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My point is that people should vote as informed as they should be - thats it.

The Democratic Party has been hijacked by feminists

There are a sizable number of people in this country who will tell you.....as almost as point of pride.... that they don't read.

There are many many people whose lives have been less than average as a result of the current administration. People are suffering, jobs are lost, people are hungry and stuck and bad situations.

Please whoever you vote for, make a good choice for Americans as a whole, not just the rich or poor, black or white, immigrants or aliens, male or female, democrat or republican. Please understand each vote does count and if you haven't taken a COLLGE LEVEL GOVERNMENT COURSE ON POLITICS whereby you truly understand the fundamental platform differences between parties, please GET INFORMED.

Don’t vote for a puppet because you like what they have to say, vote for what they can prove they can do!

I realize that it is impossible to know everything about everyone and all the issues but please try to gain as much unbaised information about the candidates as you can. I have seen no election matter more in my lifetime thus far.

There are men that want to be dominated by women, be in servitude to her, and there are men that want to be a slave to feminists. The Democratic Party have both kinds of men. Bill Clinton is the poster child for such a douche. These men are the liberals. They are into the goddess.

The truth is we have experienced an unprecedented 57 straight months of job growth in the US.

Our economy has a solid foundation, but there are also areas of real concern. Our economy has seen the longest uninterrupted period of job growth on record – 52 months of job growth – but job creation has slowed recently.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/economy/

The past year, hailed by Republican propagandists and "free trade" economists as proof of globalism’s benefit to Americans, was dismal. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ nonfarm payroll data, the US "super economy" created a miserable 1,054,000 net new private sector jobs during 2007. [BLS Job Numbers, January 4, 2008]

This is not enough to keep up with population growth—even at the rate discouraged Americans, unable to find jobs, are dropping out of the work force—thus the rise in the unemployment rate to 5%.

What a super new economy Americans have! US job growth has a distinctly third world flavor. A very small percentage of 2007’s new jobs required a college education. Since there are so few jobs for university graduates, how is "education the answer"?

During the past year, US goods producing industries, continuing a long trend, lost 374,000 jobs.

What occupations provided the 1.4 million service jobs in 2007?

Waitresses and bartenders accounted for 304,200, or 21% of the new service jobs last year and 29% of the net new jobs.

Health care and social assistance accounted for 478,400, or 33% of the new service jobs and 45% of the net new jobs. Ambulatory health care and hospitals accounted for the lion’s share of these jobs.

Professional and business services accounted for 314,000, or 22% of the new service jobs and 30% of the net new jobs.

Are these professional and business service jobs the high-end jobs of which "free traders" speak? Decide for yourself. Services to buildings and dwellings account for 53,600 of the jobs. Accounting and bookkeeping services account for 60,500 of the jobs. Architectural and engineering services account for 54,700 of the jobs. Computer systems design and related services account for 70,400 of the jobs. Management consultants account for 88,400 of the jobs.

There were more jobs for hospital orderlies than for architects and engineers. Waitresses and bartenders accounted for as many of last year’s new jobs as the entirety of professional and business services.

Wholesale and retail trade, transportation, and utilities accounted for 181,000 of 2007’s new jobs.

Where are the rest of the new jobs? There are a few scattered among arts, entertainment, and recreation, repair and maintenance, personal and laundry services, and membership associations and organizations.

That’s it.

Keep in mind that the loss of 374,000 goods producing jobs must be subtracted from the 1,428,000 new service jobs to arrive at the net job gain figure. The new service jobs account for more than 100% of the net new jobs.

Keep in mind, too, that many of the new jobs are not filled by American citizens. Many of the engineering and science jobs were filled by foreigners brought in on work visas. Indians and others from abroad can be hired to work in the US for one-third less. The engineering and science jobs that are offshored are paid as little as one-fifth of the US salary. Even foreign nurses are brought in on work visas. No one knows how many of the hospital orderlies are illegals.

http://www.tradereform.org/content/view/590/34/

1. Wage growth is low. Factoring in inflation, hourly wages were 2.7% higher and weekly wages were 1.9% higher in October 2007 than in March 2001.

2. Weak job growth continues. Monthly job growth since March 2001 has averaged an annualized 0.7%. From November 2006 to November 2007, the average monthly job growth was 127,100 jobs, compared to 186,600 in the preceding 12 months, and 208,900 in the 12 months before that.

3. Benefits are disappearing. The share of private sector workers with a pension dropped from 50.3% in 2000 to 43.2% in 2006, the last year for which data are available, and the share of people with employer-provided health insurance dropped from 64.2% to 59.7%.

4. Family debt is on the rise. In the third quarter of 2007, household debt averaged a record 133.0% of disposable income. In the second quarter of 2007, families spent 14.3% of their disposable income to service their debt, up from 13.0% in the first quarter of 2001.

