we now have a 100% gain under obama leadership.

[Ricter]

Quote from peilthetraveler:

Freethinker...you know what else has gone up 100% under Obama leadership? Gas prices. Gas was as low as $1.25 per gallon in some parts of the country ($1.49 where I live in CA) when Obama took office. Today gas prices at the same station are $3.45 per gallon, a 130% increase.

Now if you were in the oil and gas sector you might be pleased. I know I am. But if I hated Obama the way you do, I guess I'd have to put some kind of negative spin on my profits. Not easy to do. So how would you spin it, if you had profitable work I mean?

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from Ricter:

Now if you were in the oil and gas sector you might be pleased. I know I am....

I'm sure you've been asked before but I don't recall the answer. With you being a big believer in man made global warming and CO2/fossil fuels = bad how do you reconcile profiting from the very industry supposedly responsible for so much of the warming?

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from Lucrum:

I'm sure you've been asked before but I don't recall the answer. With you being a big believer in man made global warming and CO2/fossil fuels = bad how do you reconcile profiting from the very industry supposedly responsible for so much of the warming?

So Ricter is it me or the question you're ignoring?

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from Lucrum:

So Ricter is it me or the question you're ignoring?

Maybe Ricter doesn't want to have to face an "inconvenient truth".

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from Lucrum:

So Ricter is it me or the question you're ignoring?

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[volente_00]

Quote from bone:

Two years into his Presidency, the economy under Ronald Reagan added well over 5 million jobs. (and that was thirty years ago, when interest rates were over three times what they are now, Arab Oil embargoes, and hyper-inflation).

Two years into his Presidency, the economy under Barack Obama added a bit over 500K jobs.

Both figures come from the same source: the US Bureau for Labor Statistics.

Go take another bong hit off that Daily Kos crack pipe.

Reagan also tripled the national debt to achieve that job growth.

 

[volente_00]

Quote from Tsing Tao:

really? are you quite sure that every republican has been bad for markets and every democrat good?

where are your sources proving this?

"Since 1900, Democratic presidents have produced a 12.3 percent annual total return on the S&P 500, but Republicans only an 8 percent return. In 2000, the Stock Trader's Almanac, which slices and dices Wall Street performance figures like baseball stats, came up with nearly the same numbers (13.4 percent versus 8.1 percent) by measuring Dow price appreciation. (Most of the 20th century's bear markets, incidentally, have been Republican bear markets: the Crash of '29, the early '70s oil shock, the '87 correction, and the current stall occurred under GOP presidents"


http://www.slate.com/?id=2071929




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