Another Obama victory

[Warrior102]

Myself, I'd be ashamed to start threads like this...

Obama did this, saved that, created this, saved us people

But as we see, Obamabots have no shame...

rather pathetic if you ask me

Did Obama phone in GM's success from the clubhouse at Kaneohe Bay ?

 

[Stephanie]

Wow...the Obama haters can't celebrate any victories can they? Well, I can and this is very good news. We saved GM, an American icon. Good for us!

Funny, I didn't have a vote in the matter?
so where you get this "we" stuff?

 

[Sallow]

5.0 to 8.5 unemployment with a 10% thrown in and Democrats are singing praises...sheesh

Unemployment figures

2006 4.7 4.8 4.7 4.7 4.6 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4
2007 4.6 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4 4.6 4.7 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.7 5.0
2008 5.0 4.9 5.1 5.0 5.4 5.6 5.8 6.1 6.1 6.5 6.8 7.3
2009 7.8 8.3 8.7 8.9 9.4 9.5 9.5 9.6 9.8 10.0 9.9 9.9
2010 9.7 9.8 9.8 9.9 9.6 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.5 9.5 9.8 9.4
2011 9.1 9.0 8.9 9.0 9.0 9.1 9.1 9.1 9.0 8.9 8.7 8.5

Bureau of Labor Statistics Data

The 10.0% unemployment happened well before any stimulus kicked in.

 

[JoeB131]

DETROIT (CNNMoney) -- General Motors is poised to once again be No. 1 in global auto sales, after three years out of the top spot.

It's a comeback that will be official when final 2011 sales figures are reported in the coming weeks.

Recapturing the top spot seemed unthinkable in 2008 when GM lost the title. At the time, the company was in a tailspin. Its very future was uncertain, and a bankruptcy filing and federal bailout loomed.

GM back on top in global sales race - Jan. 10, 2012

So when do we get our money back?

 

[JoeB131]

Wow...the Obama haters can't celebrate any victories can they? Well, I can and this is very good news. We saved GM, an American icon. Good for us!

Again, can't complain, because my current job only came about because GM presented an oppurtunity... (I currently have nothing to do with GM's part of our business).

But that said, the taxpayers shoveled out a lot of money that GM is never going to pay back. The government will sell it's shares of GM- at a loss.

 

[J.E.D]

5.0 to 8.5 unemployment with a 10% thrown in and Democrats are singing praises...sheesh

Unemployment figures

2006 4.7 4.8 4.7 4.7 4.6 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4
2007 4.6 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4 4.6 4.7 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.7 5.0
2008 5.0 4.9 5.1 5.0 5.4 5.6 5.8 6.1 6.1 6.5 6.8 7.3
2009 7.8 8.3 8.7 8.9 9.4 9.5 9.5 9.6 9.8 10.0 9.9 9.9
2010 9.7 9.8 9.8 9.9 9.6 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.5 9.5 9.8 9.4
2011 9.1 9.0 8.9 9.0 9.0 9.1 9.1 9.1 9.0 8.9 8.7 8.5

Bureau of Labor Statistics Data

Are you incapable of understanding the graph? Things have gotten better since Obama's policies took effect. Comparing 2006, or even early 2009, is just dishonest. The economy was better in 2006 (though it was sliding), and Obama's policies couldn't have been a factor to the numbers in early 2009. You do realize that it does take time for policies to have an effect, right? It's not like you sign a bill, and then the next day you can reap its benefits.

 

[Wry Catcher]

5.0 to 8.5 unemployment with a 10% thrown in and Democrats are singing praises...sheesh

Unemployment figures

2006 4.7 4.8 4.7 4.7 4.6 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4
2007 4.6 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4 4.6 4.7 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.7 5.0
2008 5.0 4.9 5.1 5.0 5.4 5.6 5.8 6.1 6.1 6.5 6.8 7.3
2009 7.8 8.3 8.7 8.9 9.4 9.5 9.5 9.6 9.8 10.0 9.9 9.9
2010 9.7 9.8 9.8 9.9 9.6 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.5 9.5 9.8 9.4
2011 9.1 9.0 8.9 9.0 9.0 9.1 9.1 9.1 9.0 8.9 8.7 8.5

Bureau of Labor Statistics Data

I thought you were an Obama hater and yet you post a graph which shows Obama slowed unemployment. Of course you know the 2009 budget was that of GWB and when Obama took office in 2009 our economy was in crisis. You also must know employment is one of the last things to improve as the economy recovers from a recession and the Bush Recession was the worst and deepest since that of Hoover.

 

[Chris]

Romney said the GM bail out "would never work."

The Dems are already playing that in tv ads in Michigan.

 

[rightwinger]

DETROIT (CNNMoney) -- General Motors is poised to once again be No. 1 in global auto sales, after three years out of the top spot.

It's a comeback that will be official when final 2011 sales figures are reported in the coming weeks.

Recapturing the top spot seemed unthinkable in 2008 when GM lost the title. At the time, the company was in a tailspin. Its very future was uncertain, and a bankruptcy filing and federal bailout loomed.

GM back on top in global sales race - Jan. 10, 2012

Who said....Let them fail?

Mitt?

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

When does your steamy novel about your love affair with Obama get published Chris?

 

[Katzndogz]

Romney would have broken up GM and shipped their jobs overseas.

It's almost like you have no idea that the rise in global sales is due to opening a GM factor in China! Paid for by the US taxpayer!

