tjamz;244288 wrote:
Congrats, my household income has nearly quadrupled since then as well....now lets ask the rest of the country how they feel. ND has been the exception to the rule when it comes to economic prosperity. I have friends, living in Tampa, FL whose neighbors built a $375,000 house 7 years ago. The guy lost his job (went overseas) and now the bank has the house on the market at $83,000.
My sisters uncles brothers dad living on Venus had his job get sent over to Uranus and he lost his $287 bazillion dollar house. Thats gotta be GWB's fault too I'm sure.
Instead of writing stuff about something you heard about some freinds neighbor somewhere, lets just talk about the people we know. Why is ND the exception? Because we were lucky? Because we didn't do stupid things? Is ND actually the exception?
Here's a little reality: for the first 6 years of GWB's term there was economic prosperity everywhere. The economy was very good, especially coming off of the 911 calamity. Was it the best economy ever? No... But it was very good. So when people say things like "the bad economy of the last 8 years" they are full of shit. The mortgage/lending screwup that has messed up the economy was partly Bush's fault, and partly the Dem's fault. How much blame you put toward each can be debated.
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