GDP Falls by 2.9% in Q1 14

Never said let the auto industry collapse.

Just like republicans claiming tax cuts for the rich actually create jobs.

No, this is not the same.

Please research a few things.

1. Oil and gas production growth on public lands.

2. Oil and gas production growth on private lands.

Then, please research on how much clout Obama has on each of these types of properties to stymie production or support production.

When you've completed this research, come back and fill us in on what you've learned. I'm curious if your position will have changed at that point.

For those who still dabble in facts:

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Look who crawled out from his basement. Any comment on ferguson, the record number of people on food stamps or that first time unemployment claims are back over 300,000?

People who advocate getting rid of minimum wage dont have much street cred complaining about food stamps.

But isn't it amusing how people like Hoops have had to change their criteria to rationalize their denial of the economic recovery? Unemployment, gdp, federal deficit, stock market, and consumer confidence are no longer valid measurements of the economy. Hoops now says its food stamps and ..... ferguson. How. Very. Desperate. And amusing. Happy thanksgiving, Hoops! Maybe a record number of people will buy turkeys with food stamps. Wouldnt that make you happy? One last desperate thread to cling to ! lets hope that food stamps number stays high else Hoops will have to invent a new metric....maybe the number of people buying generic brands at the supermarket will be Hoops next metric.

The number of people on food stamps has gone up 50% under obama.

Less than 5% of the work force makes minimum wage and half of them are teenagers. Less than 2m adults make the minimum wage. So the minimum wage has nothing to do with a 50% growth in food stamp enrollees.

Another liberal myth bites the dust.

Hoops makes things up and tries to get away with it by not citing his fictional source. And the sun rises.

average age of minimum wage worker is 30

Of course the overwhelming majority of recipients are seniors, kids, and disabled vets that fought the wars Hoops advocated who also now are demagogued by Hoops for collecting food stamps. And plenty of active soldiers have families that collect food stamps. I dont consider aid to them and their families a metric by which to score points in a desperate argument over economics. The primary group that collects food stamps that could potentially be removed from the program are people who work for impoverished wages...the same group Hoops bogusly claims are all teenagers.

who gets food stamps
49% are kids under 18
16% are disabbled
9% are seniors

My stats come from the BLS