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George

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  1. I thought regan wasn't able to pull the economy back until his second term. I could be wrong though, I'll just assume you know what you are talking about.

     

     

    The United States was experiencing its worst recession since the Depression, with conditions frighteningly reminiscent of those 50 years earlier. By November 1982, unemployment reached, nine million, the highest rate since the Depression; 17,000 businesses failed, the second highest number since 1933; farmers lost their land; and many sick, elderly, and poor became homeless.

     

    The country lived through the recession for a full year before Reagan finally admitted publicly that the economy was in trouble. His budget cuts, which hurt the poor, and his tax cuts, which favored the rich, combined with the hardships of a recession, spawned the belief that Reagan was insensitive to his people's needs. (Although it was a 25% across-the-board tax cut, those people in the higher income brackets benefited the most.)

    As economic hardship hit American homes, Reagan's approval rating hit rock bottom. In January 1983, it was estimated at a dismal 35 percent. Having failed in his promise to deliver economic prosperity, Reagan's reelection in 1984 seemed unlikely.

     

    With a failing economy, hopes for a balanced budget vanished. Even David Stockman, Reagan's Budget Director and an advocate of supply side economics, fearing future deficits "as high as $200 billion," urged the president to cut taxes.

     

    While Reagan finally agreed to a moderate tax increase on businesses, he steadfastly refused to raise income taxes or cut defense spending, despite a growing negative sentiment toward the buildup. In January 1983, with his approval rating at an all-time low, the economy slowly began to right itself. Unemployment, as high as ten percent in 1982, had improved enough by 1984 for his popularity to be restored, and by the November presidential election, it was hard to believe that a second term was ever in doubt.

     

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/reagan-recession/

     

    Looks like I made an error in assuming Ms Spam knew what she was blabbing about. Obama's first term sounds much like Regan's, economically speaking. Hope she doesn't teach history.

  2. co-workers that make disgusting sounds with their mouths while eating that sound like pigs slopping around in mud then sit there and makes smacking noises with their mouth for and additional three hours after that.

     

    I don't there there is polite way to say they skeeve the **** out of me when they do that

  3. I'm pretty sure now that we see Weaver is on the side of the resistance that the liquid Terminator we saw on the submarine with Jesse was the T-1000. (Though I was sold when she duplicated Robert Patrick's NO-NO finger wave.)

     

    In that episode, the terminator had a message "no"

     

    The question was "will you join us?", the same question passed on to Cameron tonight. It was a message to Cameron that they are the "good" terminators from the future, making her willing to donate her chip which helps fill her own future self with facts, figures, and timetables from before judgment day.

     

    Now that I think about it, I kind of think it was the "good" terminators that captured the girl that looked like Cameron and tried to learn everything about making making a terminator more personable. The interrogations were held at sea just like the whole USS. Jimmy Carter episode.

  4. "Looks like your brother's here, and you're wearing his coat"

     

    What? Who was that Guy?

     

     

    Too bad we don't get to see where weaver and John Henry scurried off to, and what the deal is with this terminator resistance. Perhaps this resistance is covered in the movie.

     

    Are we to believe that Cameron's chip that was just brought forward through time after judgment day is the same chip used in the creation of Cameron?

     

    The guy that said that line is Derek.

     

     

    Yeah, but who was the other guy standing with the dog and Cameron's inspiration and why did Derek call that guy John's brother?

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