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It does in Texas. Kinda like "fixing to" do something.
It's at 99.9% approval now. Please update this thread.
It does in Texas. Kinda like "fixing to" do something.
It's not at 99.9%.
That is a lie.
Thanks for adding a lie to the thread.
You are really adding to the discussion here.
How do we know it's not really 59.8%?
You are free to download the data from Gallup's site.
Manufacturing isn't just manufacturing. All heavy industry is industry, but not all industry is heavy industry. The domestic auto industry has been in peril ever since the Asian invasion. It has massive underlying issues and needed to be restructured. The housing industry has been booming my entire lifetime and is experiencing a bubble being burst. The auto industries decline has been more akin to an inflatable mattress being deflated over 20 years.
There's really nothing inherently wrong with the way blue jeans are made. All major clothes manufacturers have pretty much shipped off to East Asia the last 20 years or so anyways. So the argument is that this should be the same in the autos? I'm all for capitalism and would agree if we can't make them here we should make them elsewhere if it's in the interest of the company... but if we can restructure and perhaps safe those jobs? Give it a try. Saying there is no difference is a bit myopic. It may not be as cliche as apples and oranges... maybe granny smiths and fujis.
and I was critiquing my own statement. After I typed "whole nother level" I realized it how little term makes sense.
It's "fixun" not "fixing"
Obama said we HAD to pass the stimulus bill or unemployment would hit 10%. Well, now they say they're expecting it to hit 10% or higher by year's end. And their excuse for the inaccuracy? Oops - my bad, we guessed wrong.
The states are angry and frustrated because they can't even get the stimulus funds released and there are so many strings attached to the funds, it's almost impossible to spend the money. And where are all the "shovel ready" projects Obama promised were ready to go? The stimulus has done NOTHING to help the economy or create jobs. All it did was put our children and grandchildren into such deep debt, they'll never recover.
I thought fixuns are all the things you can put on a hot dog, burger, or baked potato.
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Doesn't every President's approval rating normally drop off anyway? Why is this a big surprise?
they are... but you can be fixun to do something and have fixuns all over your food.
the english language is a .
Bingo.
I was more surprised at the results for the tobacco bill.
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"sentuous" -- Sentuous up, get me a beer.
I get that the auto bailouts are part of Obama's *industrial policy*, but it's hardly an accident that the high wage jobs the bailouts save are by and large union jobs.
You're right to emphasize the importance of manufacturing, but CG is also right to point out that Obama is staking out his political loyalties, and also that the distinction you're making between various kinds of manufacturing may appear arbitrary to others.
It certainly seems arbitrary to me. While I can understand the difference between heavy and light industry, I'm not sure I get why one should be considered intrinsically more valuable than the other.
(Is it b/c of the capital/labor-intensive nature of heavy industry and the corresponding high-dollar value of the manufactures and the labor?)
National security factors as well. You can't have foreign companies running all of our heavy manufacturing base. I know the world doesn't work like it did during WWII when we used our auto plants to help churn out endless waves of tanks/planes/ships... but it's certainly not a bad policy to keep those same factories from being totally liquidated.
Just wait until we start taxing the crap out of heavy industry so we can save the planet from a trace gas that makes up 3% of the atmosphere. And humans only contribute 3% of that 3%.
.03 * .03 is a pretty small number.
I would argue that Northrup Grumman, McDonnell Douglass, Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon etc. etc., are all propped up by our perpetual war footing. What the car companies have to do with national security frankly eludes me.
bleh here we go.
I don't even think global warming is much of an issue. If we are effecting the planet it's something that won't really take hold for a loooong time. I'm no expert, so whatever.
I'd rather look at it from an air pollution point of view. That is something that 100% of both sides can say is a problem. It does cause health problems. The smog actually does make areas hotter. Giving companies a green light to pollute as much as they want is a bad policy period.
The ol "well they're doing it so we should do it" argument is just plain short sighted.
Industry is industry. There's nothing special about the auto industry other than the fact that they're politically connected. Besides, automobiles aren't the only heavy industry we have in this country. They are the only heavy industry being given $100 billion dollars specifically for the purpose of saving jobs. Jobs that just so happen to belong to a favored voting block.
I'm all for American manufacturing. I oppose cap and trade specifically because of the effect it will have on American manufacturing. I want the government to cut corporate tax rates in half specifically to help American manufacturing. But when it comes to our government selectively playing God as to which industries shall be saved and which shall die based on who's making the campaign contributions that's an incredibly offensive misuse of power. Especially when in GM & Chrysler's case where their troubles are self inflicted, yet were ignored because they knew the politicians they had bought and paid for would not allow them to suffer the consequences of their incompetence.
If it came to that, there's plenty of auto factories in the southern states that would gladly support that endeavor. The fact that there's a Toyota logo out front instead of a GM one makes no difference.
I don't think anyone disagrees that we should limit pollution.
Funny thing is, when they invented the catalytic converter to convert carbon monoxide to water and CO2, everyone thought it was a good thing. They never realized that, one day, a gas necessary for all life on the planet would be considered a pollutant.
People really need to stop blaming Bush for everything. He's not the president anymore. Lord Obama is the president. He knew that he when he became president that things weren't great in America. Everything is on him now. If he doesn't like that then he should resign. Besides, how long can Obama keep blaming Bush for everything that goes wrong under his presidency?
That's really not that true...likeable Presidents are pretty much bulletproof, regardless of their policies.
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