The Michiganization of America
This is a remarkable slide show depicting the growth of unemployment in the U.S. in just two and a half years. In January 2007, before the credit and financial crises and the subsequent recession, the counties in purple or black — representing unemployment of 7 percent or more — were restricted to a handful of states.
Move forward to September of this year, and the whole map looks bruised.
I don’t intend this as a “blame Obama” post. The recession and the rise in unemployment started before he took office. But even “Saturday Night Live” understands that what the administration has been trying so far — namely, spending more money and piling up even more debt that will have to be repaid — isn’t working.
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Glenn
November 24th, 2009
8:37 am
@ David – What does Fannie & Freddie have to do with there not being an algorithm for property ever losing value ? Don’t you think any mention of the current real estate bust in any detail without mentioning the Glass Steagall Act or the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act is kind of silly .
Reality
November 24th, 2009
8:50 am
The Dow is up, and the investor class on Wall St. is making profits. Meanwhile, we on Main St. are waiting for the trickle down affect. Those of us on Side St. will eventually get our crumbs. Big business robs us, and big government robs us. Big religion bullies us.
Peter
November 24th, 2009
8:53 am
Linda, being close minded and not willing to watch the video is interesting…….Knowing that the Bush administration paid zero attention to the middle east when first in office, I guess has zero to do with 911? But hey that 911 is Clinton’s fault right.HA HA HA…….Sure !
David Axelfraud
November 24th, 2009
9:07 am
Glenn, why are you asking a question that has nothing to do with the conversation between Peter, Native and I? I was simply pointing out the source of the housing crisis. Make sense?
David Axelfraud
November 24th, 2009
9:24 am
Eugene Robinson, a black “journalist” who loves his blackness and talks about it everyday on Morning Joe, loves the idea of health care rationing. FINALLY, a liberal who admits that AcornCare will end with rationing and people dying.
Rationing, the Unspeakable, But Honest Solution
By Eugene Robinson
WASHINGTON — The uproar over the on-again, off-again guidelines on when women should have mammograms is proof of the blindingly obvious: Health care reform that actually controls costs — rather than just pretending to do so — would be virtually impossible to achieve.
I say “would be” because none of the voluminous reform bills being shuttled around the Capitol on hand trucks even tries to address a central factor that sends costs spiraling out of control, which is that each of us wants the best shot at a long, healthy life that medical science can offer. Just as all politics is local, all health care is personal. Skimping on somebody else’s tests and procedures may be worth debating, but don’t mess with mine.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/24/my_medical_care_–_and_yours_99271.html
Glenn
November 24th, 2009
9:26 am
Obviously David my response was to your response to my response yesterday . Nothing about you makes sense .
David Axelfraud
November 24th, 2009
9:26 am
So much for Global Warming or whatever the libs call it these days. Poor Al Gore, I wonder what scam he will come up with next?
The Fix is In
By Robert Tracinski
In early October, I covered a breaking story about evidence of corruption in the basic temperature records maintained by key scientific advocates of the theory of man-made global warming. Global warming “skeptics” had unearthed evidence that scientists at the Hadley Climatic Research Unit at Britain’s University of East Anglia had cherry-picked data to manufacture a “hockey stick” graph showing a dramatic-but illusory-runaway warming trend in the late 20th century.
But now newer and much broader evidence has emerged that looks like it will break that scandal wide open. Pundits have already named it “Climategate.”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/24/the_fix_is_in_99280.html
David Axelfraud
November 24th, 2009
9:28 am
Glenn, awe, poor whittle Glenn. She couldn’t accept a simple explanation so she went and wet her pants.
Glenn
November 24th, 2009
9:52 am
Your a loser David .
dewstarpath
November 24th, 2009
10:50 am
Elmer Fudd is a cartoon character.
Enough with the insults.
Kyle Wingfield
November 24th, 2009
11:32 am
ask a native: For the record, I’m not sure why your posts at 7:34 p.m. and 7:43 p.m. were held in moderation. Apologies. But it looks like the essence of what you wanted to say eventually made it on here.
David Axelfraud
November 24th, 2009
12:08 pm
You can’t spell, Glenn. Oh, and you’re a troglodyte
Glenn
November 24th, 2009
3:09 pm
No David I have a job . Way to be the blog spell check . You are still a loser . Hey , if I made another spelling or punctuation error please correct it . You apparently have all day to listen to AM radio . No wonder you are like you are .
Robert
November 24th, 2009
5:29 pm
I think the primary reason why the stimulus bill hasn’t worked is because the democrats treated it as a Santa wish list for everything they couldn’t get previously, which had nothing to do with creating jobs…the reason why the bill was passed (at least that is how it was explained to everyone at the time!) If we truly spent all the money on projects that created jobs, the unemployment figure wouldn’t be over 10%. Now, the democrats are trying to say that over 650,000 jobs were created. We all know that is based on phony information. The point is, this was supposed to be a job creation bill and instead Nancy Pelosi got several million dollars for some rat park in San Francisco. The democrats like to think of themselves as the party of the people, but their policies don’t seem to work for the “people”. When is half of America going to figure this out?
David Axelfraud
November 25th, 2009
9:54 am
Glenn, you must make a fortune off of your psychic powers. You’ve predicted two things about me. None of which are true.
I have a few assumptions about you. You are a girl who lives with her mom in south Georgia in a trailer park. You borrow her computer and pretend to have a job.