shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Jan-29-10 03:32 AM
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Saw a woman at the bar tonight that I used to drive cab with.
Edited on Fri Jan-29-10 03:33 AM by shadowknows69
Never got to know her real well, but I pulled her aside tonight to affirm we knew each other. She bought me a drink and a shot to help fulfill her $20 minimum on her credit card. She showed me a pic of her wife, which she does wear a ring for. I congratulated her and asked if they had gone somewhere they could make it "legal". She sadly replied no, and I expressed how disgusted I was with our supposedly liberal state of NY. She agreed there were too many radical Republicans here to ever really get progressive ideals going. She then mentioned she was a moderate Republican. Don't think I've ever met another one in a Grateful Dead T-shirt before save for another friend of mine. Not sure why I'm sharing this. Just an encounter. A connection. An understanding between two people that we are indeed all the same when you strip away all the shit.
Peace, solidarity and love,
Scott
The government grew 7%. The rest of the economy is flatlined at best
Quite simply, I don't think government spending should be included in the GDP, or it should be calculated separately. With the way that our government is spending like a drunken sailor the numbers are completely distorted.
You would think they would eventually catch on that government spending is not significantly effecting consumer spending or manufacturing.
Isn't this growth amount estimated? Because the last time I think they grossly overestimated, which wasn't as breathlessly reported as the guess.
Cindie
Isn't this growth amount estimated? Because the last time I think they grossly overestimated, which wasn't as breathlessly reported as the guess.
Cindie
:bouncy:This post reminds me of a twisted Harry Chapin song!
DUmp is very boring today. All they can talk about is how the economy grew 7%. Which is total BS.
http://www.democraticunderground.com//discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=221x155577
Dumping money onto economic problems tends to get the economy going in the short run. Sad it had to be over a trillion dollars to get a lousy 7% increase, not exactly the highest ROI recorded. It will really get bad when the gov't quits "investing" tax dollars into the economy. Nothing like propping up businesses that are doomed to fail anyway, you'd think people would have learned that from the Great Depression.
government spending is a negative, not a positive. Paul Krugman is an imbecile.
shadowknows69
Saw a woman at the bar tonight that I used to drive cab with.
"... that I used to drive cab with"??
But even then, how does one drive a cab with someone else?
They both drove cabs for the same company?
Best guess I think.