You people are pathetic.

Because william inhabits an alternate universe where the simplest axioms like “up” and “down” are all turned on their heads. Only one from that specific universe would hold the requisite experience to school him properly.

Also Farris: How would Mr. Obama go about fudging the GDP?

Our money buoyed by unprecedented levels of debt, a vigorous bulwork against inflation. Our quality of life based on conservation and an ever increasing price of energy looking better and better. With all these good things happening won’t someone please discredit the gloom and doom that william is spreading. Oh wait, he’s telling the truth and the rest of you are bullshitting yourselves about Obama’s economy. I guess that must make it much more difficult.

To what markets and how? Bernanke and Geithner just threw billions at Wall St. to backstop their bad debts. The banksters just pocketed the money. There is no confidence in the markets anymore.

“deficits don’t matter.”

Cheney was wrong and there is no better way to get people’s attention to a crisis than having 1/2 of their wealth disappear in a few short months.

“Obama’s stimulus package created jobs.”

You’re really going to crow about 25,000 jobs created in the last year when the number of unemployed persons has increased by 7.6 million to 15.1 million, and the unemployment rate has doubled to 9.8 percent?

Do you remember the sheer, panic-filled looks we got from Bush as the economy plummeted? I sure do. It was the definition of “deer caught in the headlights.”

And your main bro Dick Cheney once lectured us about how “deficits don’t matter.” Was he wrong then as we wasted billions a week in Iraq after blowing the Clinton surplus? Really? Well my, where were all those super-serious teabag protests then?

And even the WSJ admitted that Obama’s stimulus package created jobs. Government spending to do such during a time of high unemployment is a good investment, because people with jobs help pay down the debt. People w/o jobs? Not so much.

Name one thing that the president has done to improve the economic situation in this country that hasn’t added to the national debt.

Let’s face it: Obama’s no dummie, and he knows how to pick decent people that know their shit when it comes to the economy. Did the GOP really think that within 3 years things would still be as bad as they were at the end of Bush II? Did they really have so little faith in the resilience of the American markets? Did they honestly hope, along with Chairman Limbaugh, that Obama’s plans to stimulate the economy would fail?

The GOP will probably realize some mild gains in 2010, but they’ll get annihilated when it counts in 2012. And as much as I think Obama has done a good job on the economy so far, even a president that did nothing would probably be looking good come 2011 (relative to the dark days of the Bush Recession, at least).

If you mean to say that the current rise in our own GDP is attributable to inflation, you could make your point more convincing by citing CPI data. It’s readily available, sir or madam, so get to it! Chop, chop!

False.

The conservative/GOP’s screams have been centered on the fact that Jobs weren’t created the second President Obama put the ink on the bill.

Now that we are seeing signs of progress (job loss rates slowing down, Wall Street’s indices slowly recovering, and now the GDP showing positive numbers) the conservatives want to look at the glass half empty all of the time.

This is slowly biting them in the a$$, one day at a time.

I don’t think anyone (left or right) likes the notion

If that were true, it wouldn’t be happening.

And even then, Conservatives WERE complaining about earmarks, Medicare D, et al. You just weren’t paying attention.”

Did you (Conservatives) protest in the streets? Did you go to town halls and yell and scream about it then? I am just curious how YOU were complaining about it back then? Just shaking your head “no…no…” or were you doing that same things YOU are doing now?

Is there a dollar figure I should be watching for that ignites when YOU feel the need to protest in the streets? Don’t get me wrong, I am not defending an increase in our national debt. I don’t think anyone (left or right) likes the notion and I truly believe that the long term goal of this spending is to get us back to where we need to be. Will it work, I don’t know. I am not an economist, none of us here are (if one of you is…my apologies). I want the economy to be fixed. You say your guys think they know how, my guys say they think they know how…one of the sides has to try something, right?

May I suggest you read the blog more frequently. This post is an “in-joke” which you apparantly didn’t get.

You can understand that, can’t you?

But if you want to keep believing your fantasy, by all means, go ahead.

Shame about the rest of us, we aren’t seeing any of that money. Are wages are still going down. Our jobs are still disapearing. So glad Goldman Sachs has gotten back to it’s old ways, though. I’m sure that’s going to help the economy.

OW is a fucking moron sometimes, and a clueless one at that. Cheering the economy right now just makes you look like a douchebag.