5. Families feel the pressure. The share of mortgages entering foreclosure was 0.8% in the third quarter of 2007—the sixth increase in a row to the highest level on record since 1979. The share of all mortgages in foreclosure also reached a record 1.7%.

6. Housing market slows. New home sales in October were 23.5% lower than a year earlier, and existing home sales were 20.7% lower. The median sales price of existing homes was 5.1% lower in October 2007 than a year earlier, and the median sales price of new homes dropped 13.1%. The average monthly supply of homes for the six months ending in October was 8.5 months—the highest since February 1991.

7. Home equity declines. Home equity dropped by 2.5 percentage points relative to disposable income in the third quarter of 2007—the seventh decline in a row—ending the largest year-over-year drop since June 1992.

8. Poverty stays high. The poverty rate fell slightly to 12.3% in 2006, down from 12.6% in 2005, but still substantially higher than the last low point in 2000, when it was 11.3%.

9. Business investment is low and productivity growth slows. Business investment averaged 10.8% of GDP between March 2001 and September 2007—the lowest share since the 1960s. Net investment, after accounting for depreciation of capital goods, averaged 2.0% of GDP at the same time—the lowest share of any business cycle. And labor productivity growth fell below 2.0% in 2005 and 2006 for the first time since 1997.

10. Improvements in government’s finances are temporary. In August 2007, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the deficit for 2007 amounted to $158 billion—$14 billion less than projected in January. Yet the cumulative budget deficit from 2008 to 2012 increased sharply from $194 billion to $696 billion in CBO’s projections.

11. Tax cuts do not pay for themselves. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that the tax enacted since 2001 would cost $300 billion in 2007 alone, such that the federal government would show a surplus had it not been for President Bush’s tax cuts.

12. This endangers our economic independence. Foreign investors bought 77.2% of new Treasury debt and the share of U.S. foreign-held debt grew to 46% in September 2007 from 31% in March 2001. Interest payments from the federal government to foreigners rose to $39 billion in the second quarter 2007 from $21 billion in the first quarter of 2001.

13. Trade deficit remains high despite strong export growth. In the third quarter of 2007, the trade deficit fell slightly to 5.0% of Gross Domestic Product from 5.2% in the second quarter of 2007. Yet, the last trade deficit is still larger than any trade deficit since the Great Depression recorded before the second quarter of 200

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/econ_snapshot.html

June 12, 2006

1. Profits are up, but the wages and incomes of average Americans are down.

* Inflation-adjusted hourly and weekly wages are below where they were at the start of the recovery in November 2001. Yet, productivity—the growth of the economic pie—is up by 14.7%.1 (Figure A)

* Wage growth has been shortchanged because 46% of the growth of total income in the corporate sector has been distributed as corporate profits, far more than the 20% in previous periods.

* Consequently, median household income (inflation-adjusted) has fallen five years in a row and was 4% lower in 2004 than in 1999, falling from $46,129 to $44,389.3

2. More and more people are deeper and deeper in debt.

* The indebtedness of U.S. households, after adjusting for inflation, has risen 42.0% over the last five years. 4
* The level of debt as a percent of after-tax income is the highest ever measured in our history. Mortgage and consumer debt is now 120% of after-tax income, more than twice the level of 30 years ago.5
* The debt-service ratio (the percent of after-tax income that goes to pay off debts) is at an all-time high of 13.9%.6
* The personal savings rate is negative for the first time since the Depression.7

3. Job creation has not kept up with population growth, and the employment rate has fallen sharply.

* The United States has only 1.9% more jobs today than in March 2001 (the start of the last recession). Private sector jobs are up only 1.5%. At this stage of previous business cycles, jobs had grown by an average of 8.8% and never less than 6.0%.8
* The unemployment rate is relatively low at 4.6%. But the percent of the population that has a job has never recovered since the recession and is still 1.3% lower than in March 2001. If the employment rate had returned to pre-recession levels, almost 4 million more people would be employed.9
* More than 3 million manufacturing jobs have been lost since 2000.10

4. Poverty is on the rise.

* The poverty rate rose from 11.3% in 2000 to 12.7% in 2004.11
* The number of people living in poverty has increased by 5.4 million since 2000.12
* More children are living in poverty: the child poverty rate increased from 16.2% in 2000 to 17.8% in 2004.13

5. Rising health care costs are eroding families' already declining income.

* Households are spending more on health care. Family health costs rose 43-45% for married couples with children, single mothers, and young singles from 2000 to 2003.14
* Employers are cutting back on health insurance. Last year, the percent of people with employer-provided health insurance fell for the fourth year in a row. Nearly 3.7 million fewer people had employer-provided insurance in 2004 than in 2000. Taking population growth into account, 11 million more people would have had employer-provided health insurance in 2004 if the coverage rate had remained at the 2000 level.15

http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/pm110

It's not backed up by the numbers, and all you have to do is look around and see that the emperor has no clothes.