Opinion: Winners of last night's debates:

I thought Rubio and Christie had the best debate performances,  followed closely by Fiorina, Santorum.  Trump and Carson were what they are,  reasonably good performances for each man but short on substance. 

Worst performances:  Kascih had the worst performance of the night.  I am tired of Rand Paul and Bobby Jindal.  Huckabee did himself no harm,  but did not separate himself from the pack, either. 

Jeb Bush had his best debate performance but, still,  nothing memorable. 

8 comments:

  1. Yes, very substantive lies and misinformation. Let's make a list.

    Carson's assertion that minimum wage increases are always followed by an increase in unemployment is wrong. Carson’s claim about unemployment among black teens is even further from the truth. And as for the minimum wage when Carson was younger, in 1975, when he was 24 years old, the minimum wage was $2.10 an hour – which is $9.29 when adjusted for inflation, more than two dollars above today’s wage floor.

    Since World War II, more jobs are created under Democratic presidents than Republicans – prompting Fiorina to reply, “Yes, problems have gotten much worse under Democrats.” She’d just been reminded of the opposite.

    Marco Rubio insisted the United States is in the midst of “an economic downturn,” insane. The economy added over 270,000 jobs last month, the unemployment rate is down to 5%, and we have the strongest economy of any democracy on the planet.

    After having noted by the moderator that energy production has boomed in the Obama era, which led Rand Paul to denounce the regulations that have prevented a boom in energy production.

    In a debate where chastened moderators avoided interruptions or follow-ups, the candidates were free to inhabit any alternate reality of their choosing, unperturbed by inconvenient facts.

    It was like being in a moron zone. The biggest applause lines were those that evoked fear of Muslims and pushing the military complex, and making America 'great again'. The only hints of sanity on foreign policy came from Paul and Kasich, who have no chance.

    Perhaps these low information fearful and hateful idiots don't have a clue at how much damage Obama has had to repair from the most recent Republican president and how the Obama recovery is miles ahead of the Bush recovery. Or how since Obama was sworn in on Jan. 20, 2009, Standard & Poor’s 500 index has gone up 253 percent, the Dow Jones industrial average has experienced a growth rate of 251 percent and, perhaps most impressively, Nasdaq has grown in size by 369 percent. Two thousand days into his presidency, the major stock indexes under Obama have had average gains of 291 percent — compare that to the record under Reagan, who saw gains at 88 percent during that same time period.

    Look it up, use your google and fetch the 10 yr charts of the indexes listed above.

    Russ Britt of MarketWatch notes, “the average stock-market gain under four post-Depression Democrats through each one’s 2,000th day in office has outpaced the average gain of the four Republicans in the era by a factor of nearly 4 to 1. Democratic gains have averaged 133%, while Republican market advances have had a mean of 33%.”

    Make America 'great again'? Obama administration just did that, and you want to go backwards?

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  2. 29.7 percent is the unemployment rate for black teens per the DOL. In the 1970's minimum wage earners totaled 15.5 million. Today, that number has declined to 6 million. At $15 per hour, no small business can afford to train the American workforce . . . understand that $15 per hour is 31,000 dollars a year, well above the $12,000 poverty floor for individuals. Democrat congressional oversight led to the Great Depression, the Carter Depression and the 22007-2008 Depression.

    Apparently you think the highest population of Americans who want to work but have given up finding a job since 1978 is a good thing. Apparently you think the highest population of welfare participants AND those on food stamps in modern day history is a sign of a booming economy. Nancy Pelosi does.

    Adjusted GDP is under 2% for the duration of the Obama years. Robust recovery is not possible with such a failed number.

    Wall Street? You have no clue as to why the Market has grown, no clue as to the influence of bundling existing mortgages allowing Big Banking to loan the same cheap money over again. The near zero prime interest rate is devastating for those who have savings accounts . . . . so, of course the Market has record growth when money is free and you can use the same dollars over and over again.

    You know as much about what you are talking about as does Obama, and never even balanced the books for a fruit stand.

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  3. Minimum wage too expensive? Today’s minimum is already 24 percent below what it was the minimum was in 1968, adjusted for inflation. A higher minimum wage puts more money in the pockets of people who will spend it, thereby creating more jobs. The last time the U.S. raised the minimum wage, more jobs were created than were lost. After a raised minimum wage in 1996, a record-shattering 22 million net new jobs were added to the U.S. economy. Germany is more competitive now than the United States, with a higher tax rate than in the United States, a higher median wage, and its lowest-wage workers better paid. How can Germany do it? Because its average worker is better educated than the typical American worker (Germany invests like mad in education, including world-class technical education), its infrastructure is more up-to-date, and its workers have more of a direct say in their companies.

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    1. Still, 15 million on minimum wage on 1975 with a wage of around $2.72 per hour contrasted with a 7.25 minimum wage and a minimum wage population of 6 million. I don't care what happened in the meantime. You like Germany? Move. The fact is this: until our eresident moron took over the White House, small business trained the workforce. By the time this piece of work gets gone, he will have destroyed that provision.

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  4. newest poll

    http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/259812-in-new-shock-poll-sanders-has-landslides-over-both

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  5. The truth is out there:
    http://www.factcheck.org/2015/10/obamas-numbers-october-2015-update/

    (second link deleted. If you want Marxist spin, go to a Marxist blog ~ editor).

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    1. 271,000 jobs for October and 133,000 for September. One good month means nothing.

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