Honest Question; What are Obama's Accomplishments?

[PaintMyHouse]

1. Switched sides in the WOT and turned over the Middle East to Islamic Jihad
2. Buried the Middle Class
3. Ran up more debt than all past Presidents combined
4. Violated 4th and 5th Amendment, rendered them moot

 

[CrusaderFrank]

1. Switched sides in the WOT and turned over the Middle East to Islamic Jihad
2. Buried the Middle Class
3. Ran up more debt than all past Presidents combined
4. Violated 4th and 5th Amendment, rendered them moot

One single Obama deficit is greater than all 8 of Reagans. In fact, any Reagan budget, which included beating the USSR, was less than an Obama deficit.

Obama picked up the spending crack pipe and sucked in hard for 2 whole terms

 

[JimBowie1958]

You're cuckoo, Ace

PaintMyFuckingOuthouse is a Sorosbot, methinks.

 

[rdean]

You know that during the Bush years, millions of jobs were moved to China and over 40,000 factories closed, right? It's like you guys are determined to be ignorant tards. Why is that?

The Plight of American Manufacturing

Something has gone radically wrong with the American economy. A once-robust system of "traditional engineering" -- the invention, design, and manufacture of products -- has been replaced by financial engineering. Without a vibrant manufacturing sector, Wall Street created money it did not have and Americans spent money they did not have.

Americans stopped making the products they continued to buy: clothing, computers, consumer electronics, flat-screen TVs, household items, and millions of automobiles.

America's economic elite has long argued that the country does not need an industrial base. The economies in states such as California and Michigan that have lost their industrial base, however, belie that claim. Without an industrial base, an increase in consumer spending, which pulled the country out of past recessions, will not put Americans back to work. Without an industrial base, the nation's trade deficit will continue to grow. Without an industrial base, there will be no economic ladder for a generation of immigrants, stranded in low-paying service-sector jobs. Without an industrial base, the United States will be increasingly dependent on foreign manufacturers even for its key military technology.

For American manufacturers, the bad years didn't begin with the banking crisis of 2008. Indeed, the U.S. manufacturing sector never emerged from the 2001 recession, which coincided with China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Since 2001, the country has lost 42,400 factories, including 36 percent of factories that employ more than 1,000 workers (which declined from 1,479 to 947), and 38 percent of factories that employ between 500 and 999 employees (from 3,198 to 1,972). An additional 90,000 manufacturing companies are now at risk of going out of business.

Long before the banking collapse of 2008, such important U.S. industries as machine tools, consumer electronics, auto parts, appliances, furniture, telecommunications equipment, and many others that had once dominated the global marketplace suffered their own economic collapse. Manufacturing employment dropped to 11.7 million in October 2009, a loss of 5.5 million or 32 percent of all manufacturing jobs since October 2000. The last time fewer than 12 million people worked in the manufacturing sector was in 1941. In October 2009, more people were officially unemployed (15.7 million) than were working in manufacturing.

When a factory closes, it creates a vortex that has far-reaching consequences. The Milken Institute estimates that every computer-manufacturing job in California creates 15 jobs outside the factory. Close a manufacturing plant, and a supply chain of producers disappears with it.

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Republicans want desperately to blame that mess on Obama, but that's the mess those fuckers handed to Obama. And now they complain he didn't fix it. Well, when you fuckers watched over 40,000 factories close, they are gone for good. You fuckers just repeat the same old bullshit without even knowing the truth. That's why business wants immigrants and NOT ignorant and uneducated right wingers who don't know anything.

 

[baileyn45]

You know that during the Bush years, millions of jobs were moved to China and over 40,000 factories closed, right? It's like you guys are determined to be ignorant tards. Why is that?

The Plight of American Manufacturing

Something has gone radically wrong with the American economy. A once-robust system of "traditional engineering" -- the invention, design, and manufacture of products -- has been replaced by financial engineering. Without a vibrant manufacturing sector, Wall Street created money it did not have and Americans spent money they did not have.

Americans stopped making the products they continued to buy: clothing, computers, consumer electronics, flat-screen TVs, household items, and millions of automobiles.

