Without Jobs, there is no recovery. The recovery starts when people start going back to work.

A jobless recovery, is the stupidest thing I have heard.

If there was some trick to obtain prosperity without work, none of us would work.

I really don't think that was a mistake at all. Haven't many analysts said that even during the recovery, substantial job creation won't be for a while, and if a recovery starts with the strengthening of financial institutions and ends with that leading to more jobs, doesn't that mean that the jobs come at the end portion of the recovery?

I'm not trying to make this a political argument (really, how obnoxious do you have to be to try and turn a dumb quote thread in to a political argument?) But he did say "at the end of", and not "after" And I a substantial drop in the unemployment rate is one of the latter occurances in the economic recovery... then wouldn't what he said be right?

You mean the analysts who have been 100% wrong for 2 years now? Why do we care what they say? They have been proven to be worthless.

The problem all along is not that banks won't lend because they can't. It's been banks won't lend because they are smart.

Millions more people are out of work today then they were a year ago. This means every company that manufactures something, or provides a service has a much smaller client base. They are hurting, so they want a loan. Problem is, nothing is going to stop that hurt. While people keep losing jobs, loaning money to a company that's already doing bad, is a bad idea.

So yes. You can prop up as many companies as you want with as many bailout dollars as you like, but until people go back to work, the economy will continue to fall. This is what we have been doing, and this is what's been happening.

It's not theory anymore. It's the reality of the last 2 years.

Obama and his crew are just too fucking stupid to realize this. They have watched it happen for years, and instead of saying "we were wrong", they say "we didn't do enough". It's infuriating to watch such utter incompetence run this nation, and for people to think it's going well.

Think about it this way. Bush was a fucking idiot. If he was still president, he would have done the exact same thing Obama has done. So, Obama is acting just like Bush, but it's the right thing to do? It's change? No. It's hiring a good looking, black berry toting,  slick talking, young man who might be fit to be a used car salesman as the leader of the free world.

This recession is not over. We have not hit the bottom. Nothing indicates that we have, other then Obama saying we have.... again.

Well I've heard loads of stupid things in my life but a lot of them might just be perception haha. But I'm assuming that is the case for most.

As for recently, at the tea parties those who accused Obama of being a socialist and a Nazi. Now anyone that understand anything about the political spectrum they'll understand how this is quite well stupid. Nazis are authoritarian right and socialists are on the far left... not all the way up the authoritarian scale but still. The point is they are polar opposites. One can't both be a fascist and a socialist at the same time in the same respect. It's a logical contradiction. So yes it is stupid haha.

Second one is anyone who dares tell me that I have to give up liberties for protection. heard this a lot after 9/11. Come on you aren't safe and you are scared so you need to give up a few liberties such as privacy to be protected. Probably the stupidest thing I'll ever here. Might as well just make the government a dictatorship with a fascist leader if that's what they are asking. As the Benjamin Franklin saying goes (somewhat haha) "Those who give up liberties for protection deserve neither."

Also more recently, democrats stating they can fund health care reform with simply cutting the costs of other programs and waste. Yea the day government cuts wastes and costs is the day pigs fly haha. Not gonna happen. Stupid claim.

Lots of other stupid things I've heard as well but that's a good start.

I've heard that from several sources actually.  Jobs are supposedly always the last part of the economy to recover.  Nobody wants to hire any new people until they can pay off all their recession debt and get a little breathing room, and it takes a while.  It sucks ass, especially out here in California.  I'm competing for shitty restaurant jobs with several other college graduates.  My friend with a Master's just got some crappy assistant job.  It's hell out here.

 Hey, come on, it was a really stupid thing, a future president voting AGAINST letting Nintendo buy a baseball team?  Yamauchi wanted to buy the Seattle Mariners so he could keep them in Seattle.  They were gonna get bought out and forced to move across the country, and Yamauchi and Nintendo wanted to give something back to the local community, so they wanted to pitch in and let the city keep their own baseball team.  A future president voted AGAINST that, because he's Japanese.  It was part of the whole anti-Japanese racism from the 80's when everybody was afraid of Japan taking over everything, since Mario became more famous than Mickey Mouse and Sony just bought Columbia Pictures, etc etc etc.  And it was total racist bullshit.

I agree.

Seriously people. The political ass-hattery ends now. If a politician says something stupid "Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." or "I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go." that's great.

If you just want to pull partisan crap, you stay out of this thread.

I have no idea the situation, but I was just making a statement.

One time in Che misty class we were going after the periodic table... and keep in mind this was like 1st or 2nd period.

So this transpires.

"The number of protons in an element is just the number of the element. So if you know the atomic number you know the number of protons."

"How do you know the number of protons?"

"It's the number on the peirodic table."

"Yeah, yeah i know that... but what do i do with the number to get the number of protons".

"You don't do anything... it's the num...."

"Yeah but what do I do with the number!"

"hernamehere.... what you do is...."

"I mean i'm not stupid i just want to do with the number."


Me "YOU DON'T DO ANYTHING WITH THE FREAKING NUMBER! Hydrogen is 1... so it has 1 Proton! HEILIUM IS 2 IT HAS 2 PROTONS! IT'S JUST THE NUMBER."


While i was horribly rude. In my defense... I had Spanish with the girl the year before... she would ask non stop questions in that too.

We were supposed to get through 25 chapters of Spanish. We got through 4.

I wasn't going to let her fuck up my chemistry education too.

The stupidest thing I ever heard was Alexander Hamilton argue in front of all the founding fathers of this country that we should elect our presidents to life-long terms. Man that guy was an idiot. Somebody should've shot that son of a bitch.

The thing is.  Glenn Beck wasn't always crazy.

He used to be like... a slightly conservative moderate.

Like right around the time he got his first TV show... his entire personality changed.

It's either an act or he had a nervous breakdown.  He kept talking about how he thought the world was going to end all of a sudden... and then... I dunno.