re: US economy grew at 3.5 percent rate in Q3

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Good news is given showing improvement in the economy. What do you do? Try to find some reason why it's actually bad news or why it could/should have been better than it is. You're so invested in your political doctrine/dogma that you personally feel threatened. Has anyone in this thread suggested the improvement has anything to do with Obama's policies? Jeez!

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It is good news. Unfortunately, Obama is such a documented liar that many people are wary of the truth of what they are being told. Also, it is curious that it is his non Nobel Peace Prize ways that are a factor in the growth (I am confident the Left would not be nearly as accepting of this if this were a Republican administration).

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Good news is given showing improvement in the economy

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Sure it's good news, but you have to look at at it objectively.

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Has anyone in this thread suggested the improvement has anything to do with Obama's policies? Jeez!

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You didn't have to. You wouldn't have started this thread if it wasn't a positive for Obama.

Want...we've DOUBLED our National Debt under Obama's policy; and given (morally and practically) unsustainable subsidies to all manner of folk who burn cities if they are ever threatened with losing them. Even if/when the economy comes back, there will be pressure for interest rates to rise; and with a doubling on the serviceable debt...guess what!

The mere suggestion that a recovering economy DOES, or can, have anything to do with Obama's Socialist policy...is baseless at it's theoretical economic core. Hell yeah we'll criticize Obama's ("fundamental change") policy...because we believe it to be harmful to this Nation. Rich...and poor!

Good job though!

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Well, Fox will attribute record Christmas revenue to them even though they haven't been sworn in yet and hopefully they won't be able to do more than they done in the past 6 years - which is zero - because God forbid the national economy will look like Kansas

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Well what they will do, CD...and likely on the first day...is pass the Keystone Pipeline and lay it on Obama's desk and dare him to veto it. Because that would go a long way to getting us OUT of the ME craphole...and create of lot of REAL jobs.

Barack Obama/Harry Reid has screwed this Nation for those six years, in holding up good policy which could truly help in solving our economic woes. The Republicans had damn sure better PRODUCE...or we'll all be in the streets when the ME goes up in Islamist flames.

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Or is the economy being driven by wall street and the rich getting richer on the backs of the poor and middle class? I can't remember which

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This is where the left's hypocrisy get them in trouble.

1. They chided the right for any military spending since the beginning of time. Once Obama is in office, increase in spending is a good thing?
2. Despite an increase in GDP, job growth is still abysmal. And the left's constant argument is that only the rich are getting richer, and any of that gdp growth went to rich people, because they took it from the poor. So shouldn't you lefties be appalled at GDP growth? After all, it only puts more money into the hands of the business owners. And as Hillary, Obama, and the left have repeated, business owners don't create jobs, they simply hoard cash and use automated machines to do all of the work.
3. We have been at near rock bottom for what, 5 years now? It's kind of hard to go anywhere but up. Also, while I hope for accelerated growth, the outlook doesn't look that way, unless military spending continues to rise. Spending in business decreased compared to last quarter, and could decrease next quarter.
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4. How can you trust anything coming out of the government these days? The administration has proven throughout the entire presidency, that it will artificially inflate numbers, and use government agencies and positions to skew statistics towards their favor. Only a fool takes what the government says at face value.

So, a want, as much as i'd like to be positive for the growth in GDP, most of it is due to military spending, and jobless rates are still at record highs. That damned labor participation rate is still contradicting all reports out of the white house. Your boy Barry could have spurred economic growth, especially in the energy sector. He could have approved the Keystone pipeline, stopped destroying the coal energy market, and opened up federal land leases for oil/natural gas. But instead, he let lobbyists and special interests scare him away from it.
And the truth of the matter is, Obama does not want America to be the power it once was. He sees this country as the great oppressor, and he despises the US and sees us as colonialists. His upbringing and his book taught him to hate this country. If you doubt me, just read his book. It's all out there, in his own words.

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the biggest jump in military spending in five years.

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Da fuq? Didn't we just end 2 wars? What in the frick is the MIC doing now?

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Just in time for the election??

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Exactly. Its amazing some people here still believe numbers that the Obama regime puts out.

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biggest jump in military spending in five years.

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What explains this? Was it preceded by a sharp drop-off in a previous period?