America's economic elite has long argued that the country does not need an industrial base. The economies in states such as California and Michigan that have lost their industrial base, however, belie that claim. Without an industrial base, an increase in consumer spending, which pulled the country out of past recessions, will not put Americans back to work. Without an industrial base, the nation's trade deficit will continue to grow. Without an industrial base, there will be no economic ladder for a generation of immigrants, stranded in low-paying service-sector jobs. Without an industrial base, the United States will be increasingly dependent on foreign manufacturers even for its key military technology.

For American manufacturers, the bad years didn't begin with the banking crisis of 2008. Indeed, the U.S. manufacturing sector never emerged from the 2001 recession, which coincided with China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Since 2001, the country has lost 42,400 factories, including 36 percent of factories that employ more than 1,000 workers (which declined from 1,479 to 947), and 38 percent of factories that employ between 500 and 999 employees (from 3,198 to 1,972). An additional 90,000 manufacturing companies are now at risk of going out of business.

Long before the banking collapse of 2008, such important U.S. industries as machine tools, consumer electronics, auto parts, appliances, furniture, telecommunications equipment, and many others that had once dominated the global marketplace suffered their own economic collapse. Manufacturing employment dropped to 11.7 million in October 2009, a loss of 5.5 million or 32 percent of all manufacturing jobs since October 2000. The last time fewer than 12 million people worked in the manufacturing sector was in 1941. In October 2009, more people were officially unemployed (15.7 million) than were working in manufacturing.

When a factory closes, it creates a vortex that has far-reaching consequences. The Milken Institute estimates that every computer-manufacturing job in California creates 15 jobs outside the factory. Close a manufacturing plant, and a supply chain of producers disappears with it.

-------------------------------------

Republicans want desperately to blame that mess on Obama, but that's the mess those fuckers handed to Obama. And now they complain he didn't fix it. Well, when you fuckers watched over 40,000 factories close, they are gone for good. You fuckers just repeat the same old bullshit without even knowing the truth. That's why business wants immigrants and NOT ignorant and uneducated right wingers who don't know anything.

Manufacturing in this country has been dying since the 70s. And it's been a surprisingly steady fall. Any one that blames Obama is wrong. Any one that blames Bush is wrong.

CARPE DIEM: Manufacturing Jobs As Percent of U.S. Payroll Employment Fall to Record Low of 9.25% in March

There are a myriad of reasons, from foreign competition to risings costs in the US to automation. I read a report from SBA a few years back that put the cost to meet govt regs on small manufacturers at 22k per employee per year. The biggest hit my company ever took was the steel tariffs of 2001/02. Doubled and in some cases tripled the cost of steel. We went from 32 employees to 15 in 18 months. Absolutely hemorrhaged work. That bill was signed by Bush and sponsored by many, many dems.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Upon seeing this thread I have no idea why it could go beyond one page let alone warrant any responses at all.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

Nonsense. The only people still hurting are the uneducated Americans. That's because manufacturing went bye bye.

. Tell that to Tyrone in South side of Chicago.

What would you do for tyron?

We wouldn't discourage Tyrone's spirit and convince him he can't succeed because of white priviledge.

 

[Claudette]

OK, we all know his failures are Bushes fault and due to the racism he is subjected to for being a black man.

But what has he accomplished that will build his legacy?

Outside of transforming America, none.

 

[bitterlyclingin]

Obama's best, that legacy Iranian nuke deal, is yet to come. The Iranians have thirteen months in which they can fire their nuclear tipped warheads at United States cities without fear of retribution.
Most of the resulting dead will be the Democrats in the cities who voted Obama into office, followed by a political sea change in the United States, there are no atheists in foxholes, yano.
I wouldn't wannabe on record anywhere as having donated so much as a quarter to Obama For America or having written a fawning letter on Obama to the editor of the NYT or even your local rag, the 400 member journolist be apprised, that is if you survive the initial strikes. The ultimate irony of it all is those cadres of Melowese Richardsons, who cast their twelve ballots each for Barack (Named after Mohamed's horse) Hussein Obama will leave only a single, solitary memorial of a shadow on the roadbed or sidewalk underneath where they were standing when the devices went off overhead.

