The economy is STILL growing!!!!!!!!!! What happened to the recession???

[chess9]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: ProfJohn

Originally posted by: Bitek
hehe.. best P&N thread of all time. Even better than the "Its Over" thread. You may get it locked, but it will never die. Google cache lives forever

Do a search on the surge and you will find TONS of people who were 100% wrong on it right from the start.

People who even after it was showing signs of working still insisted that it was a fluke and that it would fail long term.

I don't think you can compare me being wrong about the direction of the economy to nearly every left wing or anti-war poster being wrong about the surge.

Unfortunately, I can't bump any of those two year old threads because the system will not allow me too.

However, I can provide one example link. I believe this was the first of the 'surge is working' threads. Read it for yourself and start to count the number of people who were wrong about the success of the surge.

I was more pessimistic about the surge than I should have been but it's not quite as simple as it worked or didn't, as there were certainly other factors at work with it. Still, you have to admit being completely wrong about the surge is not on the same level as saying there's no recession and it in fact turning into the worst recession in most living-adults' lives.

We won't know if the surge actually worked for at least another 16 months. When the USA pulls out, then the real Iraq will surface. Let's hope Petraeus' magic holds. But, it's too early to draw conclusions.

-Robert

 

[Stoneburner]

This thread belongs on failblog.

 

[alien42]

"U.S. jobless rate hits 25-year high"

http://www.reuters.com/article.../idUSTRE52517Z20090306

since this is only a 'mental recession', are these just 'mental job losses'?

 

[Genx87]

Originally posted by: alien42
"U.S. jobless rate hits 25-year high"

http://www.reuters.com/article.../idUSTRE52517Z20090306

since this is only a 'mental recession', are these just 'mental job losses'?

Think of its life

 

[alien42]

Originally posted by: Genx87

Originally posted by: alien42
"U.S. jobless rate hits 25-year high"

http://www.reuters.com/article.../idUSTRE52517Z20090306

since this is only a 'mental recession', are these just 'mental job losses'?

Think of its life

i think that horse is just 'mentally dead'

 

[Genx87]

Originally posted by: alien42

Originally posted by: Genx87

Originally posted by: alien42
"U.S. jobless rate hits 25-year high"

http://www.reuters.com/article.../idUSTRE52517Z20090306

since this is only a 'mental recession', are these just 'mental job losses'?

Think of its life

i think that horse is just 'mentally dead'

Could be which makes it fitting for these bumps.

 

[her209]

Have we hit the bottom, ProfJohn?

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Locked because this thread has hit bottom. The OP's views in this thread have been sufficiently discredited.

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