B.C. Fortenberry: Archive

Close to an election my ability to suffer fools drops like a stone.

‎”Here is the trend that worries me.”… “Here is something else that scares the hell out of me:”

Sounds like you’re just the type of voter the Republicans are looking for: Terrified.

“Understand that America may be the best country in the world”

This becomes less true with each passing year in terms of quality of life, educational attainment, utility of infrastructure, but who cares as long as the top 1% of wealth holders can game the tax system.

Hey, while we’re at it let’s cripple public education and promote every fiscal policy we can conceive of to convert our society into a stratified caste system with no social mobility.

If we can disenfranchise, women, minorities, the unemployed, gays, muslims, etc, etc- So much the better!

Vote Republican: Cause fuck everyone else! I got to get’s mine. (Isn’t that the main tenant of Christianity?)

The Democrats are only marginally better, but at least they don’t regard human compassion as intrinsically evil and reason as a form of superstition.

Oct 31, 20105 notes

Oct 31, 201013 notes

Questions:

What was the average monthly private sector job growth in 2008, the final year of the Bush presidency, and what has it been so far in 2010?

What was the Federal deficit for the last fiscal year of the Bush presidency, and what was it for the first full fiscal year of the Obama presidency?

What was the stock market at on the last day of the Bush presidency? What is it at today?

Which party’s candidate for speaker will campaign this weekend with a Nazi reenactor who dressed up in a SS uniform?

Answers:

In 2008, we lost an average of 317,250 private sector jobs per month. In 2010, we have gained an average of 95,888 private sector jobs per month. (Source) That’s a difference of nearly five million jobs between Bush’s last year in office and President Obama’s second year.

In FY2009, which began on September 1, 2008 and represents the Bush Administration’s final budget, the budget deficit was $1.416 trillion. In FY2010, the first budget of the Obama Administration, the budget deficit was $1.291 trillion, a decline of $125 billion. (Source) Yes, that means President Obama has cut the deficit — there’s a long way to go, but we’re in better shape now than we were under Bush and the GOP.

On Bush’s final day in office, the Dow, NASDAQ, and S&P 500 closed at 7,949, 1,440, and 805, respectively. Today, as of 10:15AM Pacific, they are at 11,108, 2,512, and 1,183. That means since President Obama took office, the Dow, NASDAQ, and S&P 500 have increased 40%, 74%, and 47%, respectively.

The Republican Party, whose candidate for speaker, John Boehner, will campaign with Nazi re-enactor Rich Iott this weekend. If you need an explanation why this is offensive, you are a lost cause.