Saw a woman at the bar tonight that I used to drive cab with.

[CC27]

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

 

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

[franksolich]

Yeah, the GNP growth is mostly businesses replenishing inventories that got significantly depleted, and not built up as fast as they used to.

Yawn.

It's a one-time phenomenon.

By the way, why is the shadowy primitive out drinking when he's poor, and on mood-altering pharmaceuticals so as to scam social security?

[The Village Idiot]

The government grew 7%. The rest of the economy is flatlined at best

[Celtic Rose]

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.

[Spirit of Ronald Reagan]

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.

[The Village Idiot]

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.

government spending is a negative, not a positive. Paul Krugman is  an imbecile.

[Chris]

Is there a website they go to to find these scripts they're all reading from?  Sounds like a good way to make some money.

[delilahmused]

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

[The Village Idiot]

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

it will be revised downward to less than 4% but still, government accounted for about 6% so...

[CC27]

Businesses raised inventories=meaningless growth.

[jukin]

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

exactly!  The last estimate with GREAT BIG HEADLINES was then revised down with small sized headlines, and then re-revised down with no headlines at all.  In 09Q3 the Obama administration overestimated the growth by 60+%. I expect that the re-revised growth will be about 2.9%.

[Toastedturningtidelegs]

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

This post reminds me of a twisted Harry Chapin song!

[The Village Idiot]

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.

It doesn't get the economy going, it seems to because of the infusion of dollars, which has to be repaid at some point in the future. Government spending kills more jobs than it artificially creates. Like Cash 4 Clunkers, it sold a lot of cars that would have been bought anyway in later months. What happened when the program was over? A BIG drop.

Sure the stimulus will give us a faux "recovery" this year for a bigger fall next year than we would have had otherwise.

[GOBUCKS]

I don't care much about the bogus GDP numbers. I just think it's funny when a DUmmy tries to pick up a chick and she claims to be lesbo. And then he admits it.

[Oceander]

government spending is a negative, not a positive. Paul Krugman is  an imbecile.

Truer words were ne'er spoke, particularly that second sentence there!

The Great Unraveling Author

[USA4ME]

shadowknows69

Saw a woman at the bar tonight that I used to drive cab with.

"... that I used to drive cab with"??

Maybe he meant he "used to drive a cab with."

But even then, how does one drive a cab with someone else?

The shadowknows primitives needs to stay in the dark where it's most comfortable.

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[The Village Idiot]

"... 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.

[USA4ME]

They both drove cabs for the same company?

Best guess I think.

Oh, I know what he meant.  I'm just poking fun of his obvious dainbramage.

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[MarshallLaw]

Actually, he's saying he used to drive a cab with the bar, if you read it the way I did.