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W1GUH
05-01-2008, 09:06 PM
The FM's disapproval rating is 71%.
Poll: More disapprove of Bush than any other president (http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/01/bush.poll/index.html)
Remind me how he ever got elected?
N4VGB
05-01-2008, 09:07 PM
So? His eight year run is over. :cool:
k8wpj
05-01-2008, 09:09 PM
The FM's disapproval rating is 71%.
Poll: More disapprove of Bush than any other president (http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/01/bush.poll/index.html)
Remind me how he ever got elected?
because we as a voting body, did not know then, what we know now....
Also then, a lot more gullible people voted for him, than intelligent people, whereas now, the intelligent people are starting to listen more closely, and vote against him.
Seems he can't even buy (or rebate) his way out of it, either!!!! :)
W3MIV
05-01-2008, 09:27 PM
The FM's disapproval rating is 71%.
Poll: More disapprove of Bush than any other president (http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/01/bush.poll/index.html)
Remind me how he ever got elected?
Where are the polls for Buchanon? For Andrew Johnson? How about John Tyler?
:rolleyes:
K0RGR
05-01-2008, 09:44 PM
Mr. Bush was elected due to Clinton Revulsion Syndrome, and Ann Coulter's claim that Gore said he invented the Internet.
If it hadn't been for 9/11, his popularity was so low, he might not have made it through his first term. It was under 50% on 9/11, when it shot up to over 90%. It's been steadily declining ever since.
So? His eight year run is over. :cool:
Although we will soon be rid of the FM, the effects from his disastrous eight years will linger for decades. Our children and grandchildren will be paying for his follies for years. The respect that the US had in the world may never return. In the future if we are ever engaged in a foreign war, we can count on any of our service members who become POWs being tortured. The power that the dollar had in the world economy is gone. The ONLY bright thing is that GWB and his gang of idiots will no longer be in power.
KB9BVN
05-01-2008, 11:05 PM
The congressional approval rating is even lower.
Looks like we're pretty much sick of all it, across the board, regardless of party affiliation.
I wonder if we'll do anything about it.
Presidential approval rating - 29%
Congressional approval rating - 21%
The President is going away. For the most part the same members of congress will still be there. Now, who controls congress?
73
George
K3UD
Although we will soon be rid of the FM, the effects from his disastrous eight years will linger for decades. Our children and grandchildren will be paying for his follies for years.
If we really want to look at the effects on future generations all we need to do is to look back at the very high inflation we had from 1975 to 1981. We had 4 years of double digit inflation and 3 years of very high single digit inflation.
Remember the magic of compounding.
It was this inflation that has caused the stagnation of middle class wages. In real terms, people had more spendable dollars back then than they do today when the CPI is taken into account. Who were the presidents back then? Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. Does anyone remember the WIN (Whip Inflation Now) buttons that the Government gave out?
With almost everything going up in price it is conceivable that we could, once again, see high inflation numbers dogging us yet again for future generations.
This was something the Ford, Carter and the congress at the time could not control. Maybe a new president and congress can come to grips with it, but history is not on their side.
73
George
K3UD
W3MIV
05-02-2008, 05:25 PM
Presidential approval rating - 29%
Congressional approval rating - 21%
The President is going away. For the most part the same members of congress will still be there. Now, who controls congress?
73
George
K3UD
It is one of life's more astonishing facts that, while almost everyone denigrates the Congress, nearly every one of those same detractors think his or her own Congress Critter is doing a bang-up job for the District and votes to re-elect time and again.
Go figger.
k4kyv
05-02-2008, 07:05 PM
With almost everything going up in price it is conceivable that we could, once again, see high inflation numbers dogging us yet again for future generations.
The key word in your statement is "almost". What won't be going up proportionally are wages, salaries and pensions.
N4VGB
05-02-2008, 08:08 PM
It is one of life's more astonishing facts that, while almost everyone denigrates the Congress, nearly every one of those same detractors think his or her own Congress Critter is doing a bang-up job for the District and votes to re-elect time and again.
Go figger.
Keep those pork barrel dollars flowing home and you're back in office every time! Then blame your Congressman or Senator for the overall results!? Smart group of voters we have in America. :rolleyes:
Keep those pork barrel dollars flowing home and you're back in office every time! Then blame your Congressman or Senator for the overall results!? Smart group of voters we have in America. :rolleyes:
Damn Dilmus, another post of yours I completely agree with!
