Is the economy good in your state? How good is it?

[butterfly77]

How can bush be cutting the deficit and spending and giving aid and borrowing? Something isn't adding up.

[tridim]

1. There's also the "off budget" debt that nobody ever talks about

Like $300 billion spent so far for Bush's illegal war.

Whenever Bush makes a statement, the opposite is true.

[butterfly77]

3. Bush has someone in place in all areas of business and government..

to fix the numbers and make it look good when the democrats retrieve the white house and other offices we will see it is worser than we think and they will try anything to prevent that from happening.

[Double T]

2. When 'REAL ECONOMISTS' are once again allowed to have a voice.....

we will discover that the USA is heading toward a bankruptcy brick wall. This fiscal disaster will be the legacy of the bush administration.

[butterfly77]

5. Correct and that is why they are planning somehow to fix this election..

as well as other countries.

[DemonFighterLives]

4. Reich coming up on PBS now

We'll get the rest of the story

[DemonFighterLives]

7. He had the same Idea I had

I just paid the most ever for gas today. 2.99- 50.00$ for a half a tank. Thanks a lot dubby. Reich said that most people are worried about 3.00$ a gal. for gas and Health Ins. and cost.

Earlier today I heard that the deficit expectations were placed high so that when they beat the expectations, dubby could proclaim victory.
He has only doubled the debt in his time in office. Mission Accomplished!

[El Supremo]

6. Record foreclosure rate.

Partly due to no new high paying jobs.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/real_estate/article/0,1299,DRMN_414_4835191,00.html

[wellst0nev0ter]

8. Minnesota Lags Behind Nation In Job Creation

but we lowered taxes, WHEEEEEEEE!

[WI_DEM]

9. In Madison we have creation of lots of low paying service jobs

thing is lots of people have to work two or more jobs to make ends meet.

[yourout]

13. Tommy "the taxman" Thompson left us quite a legacy didn't he?

The "Stick it too them" statement he made while drunk as a skunk is a classic.

[OhioChick]

10. Economy.......What Economy?

Bush To Cleveland: ‘Anybody Work Here In This Town?’




- 5.8 percent: Cleveland unemployment rate, Jan. 2006
- 4.5 percent: Cleveland unemployment rate, Jan. 2001

- 5.3 percent: Ohio unemployment rate, Jan. 2006
- 4.0 percent: Ohio unemployment rate, Jan. 2001

- 31.3 percent: Cleveland poverty rate, 2003
- 24.3 percent: Cleveland poverty rate, 2001

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/20/bush-cleveland-work/

[leftofthedial]

19. and that's with the phony numbers

[bbinacan]

11. Here in NC, we're smoking it(pun intended)

Economy is doing great here. Of course we have a Democrat Gov., Mike Easley. I do think we have a balanced budget law.:smoke:

[Rosemary2205]

12. You don't want to ask me.

Uncle sam is gettign ready to close 2 bases within 10 miles of me. Ford is closing a plant and Delta is dumping workers too. Not to mention to GM plant on the other side of town.

They keep building strip malls and $300,000 homes though so it can't be all bad.

[yella_dawg]

14. Deep East Texas - The economy is GREAT!!

Small businesses are closing about one a month for the last year or so, as in a full-line hardware store, Hancock Fabrics, more of that ilk plus mom-and-pop places closing faster than you can keep up. A major regional employer missed payroll this time last year, is a shadow of what it was five years ago.

Those tax breaks are really cutting in and making a difference, I tell ya'!

[Nicole]

15. Oklahoma's economy is doing great

Oklahoma receives record revenue during the fiscal year that ended last month, driven by soaring energy prices and a booming economy.


The state's general revenue fund, which is the largest depository of tax revenue, collected 5-point-7 (b) billion dollars during the fiscal year that ended June 30th.

State Treasurer Scott Meacham says that's 15 percent more than the previous fiscal year. Collections were 10-point-8 percent above official estimates.

The record revenue allowed the Legislature this year to approve major tax cuts and substantial investments in education, transportation, health care and economic development.

Meacham says every major revenue category finished ahead of prior year collections including income, sales and gross production taxes on oil and gas.

http://www.kten.com/Global/story.asp?S=5136943&nav=menu410_3

Then there's this:

Military provides boost to Oklahoma’s economy

Base officials estimate the Lawton-Fort Sill area will gain an estimated 11,000 residents, including military, civilian and contract employees and their dependents, over the next several years as part of the base realignment process and national efforts to restructure the military. Personnel associated with the Air Defense Artillery school, currently housed at Fort Bliss, Texas, will begin moving to Fort Sill in 2009.
The continued growth at Fort Sill is expected to have a trickle down effect on the area’s economy, said Maj. Gen. David C. Raulston, Chief of the Field Artillery and commander at Fort Sill.

“There will be other jobs that defense industries will now offer into the area,” Raulston said. “Some of the large defense industries will move the slots they now have in El Paso up to the Lawton-Fort Sill area. That will be in addition to the 11,000 that we talked about.

Fort Sill already employs more than 15,500 military and civilian workers, making it the fourth largest employer in the state, according to figures from the Oklahoma Department of Commerce.

Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, with about 26,000 employees, is the state’s third largest single employer, behind the state of Oklahoma (36,000) and Wal-Mart (30,629).

“You’re talking about an economic impact of $3 billion at Tinker, and Fort Sill is well over $1 billion. That’s just those two facilities. That’s a pretty impressive piece of Oklahoma.”

http://www.sapulpadailyherald.com/news/local_story_192110130.html

Edit to add:
Gov. Brad Henry is a Democrat. :toast:

[johnaries]

16. It's doing much better since we kicked out the thieving Repuke

governor (Sundquist) and replaced him with a Dem (Bredesen).

Bredesen turned the entire State around in just 3 years.

[Nicole]

18. Same for us

in Oklahoma.

[PassingFair]

17. I live in Michigan.

Next question....

[BushOut06]

20. Well, I'm still looking for a job

Despite the "low" unemployment rate - which is utter bullshit, if you ask me. Sure, I suppose I could go down to McDonalds and get a job there. That would look really good on my resume, wouldn't it? I can just see myself at some future job interview: "I see you went from a purchasing manager to working at Starbucks?"

Where are all these good jobs the repugs keep touting?