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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAccording to conservatives from Dec. 2008, we're supposed to be in a dystopian hellhole by now.
Our economy's supposed to be in shambles and we're either supposed to be living in a re-constituted Soviet Union, an Islamic theocracy, or Mad Max's Thunderdome.
No, really, how cool would this type of life be?
I mean, you've got Tina Turner and mohawks and an assorted variety of furs and feathers and studded leather.
Instead, we have to read headlines like this from this morning:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/business/economy/jobs-report-unemployment-february.html?_r=0
Disgusting, I tell you.
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According to conservatives from Dec. 2008, we're supposed to be in a dystopian hellhole by now. (Original Post)
Tommy_Carcetti
Mar 2015
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FUD and Republicans sound awefully alike... they don't even have wage growth as excuse any longer
uponit7771
Mar 2015
#1
Reminds me of the "Don't blame me, I voted for Bush (Senior)" bumper stickers in the mid 1990s.
Tommy_Carcetti
Mar 2015
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uponit7771
(90,335 posts)1. FUD and Republicans sound awefully alike... they don't even have wage growth as excuse any longer
GusBob
(7,286 posts)2. Every workday I see this bumper sticker in the parking lot at work
'Obama will DESTROY America'
I keep thinking, well geez, he sure is taking his own sweet time about it huh?
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,181 posts)3. Reminds me of the "Don't blame me, I voted for Bush (Senior)" bumper stickers in the mid 1990s.
At a time when the economy had already taken off.
I did what they said. I didn't "blame" them for the expanding economy.