Another pie chart for billb to misinterpret...

[Mac1337]

voodoopenguin wrote:
[quote=Dakota]
We'll just be like Europe where low double digit unemployment has been the norm and nobody complains about it.

This is something you have mentioned before, not sure why you are repeating it.

As I believe I replied the last time we do complain about unemployment. Also I'm not sure where you get your information from. In 2009 double digit unemployment happened in Spain and some Eastern European countries but the norm in the UK, Austria, Belgium, France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Holland Portugal, Sweden and others for the last five years has been below 10%. Admittedly some have been above the rate in the USA but double figures being the norm is false.

Oh, and is this where you bring in some strange line about the electrics in 40 year old cars as being a reason to ignore the truth as you have done previously?
You can quibble over "double digits" but the fact is that politicians in Europe would kill for the 4-6% unemployment we have almost always had. The people there are conditioned to accept high unemployment in exchange for job security. What they don't know is that you can make it "illegal" to fire people but you can never force employers to hire them . The sad thing is that the likes of davester who have voted for people like Harold Wilson keep fantasizing about the home they gladly fled.

[decay]

BEST ONE YET!

[decay]

re: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/11/1...9-deficit/

would this indicate that Bush inherited Clinton's fiscal problems? just askin...

[voodoopenguin]

Dakota wrote:
You can quibble over "double digits"

Over here 'quibbling' means making a trivial objection. Also over here we don't think that pointing out again that someone is making false statements is quibbling.

Paul

[Black]

Feeding trolls, new MR/F obsession.

[$tevie]

Black wrote:
Feeding trolls, new MR/F obsession.

It's just that's it's so tempting to throw rocks and stones at the village idiot.

[Mac1337]

voodoopenguin wrote:
[quote=Dakota]
You can quibble over "double digits"

Over here 'quibbling' means making a trivial objection. Also over here we don't think that pointing out again that someone is making false statements is quibbling.

Paul
I suppose if I had said 9.9% instead of double digits you would have accepted the rest of my argument. You worry about facts? Europe has perennially had high unemployment numbers compared to the US and has been very comfortable with it. I don't know what you are denying. I am sorry that the rest of the liberal intellegentsia here exemplified by the likes of €tevie and slumlord find it more necessary to attack me than defend their country. Nor surprising though. They often end up on the other side.

[voodoopenguin]

Dakota wrote:
I suppose if I had said 9.9% instead of double digits you would have accepted the rest of my argument.

Not really, see below.

Dakota wrote:
You can quibble over "double digits" but the fact is that politicians in Europe would kill for the 4-6% unemployment we have almost always had.

Not sure who they killed but:

..... 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

UK 4.6 .....5.0 .....5.5 .....5.2 .....6.6

Many other Western European countries were better than us.

I do agree that the figures from the USA have usually been better but when making your point it helps if you use the truth.


Paul

[MacGurl]

but when making your point it helps if you use the truth.

You forget who you're speaking about here. Doing so would be out of character for him.

[Grateful11]

On this unemployment thing, do we not normally have like a 5% unemployment during most
times when things are supposedly good? It amazes me that our economy tetters on an
additional 5% of unemployment. To me it's a very fragile economy at best when if there's a
5% rise in unemployment things are so bleak. There's still 90% employed and I'm sure that
some of those are underemployed. Does any of this make since, I'm about to fall asleep.