Daily Kos Official Unemployment Rate Hits 8.9%. 'U6' Now at 15.8%

[Damocles]

Everybody see how Damo is slithering around by constantly changing his argument to pretend that he hasn't been debunked three times on one page? What a dishonest person.

Rubbish.

Do you see how weak an argument this really is? You found a page with three paragraphs that didn't even get close to teaching you about the 1920 recession and used that to "justify" what you wanted rather than spending time to learn something. You got upset when the first items you found didn't justify what you wanted, then when you thought he had something that at least didn't say what you didn't want to hear you then posted it and thought it justified some position...

Even a HS teacher would reject such crappy research.

Nothing in the articles you posted justify your position. You just thought they would because they were short on information. Dishonesty is pretending you learned anything after seeking to cherry-pick information.

 

[Bonestorm]

Please...

There are several things we can learn from the past. The recession of 1920 might have an interest for you, pay particular attention to the government response and the indicators that it was deeper than the original hit in the later "Great Depression". You can start there, then you can compare what we are doing with what the Japanese did during their lost decade... when we get the same result will you continue to process your information through the Obama filter?

I'll wait for an educated response rather than this inanity. We'll see if you can actually be honest and factual. When the whole of your "education" on this is still 'better than Bush', then you are lost. This isn't better than Bush, it is the same thing he was doing with a different face attached to the podium.

Piss off. I was responding to your criticism of Obama's use of the save or create rhetoric. You trotted out the horseshit coming from Eric Cantor about how the Republican "plan" would cost less and create more jobs than the Obama plan yet provided absolutely zero evidence to back it as opposed to the number CBO studies on the various stimulus proposals that actually existed, including the bill Obama signed.

I do agree that the Japanese experience can be instructive, but not with respect to the stimulus. Rather, the Japanese experience is more directly related to the banking crisis. I suppose we would disagree as to what the Japanese experience should teach us.