US Unemployment drops again

We doing good for now.

Yeah. It's probably hard for you to keep up only looking nights and weekends.

I make less, my gross income has been going down about 34% per year. my health ins has risen from $325 per month to $517. twice the deductible with prescriptions rising over 700%.. at least gas prices are going down... and I'm sure the Obama camp has presented the statistics in the best possible way.. not saying 'lied' however lying is a know faucet of the obama admin

Yeah the first thing Obama did in office was to give the FDA control over a few things and they made it illegal to ship cigarettes using the US Mail. I lost a couple grand a month on that!

It's nice to have a little good news right before the Big Crash.

yep, took him a few minutes ... and Bingo ... all went home :

damn, that guy rocked !!!!

congrats to obama, give him 4 more yrs like putin did it, change something

That story is true. The details were worked out with Iran ahead of time. They refused to release the hostages until Pres. Carter was officially out of office. Reagan's behind the scenes people had all the negotiations done. They were released simultaneously with Reagan being sworn in:

"Reagan's inaugural address was 2,452 words long. It utilized the vista offered by the West Front, invoking the symbolism of the Presidential memorials and Arlington National Cemetery in the distance. As Reagan was giving his address, 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for the previous 444 days were released."

Nothing to do with Reagan being great. Everything to do with the Iranians hatred of Pres. Carter.
And I kind of admire Carter in a way for being the kind of guy that those motherfuckers hated that bad.

Carter was a shitty president for other reasons. He was probably one of the more intelligent men to hold office for sure...but as I understand it, he was reluctant to delegate and wanted to micro-manage everything himself.
Which wasn't a good thing in that position.

Reagan, was nowhere near as smart of a guy as Carter. But his personality made people more willing to work WITH him (the Democrat Congress for instance) and he surrounded himself with very capable people and knew how to be a leader and get the most out of his staff.

Carter spent four years as commander in chief of the world?s largest and most lethal military without dropping one bomb, launching one missile, or firing one shot.

That SHOULD be standard operating procedure.

That military is theoretically to defend our country from invasion from another country.
But that quickly turned in to defending our "interests" around the world.

Reagan worked very well with other leaders. He worked with the other side in politics as well. Carter had people in his own party that didn't want to work with him. After the gas rationing, he became very unpopular.

But I will say one thing about Reagan, his speeches were legendary. He brought the people together as a whole, not divided by party!

I still remember getting the word we were heading home the day after Reagan took office. We were between the fleet and the coast during the 444 day war for almost 6 months to protect the fleet.

Gas prices are down. The moment they rise all the charts will look worse as well. Nothing is fundamentally different so we are in the same cyclical mess as always. Single payer healthcare, real student loan reform, etc would have a more meaningful impact.

this is an unrealistic statement Robbie, the military has ALWAYS deafened a nation states interest around the world (trade routes). not sure why you wouldn't know that?

I agree that he gave great speeches (just like Obama). But I disagree that he brought everyone together.

I remember the news constantly attacking him every night. Newspapers wrote articles hating on him. He was pretty much HATED by liberals.
They would say he was "out of touch" "too old" "confused"...I remember reading that he and Nancy Reagan sat down regularly with astrologers and fortune tellers and that he was influenced by all that on his policies.

Hell, even popular music attacked him. Remember Don Henley singing: "This tired old man that we elected King"
Or Genesis and the video to "Land Of Confusion"

No, I don't remember it quite like that at all. This was the way Reagan was treated by the liberals of society:

The only reform student loans need is to not have them backed by the government and make them cancelable in bankruptcy