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Republicans have never been more disconnected from the performance of an economy. The robust economic environment has defied it’s naysayers with its resiliency and is delivering a record year. You wouldn’t know it to talk to a republican though. The data shows republicans opinions of the economy have little if anything to do with its actual performance.
A good summary of the republican perception disconnect from reality.
Opinion | Republicans’ views of the economy are detached from reality
Consumer spending is strong, and Americans are starting new businesses at the highest rates since the Census Bureau began tracking this data in 2006. Yet when pollsters ask people how they think the economy is doing, they don’t just express concern. They say the economy is terrible.
The polling data doesn’t show that Americans think the economy stinks so much as it shows that Republicans say it stinks.
Some partisanship has always existed in polling about the economy: When there’s a Democrat in the White House, Democrats are more likely to say the economy is good than Republicans, and both sides change their opinions when the White House changes hands. But this difference has grown in recent years — and grown unequally. A pair of economists who examined decades of polling data concluded, “While both Republicans and Democrats view the economy more favorably when their party controls the White House, the magnitude of this partisan bias is roughly two and a half times larger for Republicans than for Democrats.”
We can see how that is playing out right now. In the latest edition of the University of Michigan’s Index of Consumer Sentiment, the average Democratic score is over twice as high as the Republican score. But what is most striking is just how awful Republicans say the economy is. Their index score for this month is significantly lower than the score they gave the economy in the depths of the Great Recession in 2008 and 2009, when the economy was bleeding hundreds of thousands of jobs every month.
You can’t buy groceries? Get a better job.Seriously, Hutch? Is there a bigger "indicator" of how an economy is doing than whether people can afford to buy groceries? If so, I'd LOVE to hear what that is!
You dipshit. We are in 2023 and the only higher numbers are Covid fake numbers from stimulus. I f you aren’t better off you’re an outlier.You are richer than you were the day before Covid. That’s in the chat i posted.
No it isn't.
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2019, before COVID $78,250.
2022, $74,580
Prices up, incomes down.
Sure, it's great.
you sound like an arrogant ass gator.....you sure you aint a republican?...sorry to hear your income is down, perhaps Wendy's Frycook was not the correct career choice.
you sound like an arrogant ass gator.....you sure you aint a republican?...
im a partisan because i think you are an arrogant ass?...prove it.....or are you going to be all talk too?...the Repubs tell me I sound like an Dem when I am an arrogant ass.
you partisans are so alike and yet think you are so very different from each other.
im a partisan because i think you are an arrogant ass?...prove it.....or are you going to be all talk too?...
no you are thinking like a partisan.....i asked IF you were a republican because of your arrogant attitude.....learn to read....and if you dont like that...tough shit....assuming I was a Repub marks you as partisan in my book.
Don't like it, I do not really give a fuck.
Bub...these things you talk about are just part of the equation. Dems are constantly changing the figures to meet their agenda. So it is not cut and dried.
As far as the reps being out of touch? Yes, they are pretty useless unless you are talking about lowering taxes for the rich or making it harder for blacks to vote.
You dipshit. We are in 2023 and the only higher numbers are Covid fake numbers from stimulus. I f you aren’t better off you’re an outlier.
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what an arrogant ass.....Just about every crisis in the economy manufactured by right right morons has fizzled out into nothing. Anyone remember all the bank failure threads started on here by chicken little right wingers predicting a crisis? Yea.. that really came true. What about all the employment scare threads? Yep, also nothing. Gas price threads? Yea... gas is low. Recession predictions were 100% by republican economists. We grew at a historic pace Q3. China is reeling showing up on our shores with hand in hat as our economy beat theirs.
Enjoy this golden age. Eventually a right wing nut will be back in the white house to fuck it all up.
what an arrogant ass.....
well since i have only called you that.....no just you.....is there anyone you do not find to be an arrogant ass?
well since i have only called you that.....no just you.....
Mine isn't. The fact that you continue to try to prop up this lame thread by slinging bullshit after you have been conclusively proven wrong is as sad as that comment.sorry to hear your income is down, perhaps Wendy's Frycook was not the correct career choice.
Mine isn't.
The fact that you continue to try to prop up this lame thread by slinging bullshit after you have been conclusively proven wrong is as sad as that comment.
Pointing out that you are factually incorrect isn't whining.then why are you in here whining like a 3 year old?
I am not propping up a damn thing, me and mine are thriving, I do not give a flying fuck about the rest of you.
then why are you in here whining like a 3 year old?
I am not propping up a damn thing, me and mine are thriving, I do not give a flying fuck about the rest of you.
still wonder why i call you an arrogant ass?....many die hard republicans think like that.....me and mine are thriving, I do not give a flying fuck about the rest of you.
