This is outstanding news, even DESPITE Obama's agenda to keep Houston from growing jobs. Examples would include his opposition to the XL Pipeline, NASA and his policies driving companies like Transocean to relocate to Switzerland.
I'll bet he worked for Sports Illustrated in 1994, too! HE TRIED TO KILL THE ROCKETS CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION!!!!!!11!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good riddance to Transocean, I hope BP is next. If Obama really wants to destroy Houston all he needs to do is mandate everyone drive a prius, which would in turn reduce U.S. demand for oil, thus dropping world oil prices.:grin:
Once again, this is why nobody takes you guys seriously, especially you. If it had said- "Houston on the decline" you would have said this is all NObamas fault, takin' American jobs away. How idiotic is it that the president has an agenda out on Houston, much less this idea that he is anti-American. He sits in the oval office all day, waiting, watching, penting his fingers wondering how he can destroy jobs and bring Houston crumbling to his knees.
"I will be held accountable. If I don't have this done in 3 years, it's going to be a one-term proposition." - Barack Obama, February '09 Goodnight, sweet prince.
Except the economy has turned around. It was in recession back then. Now it's growing. Not as fast as we'd like, but he didn't claim a particular rate. And he's right - if we were still in recession 3 years after he took office, he'd clearly be a one term President.
Texas won't vote for him anyways so the idea that if screwing Houston serves him in other ways he will do it is not much of a stretch.
....and yet you cannot refute anything I said, but rather you hurl personal insults, which represent that you have lost the argument. I'll be the bigger man and not respond back with insults.
Exactly. He knows he'll never get a single electoral vote from the state of Texas, so why would he bother trying to create jobs there when he can score a few cheap points for his left wing comrades?
bigtexxx, you would think after 3+years the koolaid has worn off and passed through these lefties' systems...simply an amazing elixir!
My favorite component of the right-wing mythos is the "koolaid," a pejorative thrown at any person who doesn't agree with them 100%. example 1 Sane person: "I think the Texans are going to be exposed at QB by the Ravens." este_texxx: "Ohhh, really?! That Obama Koolaid must taste GREAT! hahahahahaha!" example 2 Sane person: "I don't think Obama is intentionally trying to hurt the state of Texas. He has faults aplenty, but that would just be petty and stupid." este_texxx: "Hahah1hahah11!! What an IDIOT! It must be the Koolaid that makes you slobber all over him like that!" I am looking forward the days in the year ahead as belief in evolution or the axioms of trigonometry are labeled as evidence of Koolaid drinking.
Similarily, why would Republicans bother to do anything for Texas, if they know they'll get every single electoral vote from Texas? I kinda wish this illogic were true, because then maybe most Republicans wouldn't bend over backwards for New York-based, "secure Democrat" Wall Street.
I don't worry about the hows of these numbers. Ron Reagan taught me . .. . don't look at the numbers just make sure they don't change the calculation If unemployment is x . . . and the same calculation says it is y I can live with it being a valid way to determine its movement If it is x using Calculation 1 .. . then y using Calculation 2 well . . .it is meaningless. Rocket River
Also---amusing as hell--- January 30, 2009, DJIA-8000.86 January, 18, 2012 DJIA-12,578.95 (12578.95/8000.86)^(1/3)=1.16279=16.279% averaged annual growth. The "Obama factor"->5.279% of extra growth a year over the average! oh, or is the recent spectacular three-year bounce attributed to Romney's impending election from 2009 onwards? it was funner when you focused on one irrelevant macroeconomic variable that doesn't even define much of anything to define a presidency. By your own convoluted logic, you have a lot of egg on your face, dear sir.
LMAO at this amateur analysis Barry O decided to take the politically expedient way out of the crisis -- simply turn on the printing presses and assault the lower class by creating food and energy inflation for years to come. Nevermind finding common ground across the aisle and lowering spending to balance the budget and reduce debt -- he's proven completely incapable of that task. Definitely not the UNITER that he promised to be. You can rest easy that the stock market didn't rise due to Obama's job creation, despite him cookin' the books on the unemployment numbers. Obama has been a complete failure and has disappointed this nation.
Hey, I'm not the one who claimed the Dow Jones was swinging down because of the "imminent election" of Obama. What is it doing now, resting on the laurels of "imminent victory" for Romney? Or do things suddenly start going bad when Obama is invovled, but good when he isn't? Remember when your standards for an Obama presidency were "no attacks on American soil" and "high stock market"? Well, scoreboard. In between that, and your notion of ideal civil liberties being the Bush appartus, the Obama Adminstration should be a wet dream for you. but I guess the Kool-Aid just keeps on sucking in. Incidentally, save the amateurish economic analysis for someone who will believe it, I'd highly suggest that you read into debt deflation models, and post-Keynesian thinking, but given your incredible ability to move goalposts and facts to define whatever belief you have, I'd say debating with you is even more of a waste of time than debating anyone on the internet already is.
