Record length of unemployment,
Record federal government debt,
Record number of children living in poverty,
and several new restrictions on the first amendment.
America is by far worse off than four years ago.
Is America better off now than it was before Obama took office? (This is the most pressing question this election year, in my humble view.)
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And please note -- the question is concerned with whether AMERICA is better off. Not with whether YOU are individually better off.
If you're better off now than four years ago, I'm happy for you.
But that should not be the basis of your answer, because that's not what is being asked.
If you're better off now than four years ago, I'm happy for you.
But that should not be the basis of your answer, because that's not what is being asked.
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Uranos7 2012/04/26 15:09:51
Then, he calls people to tighten their belts while they go on one after another lavish vacations on the tax payer dime.
“Is it easier to make ends meet?
Is it easier to sell your home or buy a new one?
Have you saved what you needed for retirement?
Are you making more in your job?
Do you have a better chance to get a better job?
Do you pay less at the pump?”
NO, NO, NO, NO, NO NO!
The Reuters/Ipsos poll found 73 percent of Americans believe the United States is "off on the wrong track," and just one in five, 21 percent, think the country is headed in the right direction.
The survey found that 47 percent believe "the worst is yet to come" in the U.S. economy, an increase of 13 percentage points from a year ago when this question was last raised.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Twenty-nine percent (29%) of Likely U.S. Voters say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken the week ending Sunday, April 22.
06 January 2012 - Economy
"The GOP talking point that ’Obama is a job killer” is debunked in just one chart. President Obama took office in January 2009 when the ‘great recession’ was at it’s deepest. Up to that point millions of jobs had already been lost to the recession and in that month alone over 800,000 jobs were lost. In the following months many millions of additional jobs were lost. Certainly there is a point where we begin to direct blame for the economy towards Obama and away from Bush but it’s foolish at best to blame Obama for the millions of jobs lost within the first few months of his presidency when millions of jobs had already been shed leading up to the oath of office.
The 2009 stimulus bill was signed into law in February of that year and you can see in the chart that job losses begin to recede quite rapidly in the following months until finally positive job growth begins a year later in March 2010. It could be argued that positive job growth really didn’t take shape until October of 2010 because much of the job growth (and then losses) from March 2010 to September 2010 was due to the temporary hiring related to the 2010 census."
http://leftcall.com/2012/01/0...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The job market is getting better, but it's far from healed. Will President Obama be able to turn things around in time to save his own job?
From the labor market's height in January 2008 to its bottom in February 2010, 8.8 million jobs were cut, and the unemployment rate soared as high as 10% in October 2009.
Obama has taken a lot of heat for that.
But only about half of those job losses -- or 4.3 million -- happened under his watch.
And by measuring his record against that benchmark, it looks like Obama could actually break even, and maybe even come out ahead on jobs.
As of December, roughly two thirds of the jobs lost during Obama's presidency have been recovered.
That leaves a hole of slightly more than 1.6 million jobs for him to fill by the end of 2012.
It's a tall order.
The notion of cooperation in Congress now officially a joke
WASHINGTON D.C. — As President Barack Obama was celebrating his inauguration at various balls, top Republican lawmakers and strategists were conjuring up ways to submarine his presidency at a private dinner in Washington, D.C.
The event — which provides a telling revelation for how quickly the post-election climate soured — serves as the prologue of Robert Draper’s much-discussed and heavily-reported new book, “Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives.”
According to Draper, the guest list that night (which was just over 15 people in total) included Republican Reps. Eric Cantor (Va.), Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), Paul Ryan (Wis.), Pete Sessions (Texas), Jeb Hensarling (Texas), Pete Hoekstra (Mich.) and Dan Lungren (Calif.), along with Republican Sens. Jim DeMint (S.C.), Jon Kyl (Ariz.), Tom Coburn (Okla.), John Ensign (Nev.) and Bob Corker (Tenn.). The non-lawmakers present included Newt Gingrich, several years removed from his presidential campaign, and Frank Luntz, the long-time Republican wordsmith. Notably absent were Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio...
