try again with the taxes...
The Tax Foundation - Comparing Income Taxes under Bill Clinton and George Bush
yes, still higher, but no where near what is shown above...
Funny how the housing market/consumer confidence/economic status is being blamed on a democratic congress.. I want to see someone tie each one of these items back to a specific bill, act or deed that was done or not done due to there being a democratic congress..
1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon; (fyi it has fluctuated from $2.20 in 1/05 to $3 in 8/06 then back down to $2.20 again from 10/06-2/07).. try to remember that the demand from China and India has gone through the roof.. simple supply and demand... supply has only marginally increased, whereas demand has skyrocketed..
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase); (FYI, in 2006, it dropped to 4.6 the lowest since Bush has been in office, however it did spike up to 6.0 in 2003...).. again more factors than just a "democratic congress" being in place that have an impact on this..
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; (i vaguely remember some on this board saying there was no bubble, don't believe all of the negative hype, etc..).. IMO..the market is correcting itself from the overinflated prices that people were paying/selling at prior... throw in the sub-prime mess and here we are.. someone please tie this back to what congress has/hasn't done)...
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
see above...
won't even touch the immigration issue.. however if you have an honest discussion with someone (dem or rep) you'd be suprised to see how close the viewpoints are...
Actually BAMF, O'Reilly isn't bad. at least he presents (most of the time) both sides or brings both sides to the table. i've seen him grill Republicans just as hard as Dems before (albeit not as many, but he's a ton better than that fat fuck Limbaugh or the idiot Glenn Beck).
Scott, keep the blinders on and continue voting party lines... there are plenty of dems who do the same thing so luckily you guys cancel each other out at the ballot box...
/soapbox.