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Hawke[_3_]

On 12/29/2011 5:29 PM, wrote:
On Dec 29, 8:09 pm, wrote:

Then you're blind as a bat. Because every economic indicator is far
better now than it was at the end of the Bush regime. Don't you ever
look at any statistics before you post?

Hawke

Far better? I think not. What was the unemployment rate in Jan
2009? Hint 7.6 %
What is the unemployment rate now? Hint the latest statistic is Now
and the rate is 8.6 %

Don't you ever look at any statistics before you post?

Dan

I just heard on TV about twenty minutes ago where they were running down
the economic statistics for the year. Today was the last trading day of
2011. It said 21 straight months of private sector job growth (don't ask
for citations), 1.5 million jobs added this year, corporate profits at
record levels, unemployment down for the year, and the whole list showed
the economic statistics for the year were pretty darn good. By the way,
almost all the other countries around the world did much worse than we did.

So go ahead and pull out the "trailing indicator" of unemployment to try
to prove your point that things didn't get better this year. Everything
else you can point to says the opposite. Apparently you only look at the
statistics that prove your point. Try looking at them all like I do.
You'll see a much different picture. The facts say the country improved
a lot in 2011.

Hawke