US economic growth rate quickensThe US economy grew at an annualized rate of 2% in the July-to-September period, an acceleration on the previous quarter, official figures have shown.
The expansion came despite continuing high unemployment and weakness in the housing market.
The 2% figure is an improvement on the upwardly revised 1.7% increase between April and June, but less than the 3.7% growth recorded from January to March.
The Federal Reserve suggested last week it would do more to boost the economy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11652821It's time for the economy to turn around as Republicans take the credit. They will win a majority in the House and perhaps the Senate. They need to feed the war-machine with success. As probably predicted by Karl Rove, Democrats have improved everything, just not fast enough for the mid-term elections.
McCain threw the last election by singing "Bomb, bomb, bomb, Bomb Iran" and saying we'd be in Iraq for 100 years, back when the wars were considered to be the biggest problem in America. Now Big Business has created bigger problems for most Americans. Republicans let Democrats in office in time to fix things and then let them get blamed for not fixing their messes fast enough. It was predictable.
Democrats are losers: but at least we try to win for minorities and true American values. We might lose the House, Senate and every major battle that matters. Even so, our hearts and minds are in the right places, so we're winners in the broader sense because we care and are not idiotic puppets or completely sold out to Big Business.
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