Dems Brought change in 06, do we really want more of their kind of change? - Truckers' Trucking Forum | Message Board

Brickman · **^ Top** #1 03.08.2008

In just over a year:

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.

Pretty telling now isn't it? Do we really need more Democratic style change?

Rebel Patriot · **^ Top** #2 03.08.2008

False Cause: the fallacy committed when an argument mistakenly attempt to establish a causal connection.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc: (literally "after this, therefore because of this") the fallacy of arguing that one event was caused by another event merely because it occurred after that event.

1. I.e., mere succession in time is not enough to establish causal connection. E.g., consider "Since hair always precedes the growth of teeth in babies, the growth of hair causes the growth of teeth."

This looks like its just talking points as these exact points were posted earlier in another thread.

Roadmedic · **^ Top** #3 03.08.2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brickman

In just over a year:

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.

Pretty telling now isn't it? Do we really need more Democratic style change?

You might like to return to the period prior to Bush.
Diesel was only .99 per gallon.
Unemployment was 4%

Consumer confidence has been in the decline the last 3 years.

The housing problem is not just limited to the Democratic congress. It has roots over many of the previous years.

Rebel Patriot · **^ Top** #4 03.08.2008

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Originally Posted by Roadmedic

You might like to return to the period prior to Bush.
Diesel was only .99 per gallon.
Unemployment was 4%

Consumer confidence has been in the decline the last 3 years.

The housing problem is not just limited to the Democratic congress. It has roots over many of the previous years.

Not to mention that there were three landmark buildings standing in NYC prior to Bush, but not afterwards.

Roadmedic · **^ Top** #5 03.08.2008

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Originally Posted by Rebel Patriot

Not to mention that there were three landmark buildings standing in NYC prior to Bush, but not afterwards.

I don't believe it is fair to lay that on Bush. Those buildings have been a target for many years.

Burky · **^ Top** #6 03.08.2008

If you are going to go back, why not go back to Eisenhower when fuel was .25 cents per gallon. Or back to Chester A Arthur, when you really had no need to buy fuel at all.......

And our liberal loons can't count either. There were only two of those buildings that were possibly worthy of the title "Landmark". One of them was merely another relatively undistinguished office building in a town full of them.

Rebel Patriot · **^ Top** #7 03.08.2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Roadmedic

I don't believe it is fair to lay that on Bush. Those buildings have been a target for many years.

Well, by the logic employed by Brickman, it is.

Roadmedic · **^ Top** #8 03.08.2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Burky

If you are going to go back, why not go back to Eisenhower when fuel was .25 cents per gallon. Or back to Chester A Arthur, when you really had no need to buy fuel at all.......

And our liberal loons can't count either. There were only two of those buildings that were possibly worthy of the title "Landmark". One of them was merely another relatively undistinguished office building in a town full of them.

I did not just go back. Brickman made a reference to the increases caused by the Democrat congress election. I just referred to the last power change.

Rebel Patriot · **^ Top** #9 03.08.2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Burky

If you are going to go back, why not go back to Eisenhower when fuel was .25 cents per gallon. Or back to Chester A Arthur, when you really had no need to buy fuel at all.......

And our liberal loons can't count either. There were only two of those buildings that were possibly worthy of the title "Landmark". One of them was merely another relatively undistinguished office building in a town full of them.

Ah, another fallacy there Burky. Going all the way back. Take your pick. Straw man, exaggeration, avoiding the issue... a whole plethora of argumentative fallacies on your part.

All those buildings were part of the WTC Complex. There were several others too, DIRECTLY underneath 1 and 2 that bore the greatest collateral damage from debris and fire, yet they didn't collapse. Funny how that one across the street did, falling into its own footprint symetrically (even though some damage hit it asymetrically.)

mongothetrucker · **^ Top** #10 03.08.2008

The fact that the Democrats can change anything is false.

With Bush in the White House he can veto anything and it takes 2/3 majority to override the veto. The Dems only have a slight margin, so the only way they can change anything is with a Democrat in the White House.

So anybody that blames the Democrats with blanket statements, I just write off as a Hannity/Limbaugh lemming.

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