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WASHINGTON (AP) -- New U.S. home sales surged 9.6 percent in July, rising for the fourth straight month and beating expectations as the housing market marches steadily back from its historic downturn.

with the current "commentary" its amazing that we are still here... 70+ years later. In 1930, the Hoover administration ran a budget surplus by increasing federal tax revenues by more than 5%, even as the economy was experiencing its first year of the Depression. But in 1931, as revenues fell by 25% in the face of falling business receipts and personal incomes, the federal government ran a budget deficit to cover 13% of its expenditures. In 1932, the deficit spending massively increased even further, representing almost 60% of federal expenditures. Between 1929 and 1932, the accumulated federal debt rose by 15% under Herbert Hoover's administration. During the next four years, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal implemented all of these proposals - in spite of the pledge made in the Democratic Party's political platform of 1932. Instead of "an immediate and drastic reduction of government expenditures ... to accomplish a saving of not less than twenty-five percent in the cost of federal government," between 1933 and 1936, government expenditures rose by more than 83%. To cover this massive increase in government spending, Roosevelt's administration ran huge budget deficits. In 1933, deficit financing covered 56.5% of government expenditures. For 1934, 1935, and 1936, the figures for deficit financing for were, respectively, 54.6%, 43%, and 52.3% of government expenditures. In four years, the federal government's debt went from $19.5 billion in 1932 to $33.8 billion in 1936, representing a 73.3% increase.

i think he should charge JR $1 for every picture that's reproduced with him wearing a Sox hat/jacket, etc. That's free marketing.

read this on Politico.. blurb about the Sox... Some are easy to identify with. As White House senior adviser David Axelrod puts it, the president dislikes it when “folks try to get him to wear baseball gear for teams other than the White Sox.” Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/...l#ixzz0PDehWTQb

Housing Prices up today, first quarterly gain since 2006. Consumer sentiment at its highest levels since 12/07. Let's keep the "better" news coming.

Rios is 2 for 4 lifetime against Okajima Thome 0 for 1

i was hoping that ozzie would PH Rios here.

any unauthorized individual who brings a gun to a presidential speaking event should be automatically arrested, jailed for 10 days, serve 100 community service hours and pay a $10k fine. sh*t you cant even fly a non-commercial plane within 20 miles of a presidential speaking event, why can you bring an AK47?

i dont care in Peavy doesnt think he's ready... we need him and fast.

and thats our #4 starter.

can we just DL Contreras for the rest of the year and let Carrasco start the rest of the way?

QUOTE (Tex @ Aug 24, 2009 -> 11:55 PM) Not certain how many Congressman and Senators you voted for, but for 99.99% of Americans they get one Congressman and one Senator per election. So there are a lot of Americans who do not want Democrats to do that. That would be everyone who voted GOP, where their candidate won or lost. but they lost. elections have consequences, remember.

Was at yesterday's game... why didn't Ozzie PH Dye instead of Kotsay. Did Ozzie ever say?

QUOTE (Tex @ Aug 24, 2009 -> 04:28 PM) America also voted Republicans into office. They want those leaders to work, not roll over and play dead. It's a funny irony. In the 2008 congressional elections, the democrats won an even 60% of the seats. In the Senate, the democrats currently own 60% (incl the 2 indpts who caucas with them) of the seats. So I'd say, its safe to say, that the American population really wanted the Democrats in charge to handle the issues of the economy, health care and war(s).

QUOTE (Tex @ Aug 24, 2009 -> 04:16 PM) So the Dems should quit fighting and accept the GOP plan. sh*t if America wanted the Republican's making these decisions, they wouldn't have voted them out of control.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Aug 24, 2009 -> 03:36 PM) ......or proving that jobs have been saved? great point... yes that is another area where you can't prove or disprove the statement.

come on... that's like saying, no one has disproved that the reason we haven't been attacked since 9-11 is because I bought a glass horse statue in Venice so it must be true.

the rule of thumb needs to be, if you have "data" provided by a party with an agenda with the issue, it needs to be verified by an independent source. to blindly quote numbers that are provided by conservative think tank (or liberal ones) whose agenda is to oppose the same public policy issue they are reporting on, is irresponsible. There are plenty of institutions or independent (public or private) bodies who can verify your research to be accurate or fictional.

is their a non-partisan company who shows the same numbers? I'd also like to point out that the Census Bureau info is from the Bush Administration too. So you can't even argue to say that Obama's people played with the numbers. The latest Census Bureau survey was published in 2008, based on data gathered in 2007. That survey does not take into account effects of the current recession, which officially began in December 2007.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 23, 2009 -> 02:10 AM) http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/...n-or-8-million/ thanks for the link.. did you read the article to realize why its unreliable? The figure has been disseminated by the Pacific Research Institute, a conservative think tank that opposes the Obama administration's push for health-care reform. The Verdict: In dispute — but most researchers who study health care issues rely on the Census Bureau's figures.

http://www.cdc.gov/Features/Uninsured/

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 22, 2009 -> 07:31 PM) 45 million uninsured. Most wrongly used number in years and years. Edit: they may be uninsured but they either shouldn't qualify for insurance or they do indeed choose it... except between 10-15 million. That's the real number. 2.5% of the US population, let's turn it all upside down instead of actually fixing the issues for those folks. proof that the number isnt 45 million?

"Let’s start with the false claim that illegal immigrants will get health insurance under reform. That’s not true. Illegal immigrants would not be covered. That idea has never even been on the table. Some are also saying that coverage for abortions would be mandated under reform. Also false. When it comes to the current ban on using tax dollars for abortions, nothing will change under reform. And as every credible person who has looked into it has said, there are no so-called 'death panels' – an offensive notion to me and to the American people. These are phony claims meant to divide us." – President Obama

QUOTE (daa84 @ Aug 22, 2009 -> 10:22 PM) i said it when it happened, and i'll say it again now, i wish we never let charlie haeger go ditto.. hey could have played a nice mop up role preserving the pen in Contreras/Colon/Garcia/Torres/Richard starts

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090822/ap_on_...nce_competition