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oddsox commented on the blog post Obama’s Plan to Address 9.2% Unemployment: Send More Jobs Overseas
Believe it or not, June’s 9.2% unemployment rate is nearly a point BETTER the same time during Reagan’s first term:
http://portalseven.com/employment/unemployment_rate.jsp?fromYear=1981&toYear=1990Of course, we were down to 7.2% by Election Day 1984 and 5.4% when Reagan left office in January 1989.
If we can match those two numbers, I’ll vote for Obama again in 2012 and lobby to repeal the 22nd Amendment by 2016.
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oddsox commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes David Sirota, Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now — Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything
When Sirota takes a stroll down memory lane to a land before Fox News, what does he see?
Not visions of sugar plums, but of neo-con psy-ops?
In the words of the great ’80s philosopher, Clubber Lang: “I pity the foo’!” -
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