Kennedy Crashes Prayer Car
DENVER -- Rep. Patrick Kennedy crashed the National Day of Prayer Car #78 Sponsored by Furniture Row into a concrete barrier at the NASCAR NEXTEL CUP race at Talladega Superspeedway last Sunday.
To commemorate yesterday's National Day of Prayer, police released the congressman and son of Sen. Edward Kennedy without administering a sobriety test.
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Since January 2001, and despite the dot-com bust and 9/11, the economy went ahead and created the net sum total of five million nine hundred ten thousand jobs:
137.78 million - Total employment - Jan. 2001.
143.69 million - Total employment - April 2006.
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Regarding established-company payroll jobs, the economy over the past 48 months posted net gains in the following sectors:
1,068,000 – Health Care.
791,000 – Construction.
341,000 – Finance & Insurance.
152,000 – Real Estate.
113,000 – Architecture & Engineering.
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Regarding lower-tiered workers, i.e., non-managers in the services sectors and production-line workers in manufacturing:
$ 14.44 = Avg. hourly earnings - April 2001.
$ 14.82 = Avg. hourly earnings - April 2002.
$ 15.26 = Avg. hourly earnings - April 2003.
$ 15.58 = Avg. hourly earnings - April 2004.
$ 16.00 = Avg. hourly earnings - April 2005.
$ 16.61 = Avg. hourly earnings - April 2006.
What does any of this have to do with the original post, spysmasher?
Y'know--you should sign up for your own blog. They're free and you could rant all you want about anything you want with your own blog.
What SpySmusher is trying to say is that, since we’ve got President Bozo and the Clarabell Congress, the country has hit the wall and now every day should be a national day of prayer.
As for SpySmusher’s statistics, thanks to a link from Mark Evanier’s blog, we get, from Ezra Klien:
“If you dig a bit deeper than the base growth statistics, though, the picture clarifies considerably. Our economy has grown so starkly unequal that the statistician's view now says surprisingly little about the average American's experience. Last quarter may have seen 4.8% growth, but hidden in those numbers was a depressing factoid: Wages had only grown 0.7% — slower than housing, health or gasoline costs.”
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“The economy, despite what some economists and politicians think, isn't an abstraction, it's an experience. And the average American isn't experiencing 4.8% growth; he's experiencing increased income insecurity, wages lagging behind prices and deteriorating health benefits. Strong as the growth might be, a strong economy isn't much good if it's using those biceps to pummel the working class.”
Retrieved from:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-klein5may05,0,2935702.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions
Statistics don’t lie. Statisticians – and Republicans – do.
Statistics don’t lie?
Youngster, there's an old saying...
"There are lies, DAMN lies, and statistics."
If you'd look at the overall picture, instead of trying to dig for any negative thing to blame on Bush, you'd see the economy is BOOMING.
The stuff about missing the poor is totally bogus. Wages for lower-tiered workers, i.e., non-managers in the services sectors and production-line workers in manufacturing:
$ 14.44 = Avg. hourly earnings - April 2001.
$ 14.82 = Avg. hourly earnings - April 2002.
$ 15.26 = Avg. hourly earnings - April 2003.
$ 15.58 = Avg. hourly earnings - April 2004.
$ 16.00 = Avg. hourly earnings - April 2005.
$ 16.61 = Avg. hourly earnings - April 2006.
Well, since you don't have FACTS on your side, I guess mockery is all you've got. Still, is that the best you can do? C'mon! Smear harder!
Oh right, I forgot -- any fact that is "cut and pasted" from anywhere is no longer a fact.
You do know what a fact IS, don't you?
(Hint: It's different from a smear, an innuendo, or even a "joke"!)
That is so funny!
Are you making these up, or just adapting them from your fifth grade joke book?
I guess outrageous smears and infantile mockery are considered "smart" in your world.
(See response below for another "witty" answer.)
If your responses are going to be that lame... why bother to type them?
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