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The state of the economy? Two words: it sucks! Mr president you said it will get better. When???
The president said he is spending at the lowest rate of any president. Well, Harvard and others who provided Obama with his education should have their teaching certification revoked.
The president is wrong. For instance Obama is spending at a rate of $7 Million per minute. Reagan, for instance, adjusted for value of the dollar and population, spent at the rate of
$5 Million per minute.
Both Reagan and Obama inherited a jack-pot economy ultimately leading to 10+% unemployment. Reagan lowered it to about 5%. Obama is not there yet.
Additionally, Reagan did not lose participation, that is he avoided reaping a large group of taxpayers 'giving up'. If you add the 7 million people who are unemployed but not included in the unemployment % figure published, currently at 8.1%, you get true unemployment of about 14% right now.
I believe the president should reduce spending to the $5 Million per minute. Government spending is linked to unemployment.
TSA "customer service" does not exist. I will repeat myself again. TSA agents are nothing but a bunch of humorless dolts on a power trip.
Agree, dazzle©.
Good morning @ dazzle.
Your recent air travel I'm sure is a testimony to that.
Good Morning @banasy and @saywhat.I hope your day is going well. @saywhat, Were you ever able to get the name of that film maker past the moderators? It sounds like something that would be of interest to me.
Good Morning dazzle, banasy, saywhat
Hope everyone is doing well today. I just posted a joke, but it's "awaiting moderation". I hope they let it post, because I believe you'll like this one.
@ dazzle
Its " Peace,Propaganda and the Promised Land" by an amazing Israeli Jewish woman and film maker Bathsheba Ratzkoff.
I'm amazed my post went thru this time. This doc was suppressed here for a long time and is now available on YouTube.
A must see for every American.
@saywhat, thank you for that. I wrote it down in case they decide to delete it.
@bobcat (in a hat)©, I hope your joke goes through, I need a laugh this morning. When I went for a hike this morning, I came across 3 rattlesnakes which scared the hell out of me.
yikes! I have yet to see one this year. But then again I tend not to hike in the summer. It's too darn hot for me
@jj, this was a first for me. I hike almost every day but have to get up at 5am when it is still somewhat cool but with the sun not fully up you can imagine the fright of seeing these snakes.
this is true dazzle. Wish I could Could post pictures on here of some of the hikes I've been on. So pretty the mountains of Arizona. I did catch one of those little lizards that One always sees running around the other day. His tail fell off. Poor little guy. But then my brother said its some sort of defense mechanism. Guess it grows back tho. Lol
Good morning, all.
It is a spendid day here today!
I hope everyone is doing well.
The new Supermarket near our house has an automatic water mister to keep the produce fresh. Just before it goes on, you hear the sound of a thunderstorm and the smell of fresh rain. When you approach the milk cases, you hear cows mooing and witness the scent of fresh butter fat. When you approach the egg case, you hear hens cackle and the air is filled with the pleasing aroma of eggs frying.
So far I have been too afraid to go down the toilet paper aisle.
God is sitting in Heaven when a scientist says to Him, “Lord, we don’t need you anymore. Science has finally figured out a way to create life out of nothing. In other words, we can now do what you did in the ‘beginning’.”
“Oh, is that so? Tell me…” replies God.
“Well, ” says the scientist, “we can take dirt and form it into the
likeness of You and breathe life into it, thus creating man.”
“Well, that’s interesting. Show Me.”
So the scientist bends down to the earth and starts to mold the soil.
“Oh no, no, no…” interrupts God, “Get your own dirt.”
Three women die together in an accident and go to heaven.
When they get there, St. Peter says, “We only have one rule here in
heaven: don’t step on the ducks!”
So they enter heaven, and sure enough, there are ducks all over the
place. It is almost impossible not to step on a duck, and although
they try their best to avoid them, the first woman accidentally
steps on one.
Along comes St. Peter with the ugliest man she ever saw.
St. Peter chains them together and says, “Your punishment for
stepping on a duck is to spend eternity chained to this ugly man!”
The next day, the second woman steps accidentally on a duck and
along comes St. Peter, who doesn’t miss a thing. With him is another
extremely ugly man. He chains them together with the same
admonishment as for the first woman.
The third woman has observed all this and, not wanting to be chained for all eternity to an ugly man, is very, VERY careful where she steps.
She manages to go months without stepping on any ducks, but one day St. Peter comes up to her with the most handsome man she has ever laid eyes on …. very tall, long eyelashes, muscular, and thin.
St. Peter chains them together without saying a word.
The happy woman says, “I wonder what I did to deserve being chained to you for all of eternity?”
The guy says, “I don’t know about you, but I stepped on a duck!”
Have a good one all.
Thanks@bobcat
Good for us your jokes slipped past the folks watching you.
@bobcat(iah), lol, these 3 jokes cancel out the bad of the 3 snakes. Unfortunately for me, I've stepped on a few too many ducks, so to speak. @jj, you could always post a sceenic pic of your geographic location in your profile.