Don't make this a habit now... :p
w6ire
05-03-2008, 08:56 PM
http://bonstemps.com/Zombiebirdhouse/mission-accomplished.jpg
W3MIV
05-03-2008, 10:42 PM
Keep those pork barrel dollars flowing home and you're back in office every time! Then blame your Congressman or Senator for the overall results!? Smart group of voters we have in America. :rolleyes:
No one ever got rich by being ethical. Consider how a KKK has-been from West-by-God-Virginia could end up being a multi-millionaire. His tale is not exceptional; it is the standard track.
w2amr
05-04-2008, 09:35 PM
http://bonstemps.com/Zombiebirdhouse/mission-accomplished.jpg Halloween isn't on may 1st:confused:
N4VGB
05-04-2008, 11:16 PM
Halloween isn't on may 1st:confused:
It's Halloween on here everyday your picture is posted. :eek:
AE6IP
05-05-2008, 12:43 AM
No one ever got rich by being ethical.
Off topic for this thread, but I must disagree with you Albert. While I cannot make the same claim of today's HP, Bill and Dave were both ethical rich men, and many of the managers who have been enriched by Hewlett Packard have been cut from the same mold. I never knew them personally, but it was clear when I was at HP that they were indeed such.
On the other hand, I knew Seymour Cray, and can state from experience that he was an ethical man, who became rich.
Jim Medlock, the founder, and longtime CEO of Intergraph is another ethical rich man I've known, and had the pleasure to work for.
I work now with Joe Britt, one of the founders of Danger, who was recently enriched by Microsoft's purchase of the company. Joe is an ethical rich man.
The electronics and computer industries have provide many opportunities to become rich ethically. Linus Torvalds, who gave away his software, became rich as a consequence of a gift of stock from RedHat, an ethical gesture on their part, honoring his contribution to their success. Linus is blunt and confrontational, but ethical.
This is not to say that everyone in the industry is ethical. I'm sure a long list of less than ethical individuals jump to the minds of any of us who are at all familiar with the history of electronics and computing.
Nor is it to say that there is something special about these industries that make them more suitable for ethical people to become rich at. They're merely industries that I am most familiar with.
W3MIV
05-05-2008, 12:50 AM
My tongue-in-cheek comment was directed at the minions who labor so earnestly for our commonweal in the Congress, Martin; I have no doubt whatever that the world of business is populated by many ethical men and women and that, while chicanery is not unknown among them, talent and diligence have as often as not led to honest riches.
Off topic for this thread, but I must disagree with you Albert. While I cannot make the same claim of today's HP, Bill and Dave were both ethical rich men, and many of the managers who have been enriched by Hewlett Packard have been cut from the same mold. I never knew them personally, but it was clear when I was at HP that they were indeed such.
On the other hand, I knew Seymour Cray, and can state from experience that he was an ethical man, who became rich.
Jim Medlock, the founder, and longtime CEO of Intergraph is another ethical rich man I've known, and had the pleasure to work for.
I work now with Joe Britt, one of the founders of Danger, who was recently enriched by Microsoft's purchase of the company. Joe is an ethical rich man.
The electronics and computer industries have provide many opportunities to become rich ethically. Linus Torvalds, who gave away his software, became rich as a consequence of a gift of stock from RedHat, an ethical gesture on their part, honoring his contribution to their success. Linus is blunt and confrontational, but ethical.
This is not to say that everyone in the industry is ethical. I'm sure a long list of less than ethical individuals jump to the minds of any of us who are at all familiar with the history of electronics and computing.
Nor is it to say that there is something special about these industries that make them more suitable for ethical people to become rich at. They're merely industries that I am most familiar with.
AE6IP
05-05-2008, 01:06 AM
My tongue-in-cheek comment was directed at the minions who labor so earnestly for our commonweal in the Congress, Martin; I have no doubt whatever that the world of business is populated by many ethical men and women and that, while chicanery is not unknown among them, talent and diligence have as often as not led to honest riches.
But of course. Sorry I wasn't following the thread closely enough to have realized.
There were ethical congress critters, but it has been a long time and nor did they become rich while in office.