Vote for change this fall!!!

[Fieldmouse]

Had to forward this on to you all. I just got this from a good friend who is and always will be a dem. I had to laugh.

Who, Who voted for change?


Vote for change in 2006

Lest you forget!!!

In just one year

Hmmmmmmmmmmm.


A little over one year ago:
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) the unemployment rate was 4.5%.


Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we're
seen:
1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) the cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value
evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.


America voted for change in 2006, and we got it! [/align]

[Whitehorse]

While I'm not sure there wouldn't have been an economic slowdown if the democrats hadn't won, you are right - we did get change. The biggest problem is that the democrat leadership is doing nothing to help,& the democrat candidates are proposing huge government spending & tax rate increases that will only hurt.

[Phil from Maine]

I think the biggest problem is BUSH and his veto power... He had vetoed almost everything in front of him....

[Champlain Islander]

I hardly think the current economic woes are attributed to the pizz poor Democratic leadership we now have in the congress. Special interest money has infiltrated our whole political scene and a meaningful change will be accomplished only after someone makes big government accountable to the voters. The two major parties are ineffective simply because they are mired in partisan politics rather than what is best for our country. Any change will take time to overcome the influence and power that steers our current administration.

[Phil from Maine]

Special interest money has infiltrated our whole political scene and a meaningful change will be accomplished only after someone makes big government accountable to the voters. The two major parties are ineffective simply because they are mired in partisan politics rather than what is best for our country. Any change will take time to overcome the influence and power that steers our current administration.

I have to agree without a doubt on this one! You hit the nail on the head C.I.!!

[falcon]

Yep, in just one year those dastardly Democrats have totally ruinedeveryting that Republicans in congress worked so hard for. In a special election, Fat Hastert's seat just went to a Democrat yesterday.Republicans held that seat for 30 years.

"But if you examine just the election years, you see a deviation from the norm with the loss of the Labor Day peak and a slight overall decline from the Memorial Day price. In those election years average gasoline prices declined only slightly more than in non-voting years but then tracked the overall decline in prices in the fall between 1991 and 2006.

In 2006, however, gasoline prices rose higher than the typical year, then started a steep drop in the first half of August to the November 7 elections. The $2.20 average on the day prior to the election was the lowest recorded gasoline price of 2006. The year then ended with an uncharacteristic rebound of gasoline prices.

Since 1991, the average gasoline price change from Memorial Day to the first Monday of November has been a decline of 2.9 percent. In 2006, the drop was 23.3 percent. The only other comparable decline was 29.2 percent in 2001 following 9/11 as demand shriveled amid sharply curtailed traveling across the country.

Furthermore, the price of gasoline went up after the election in 2006"”unlike in previous years. This past November gasoline prices climbed 4.4 percent, to $2.30, but in previous years the average change after the first Monday in November is a 2.6 percent drop."



Surely this was an anomaly that had nothing to do with those benevolent gasoline companies who always have the welfare of the consumer at heart.Therewas absolutely no attempt by the gas companies to manipulate prices in order to keep the Republicanparty in control of congress.

[biscuit jake]

Historically, the party in power in the president's slot takes the heat when the economy is in trouble during a Nov election. Also, I am quite sure the Dems will blame gasoline costs on oil companies and republican interests during their campaigns. It will be something else for McCain to work through.

[Howler]

Maybe if the Senate would spend less time trying figure out IFbaseball players used some "performance inhancing" drug, and instead spent a little time on more important issues, they'd actually get something done![&:]

[CalHunter]

Ditto what Howler said.

[sachiko]

I too agree with Howler. I have no idea why Congress should be investigating what kinds of performance enhancing drugs baseball players might be using.

If they are looking for something it investigate, why not look for the reasons gas prices, including natural gas prices, have increased so much in just a short period of time.