Very good catch, OP! Try showing these figures to an Obama supporter! My wife works with a lady that constantly extols how wonderful things are now that we don't have that 'retarded bastard' Bush in the White House.
My wife will bring up the unemployment, the cost of gas, the Quantitative Easing, and other issues and the woman responds with what we have come to call 'Obama facts'.
She will tell you: Obama got Bin Laden. He stopped the job losses. He got the stock market back.
Of course, if she explains to said half-wit that if a patient bleeds out and we replace the blood with water, how long can the patient survive?
The lady has no answer, ever. She just continues banging her pot for the Caramel Commander.
Quoting: American Sith: Darth Shillerus Is it better to be awake and find there's nothing you can do about what's going on anyway? Or to be completely asleep and happy?
There's a reason people want to stay plugged into the matrix.
I have been awake long before the 'fall' of 08. Going all the way back to 1998! I never believed the Y2K shit, however, 911 did not catch me off guard.
Sure, there was the first moments when I could decide if it was an invasion or not, and that thought crossed my mind. I was a paramedic then working on my degree working a full-time medic job and working part-time in the chemistry lab doing inventory, setting up freshman lab experiments, and helping the professors do their research for publication.
I remember a professor, a young woman, who came to me and said, "A plane hit the World Trade Center. They don't know what's going on."
I went straight home, packed my wife and son in the car, and drove to my parents. They live on a farm, same as I do now. As my wife and I were packing the car, we saw the second plane, and I really just felt like 'shit, I knew this was coming'.
As for the 2008 pre-quake tremor, I knew that shit was coming, same as 911, all the way back then. I was doing part-time carpentry work in the summer because you can make more money picking up cans on the highway than being a paramedic, and I would frame these fucking McMansions.
I would see the realtors bring these asswipes around trying to see these people 300K homes. People who weren't making as much as I was as a paramedic! People making 35K!
I would come home to my wife and just shake my head. I knew then we were building a false economy.
