If you still think the state of the economy is due to Republicans, you have not been paying attention.
When Democrats (including then-Senator Obama) took control of Congress on Jan 3, 2007, Republicans had been leading the country for TWELVE straight years and UNEMPLOYMENT was at 4.4%.
See more info about this @ https://polination.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/april-jobs-report/
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If you’re open to feedback…
The current (113th) session of Congress, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/113th_United_States_Congress, runs January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2015 (essentially the 2013 and 2014 calendar years, not the 2014 and 2015 calendar years as implied in the graphic).
I think the middle picture is actually another image of the House, not the Senate. If you want a sample picture of the Senate, you could use this:
It is true that the average employment since Democrats took majority control (in January 2007) has been 59.9%. But it’s also worth noting that the average employment during the Obama administration has been 58.7%, and we haven’t had a month above that since August 2009!
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“If you’re open to feedback…” ABSOLUTELY. Esp from you, who always gives it constructively. 🙂
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Okay, fixed the graphic and will reload it in a minute. The lower Obama avg was something I decided to leave out to make a better visual punch on the R vs D overall. People giving half their attention to scanning stuff online can handle two numbers. Hubby taught me this. I can give him two items to fetch or buy and he’s fine. Three and he needs a piece of paper with it all written down. LOL
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Oh, that works much better with the right Senate pic. It’s more obvious Big, Middle, Small, left to right.
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Hah! Maybe he’s constructive with you. All I get from him is stuff like: “You can’t use that profanity about the pResident’s mother on our site! Take that down right now, you idiot!” 😀 He’s a harsh, harsh critic. Worse than the Bluebird of Bitchiness! (Kidding!)
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Wonder if it’s cuz I’m just way cuter than you …. ;o)
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😆
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That part is true. 🙂
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The images linked below are generated (when you select the year range 1995 – 2013) and the links don’t stay active forever, so it’s best to save the images to our copy.
Unemployment rate 1995 – 2013
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
Series Id: LNS14000000
Seasonally Adjusted
Series title: (Seas) Unemployment Rate
Labor force status: Unemployment rate
Type of data: Percent or rate
Age: 16 years and over
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Discouraged Workers 1995 – 2013
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNU05026645
Series Id: LNU05026645
Not Seasonally Adjusted
Series title: (Unadj) Not in Labor Force, Searched For Work and Available, Discouraged Reasons For Not Currently Looking
Labor force status: Not in labor force
Type of data: Number in thousands
Age: 16 years and over
Job desires/not in labor force: Want a job now
Reasons not in labor force: Discouragement over job prospects (Persons who believe no job is available.)
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Employment-Population Ratio 1995 – 2013
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12300000
Series Id: LNS12300000
Seasonally Adjusted
Series title: (Seas) Employment-Population Ratio
Labor force status: Employment-population ratio
Type of data: Percent or rate
Age: 16 years and over
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It would be nice to be able to say to a dem., “The Truth Hurts”.
But the truth never matters to the left, and the lies never stick to them;
since they have a media who always spin the facts it in the other direction.
When it comes to the truth, they all agree with HRC:
“What Does It Matter!”
Will we ever be able to get the truth out there?
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Yep… once the truth ceased to matter, the argument was lost. We can (and we do) tell the truth until we’re blue in the face, but we might as well be speaking Swahili for all the difference it makes. Can’t penetrate the thick skulls of the low-information crowd with something as mundane as facts and truth.
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If I thought telling the truth made no difference, I’d spend more time making quilts and less time staring at illuminated pixels.
But there are still the mushy middle people who are not low-info or commie-committed who are worth reaching.
Lots of us used to be among them, but some factoid or issue raised its head high enough to reach through the fog and we paid enough to attention to get angry and get informed. I do this stuff, in part, as a Pay It Forward, because of the work done by the people who helped me see the truth.
When I see how frustrated I am after 5 years, it makes me want to shake the hands of the people who were fighting this battle for decades before I had a clue. They’re heroes, every one.
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You’re right, I shouldn’t paint with such a broad brush. I was speaking of the boneheads to whom truth is irrelevant (since all they care about are their feelings) — not the mushy middle people who are still amenable to persuasion, if one can only find a way to reach them.
I was a leftie back in my misspent youth, as you know, but sometime in my mid-twenties I was mugged by reality. I recall seeing a full-page ad in the newspaper back when my eldest (now 34) was a baby; the ad had been placed there by a pro-life group, and it really stunned me and made me realize for the first time what abortion did to living human beings. That was something of a turning point, and through a circuitous route, it led eventually to my finding out that I had been wrong about just about everything.
So yes, there are people who can be reached, and they are worth the effort that it takes.
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Agreed! 🙂
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That’s a good way to say it… paying it forward…
I was reached less than a month before my 24th birthday.
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So still a babe in arms. LOL I left the Democrats early on, after Carter was a total wimp about Iran and the Dems just got more and more pro-abortion. But it took having them tell vicious lies about my own babe serving in Iraq before Grizzly Mama finally rose up and roared.
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