Gas prices were NOT 1.85 in 2008.
You don't remember gas prices plummeting after their peak in May - July during the end of 2008, hitting a low sometimes in December and January of 2008-09?
Gas prices were NOT 1.85 in 2008.
ExpandedMy beef with with Obama is that he continued to do the shit Bush did. Screw that guy.
Meh... its all bush's fault, right?
Next time a customer hires me to clean up a failed implementation, I'm going to deliver nothing.
Then I'll simply offer the excuse that my being ineffective was due to the mess left by the last guy. We'll see how long I stay in business
Obama owns this - it was no secret coming in. He was "hired" to fix the mess - no excuses.
Gas prices were NOT 1.85 in 2008.
I think 4.11 was the highest I paid then , of course at that point , between all the taxes , there was nearly .75 cents of tax in that .Gas was up to $4 to $5 a gallon in 2008. I think it was near $5 when I was working in Elkton MD in 2008.
Anways I looked on this site and in 2008 it says gas peaked at 4.12 a gallon.
http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx?time=24
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My beef with with Obama is that he continued to do the shit Bush did. Screw that guy.
He is actually doing a reasonably good job of hiding the mess. It is a lot worse than most people can comprehend.
Hollywood and DamianTV, you guys need to educate yourselves on the standard measure of unemployment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_Population_Survey
Here's the problem with giving Obama a pass and suggesting he was left with this mess from Bush.
He put his application in for the job and he said he could fix the problems and he was hired. I don't shed a tear for him still being in the same mess and worse than when he took over. If his policies were sound you would have seen some major recovery in at least a few areas.
If Ron becomes POTUS and in three years we weren't seeing significant changes, people would have every right to be upset.
I believe U-3 (as currently defined) to be 8.5% but not to be a useful definition of unemployment (and heavily manipulated down). But that doesn't make it OK to spout falsehoods like you and hollywood did; doublecounting and benefit collection have no effect on unemployment.If you really believe unemployment is really at 8.5%, explain to me how in the last 10 years, we added 30 million people to this country and have no new jobs for them, yet, unemployment rates are not skewed? I think the best thing anyone, not just you, but anyone can do is to get their information from multiple different sources and compare. MSM (for whom I used to work) tend to get their information from the same place. Government reported statistics. You want a different source for your stats, try http://www.shadowstats.com