VaYank5150
Gold Member
My partisan hackery? OK. Now I see where you are coming from. But for the record, I speak what I believe, not what I am told to believe.
For example, wherewas many "partisan hacks" jumped for joy over that Bush/Katrina vs. Obama/Gulf spill poll, I applied my logical thinking and posted why those numbers are skewed.
And to answer your question. From my clients. They are all very skeptical to hire people based on initiatives on the table including the idea of another stimulus that will create an even larger deficit/debt.
I have agreed with much of what you have said in the past, but as time and issues arise with this administration, I am starting to voice my opinion, and it appears you dont agree with me. I am OK with that. But I find it disturbing that I was an OK guy when I agreed with things you said, but now that I dont always agree, I am a partisan hack to you.
I was very much in agreement with Bush for the first 3 years. By the end of his 4th he lost my vote and by the end of the 8th, he lost any confidence I may have had in him in 2000.
Does that make me a partisan hack or a thinking man with my own ideas?
You and I have always gotten along, even thought we disagree on much. Like you, I prefer to think for myself and have called Obama out when I felt he deserved it (think back room deals for Healthcare and expanding the war in Afghanistan). I am OK with you disagreeing with things when you have something, ANYTHING to back it up. Right now, you just look partisan because all you want to do is blame a stimulus package that may or may not have impacted ths jobs market. YOU DO NOT KNOW.
Now, your customers tell you they will not hire based on initiatives. I get that. However, MY customers also do not hire when there is no work to be had. They could give a shit about initiatives. Right now, capital is hard to come by, and they cannot spend money they do not have on employees they do not need. Simple as that. No need to blame Obama for simple economics.
So are you saying that I must only articualte facts that dont exist to prove either way? I am not allowed to say what I feel is true and accurate?
I am a thinking man with my own calculations based on all of the information I gather to come up with my conclusions.
It has allowed me to anticipate, forecast and succeeed. And interestingly enough, I do not need someone elses vote to succeed in life, so I am sure more likely to express accurrate summations than a politician.
Yes, I am confident in my ideas. So much so that I do not need to say "In my opinion" with everything I believe, as it is not just opinion to me. It is fact to me. I mean, lets be real. NBC says one thing and fox says the opposite. Boehner says one thing Pelosi says the opposite. There is no fact in politics and the media anymore. So we, individually, need to determine what facts are facts.
I need to froecast for business, so I poll my clients. I capitalize on my personal understanding of how economic factors work and come up with summaries that allow me to forecast properly and succeed.
SO I am not sure how you see this board, but I see it as a place to state provable fact and as a way to also offer my own "fact" based on my analyses.
Fair enough. I was not aware that you are more than happy to present your opinions, not based in fact, as well, facts...now that I know, I will better understand how to read your posts.