04-02-2004, 09:43 PM
It might now seem like an important issue but if you listen to every sound bite from Kerry...its about the poor job market. Today, he was a bit choked up
in an interview about the job report and i KNOW it's killing him to see jobs increasing.
Notice the sharp climb of the upward trend around the DOT COM boom. Very interesting to see how technology soared during those years. Notice the steep downward slope
right after 9/11 also. With the transportation industry in shambles and the markets predicting slumps at that time...it's interesting to see the fallout.
Anon...if you were to extend the graph to the left for many more decades...you would see the upswing and downswing trends as they went though regular cycles. The
govenment isn't spending any more money now then they have in the past. It's just not taxing the people as much to cover the use. Now we have 2 choices: cut spending or
give the govenment back more of our working money. I know MY choice in this matter. I like keeping more of my money with each paycheck each week. I can buy more things and put
more money back into the economy. We could cut spending but that would have to be across the board. That includes subsidies for welfare, medicare, public housing..etc. They won't
have any of that. They do spend an extravagant amount of money on space exploration. I personally don't care if they find water on Mars or get us better pictures of the rings of Saturn.
I don't believe in extraterrestial life so they can stop sending out billion dollar calling cards. I wouldn't mind them giving the money from a sattelite program to rehab programs or homeless
shelters...people who truly need the money.
in an interview about the job report and i KNOW it's killing him to see jobs increasing.
Notice the sharp climb of the upward trend around the DOT COM boom. Very interesting to see how technology soared during those years. Notice the steep downward slope
right after 9/11 also. With the transportation industry in shambles and the markets predicting slumps at that time...it's interesting to see the fallout.
Anon...if you were to extend the graph to the left for many more decades...you would see the upswing and downswing trends as they went though regular cycles. The
govenment isn't spending any more money now then they have in the past. It's just not taxing the people as much to cover the use. Now we have 2 choices: cut spending or
give the govenment back more of our working money. I know MY choice in this matter. I like keeping more of my money with each paycheck each week. I can buy more things and put
more money back into the economy. We could cut spending but that would have to be across the board. That includes subsidies for welfare, medicare, public housing..etc. They won't
have any of that. They do spend an extravagant amount of money on space exploration. I personally don't care if they find water on Mars or get us better pictures of the rings of Saturn.
I don't believe in extraterrestial life so they can stop sending out billion dollar calling cards. I wouldn't mind them giving the money from a sattelite program to rehab programs or homeless
shelters...people who truly need the money.