A score sheet of how well Obama has done

[jasonnfree]

We don't know how well McCain would have done either. Admit it. Bush was in charge for eight years. Obama inherited a disaster. Something you Republicans keep on forgetting. Housing crash? Nobody forced any lenders to sign up people that weren't qualified. If Obama was so bad, why was he reelected? Look at the stock market. This indicates confidence in our economy. Republicans are nothing but the wrecking crew. Whenever they are in, things get worse. Nixon, Reagan, certainly Bush 2. Things are always better when democrats run things. Something republicans can't do. They just whine and moan and obstruct.



Want a Better Economy? History Says Vote Democrat! - Forbes

Bill Clinton Is Right: The Economy Really Does Do Better Under Democrats - Rick Newman (usnews.com)

 

[BallsBrunswick]

I don't know about the rest of those numbers but gas supposedly being $1.84 in January 2009 is laughable.

 

[J.E.D]

The entire chart is bullshit. Obama's policies were not in effect in Jan 2009, and the economy was in a free fall. For example, you have gas at 1.84 per gal. What was the price of gas before the economic collapse?...Hint: it was way more than 1.84 per gal.

Fucking hack.

 

[J.E.D]

Let me help you out, since you're too dishonest to tell it like it really is.

Chart of the Day: National Gasoline Prices | The Big Picture

 

[Meathead]

We don't know how well McCain would have done either. Admit it. Bush was in charge for eight years. Obama inherited a disaster. Something you Republicans keep on forgetting. Housing crash? Nobody forced any lenders to sign up people that weren't qualified. If Obama was so bad, why was he reelected? Look at the stock market. This indicates confidence in our economy. Republicans are nothing but the wrecking crew. Whenever they are in, things get worse. Nixon, Reagan, certainly Bush 2. Things are always better when democrats run things. Something republicans can't do. They just whine and moan and obstruct.



Want a Better Economy? History Says Vote Democrat! - Forbes

Bill Clinton Is Right: The Economy Really Does Do Better Under Democrats - Rick Newman (usnews.com)

On one hand you declare that Obama was handed a lousy economy which is fair enough. On the other, your observation that Democrats handle the economy better belies the tendency tthat Democrat presidents do better on being handed an economy bequeathed by Republicans. Clinton did well on an economy he inherited by Reagan/Bush who had inherited one which sucked by Cater and wisely did little to change the basic concepts of "Reaganism".

Obama has faired substantially less well. About 8% unemployment when he assumed the presidency and about 8% today. Very few people feel that Obama is, or has been, a successful president unless they are wiling to accept mediocrity for idealistic reasons.

 

[byrdman]

Is it easier to start wars or end wars?

 

[Clementine]

Next Generation TV - Next Generation

I saw this and thought what a perfect sum up of the failure of the Obama administration......


The link has the image plus links of where they got the information.

While most will look at this and realize how dangerous this administration really is, there are those who will celebrate this because they know that Obama is successfully bringing us down. Remember, before Obama can rebuild us from the ground up, he has to destroy what is currently here.

There was chatter among the Dems about how our system is so broke, it can't be fixed. Talk like that reveals their true motives for doing all the damage shown in the chart.

 

[Meathead]

Is it easier to start wars or end wars?

Far easier to start them, that's why Republicans have a much better track record at ending them.

 

[Stephanie]

The entire chart is bullshit. Obama's policies were not in effect in Jan 2009, and the economy was in a free fall. For example, you have gas at 1.84 per gal. What was the price of gas before the economic collapse?...Hint: it was way more than 1.84 per gal.

Fucking hack.

so what policies has he put in that is changing that chart? he's had four friggen years and NOTHING HAS CHANGED

 

[jwoodie]

We don't know how well McCain would have done either. Admit it. Bush was in charge for eight years. Obama inherited a disaster. Something you Republicans keep on forgetting. Housing crash? Nobody forced any lenders to sign up people that weren't qualified. If Obama was so bad, why was he reelected? Look at the stock market. This indicates confidence in our economy. Republicans are nothing but the wrecking crew. Whenever they are in, things get worse. Nixon, Reagan, certainly Bush 2. Things are always better when democrats run things. Something republicans can't do. They just whine and moan and obstruct.



Want a Better Economy? History Says Vote Democrat! - Forbes

Bill Clinton Is Right: The Economy Really Does Do Better Under Democrats - Rick Newman (usnews.com)

Think about what you just said: "Nobody forced any lenders to sign up people that weren't qualified." Assuming, for the moment, that your statement is accurate (it isn't), what was it that suddenly caused these lenders to make these loans? Was it a "greed" virus from China? Why wasn't this reported by the CDC? According to you "logic," we should all have been inoculated against this terrible disease.

Meanwhile, back to reality: The Community Reinvestment Act was passed in 1978 (remember Jimmy Carter?) to expand home ownership for the same "people who weren't qualified" whom you referenced. This program became aggressively pursued by Clinton appointees who pressured banks to make more of these loans (or have new branch locations denied) and who bought, bundled and sold these loans through Fannie and Freddie (and making millions in job performance incentives).

Having created a market for these new securities with implied U.S. government backing, they were sold worldwide as secure high interest investments. Bush tried to rein in this Ponzi Scheme, but his efforts were blocked by Dodd, Frank, et al. To his discredit, he finally gave up and just hoped that the bubble wouldn't burst on his watch.

To cover their culpability for this disaster, Dodd and Frank invented a narrative that this was all due to "Wall Street Greed" and authored a "reform" bill which placed new restrictions on lending and bank reserves. These "reforms" only made things worse by forcing lenders to immediately devalue their reserves, which then made them ineligible to borrow money from the Federal Reserve and lend it even to credit worthy borrowers.

Just as it took several generations for liberal historians to begin acknowledging that FDR's policies made the Great Depression worse, we may not live long enough for the truth to be told about the Great Recession.

 

[J.E.D]

The entire chart is bullshit. Obama's policies were not in effect in Jan 2009, and the economy was in a free fall. For example, you have gas at 1.84 per gal. What was the price of gas before the economic collapse?...Hint: it was way more than 1.84 per gal.

Fucking hack.

so what policies has he put in that is changing that chart? he's had four friggen years and NOTHING HAS CHANGED

Well, for one, the UE rate shot up over 10% before Obama's policies took effect. Now it's down to under 8%.

 

[Stephanie]

Let me help you out, since you're too dishonest to tell it like it really is.

Chart of the Day: National Gasoline Prices | The Big Picture

Let me help you out, gas prices has been over $3.00 a gallon since obama took office..you might not care that hurts the working people and the "poor"..

 

[LoneLaugher]

You go Steph! You are knocking down those libs like so many bowling pins! They are no match for you! You are just too smart for em'!

 

[jwoodie]

Since when is $1.62 "over $3.00" Brainiac?