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NikolaiFarkoff [TotalFark]
2007-07-31 11:32:24 AM  
Enzyte WORKS!
 
eqtworld
2007-07-31 11:36:29 AM  
So, you're saying it is about where it was when Clinton left office?
 
RodneyToady [TotalFark]
2007-07-31 11:38:50 AM  
Six years ago was 2001. So, it's still not as high as during the Clinton administration?

Yeah, subby, something to be really proud of.
 
lunchinlewis
2007-07-31 11:38:56 AM  
eqtworld: So, you're saying it is about where it was when Clinton left office?

Maybe it's getting back to pre 9/11 levels.
 
John Paul Jones
2007-07-31 11:41:40 AM  
lunchinlewis: Maybe it's getting back to pre 9/11 levels.

According to the numbers (new window), the fall started immediately after the 2000 election, well before 9/11.
 
TripTheLightFantastic
2007-07-31 11:44:35 AM  
Ooh, I blame Bush for people hoping that things will get better in a little while!
 
Pelagius
2007-07-31 11:46:33 AM  
it is about where it was when Clinton left office?

When he left office it was around 130-140. Now it'shiatting 112 and people are creaming their jeans
 
thamike
2007-07-31 11:49:59 AM  
What's the point of digging? I think I'll just blame Bush for all the treacherous sh*t he does.
 
Mordant
2007-07-31 11:56:46 AM  
I for one am more than happy to praise the f*cking moron if he can actually get things back to where they were before he starting making decisions. That would be one heck of a job.
 
lunchinlewis
2007-07-31 11:59:08 AM  
John Paul Jones: According to the numbers (new window), the fall started immediately after the 2000 election, well before 9/11.

Well it was just a guess. But if I'm interpolating the charts right, it is pretty close to the late summer 2001 levels.
 
Dancin_In_Anson
2007-07-31 12:02:32 PM  
I'll blame talk radio.
 
bradkanus
2007-07-31 12:14:07 PM  
screw good news! I'm freaking tired of feeling completely at ease with our economy!!! god damn can I get some kind of shiat going down?

You'd think a guy could get some bad news these days. I heard today that things in Iraq are getting better!?!?!?

Somebody go swipe a white girl so we can all live in horror for a week!!! And she better not end up alive and working at White Castle!!!

/sarcasm
//buy wal-mart!!!
 
Marcus Aurelius [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2007-07-31 1:01:06 PM  
I would normally give the President some credit for running the government, but running it into the ground doesn't count.
 
Dubya Saved My Life
2007-07-31 1:05:49 PM  
*golf clap*

This is Fark:
anything goes wrong = Bush's fault
anything goes right = not because of Bush
 
keiran
2007-07-31 1:06:41 PM  
hey, that must be why that market did so well last week!
 
bronyaur1
2007-07-31 1:06:46 PM  
Consumer confidence surveys are largely crap, and seem to have little predictive power as to consumer spending. This is also true when consumers say they are NOT confident - they keep spending, anyway.
 
Geefme
2007-07-31 1:06:48 PM  
Bush is a f#cking tool. I can't believe you voted for him. Especially the second time, you are branded an idiot for life. Community service for stupidity please. It probably is Bush's fault.
 
gavsarris
2007-07-31 1:07:10 PM  
But, Reagan?!
 
Jounville
2007-07-31 1:07:37 PM  
My confidence in consumers is at a personal 6 year high. I had more faith in them back in the Clinton Administration with that whole intarweb bubble thing. You know the one with all the tubes. They'd buy anything back then.

/more faith in consumers than the government
 
a dingo ate me baby
2007-07-31 1:07:51 PM  
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Captain Krunk
2007-07-31 1:08:22 PM  
It is because of the super walmarts + gubment checks = profit , does anyone know if they offer western union yet or just green dot son ?
 
MEGAMERICAN
2007-07-31 1:09:23 PM  
Dubya Saved My Life: *golf clap*

This is Fark:
anything goes wrong = Bush's fault
anything goes right = not because of Bush

That's some bad trolling there, Lou.
 
DrFGeek
2007-07-31 1:09:29 PM  
Americans shrugged off falling home prices to focus on a healthy jobs market, instead.

Uh huh...

/Still unemployed.
//2 interviews/rejection letter later.
///Broke that "1 for every 24" rule about a month ago.
 
Dubya's_Coke_Dealer
2007-07-31 1:09:37 PM  
"This is Fark:
anything goes wrong = Bush's fault
anything goes right = not because of Bush'

Awww, another poor sad 26 percenter, sooooo much smarter than everyone else. Waaaah! 74% of Farkers hate Bush, just like America! Waah! Fark is TEH LIBRUL! WAAAH! MOMMY! Make them stop hating Bush! Why won't they all DO WHAT I SAY???? Waaah!
 
wowzer97pooh
2007-07-31 1:10:45 PM  
Reagan gave amnesty to 3 of the 9/11 terrorists.

Bush will give the next wave amnesty, since Congress won't pass his immigration bill.
 
bronyaur1
2007-07-31 1:11:13 PM  
bronyaur1: Consumer confidence surveys are largely crap, and seem to have little predictive power as to consumer spending. This is also true when consumers say they are NOT confident - they keep spending, anyway.

Citation for further reading about this topic: The Predictive Power of the Index of Consumer Sentiment]. Comment and Discussion, Michael C. Lovell, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Vol. 2001, No. 1. (2001), pp. 208-216.
 
Obviously
2007-07-31 1:11:16 PM  
I think Clinton was in office when Al Gore invented the Intartubes, too.
 
Mekongcola
2007-07-31 1:11:16 PM  
Consumer confidence is up, yet consumer spending is down. Which do you think is more important?
 
lostcat
2007-07-31 1:11:28 PM  
thamike: What's the point of digging? I think I'll just blame Bush for all the treacherous sh*t he does.

