U.S. factory decline suggests economy losing steam

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  1. Professor Peabody

    Professor Peabody Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Romney can't be worse than Obama, heck even Jimmy Carter was better than Barry.
     
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    WalterSobchak Well-Known Member

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    Romney IS Obama. Just white, and a hell of a lot less likeable.
     
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    The US economy has never been worse in anybody's lifetime, but
    the liberal media is disguising it.


    As soon as Obama gets the boot the liberal media will
    tell us the truth.
     
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    Well sure he could. Look at the last guy you all put into office.
     
  5. Albert Di Salvo

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    The cost of energy is cutting off any recovery. Living standards are declining.
     
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    Mac-7 Banned

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    Romney can't be worse but he can be a Trojan Horse that introduces many more liberal programs that he liberals themselves could not get passed.

    Conservatives need to vote Obama out of office and then become the loyal opposition to a liberal Romney Administration.
     
  7. Til the Last Drop

    Til the Last Drop Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Really? Don't get me wrong, I agree with your sentiment. This will be the 1st election where the 2 guys running are so (*)(*)(*)(*) similar it is a farce. But at what point do we just acknowledge we are (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)? 300 million Americans and are options are 2 people who agree completely to 99% of the path America should take? Which is die for the sake of the world. Do we really want to wait any longer in doing anything about this scam of a system? Debate and arguing, went to begging and pleading, and now we are down to hoping and dreaming? There is only one thing left. You know what it is.
     
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    Zosiasmom New Member Past Donor

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    You've got to be kidding me. Ask any real independent and they will tell you that the Left and Right are equally as bad. From the outside looking in...it looks the same.

    It's like wasting CPR on someone who's been dead for 100 years. It serves no purpose other than to give you bad breath. I tried for years and years. I thought it was the "other side's" fault, kept blaming them. Then one day I conducted an experiment and got rid of cable. Best decision I ever made. I stopped being angry and irritated. I stopped buying things I didn't need. I then realized that television and 24 hour news was making me a zombie drone.

    I started following Congress, not television. I would sit on top of my Senator and Representative's website. I would pester their staffers. I started reading these network's websites and independent news agencies. I would read foreign press. I would read my history. I started to study behavioral sciences.

    I woke up.

    Never again. You can believe there's a difference. I never will again.
     
  9. Mac-7

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    What can I tell you?

    I live in Texas and Romney is already the GOP nominee before I even had a chance to cast my ballot.

    But he's the ugly girl who is still available at closing time.
     
  10. Mac-7

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    If I haven't made myself clear let me try again.

    I don't like Romney but I like Obama even less.

    So I have have to go with the lesser of two evils and hope for the best.
     
  11. Professor Peabody

    Professor Peabody Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    And I'll need a 5th of Jack Daniels before he starts looking good to vote for.
     
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    Romney isn't the guy I would pick but he isn't just like Obama there are huge differences.
    Romney will open ANWR for drilling.
    Romney will open the gulf for drilling.
    Romney will open Shale for drilling.
    Romney will get rid of obamacare.
    Romney will put in incentives to business to build in America.
    Romney will do a repatriation holiday to get business's like Apple to bring their excess funds back here and spend here.
    Romney will close the border.
    Romney will make life in the US uncomfortable for illegals so they will self deport.
    Obama won't do any of these things.
     
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    you can always go home to Obama?

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    Here's Romney today in an empty factory blaming Obama ....



    Romney Visits Empty Factory to Mock Obama

    http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/04/19/romney-visits-empty-factory-to-mock-obama/

    LORAIN, Ohio — Mitt Romney, shadowing President Barack Obama on the campaign trail, went to the battleground state of Ohio to appear at a shuttered industrial warehouse to dramatize his complaints about the incumbent’s economic policies.


    “It underscores the failure of this president’s policies with regard to getting the economy moving,’’ Mr. Romney said standing in a cavernous, empty warehouse festooned with a banner that read `Obama Isn’t Working.’

    “If you want to know where his vision leads open your eyes.’’

    The setting, however, sent a mixed if not misleading message: ~The National Gypsum Co.’s warehouse closed not on Mr. Obama’s watch but during the presidency of George W. Bush, in June 2008, during the depths of the recession.



    The Romney campaign chose the warehouse because Mr. Obama held a campaign event there during the 2008 campaign.
    What’s more, the Romney event was scheduled just one day after Mr. Obama appeared at a community college less than 10 miles away, part of an intensified Romney effort to highlight the contrast between the two general election foes.

    At his college appearance, Mr. Obama seemed to take a veiled dig at Mr. Romney’s wealth when he said, “I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth.”
    White House spokesman Jay Carney said Thursday that Mr. Obama uses the phrase regularly, and it wasn’t aimed at Mr. Romney.

    Mr. Romney, in his warehouse speech, accused Mr. Romney of “punishing’’ people who succeed.

    “You will see him attack success day in and day out,’’ he said. “And one thing you know is if you attack success, you’re going to have less of it.’’



    Romney in all his cluelessness glory

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    Great to do list. Based upon my analysis of Romney's plans, that is all he has. Mediocre at best.
     
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    Not worse than Obama =/= good for America

    Romney may not run our country into the ground as fast as Obama but he will do it at least as fast as Bush.
     
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    Better a 5th of Jack for you than a bad hangover for the nation from too much Obama.

    And imagine the economic STD's that Der Schwarze Fuhrer is spreading around.
     
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    The US is producing more oil than it has since 1999. Yet prices have went up and up and up.

    Not unless he controls the House AND Senate.

    Yeah, we know about these Republican incentives... keep lowering taxes. How's that worked?

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    Working as intended for the corporatists?

    Sure he will.

    You mean like the Republicans did when they had full control of Congress and the White House?

    Guess somebody isn't paying attention to the news..
     
  19. Albert Di Salvo

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    The increase is entirely the result of drilling on private land. It has nothing to do with Obama. Drilling on public land has decreased. As long as China and India are going strong the price of crude oil will remain high. That's globalization for you.
     
  20. The Wyrd of Gawd

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    Did you know that Obama is responsible for closing down the DeSoto and Studebaker factories? I read that news on another blog.
     
  21. Professor Peabody

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    If the oil was coming from public land the Government may have some say in where it goes. Since Oil production on public land had dropped, I guess that's just too bad. Obama could fix it but won't. He needs to be booted with the remainder of the Democrat progress obstructionists in November. 63 of them in the House and 6 in the Senate went under the wheels of the Obama economic failure bus in 2010. More to come in 2012.
     
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    Did you know that Obama is bisexual? It happened when he was in prison for child molestation.
     
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    When Romney becomes a god on his own planet he's going to use his kids as slave labor in his factories to make himself the wealthiest god in the galaxy.

    What kind of stuff do you think US factories ought to make? They already make robotic planes and ships.
     
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    Cheeseburgers and annuities.
     
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    So the US isn't producing more oil than it has since 1999?

    The oil from private land isn't as good as oil from public land?

    I'm sorry, I don't understand the logic behind the "but it's oil from private land" meme that the conniving right-wing is attempting to play.

    EITHER THE US IS PRODUCING MORE OIL OR IT ISN'T PRODUCING MORE OIL.
     

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