by Sandy » Sun Jul 06, 2014 11:39 pm
It's been an interesting year, from a political perspective. I love it when one of the GOP extremists opens their mouth and inserts their foot, but when Boehner, Lindsay Graham or John McCain are caught up in the same babble, it's hard to stop the belly laugh that develops. Meanwhile, unemployment continues to drop, and will be below the 7% threshold prior to November, as the economy kicks up and is adding over a quarter of a million new jobs a month. Domestic oil production now exceeds what we buy from foreign sources. The stock market is as high as it has ever been, and the dollar is as strong as it has ever been in foreign markets. Insurance company stocks have soared since the ACA was enacted, and more people now have health coverage than ever before. Fewer people are entering the country illegally than at any time since 1999, and more illegals are being caught and deported than during the Bush years. The deficit spending in the budget has been halved. And all of that has been done in spite of the do-nothing Republican house.