 

[bitterlyclingin]

Obama's best, that legacy Iranian nuke deal, is yet to come. The Iranians have thirteen months in which they can fire their nuclear tipped warheads at United States cities without fear of retribution.
Most of the resulting dead will be the Democrats in the cities who voted Obama into office, followed by a political sea change in the United States, there are no atheists in foxholes, yano.
I wouldn't wannabe on record anywhere as having donated so much as a quarter to Obama For America or having written a fawning letter on Obama to the editor of the NYT or even your local rag, the 400 member journolist be apprised, that is if you survive the initial strikes. The ultimate irony of it all is those cadres of Melowese Richardsons, who cast their twelve ballots each for Barack (Named after Mohamed's horse) Hussein Obama will leave only a single, solitary memorial of a shadow on the roadbed or sidewalk underneath where they were standing when the devices went off overhead.

 

[bitterlyclingin]

Barack Hussein Obama is my name. Bringing in the Caliphate is my game.
Taqiyyah is the weapon I most employ, stupid Americans become calm when they hear my voice .

 

[CrusaderFrank]

1. Switched sides in the WOT and turned over the Middle East to Islamic Jihad
2. Buried the Middle Class
3. Ran up more debt than all past Presidents combined
4. Violated 4th and 5th Amendment, rendered them moot

Your chart is somewhat dated. LOL 2011

Debt today is over $18T and it was 10.9T when the Macaca Messiah was sworn in

 

[JimBowie1958]

You know that during the Bush years, millions of jobs were moved to China and over 40,000 factories closed, right? It's like you guys are determined to be ignorant tards. Why is that?

The Plight of American Manufacturing

Something has gone radically wrong with the American economy. A once-robust system of "traditional engineering" -- the invention, design, and manufacture of products -- has been replaced by financial engineering. Without a vibrant manufacturing sector, Wall Street created money it did not have and Americans spent money they did not have.

Americans stopped making the products they continued to buy: clothing, computers, consumer electronics, flat-screen TVs, household items, and millions of automobiles.

America's economic elite has long argued that the country does not need an industrial base. The economies in states such as California and Michigan that have lost their industrial base, however, belie that claim. Without an industrial base, an increase in consumer spending, which pulled the country out of past recessions, will not put Americans back to work. Without an industrial base, the nation's trade deficit will continue to grow. Without an industrial base, there will be no economic ladder for a generation of immigrants, stranded in low-paying service-sector jobs. Without an industrial base, the United States will be increasingly dependent on foreign manufacturers even for its key military technology.

For American manufacturers, the bad years didn't begin with the banking crisis of 2008. Indeed, the U.S. manufacturing sector never emerged from the 2001 recession, which coincided with China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Since 2001, the country has lost 42,400 factories, including 36 percent of factories that employ more than 1,000 workers (which declined from 1,479 to 947), and 38 percent of factories that employ between 500 and 999 employees (from 3,198 to 1,972). An additional 90,000 manufacturing companies are now at risk of going out of business.

Long before the banking collapse of 2008, such important U.S. industries as machine tools, consumer electronics, auto parts, appliances, furniture, telecommunications equipment, and many others that had once dominated the global marketplace suffered their own economic collapse. Manufacturing employment dropped to 11.7 million in October 2009, a loss of 5.5 million or 32 percent of all manufacturing jobs since October 2000. The last time fewer than 12 million people worked in the manufacturing sector was in 1941. In October 2009, more people were officially unemployed (15.7 million) than were working in manufacturing.

When a factory closes, it creates a vortex that has far-reaching consequences. The Milken Institute estimates that every computer-manufacturing job in California creates 15 jobs outside the factory. Close a manufacturing plant, and a supply chain of producers disappears with it.

-------------------------------------

Republicans want desperately to blame that mess on Obama, but that's the mess those fuckers handed to Obama. And now they complain he didn't fix it. Well, when you fuckers watched over 40,000 factories close, they are gone for good. You fuckers just repeat the same old bullshit without even knowing the truth. That's why business wants immigrants and NOT ignorant and uneducated right wingers who don't know anything.

Manufacturing in this country has been dying since the 70s. And it's been a surprisingly steady fall. Any one that blames Obama is wrong. Any one that blames Bush is wrong.

