Sadie I too watched Dr. Paul Krugman totally annihilate Mary Matalin with her statement about this being the worst recovery. So you believe a GOP spin doctor over a Nobel prize winning economist? You must be a citizen on that mountain Jon Stewart was talking about - your own world.

...remember how Obama won before he had done anything? What a laugh riot!

in drag!

Are advertisers on Foxy Keith's page today. Only way to combat this troubling trend with our local paper migrating to extreme partisanship is to hit their advertisers!

This is yet another example.

There's no question this was an eye opener of an issue. But the media was almost immediately flooded with multiple sources including sound rationale as to why books couldn't possibly have been cooked here.

One of the best I saw pointed out the fact that this data is collected by thousands of people, civil servants whose jobs are not beholden to partisan demands, and that even the most crooked of past administrations were unable to use their clout to get them to produce favorable numbers at critical election times. Richard Nixon's administration was used as one example, probably the only modern one that really did attempt to browbeat and threaten civil servants to cook the books in their favor. And they didn't even for Nixon!

Why is it that when the BLS came out with numbers earlier in Obama's administration Fox News used those numbers for evidence, but when the BLS comes out with numbers now that are good for the administration, they are not to be believed?

Hmmm.....suspicious....just asking.

Pickle, is the CAPITALIZATION meant for emphasis? Are you mad? I guess you did not live thru the 2008 recession that caused our problems and now you want to return to those same policies again? After 4 years of Romney/Ryan the middle class will only be a memory. After all 8 years of Bush/Cheney started our problems, now 4+ years of Romney/Ryan will finish the job. Thanks for your support.

Take our money? Didn't you get a tax cut from Obama? And, you don't like to pay for police/fire/schools/roads/sewers/etc. that we need? Do you know that America's wealthy are paying less in taxes in over 50 years? Get the facts and maybe then you will find out to whom you should really direct your anger.

Who is telling you how to live? Give us an example of that. What liberties have you lost? I really want to know.

I remember when the stock market was 1/2 what it is today. I remember when the banks were about to collapse. I remember when GM/Chrysler were on the brink of bankruptcy. I remember when Sec. Paulson called an emergency meeting at the Treasury. And I remember when Osama bin Laden was still alive in Afghanistan. Are you better off than you were 4 years ago? I do not know, but as a country we are definitely better off than we were 4 years ago.

yes you are right i see the error of my ways please almighty demo(c)rat forgive me. yes more people on food stamp,more people on government assitance than in the history of the U.S.A. average income is down to the lowest level in years. AS for you're ? in order (something the left doesn't do )1 yes #2 no I got one from Bush.#3 yes i don't mind payin for things we need we don't need the woods paved (trail) the airport what 1million $ to take out a runway? fancy school building that is not effeicnt.#4 I can't speak for the wealthy but the working person i'm payin over 50 % you demo don't count property , gas , sales, state, federal, phone, ect. taxes. #5 the government is telling us how to live. You want to drive Lic., Car reg. & ins. Safety belt ect. Own a house want to reshingle it you need a permit , pay a gover. official to inspect the roof sheeting. You want a garden ask the city first & get a permit ( you can only move 10 cubic feet of dirt (2 wheel barrows)in your life time w/o one)you want me to keep going on? #6 see #5 the stock market crashed as soon as Obama was elected in middle of nov. get you're facts straight P.s what about the early 80's

I've watched my pay check (ask you're dad what that is ) have 30% taken out for years (fed. state medica s.s., health ins. ect.) now it's 50% ya thats alot better than 30%!! that is not counting property ,gas , phone, ect. taxes!!

Truman, are you a trained economist? Are you using simple math to attribute to Obama any debt incurred starting on January 20, 2009? Simple math, simply incorrect.

Some facts:

1). President Obama started with a deficit of $1.2 trillion dollars. Unfortunately, it did not magically go to zero when Obama was sworn in. That was not his debt.

2). There were still two wars going on, in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Although he eventually ended most of the war spending in Iraq, that was not his debt.

3). The President inherited the Bush taxcuts for the first two years of his Administration. That was not his debt.

Now, to answer my question as to what the Republicans have done for us:

1). Two unfunded wars.
2). One unfunded prescription drug program.
3). Tax cuts for the wealthy.
4). Budget surplus to record deficits.
5). War on Women.
6). Voter suppression and discrimination.

Next?

1). War with Iran.
2). War with Syria.
3). More tax cuts...tax cuts...
4). No national health care.
5). No Medicare.
6). Ship jobs to China with tax incentives.
7). No environmental emphasis.

reelected he'll sure inherit a mess this time!

Why don't the left ,demo(c)RATS, answer the ?? I answered yours but you didn't answer mine .Is it that you can't think of a lie on you'r own so you stick to Obama's lies?

Some folks in Republican party (including the educated ones, sorry), think you're picking the wrong issue on this one, Mr. H. You make a fool of yourself when you bite on some of these things, Keith. I know, whatever pays the bills (at the Dispatch and at your house) by keeping the goofballs biting (and writing), right?

Wake up all you sheep! Both Romney and Obama are puppets to the banksters. Both are going to spend $ our country does not have and both are going to print fake $ our country does not have! Ron Paul was our only hope and since the media would never let that happen our country is going to poop! I am starting my stockpile now loading up on necessities. Imagine what the crime rates going to be like once all the people who live off the govt receive no more money/food/shelter from them? Scary scary! All I am saying is both Obama and Romney are going to spend way more $ than we possibly can afford and it's not even them they are puppets to the banksters. Every year the bundaberg meetings are held in secrecy and that is where they decide what path and direction they are going to take our country. They also set up plans for their next false flag terror operations they like to run in the upcoming year to persuade the mass population that unless we give up more freedoms to the govt we will be unsafe from terrorists. When in all reality they are the true terrorist! Google false flag terror operations and bundaberg meetings if u have no idea what I am talking about please! Ron Paul 2012!!!