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President Bush To Call For Return To Moon?
Brian Stretch writes " According to the National Review: 'When President Bush delivers a speech recognizing the centenary of heavier-than-air-powered flight December 17, it is expected that he will proffer a bold vision of renewed space flight, with at its center a return to the moon, perhaps even establishment of a permanent presence there. If he does, it will mean that he has decided the United States should once again become a space-faring nation.' Here's hoping. The article also includes talk of nuclear engines and using the moon as a testbed for going to Mars."
Most of the national debt is actually owed to the American people.
Are you daft? That unemployment benefits are a good indicator of the actual unemployment rate is a terrible myth.
Did your stats say how many hapless people have been unemployed for so long that they don't even qualify for benefits anymore? Or how many people never qualified in the first place? All your stats mean is that the rate at which jobs are being cut is falling, but it doesn't mean that new jobs are being created any faster in replacement. That 105,000 drop is most telling of the truth, and is least supportive to your argument.
There's a very important difference, especially when considering the poorest of the poor, those who don't have any income now that they've lost both their jobs and thier benefits.
the claims of a 'jobless recovery' are pure BS
This so-called recovery has been going on for well over a year, and only now are jobs beginning to be created. That, my friend, is the textbook definition of 'jobless recovery'.
The report also showed the number of unemployed still on the benefit rolls in the Nov. 15 week fell by a sharp 105,000 to 3.37 million, a level not seen since early February -- also from Forbes.
Does that include the number of discourged workers who aren't even counted in the "benefit rolls", because their benefits have run out? No. Unemployment has been understated for a long time because these people aren't counted.
And how does that number of people on the benefit rolls compare what it was at the beginning of George II's reign?
Bush's approval ratings are still extremely high -- and as long as the democrats can't figure out what their agenda is, none of the nine dwarves are going to beat him.
His ratings have been hovering in the 50's for a while now, well under what Clinton's were on the day of the impeachment vote. And some Democrats (Dean, Kucinich) do have an agenda, you just need to get your news from other places than Fox News to find out what it is.
Hopelessly pedantic since 1963.
Hopelessly pedantic since 1963.