The notion of cooperation in Congress now officially a joke
WASHINGTON D.C. — As President Barack Obama was celebrating his inauguration at various balls, top Republican lawmakers and strategists were conjuring up ways to submarine his presidency at a private dinner in Washington, D.C.
The event — which provides a telling revelation for how quickly the post-election climate soured — serves as the prologue of Robert Draper’s much-discussed and heavily-reported new book, “Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives.”
According to Draper, the guest list that night (which was just over 15 people in total) included Republican Reps. Eric Cantor (Va.), Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), Paul Ryan (Wis.), Pete Sessions (Texas), Jeb Hensarling (Texas), Pete Hoekstra (Mich.) and Dan Lungren (Calif.), along with Republican Sens. Jim DeMint (S.C.), Jon Kyl (Ariz.), Tom Coburn (Okla.), John Ensign (Nev.) and Bob Corker (Tenn.). The non-lawmakers present included Newt Gingrich, several years removed from his presidential campaign, and Frank Luntz, the long-time Republican wordsmith. Notably absent were Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) — who, Draper writes, had an acrimonious relationship with Luntz.
For several hours in the Caucus Room (a high-end D.C. establishment), the book says they plotted out ways to not just win back political power, but to also put the brakes on Obama’s legislative platform.
http://littlegreenfootballs.c...
Those last two lines represent the entirety of Republican filibuster threats in the past couple of years. They don’t even represent true filibusters, which require that the Congressperson stand and argue against the proposal for as long as they can tolerate it. Independent Senator Bernie Sanders demonstrated how this is done when he staged an eight and a half hour demonstration in opposition to the continuation of the tax cuts for the wealthy."
https://538refugees.wordpress...
The United States Senate actually posts the numbers. The number of motions for cloture filed more than doubled the year the democrats gained the majority from 68 to 139 in the 110th Congress and 136 in the 111th Congress. This represents a stunning attempt to gum up the works on the part of the republicans. Not that anyone’s hands are clean on this issue. I went so far as to create a chart on the motions for cloture over the past 40 years. The red bars indicate the years that the republicans had a Senate majority and the blue bars indicate democratic control. The party filing the cloture motions is the minority party for obvious reasons. The chart also shows a pattern of increasing abuse by both parties since the early 90s. But the over 100% increase in cloture motions that occurred when the democrats gained the majority is nothing short of staggering.
http://www.therobberbaronecon...
So now they whine, boo hoo, the Republicans want to get us out of office... please,
P.S. When Republicans philosophically disagree with Democrats it's obstructionism, but when Democrats refuse to bring bills to the floor of the Senate for vote or discussion it's progress..... I call it hypocrisy.
give me a break.
Republicans whined about it and now they are the ones misusing it...alot!
Notice who filed them and the results...
http://www.senate.gov/pagelay...
Further Harry Reid had the best record for breaking filibusters... so what are You Progressive Liberals whining about now?
http://www.rollcall.com/news/...
You need to stop listening to the Progressive propaganda, it makes you look uninformed....
"These are the numbers on cloture over the last several decades. Often, but not always, cloture is employed by senate majority leaders in response to filibuster threats from the minority. Cloture isn't always necessarily correlated with filibusters, but broadly speaking, the two often go hand in hand.
What's particularly striking here is the GOP's use of filibuster threats, and the correlated increase in Democratic cloture motions. Take, for instance, the huge spike in cloture motions filed from the Republican-led 109th Congress in 2005-2006 to the Democratic-majority 110th in 2007-2008.
"It is the most striking in history," American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Norm Ornstein told TPM.
What happened, Ornstein says, is that during the last two years of President George W. Bush's second term, Republicans offered "no initiatives to speak of."
The initiatives were coming from the Democrats, and the Republicans wanted to kill 'em, or slow things down."
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmem...