CARPE DIEM: Manufacturing Jobs As Percent of U.S. Payroll Employment Fall to Record Low of 9.25% in March

There are a myriad of reasons, from foreign competition to risings costs in the US to automation. I read a report from SBA a few years back that put the cost to meet govt regs on small manufacturers at 22k per employee per year. The biggest hit my company ever took was the steel tariffs of 2001/02. Doubled and in some cases tripled the cost of steel. We went from 32 employees to 15 in 18 months. Absolutely hemorrhaged work. That bill was signed by Bush and sponsored by many, many dems.

It is correct to say that not any one of them are wrong; the entire political establishment is wrong for not protecting the interests of the American working class (if you have to punch a clock you are working class, folks).

The political establishment has sold out to corporate lobbyists and they are not only wrong but they are traitors to the people of the USA.

 

[JimBowie1958]

Upon seeing this thread I have no idea why it could go beyond one page let alone warrant any responses at all.

Well, apparently conservatives and liberal disagree on their assessment of Obama, for some reason.

 

[baileyn45]

You know that during the Bush years, millions of jobs were moved to China and over 40,000 factories closed, right? It's like you guys are determined to be ignorant tards. Why is that?

The Plight of American Manufacturing

Something has gone radically wrong with the American economy. A once-robust system of "traditional engineering" -- the invention, design, and manufacture of products -- has been replaced by financial engineering. Without a vibrant manufacturing sector, Wall Street created money it did not have and Americans spent money they did not have.

Americans stopped making the products they continued to buy: clothing, computers, consumer electronics, flat-screen TVs, household items, and millions of automobiles.

America's economic elite has long argued that the country does not need an industrial base. The economies in states such as California and Michigan that have lost their industrial base, however, belie that claim. Without an industrial base, an increase in consumer spending, which pulled the country out of past recessions, will not put Americans back to work. Without an industrial base, the nation's trade deficit will continue to grow. Without an industrial base, there will be no economic ladder for a generation of immigrants, stranded in low-paying service-sector jobs. Without an industrial base, the United States will be increasingly dependent on foreign manufacturers even for its key military technology.

For American manufacturers, the bad years didn't begin with the banking crisis of 2008. Indeed, the U.S. manufacturing sector never emerged from the 2001 recession, which coincided with China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Since 2001, the country has lost 42,400 factories, including 36 percent of factories that employ more than 1,000 workers (which declined from 1,479 to 947), and 38 percent of factories that employ between 500 and 999 employees (from 3,198 to 1,972). An additional 90,000 manufacturing companies are now at risk of going out of business.

Long before the banking collapse of 2008, such important U.S. industries as machine tools, consumer electronics, auto parts, appliances, furniture, telecommunications equipment, and many others that had once dominated the global marketplace suffered their own economic collapse. Manufacturing employment dropped to 11.7 million in October 2009, a loss of 5.5 million or 32 percent of all manufacturing jobs since October 2000. The last time fewer than 12 million people worked in the manufacturing sector was in 1941. In October 2009, more people were officially unemployed (15.7 million) than were working in manufacturing.

When a factory closes, it creates a vortex that has far-reaching consequences. The Milken Institute estimates that every computer-manufacturing job in California creates 15 jobs outside the factory. Close a manufacturing plant, and a supply chain of producers disappears with it.

-------------------------------------

Republicans want desperately to blame that mess on Obama, but that's the mess those fuckers handed to Obama. And now they complain he didn't fix it. Well, when you fuckers watched over 40,000 factories close, they are gone for good. You fuckers just repeat the same old bullshit without even knowing the truth. That's why business wants immigrants and NOT ignorant and uneducated right wingers who don't know anything.

Manufacturing in this country has been dying since the 70s. And it's been a surprisingly steady fall. Any one that blames Obama is wrong. Any one that blames Bush is wrong.

CARPE DIEM: Manufacturing Jobs As Percent of U.S. Payroll Employment Fall to Record Low of 9.25% in March

There are a myriad of reasons, from foreign competition to risings costs in the US to automation. I read a report from SBA a few years back that put the cost to meet govt regs on small manufacturers at 22k per employee per year. The biggest hit my company ever took was the steel tariffs of 2001/02. Doubled and in some cases tripled the cost of steel. We went from 32 employees to 15 in 18 months. Absolutely hemorrhaged work. That bill was signed by Bush and sponsored by many, many dems.

