job. Stop leeching off your mom's social security cheque.
Why is it that the ones who think they are the most intelligent and have all the answers regarding the U.S./world situations are on this site and not in Washington?? Just wondering.
Keep wondering. The best way to educate yourself is to keep looking for the answer. Keep an open mind, grasshopper and don't believe a word SP4 says. Good luck to you on your journey to enlightenment.
Oh believe me, I'm enlightened alright. It was just a 'little tongue in cheek' remark! And it will fall on deaf ears anyway.
Just deaf ears? How about deaf and dumb. Dumb as in stupid, not dumb as in speechless.
??? Let's keep it simple, stupid. We already have one man in the White House who can confound the experts, so we certainly don't need any more beaurocrats, appointed or elected, mucking up the situation.
The situation in Warshington is so FUBARed that there is only one way it can go. I sincerely doubt that it can get worse.
...abused cocaine, never served, little experience...heck!...he's just like Clinton (pick one) and Bush!
'SP4: ...abused cocaine, never served, little experience...'
There SP goes again, bragging about his dysfunctionality. What a parasite, still living at home, freeloading off his momma.
This is what happens when someone stops taking their meds.
Bush at least has an excuse - he's an alcoholic.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=al6UfrIfajSg&refer=home
April 4 (Bloomberg) -- Employers in the U.S. cut the most workers in five years last month, signaling that the economic contraction is deepening and that the Federal Reserve will continue to lower interest rates.
Payrolls shrank by 80,000, more than forecast and the third monthly decline, the Labor Department said today in Washington. The jobless rate rose to 5.1 percent, the highest level since September 2005, from 4.8 percent.
``This is the final blow,'' said Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. in New York. ``It's clear the U.S. economy is in a recession. That's going to shake the confidence of investors and companies across the world and cause people to curtail spending in other countries.''
Traders raised bets the Fed will cut its benchmark rate half a point this month after central bankers already enacted the deepest reductions in borrowing costs in two decades last quarter. Officials signaled increasing concern about the economy and credit markets this week, with Chairman Ben S. Bernanke saying for the first time the U.S. may enter a recession.
we had record employment, record tax receipts, low inflation and historic household wealth for 5 years. It's over now, at least for a while.
So, what do the dems have in mind?
Me, I'm voting for Obama! He's an ex-drug user (admitted it) never served, has little experience....excuse me, wasn't that what some of you objected to about Bush?
One of Obama's advisors is pimping the public on a 16 month pull out from Iraq, with a residual force of 60,000 to 80,000 troops, indefinitely.
Didn't Bush try this going in???? Can some libnazi tell me if he, or she, thinks this is 'pulling out'?
Boy! Glad we're getting a change soon!
I cannot believe, for 1 second, that Sp4 has a working brain. One minute he's a Bush buddy and the next he's a Bush basher. What's this? 'Boy! Glad we're getting a change soon!' Even though I have little tolerance for his outlandish, childish views, I would have a modicum of respect for him if he was consistant. As things stand now, I have more respect for the fecal matter that I flush down the toilet.
SP4 just dotes on posts like yours - he loves controversy and getting everyone riled up. If he didn't have this site, he would probably be sitting on a park bench somewhere dribbling down his shirt. He needs this fix to keep his day going. Everyone just feeds into it. Believe me, I know him.
who in their right mind would take the time to post all this?
M&C also thought it was too long - off it went!
...you don't. These retorts, to posts I've never written, are hilarious!
What a weak minded bunch, those who post in my name. How much bigger of a bitch can you be, than to not have your own handle? Honestly, how insecure can people get, over an opinion from someone they've never met???
My favorite though, are the libnazis with a limit-switch in their ass that sets them off as some kind of Psychiatric expert, the moment they disagree with someone, tossing terms around they could never define, accusing people they've never met of narcotics abuse. (while excusing it for the public official of their choice!) This defines the libnazi church i.e. the Inquisition of the infidels.
I never said polls were libnazi lies, I only accused libnazis of lying. You can make a poll say anything you want, you cannot make people vote the way you wish for them to vote.
Again, I'm voting for Obama: he abused drugs, has no experience and never served. Heck, this is just like the last two Presidents we had!
Maybe I'll vote for Judah Ben-Hur....?
Ignore him - ruin his day.
They're doing such a stellar job of that!
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