Remember, the Democrats had COMPLETE control of both the house and the senate for two years and still did nothing for jobs or the economy....
Both parties block actions that they disagree with, this does NOT FORGIVE or REMOVE RESPONSIBILITY from Obama's FAILURES.
Note the DATE on this....
Knoller is right that, in simple dollar terms, the delta under Obama has been higher than under Bush. $4.939 trillion is indeed bigger than $4.899 trillion. Blue Texan’s insistence that we should look at the numbers in terms of percentage of increase is also plausible, although not if we’re going to compare eight years to three! On an annualized percentage basis, Obama still beats Bush.
But, again, that’s not shocking! Bush inherited a mild recession that quickly righted itself. Even the massive spending on two wars and the Medicare drug boondoggle wasn’t as hard a hit as the Great Recession, whose effects have occurred mostly under Obama."
http://www.outsidethebeltway....
Helpful hint...If I look uninformed to you, maybe you need an eye exam
Knoller is right that, in simple dollar terms, the delta under Obama has been higher than under Bush. $4.939 trillion is indeed bigger than $4.899 trillion. Blue Texan’s insistence that we should look at the numbers in terms of percentage of increase is also plausible, although not if we’re going to compare eight years to three! On an annualized percentage basis, Obama still beats Bush.
But, again, that’s not shocking! Bush inherited a mild recession that quickly righted itself. Even the massive spending on two wars and the Medicare drug boondoggle wasn’t as hard a hit as the Great Recession, whose effects have occurred mostly under Obama."
http://www.outsidethebeltway....
Helpful hint...If I look uninformed to you, maybe you need an eye exam
I posted actual Government Data from their CBO...
guess who's info is correct..
You can believe whatever lies Obama tells you, but those lies won't come true and all you will be left with is Progressive Liberal promises, no more.
The stimulus failed, Loans to green energy companies failed, bailouts failed, Obama care failed, our economy is contracting, still high unemployment, more costly regulation.... are you living under a rock or just choose to be blind to the utter and complete failure of the Progressive Liberals.
The first-quarter growth was weaker than expected. United States stock markets largely shrugged it off, however, perhaps in part because the country is growing while many economies are contracting.
Economists initially predicted a much weaker showing in the latest quarter, partly because of a large accumulation of inventories in the fall and winter that needed to be worked off. But in the last few weeks, expectations rose on strong jobs reports and rising consumer confidence."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/0...
I think you are blind to the truth...again I suggest an eye exam.
Or, maybe ...
The affects of Obama's unfettered spending is coming home to roost, the money has run out and he can not artificially bolster economic growth any longer.
"Government spending, which helped prop up the economy during the recession, has also become a big drag in recent years. The winding down of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is eating into military spending, which fell sharply in the first quarter, while tight budgets are leading to spending cuts at the state and local levels.
Suffolk County, New York, on Long Island, ended 2011 with its first budget deficit in 20 years and faces a projected $530 million deficit through 2013. On Friday, the county began sending out more than 300 layoff notices to county employees, part of a proposed $160 million in budget cuts and revenue increases. The county managed to paper over its deficits for a few years through one-time revenues, newly elected county executive Steven Bellone said, but with sales-tax revenues still not back to prerecession levels, such moves are no longer enough."
http://online.wsj.com/article...
I wonder which party lied us into one of the wars mentioned and then botched quickly resolving the other? Both of which were unfunded and unnecessary and added to the deficit. But wait...thanks to President Obama...
Hey, let's keeping playing this silly little game and see who can come up with the most outrageous images! And then for good measure you can use some more ad hominem insults when you have nothing else to say...sound like fun???????? : }
Insulting by implication...you're very good at it.
If you're confused, here's one for you...
At least You are somewhat entertaining...
"Insulting by implication", that's all You have ... Huh?
You've implied I'm not intelligent, a liar, blind, a hypocrite, a whiner and I live under a rock.
The only thing left is to bestow on you the...