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10-04-2012, 03:14 PM #25
Re: 1st Presidential Debate....what did you think?
"A moron, a rapist, and a Pittsburgh Steeler walk into a bar. He sits down and says, “Hi I’m Ben may I have a drink please?”
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10-04-2012, 03:35 PM #26Regular 1st Stringer
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Re: 1st Presidential Debate....what did you think?
You're not understanding the semantics of the phrasing. Let me put in in another way.
If you were to manufacture 500 tractors, and at the same time 500 tractors were destroyed, you have both created 500 tractors, and lost 500 tractors.
So when Obama says 5 million jobs have been created, that is still 100% accurate. You are looking at net gains, which is completely different from actual creation.
Also, I am not Galin. If you look back, we were posting simultaneously at one point.
As far as insults, there was a thread not too long ago where the members of this board basically decided that fact check sites are completely biased and not to be trusted (unless of course they're conservative slanted). I'm just restating the opinion of the people here.
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Re: 1st Presidential Debate....what did you think?
This is just nonsense. Let's run with your analogy for a second.
If you had 500 tractors bought by farmers and a tornado wiped them all out and the farmers came back to by 500 tractors, you didn't have any new people buy tractors you just replaced them.
That's not growing, you need to sell NEW tractors.
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10-04-2012, 04:06 PM #28Regular 1st Stringer
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Who said anything about growth? You're missing the fundamental point here. In the exact example you gave me, the 500 tractors that they bought the second time are still new tractors. They were still created, even though the original 500 were destroyed. The new jobs aren't magically old just because we lost other ones. If you can't understand that point, there's no point in arguing. Creation and net gain are two different things. I even pointed out that we lost the same number as we gained. But that still doesn't change the fact that we created jobs.
What Obama said is completely true, if misleading.
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Re: 1st Presidential Debate....what did you think?
This is crazy. Really, you're example is nonsense because hiring someone is not the same as building a tractor, if someone's tractor blows up, they didn't come back and get a new one because they wanted to, they were just replacing. what. was. lost.
Let's use a more realistic example. I worked at a company in 2009 that employed 1,200 people they laid off about 300, 3 years later they have 1,200 again. Nothing was created, they brought back what they already had.
For something to be created, it has to be something that was not there before.
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10-04-2012, 04:41 PM #30Regular 1st Stringer
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Are these the exact same jobs that were lost? Did we literally just cut a job and then reinstate it? 5 million new jobs were created. 5 million old jobs were lost. I don't see why this is so hard to get.
Our net gain was 0. Our jobs lost was 5 million. Our jobs CREATED was 5 million.
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Re: 1st Presidential Debate....what did you think?
IT"S NOT NEW IF YOU DIDN'T GAIN ANY JOBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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10-04-2012, 04:53 PM #32Regular 1st Stringer
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Clearly you just don't understand what created means. So yeah this is a pointless argument.
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Re: 1st Presidential Debate....what did you think?
Yup, it's me who doesn't understand created.
BTW- the company I worked for in 2009 hired people for the exact same positions they cut.
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Re: 1st Presidential Debate....what did you think?
The radio just said 68% believed Mitt is now the stronger leader of the two.
It also said 48% say Mitt is now likeable. That is one of the things that kept the
polls so close. People bought off that they didn't know Mitt and he didn't connect
to the middle class because he was rich but last night he turned it around as
likeable and the stronger leader.
Even OBYs own people are saying that except CNN's Wolf who said his own poll
was over-stated.
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10-04-2012, 05:07 PM #35
Even CNN said the 5 million number was not accurate. 4.2 million was about it. So that was a lie on Obama's side.
And we are still above 8% unemployment so where are all the new jobs?
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Re: 1st Presidential Debate....what did you think?
CNN is a liberal rag. At least they're saying
its not 5M but the 4.2M is still wrong. Its
more like 125,000. That's it.
See NCs posts. 0x0=0.
The Prez didn't make mistakes. He flat out lied like on
the jobs numbers and the panels or board in OBAMA CARE.
He has to lie. He has nothing to run on. He can't debate the
points. That's why he got so flustered and edgy even with
the veteran moderator/MC and all the
attacks on Mitt and Bain, to deflect what he has done which is
nothing.
The country finally caught on what we've been saying all summer.Last edited by AirFlacco; 10-04-2012 at 05:57 PM.
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