Seriously...There's no need to blame him for anything more than being an embarassment to the everything this nation holds in esteem.
 
dogdaze
2007-07-31 1:12:51 PM  
Dubya Saved My Life: *golf clap*

This is Fark:
anything goes wrong = Bush's fault
anything goes right = not because of Bush

You forgot: Shooting the Messenger is the official sport of FARK
 
a dingo ate me baby
2007-07-31 1:12:52 PM  
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/anybody want to see what this bastard did to the pirate population?
 
LavenderWolf
2007-07-31 1:12:58 PM  
Dubya Saved My Life

The man farked up so hardcore it's hard NOT to blame him for everything.

How about you blame him and his cronies for almost 4000 dead Americans? That should be enough to have him charged with treason, putting corporate profits ahead of lives.
 
Captain Krunk
2007-07-31 1:13:02 PM  
John curry can't fight turrer . I'm scured !
 
renae1221
2007-07-31 1:13:13 PM  
I blame Bush.

/obligatory
//slashie goodness
 
lostcat
2007-07-31 1:13:16 PM  
Obviously: I think Clinton was in office when Al Gore invented the Intartubes, too.

Actually, Gore voted to fund the research that would eventually lead to the creation of today's Internet long before Clinton was in office.
 
The_Beav
2007-07-31 1:13:26 PM  
Consumer Confidence? Hey, a graph of my income over the same period looks the same! That couldn't have anything to do with consumer confidence, could it?
 
Sunny Ray
2007-07-31 1:13:40 PM  
Good news in the economy and the war in Iraq is bad news for the Dems.

*points and laughs at Libtards*


/slashie for defeatism investment
 
helix400
2007-07-31 1:13:51 PM  
No submitter, you've got it wrong. Farkers respond quickly to good economic news. The better the news, the swifter the reaction is in these threads why the econonmy is actually bad and getting worse.

Besides, good economic news may spur optimism, and as we all know, optimism is a dangerous thing. It leads to people ignoring all the economic problems that this "good" news glosses over.
 
adm_crunch
2007-07-31 1:14:22 PM  
a dingo ate me baby's graph proves it.

The blame for everything can be laid squarely on the Challenger Explosion.
 
Doctor Hooey
2007-07-31 1:14:23 PM  
Dubya Saved My Life: *golf clap*

This is Fark:
anything goes wrong = Bush's fault
anything goes right = not because of Bush

You care to elaborate on something that Bush is repsonsible for that has gone right, without obfuscating the facts or spinning them so hard your point flies into the next galaxy?
 
cubsfan07
2007-07-31 1:14:40 PM  
Consumer confidence hits six-year high. Quick, someone blame Bush

Sure, but how's confidence in him? Still an all-time low? Yeah, thought so.


/he's a farking moron. Anyone with a working brain can plainly see that.
//I've had broccoli farts with a higher intelligence quotient.
 
Obviously
2007-07-31 1:15:17 PM  
lostcat: Obviously: I think Clinton was in office when Al Gore invented the Intartubes, too.

Actually, Gore voted to fund the research that would eventually lead to the creation of today's Internet long before Clinton was in office.

Yeah, but it was in a lock box until the Bill Clinton years.
 
wowzer97pooh
2007-07-31 1:16:16 PM  
a dingo :

nice chart. don't forget that blip in Reagan II was funded by massive defense spending. Deficits used to created jobs until Bush/Cheney figured out how to screw it up.
 
lostcat
2007-07-31 1:17:05 PM  
Sunny Ray: Good news in the economy and the war in Iraq is bad news for the Dems.

I really don't think that any good news in Iraq at this point is going to offset the complete failure of all the current administration's plans up to now.

Day late, dollar short.
 
Captain Krunk
2007-07-31 1:17:12 PM  
You care to elaborate on something that Bush is repsonsible for that has gone right, without obfuscating the facts or spinning them so hard your point flies into the next galaxy?


my lawn has never looked so good before .
 
dbaggins
2007-07-31 1:19:44 PM  
Why not be looking up ? We are reaching the end of the Republican Monarchy. That fills me with confidence.
 
Dean Frame
2007-07-31 1:21:48 PM  
Confidence levels coming back to where they were 6 years ago is something to crow about?

This only proves the Bush regime's scare tactics aren't working any longer.
 
AXESMI
2007-07-31 1:22:36 PM  
lostcat Quote 2007-07-31 01:13:16 PM
Obviously: I think Clinton was in office when Al Gore invented the Intartubes, too.

Actually, Gore voted to fund the research that would eventually lead to the creation of today's Internet long before Clinton was in office.


Along with hundreds of others in Congress, but Gore gets ALL of the credit for inventing it. WTF BS is that?

My consumer confidence is much higher under Bush than Clinton.
I couldn't afford a house, health care, retirement fund. Was unemployed twice, laid off twice.
I have all that under Bush. Seven years with a company that has had record growth every year (breeding industry, no pun) that gives me a 15% profit sharing. So suck it libs.
 
wowzer97pooh
2007-07-31 1:22:52 PM  
dbaggins:

Don't forget. A lot of Bush's worst guys came from the Nixon white house. The young guns that are working for Bush right now will be back in power in 20 years or so. Frightening ain't it? Imagine what kind of people would actually want to work for Gonzales or Rumsfeld or Cheney? Now imagine them in power. Yeccchhh.
 
angryjd
2007-07-31 1:23:43 PM  
NikolaiFarkoff: Enzyte WORKS!

Ok, ill admit I haven't laughed that hard in quite a while. I was going to respond with "consumers are idiots", but I think you bested me. You, sir, win the thread.
 
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