 

[naturegirl]

Oh well, they just owe the American Taxpayers a bundle of money. All that went away when they filed bankruptcy. Obama didn't save GM, no one saved GM we still lost.

Only a fraction of that, $6.7 billion, was in the form of loans. Most of the government's GM investment was converted to an ownership stake in the New GM, the company that emerged from bankruptcy: $2.1 billion in preferred stock; and 60.8 percent of the company's common equity. The jury is still out on how much return the government will get on that investment.

Whitacre could accurately claim that GM has retired its $6.7 billion in loans from the U.S. government. But with the government still owning 60 percent of the company and the prospects slim for getting all its money back, we thought that was highly misleading. And so we rated Whitacre's statement Half True.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...re-auto-companies-paid-up-american-taxpayers/

 

[Trajan]

In the midst of an economic crisis, with 25 million people needing work, policies that strengthen the hand of labor unions at the expense of both businesses and workers are probably the last thing the country has needed. But President Obama, in political debt to labor leaders who have funneled union funds to the coffers of the Democratic Party and who are vital to his reelection bid, is willing and eager to press forward with Big Labor’s agenda.

He pursued “Card Check” legislation that would have stripped workers of the right to vote by secret ballot on whether to unionize. He issued an order requiring workers on stimulus projects to become union members. He appointed Big Labor cronies to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) where they have wreaked havoc on the law. Perhaps the best known example is the agency’s decision to bring charges against Boeing—the nation’s largest exporter—for opening a billion-dollar manufacturing facility and hiring over 1,000 new workers in a Right-to-Work state.

Far from contributing to economic recovery, the Obama administration’s highly politicized labor policies have instead dampened business investment and made the employment climate worse. Overall, it is a familiar story from the annals of American politics: favors were given and favors were repaid, and the American people lost out in the transaction.

Here is the result of Republican policies of bashing the middle class worker....

your chart is bullshit....you heard it here first ( not that you care really) . a) its generates its own characterization, which leads to a gross characterization which btw you thrive on. think progress?

 

[Quantum Windbag]

DETROIT (CNNMoney) -- General Motors is poised to once again be No. 1 in global auto sales, after three years out of the top spot.

It's a comeback that will be official when final 2011 sales figures are reported in the coming weeks.

Recapturing the top spot seemed unthinkable in 2008 when GM lost the title. At the time, the company was in a tailspin. Its very future was uncertain, and a bankruptcy filing and federal bailout loomed.

GM back on top in global sales race - Jan. 10, 2012

Wonderful. Are they profitable and paying us back yet?

The banks are profitable too, but when they were challenged, the right lined up behind them. I guess the working man doesn't count!

Don't you remember all the hoopla about the Republicans not voting for the bailout the first time around, and how the left and the media all piled on about how they would rather see the country go down than save the economy?

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Wow...the Obama haters can't celebrate any victories can they? Well, I can and this is very good news. We saved GM, an American icon. Good for us!

It is not a victory, it is simply a side effect of the tsunami that wiped out Toyota's supply chain and shipping facilities. I prefer to have sympathy for people who have had their lives devastated by disasters, but if you are certainly free to celebrate them if you want.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

5.0 to 8.5 unemployment with a 10% thrown in and Democrats are singing praises...sheesh

Unemployment figures

2006 4.7 4.8 4.7 4.7 4.6 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4
2007 4.6 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4 4.6 4.7 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.7 5.0
2008 5.0 4.9 5.1 5.0 5.4 5.6 5.8 6.1 6.1 6.5 6.8 7.3
2009 7.8 8.3 8.7 8.9 9.4 9.5 9.5 9.6 9.8 10.0 9.9 9.9
2010 9.7 9.8 9.8 9.9 9.6 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.5 9.5 9.8 9.4
2011 9.1 9.0 8.9 9.0 9.0 9.1 9.1 9.1 9.0 8.9 8.7 8.5

Bureau of Labor Statistics Data

The 10.0% unemployment happened well before any stimulus kicked in.

Not if we believe Chris' charts.

 

[naturegirl]

Wonderful. Are they profitable and paying us back yet?

The banks are profitable too, but when they were challenged, the right lined up behind them. I guess the working man doesn't count!

Don't you remember all the hoopla about the Republicans not voting for the bailout the first time around, and how the left and the media all piled on about how they would rather see the country go down than save the economy?

Short memories those Dems have. Such obstructionists those Repubs are. Is there a count on how many bills Harry Reid is sitting on now??

 

[Decepticon]

Again, we see conservatives denying reality. The numbers are there.
Obama has created more jobs in his first three years than Bush did in his entire Presidency.

 

[Vel]

Romney would have broken up GM and shipped their jobs overseas.

Tennessee's Spring Hill plant won't build GM's new crossover


A new Buick crossover vehicle that United Auto Workers officials initially thought might be built at General Motors’ Spring Hill assembly plant won’t even be made in North America.

The vehicle will be made in South Korea instead, according to an announcement GM plans to make today.

Tennessee's Spring Hill plant won't build GM's new crossover | The Tennessean | tennessean.com

 

[Stephanie]

Again, we see conservatives denying reality. The numbers are there.
Obama has created more jobs in his first three years than Bush did in his entire Presidency.

ok then, if he created jobs, then he created the crappy economy, the high gas prices, the high food prices, the over 9% unemployment...

boy what a guy