Stay with Hillary, dems and libs. She will take you to the promised land of starvation and joblessness. But fear not, she and Bubba will be just fine.
Don't you guys say the same thing evry time a Democrat is elected?
Yet the economy does better than under GOP leadership
Hmmmm. lets see now. since obama has been in office:
1. national debt has gone from 10T to 17T
True.
2. there are more people in poverty than ever before
3. more on food stamps than ever before
Whenever someone claims Republicans hate poor people, I don't buy it. If they hate poor people, why did they make so many of them? Of course there were record people on food stamps. Bush handed off an economy going over the cliff!
If you are going to blame Obama for the current economy, you have to blame Bush for the one he left Obama.
Obama has been very slow to turn things around. However, the food stamp thing is old news. Your are parroting old shit that no longer applies. Things are improving.
SNAP spending as a share of GDP was stable in fiscal years 2012 and 2013 and is on track to fall substantially in 2014 and thereafter. Government data show that spending on SNAP (formerly food stamps) fell slightly as a share of GDP in 2012 and 2013 and is expected to fall by 9 percent in 2014.[1]
SNAP Costs Falling, Expected to Fall Further ? Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Here is some more material for you to consider:
http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/04-19-SNAP.pdf
The number of people receiving SNAP benefits increased
by almost 50 percent between fiscal years 2001 and 2005
and even more rapidly (by 70 percent) between fiscal
years 2007 and 2011. During that latter period, spending
on SNAP benefits grew by about 135 percent. The
increase in the number of people eligible for and receiving
benefits between 2007 and 2011 has been driven
primarily by the weak economy. That increase was
responsible for about 65 percent of the growth in
spending on benefits between 2007 and 2011. About
20 percent of the growth in spending can be attributed
to temporarily higher benefit amounts enacted in the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
(ARRA). The remainder stemmed from other factors,
such as higher food prices and lower income among beneficiaries,
both of which boost benefits.
So there was a 50 percent increase in Bush's first term. Followed by a 70 percent increase for the period including his second term and the first two years of Obama's first term.
Between 1990 and 2011, the number of SNAP participants
increased during periods of relatively high
unemployment (see Figure 1). Even as the unemployment
rate began to decline from its 1992, 2003, and
2010 peaks, decreases in participation typically lagged
improvement in the economy by several years. For
example, the number of SNAP participants rose steadily
from about 20 million in the fall of 1989 to more than
27 million in April 1994—nearly two years after the
unemployment rate began to fall and a full three years
after the official end of the recession in March 1991. The
number of people receiving SNAP benefits began to
climb again in 2001 and continued to grow until 2006,
more than two years after the unemployment rate began
to decline and well after that recession ended (in November
2001). The number of participants temporarily
leveled off in 2006 and 2007 until the unemployment
rate began to rise sharply in 2008. Participation then
started to grow quickly and has continued to increase
since then.
So we find that is entirely normal for SNAP participation to increase for many years beyond the last recession.
The primary reason
for the increase in the number of participants was the
deep recession from December 2007 to June 2009 and
the subsequent slow recovery; there were no significant
legislative expansions of eligibility for the program during
that time.
Considering the Bush Recession was the greatest crash since the Great Depression, none of these figures being cited for the years following that crash should be the least bit surprising now that we have much more context in which to consider them.
Moving along...
4. longest high unemployment rate in history
Big Lie.
Look at the unemployment rates for the period 1975 - 1987:
US Unemployment Rate by Year
5. companies leaving the country to escape high taxation
They've been doing that since before Obama.
6. small business start ups down
Lie.
Startup Rates Surge in the U.S. and Abroad - Businessweek
The crash of 2008 impacted small business quite hard. However, since 2012:
Rates of early-stage entrepreneurial activity surged around the world in 2011, jumping nearly 60 percent in the U.S., according to a survey released this week by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. More than 12 percent of U.S. adults reported starting a business or running new businesses last year, up from just below 8 percent in 2010.
The GEM report reverses a trend toward declining startup activity that started in the U.S. in 2005 and persisted throughout the recent recession, says Donna Kelley, an associate professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College and a co-author of the report.
Startups were falling under Bush! Now that trend has been reversed. So you lied again.
7. number of bankrupcies up
Lie.
Bankruptcy filings have continued to decline in the first part of 2014. This decline is part of a longer-term trend as the graph shows.
Credit Slips: Bankruptcy Data
Bullshit. Housing starts have been climbing since 2009. They rose 28 percent in 2012 and another 18 percent in 2013.
That is a
good thing.
10. US reputation in the world down.
Another lie.
Opinion of the United States
During Bush's War on Terra™, you can see world opinion of America plummet. The numbers are higher during Obama's regime.
Pay particular attention to the differences in the numbers between 2008's poll and 2009's poll. The world was HUGELY relieved to see Bush go.
The opinions of our closest allies are higher today than at any time during Bush after 9/11. Britain, France, Japan, Germany, Israel. All higher opinions of America under Obama than under Bush post-9/11.
So you have scored very badly for truthfulness.