It is correct to say that not any one of them are wrong; the entire political establishment is wrong for not protecting the interests of the American working class (if you have to punch a clock you additional 90,000 manufacturing companies are now at risk of going out of business.

Long before the bankire working class, folks).

The political establishment has sold out to corporate lobbyists and they are not only wrong but they are traitors to the people of the USA.

I would agree the political establishment sold out but I would say to financial concerns more than corporate in general. I've worked in manufacturing all my life and cannot think of any company that sent jobs overseas just to save a little money. It has always been a matter of survival.

Case in point, as I mentioned in an earlier post my company was hurt by the steel tariffs. My biggest customer at that time made wheel chairs. They came to us and said point blank that they could no longer make a steel wheel chair in the US and sell it to Medicare. Medicare had capped what they would pay and with the doubling of steel prices it was just plain over. Within 2 yrs their entire steel wheel chair operation was in Mexico. Now the company hated it. In the past if there was an issue with my input I was in an office with QC or engineers within hours. Suddenly it was a 2 week deal trying to get to the right people. They hated it but really had 3 choices, lose money on every chair, get out of the steel chair business or move to mexico. Sadly they are labeled traitors for just trying to survive. So often this country shoots itself in the foot and then looks for a scapegoat to blame.

 

[rdean]

You know that during the Bush years, millions of jobs were moved to China and over 40,000 factories closed, right? It's like you guys are determined to be ignorant tards. Why is that?

The Plight of American Manufacturing

Something has gone radically wrong with the American economy. A once-robust system of "traditional engineering" -- the invention, design, and manufacture of products -- has been replaced by financial engineering. Without a vibrant manufacturing sector, Wall Street created money it did not have and Americans spent money they did not have.

Americans stopped making the products they continued to buy: clothing, computers, consumer electronics, flat-screen TVs, household items, and millions of automobiles.

America's economic elite has long argued that the country does not need an industrial base. The economies in states such as California and Michigan that have lost their industrial base, however, belie that claim. Without an industrial base, an increase in consumer spending, which pulled the country out of past recessions, will not put Americans back to work. Without an industrial base, the nation's trade deficit will continue to grow. Without an industrial base, there will be no economic ladder for a generation of immigrants, stranded in low-paying service-sector jobs. Without an industrial base, the United States will be increasingly dependent on foreign manufacturers even for its key military technology.

For American manufacturers, the bad years didn't begin with the banking crisis of 2008. Indeed, the U.S. manufacturing sector never emerged from the 2001 recession, which coincided with China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Since 2001, the country has lost 42,400 factories, including 36 percent of factories that employ more than 1,000 workers (which declined from 1,479 to 947), and 38 percent of factories that employ between 500 and 999 employees (from 3,198 to 1,972). An additional 90,000 manufacturing companies are now at risk of going out of business.

Long before the banking collapse of 2008, such important U.S. industries as machine tools, consumer electronics, auto parts, appliances, furniture, telecommunications equipment, and many others that had once dominated the global marketplace suffered their own economic collapse. Manufacturing employment dropped to 11.7 million in October 2009, a loss of 5.5 million or 32 percent of all manufacturing jobs since October 2000. The last time fewer than 12 million people worked in the manufacturing sector was in 1941. In October 2009, more people were officially unemployed (15.7 million) than were working in manufacturing.

When a factory closes, it creates a vortex that has far-reaching consequences. The Milken Institute estimates that every computer-manufacturing job in California creates 15 jobs outside the factory. Close a manufacturing plant, and a supply chain of producers disappears with it.

-------------------------------------

Republicans want desperately to blame that mess on Obama, but that's the mess those fuckers handed to Obama. And now they complain he didn't fix it. Well, when you fuckers watched over 40,000 factories close, they are gone for good. You fuckers just repeat the same old bullshit without even knowing the truth. That's why business wants immigrants and NOT ignorant and uneducated right wingers who don't know anything.

Manufacturing in this country has been dying since the 70s. And it's been a surprisingly steady fall. Any one that blames Obama is wrong. Any one that blames Bush is wrong.

