Subj : Re: Get Better Mitt Treatment? To : All From : deep@dudu.org Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:19:40 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september ..org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-septemb er.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!b order3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com !nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-fo r-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 12:58:33 -0500 From: deep Newsgroups: fl.politics,austin.politics,dfw.general,talk.politics.guns,oh.general Subject: Re: Get Better Mitt Treatment? Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 11:58:35 -0600 Message-ID: References: <971021f8-4bcc-4c34-9b82-f57efc455329@ah9g2000pbd.googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 3.3/32.846 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 42 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-rp31LAQozxZqFhiEh7bP+XUHjSS0/E0G1AzbpEdgcnEzjdGzrYAhdnupzeI8AHVNn/BNDjyHoOG EQbA!EG7hEMlWMZuf/E6aYBdCYXIJUQox8ixm5LksrX+3dyEe77YvL1uhkNux3w6cg44P9q7rilcS X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2987 Xref: news.eternal-september.org fl.politics:129 austin.politics:84 dfw.general:424 talk.politics.guns:90062 On Sat, 03 Nov 2012 10:29:17 -0600, Mark Hill wrote: >On 11/3/2012 10:24 AM, deep wrote: >> On Sat, 03 Nov 2012 10:15:02 -0600, Mark Hill wrote: >> >> >>> been by far the meekest recovery from the past 10 recessions. >> >> That's because this is not a recession. > >http://online.wsj.com/ > >Negative $4,019 >The Obama years have been brutal on middle-class incomes. > >The Presidential race is boiling down to one dominant issue: which >party's policies will do more to help the financially stressed American >middle class. President Obama's campaign theme is that Mitt Romney and >the Republicans cater to the rich, while Mr. Obama cares about >struggling families. > >He may care, but he sure hasn't done much for them. New income data from >the Census Bureau, tabulated by former Census income specialists at the >nonpartisan economic consulting firm Sentier Research, reveal that the >three-and-a-half years of the Obama Presidency have done enormous harm >to middle-class households. > > >In January 2009, the month President Obama entered the Oval Office and >shortly before he signed his stimulus spending bill, median household >income was $54,983. By June 2012, it had tumbled to $50,964, adjusted >for inflation. (See the chart nearby.) That's $4,019 in lost real >income, a little less than a month's income every year. > > >Add the authors: "The overall decline since June 2009 was larger than >the 2.6 percent decline that occurred" during the recession from >December 2007 to June 2009. For household income, in other words, the >Obama recovery has been worse than the Bush recession. That's because this is not a recession. This is a continuation of the Bush Depression. --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .