Social Security and Welfare were flawed from the start. Not only cannot not keep up with inflation, it obviously will cost money to maintain it, so over time it will keep going into the hole further and further.
For this past year the unemployment rates hit
6.0%
Source:
http://www.bls.gov/cps/home.htm
Unemployment rate during the depression hit
25%
Source:
http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~jstiver/Eco...%20Crashes.pdf
No where near the same. Sure unemployment rates are high right now, but alot of that can be blamed to the outsourcing and sending jobs to places like Mexico (thanks to our awesome President Clinton
).
Contrary to what you think the whole world does not hate us. Sure a few countries such as France and Germany don't like us all that much at this point but the world as a whole hating us is overexagerated. Ignore the Arabs hating us as they have for decades. But things are getting better, the Iranians are starting to accept our aid more and more and working with the US government more and more.
I don't understand why people are constantly saying that there are no WMD's in Iraq. Have you been to Iraq in the past 8 months? Have you searched every inch of Iraq? Have you taken a look at the possible connections between Iraq and Syria? Or the possiblity of Saddam sending weapons to Syria? Have you excavated the entire country of Iraq in search of WMDs? .....
You see my point. This war is no where near over, although as Bush said
major combat operations are. The clean up has only begun.
It's just like 9/11, it took the terrorists 15 minutes or so to kill tons of people and to trash a huge building, but it took over a year to clean it all up....
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Originally Posted by Rockafella Skank
I'll try and keep it short.
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Our country was doing great in the year 2000 when Bush took over. Our economy was booming, stocks were up, the country was at peace with most nations of the world (not including terrorists), and everyone was really happy. You could just see how happy people were from just the look on their faces. Then comes along Election 2000 when Bush loses the popular vote, but wins the electoral vote. First of all, that's just such bull crap that that can happen, but anyway, moving on. Bush then comes into office with all these "great ideas" about how he is going to be making these huge tax cuts where people will be saving lots of money (read: a few hundred dollars if that much), but in return the country starts racking up a huge deficit. Basically, the Bush team starts spending too much money and can't afford to because they cut hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes. Great. Thanks Bush, now I will have to suffer the affects when I'm on social security later in life, because there won't be money to give out. Anyway, then we go to war, and we make asses of ourselves because there were no WMD and there really wasn't a threat. Now the whole world hates us, we are in major debt, and our country is at the lowest unemployment rate it has been in the longest time (I think since the depression in the 20s?). All I can say is... we have Bush to thank.
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