CARPE DIEM: Manufacturing Jobs As Percent of U.S. Payroll Employment Fall to Record Low of 9.25% in March

There are a myriad of reasons, from foreign competition to risings costs in the US to automation. I read a report from SBA a few years back that put the cost to meet govt regs on small manufacturers at 22k per employee per year. The biggest hit my company ever took was the steel tariffs of 2001/02. Doubled and in some cases tripled the cost of steel. We went from 32 employees to 15 in 18 months. Absolutely hemorrhaged work. That bill was signed by Bush and sponsored by many, many dems.

Signed by Bush who carried veto power. You could stop there. Who knows what riders were in the bill.

 

[Vigilante]

You know that during the Bush years, millions of jobs were moved to China and over 40,000 factories closed, right? It's like you guys are determined to be ignorant tards. Why is that?

The Plight of American Manufacturing

Something has gone radically wrong with the American economy. A once-robust system of "traditional engineering" -- the invention, design, and manufacture of products -- has been replaced by financial engineering. Without a vibrant manufacturing sector, Wall Street created money it did not have and Americans spent money they did not have.

Americans stopped making the products they continued to buy: clothing, computers, consumer electronics, flat-screen TVs, household items, and millions of automobiles.

America's economic elite has long argued that the country does not need an industrial base. The economies in states such as California and Michigan that have lost their industrial base, however, belie that claim. Without an industrial base, an increase in consumer spending, which pulled the country out of past recessions, will not put Americans back to work. Without an industrial base, the nation's trade deficit will continue to grow. Without an industrial base, there will be no economic ladder for a generation of immigrants, stranded in low-paying service-sector jobs. Without an industrial base, the United States will be increasingly dependent on foreign manufacturers even for its key military technology.

For American manufacturers, the bad years didn't begin with the banking crisis of 2008. Indeed, the U.S. manufacturing sector never emerged from the 2001 recession, which coincided with China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Since 2001, the country has lost 42,400 factories, including 36 percent of factories that employ more than 1,000 workers (which declined from 1,479 to 947), and 38 percent of factories that employ between 500 and 999 employees (from 3,198 to 1,972). An additional 90,000 manufacturing companies are now at risk of going out of business.

Long before the banking collapse of 2008, such important U.S. industries as machine tools, consumer electronics, auto parts, appliances, furniture, telecommunications equipment, and many others that had once dominated the global marketplace suffered their own economic collapse. Manufacturing employment dropped to 11.7 million in October 2009, a loss of 5.5 million or 32 percent of all manufacturing jobs since October 2000. The last time fewer than 12 million people worked in the manufacturing sector was in 1941. In October 2009, more people were officially unemployed (15.7 million) than were working in manufacturing.

When a factory closes, it creates a vortex that has far-reaching consequences. The Milken Institute estimates that every computer-manufacturing job in California creates 15 jobs outside the factory. Close a manufacturing plant, and a supply chain of producers disappears with it.

-------------------------------------

Republicans want desperately to blame that mess on Obama, but that's the mess those fuckers handed to Obama. And now they complain he didn't fix it. Well, when you fuckers watched over 40,000 factories close, they are gone for good. You fuckers just repeat the same old bullshit without even knowing the truth. That's why business wants immigrants and NOT ignorant and uneducated right wingers who don't know anything.

Manufacturing in this country has been dying since the 70s. And it's been a surprisingly steady fall. Any one that blames Obama is wrong. Any one that blames Bush is wrong.

CARPE DIEM: Manufacturing Jobs As Percent of U.S. Payroll Employment Fall to Record Low of 9.25% in March

There are a myriad of reasons, from foreign competition to risings costs in the US to automation. I read a report from SBA a few years back that put the cost to meet govt regs on small manufacturers at 22k per employee per year. The biggest hit my company ever took was the steel tariffs of 2001/02. Doubled and in some cases tripled the cost of steel. We went from 32 employees to 15 in 18 months. Absolutely hemorrhaged work. That bill was signed by Bush and sponsored by many, many dems.

Signed by Bush who carried veto power. You could stop there. Who knows what riders were in the bill.

So you REALLY are Howard Dean!