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Post by alexsaitta on Oct 12, 2014 9:17:23 GMT -5
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Post by conservative on Oct 12, 2014 17:08:15 GMT -5
A fellow Wade Hampton High and Clemson U. alumni. Sad and shocking since we're the same age. I didn't know him back then but came to wish I had listening to him on the radio. I'm sure he leaves a big hole in his family, colleagues and circle of friends. What better aspiration than to be listened to.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2014 13:17:55 GMT -5
////He will be missed.////
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Post by upset on Oct 22, 2014 16:59:10 GMT -5
This is not a complaint, but Alex is appears you finally encountered someone more negative than even you on the fate of the US economy.
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Post by alexsaitta on Oct 22, 2014 17:42:03 GMT -5
You must have been listening to the Rus Cassell show when I called Tony Dale. Dale was saying the Obama is touting how the economy has improved since November 2008, and Dale said it has not improved and it was actually worse off in many ways. He cited things like the participation rate and rising inflation relative to incomes. All things I've written about for years now. All true
I called to disagree with his point that when you look at all the data, economy has improved since Nov 2008. I said the following...
Obama is a incompetent chief executive because he can't run the departments of the executive branch like the IRS, CDC, VA and the state department. He has actually hurt the economy more than he has helped it with his tax increase, Obamacare and running up health care costs and doubling the national debt.
However, I do believe the economy is better off now than it was in November 2008. Back then the economy was losing 700,000 jobs a month (now it is gaining about 200,000 a month), housing was collapsing (it is growing a bit), the banking system was collapsing with bank failures were at post Depression highs (that has gone way down) and GDP growth was negative (now it is running about +2%).
I went on to say it is a very weak recovery/ expansion, the weakest since the Depression, but overall the economy is in an upswing. He disagreed, and said things were just as bad. Yes, he is even more negative than me.
A lot of people so hate Obama, they don't want to agree with anything he says. There has been improvement, but like I said, Obama has had nothing to do with it. Really it has been due to the Fed printing all this money and the economic cycle. Some also forget how bad it was in late 2008 and early 2009. I remember driving around Pickens in 2008 and early 2009 and not seeing one house being built. Now here and there you see a new house going up. Foreclosures at the auctions were running in the 50 to 60 unit range, now it is aobut 20 or 30.
There is long-term problems and the slide will continue, but "yes" Tony Dale is more negative than me.
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Post by columbia on Oct 24, 2014 9:08:16 GMT -5
I listen to WORD Radio and I heard Vince Coakley is a candidate for the US Congress. A black Republican. What a refreshing thought. Republicans are making in-roads into the black community.
ballotpedia.org/Vince_Coakley
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Post by geraldgarrett on Apr 17, 2016 11:23:31 GMT -5
No great surprise here:
bigstory.ap.org/article/35c595900e0a4ffd99fbdc48a336a6d8/poll-vast-majority-americans-dont-trust-news-media
It's sad that the so-called "mainstream" media is no longer trusted, but I'll have to say it's their own fault. The blurring of the line between "editorial" and "news" has reached the point that even reporters don't know the difference.
They also don't know American history (check out "Election of 1876" if you want to see delegate drama, and while you're at it, find out why Reconstruction in the South ended in 1877), World history (see "Crusades" to understand how long Christians and Muslims have been trying to kill each other, and why), math (Bernie, you really can't give everything to everybody for nothing - somebody has to pay), or grammar ("nauseous" means something that makes you want to regurgitate, as in "That nauseous smell is making me sick" while "nauseated" means you're about to regurgitate, as in "That nauseous smell makes me want to regurgi-PUUUUKKKKE!" - the two words are NOT interchangeable.)
The long decline accelerated after Watergate, when an entire generation young reporters set out to make their mark and change the world with the skills. But they forgot that Woodward and Bernstein painstakingly documented their evidence and never moved forward with speculative stories. It wasn't allowed. Nowadays, the media seems to have no problem throwing mud at their target du jour hoping some of it sticks. Lives are ruined in the process. Then they move on to the next target. I think the public has finally wised up, but the tactic is now part of the fabric of modern journalism.
There's also the "faux sympathy" factor. After any violent death, be it a car accident, a shooting, a drowning or whatever, the reporters rush to friends and family of the victim to get comments, hoping to milk a few extra tears from their readers and viewers before the next "if it bleeds, it leads" opportunity.
It's cruel, but they don't care. When I lost my son to suicide six years ago, the last thing I wanted to see was a reporter (fortunately, there were none.) If there had been, and one of them had said something like, "You just lost your son to suicide. What would you say to other families who may face their own tragedies?" I would have said, "I'd tell them to hold you down for me while I shove that camera up your colon." (I have always refused to intrude on survivors for interviews like that, at least in the immediate aftermath when grief and shock cloud their judgment. That one of many reasons I'm part of the 94 percent in this poll.)
Those of us who have called ourselves "journalists" certainly deserve most of the scorn, but so do the readers and viewers. You give 'em what they want, and they turn on you. Such is life in the United States of 'Merica, circa 2016. The inmates are running the asylum, and now they're coming to take us away, HAHA HAHA, HEHE HEHE ...
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