There's a reason for that. The nature and scope of the OP is on an overall, national level. The OP doesn't, as you have, "cherry pick' specific elements and then attempt to extrapolate the downside(s) of them as the basis for denying that as a whole, the Obama years yielded an net improvement for the majority (majority >= 50%+1) of Americans.
Were the Obama years ideal and beneficial for literally everyone? No. Obama will be the first to admit that. But for whom Obama's presidency yielded positive economic outcomes and for whom it did not isn't the point of the OP. The point is simply that such outcomes were realized by more people and businesses than suffered negative economic outcomes during the same period.
You are so full of shit, I would almost be embarrassed. But since you are a liberal, I know how far up Uranus, your head is. Yes Obama made the Rich definitely RICHER and put the most in POVERTY since the War on Poverty started. Yet, you listen to the lickspittle, liberal, lapdog media, and then goose step right along with them. Seig Heil....
No, I'm not. As goes the topic under discussion in the OP and that you specifically addressed above, here's why:
- My initial response to you explained the contextual difference between what the OP-er noted in the OP and what you opted to mention in your post about "what s/he didn't mention." I did that because the nature and scope of the commentary in your post and the OP are not the same, thus not comparable, thereby making remarks about what the OP neither mentioned nor alluded to off-topic and, by definition, non sequitur.
It takes strong reading comprehension and cognition (logic) skills to realize that, and you clearly haven't got the ones needed to do so. Having those skills, one would have given credence to the content noted in the OP and then proceed to introduce different information that at a more detailed level identifies one/several caveats pertaining to the data the OP presents and the nature and extent of conclusions one can legitimately/humanely draw based on them.
Even though you crafted valid sentences to communicate your point, the expressed flow of thought reflected by those sentences (and no transitional remarks to connect the very high level points of the OP with the considerably more detailed ones you shared) being presented in isolated reply to the OP is non sequitur with regard to the OP's content; thus the statements demonstrably display the writer's incoherence.
I would almost be embarrassed.
In short, your post -- consisting as it did of nothing but a blurted out a fact unrelated to the OP's content and scope -- that I responded to is the compositional analogue of Tourette's syndrome. If you have indeed completed the 10th grade, you should be embarrassed for, unlike typos and mere misspellings, inadequacy in the organization of one's thoughts a core weakness that one can ascribe to nobody but oneself. I, on the other hand, am merely embarrassed for you because even after my having explained to you what was going on, you still (1) rejected the explanation and (2) attempted to defend the virtue of your comments. It's clear you, like Trump, do not "know more than the generals."
Obama made the Rich definitely RICHER and put the most in POVERTY since the War on Poverty started.
The "War on Poverty" began in 1964. Your assertion about Obama "putting" more people in poverty than since it began, though correct based on merely counting the quantity of people in poverty, is not relevant other than as a piece of abstract information suited to playing "Trivial Pursuit." To see the gravitas and relevant state of poverty in a nation, one must one look, not at the quantity of people in poverty but at the poverty rate. Why? [1] From 1959 to 2015, the number of families in poverty (families, rather than individuals, at or below the poverty level) and individuals increased, most likely due to mere population growth. (see the attached files: hstpov13.pdf and hstpov7-By year-Declining.pdf)
What does one observe by looking at poverty rates over time?
- The highest poverty rate for families during the Obama years was 11.8%. Looking at the attached document containing the U.S. Census Bureau's data about the poverty rate for families, one sees that rate was higher in several years between 1964 and 2016, including a pair of years each in the early 1980s and early 1990s. (see the attached file: hstpov13.pdf)
- When the impact of the Great Recession -- the worst economic downturn the U.S. had since the the "War on Poverty" began, and one that G.W. Bush had seven years to avert, and yet he didn't -- reached its zenith in 2010, the poverty rate among people reached the highest it's been since 1966. (see attached file: hstpov7 - By rate-Declining.pdf)
- After 2010, the impact of the Great Recession began to percolate out of the economy and poverty rate among families and people began to decline. It reached its lowest point in 2015 (see attached file hstpov7 - By rate-Declining.pdf). (I don't have the "hstpov" Census Bureau table that includes 2016 because it's not yet been published.)
What conclusions can one draw from that information?
- Well, that after having been handed the worst economy since the "War on Poverty" began, Obama managed to lower the poverty rate over the course of his tenure as POTUS.
- While a POTUS must, technically speaking, "own" whatever happens in their Administration, rational and substantive analysis of the Obama years' poverty rates reveals they were not caused by him, but rather endured and managed down by him. Had it been so that Obama was handed a stable or growing economy and the poverty rate yet increased, then it would literally and contextually appropriate to say Obama "put" more people in poverty than any POTUS before him from the start of the "War on Poverty" to the end of his term.
You'll recall that above I wrote that I'm embarrassed for you. Now it's clearer why. With the content you provided in the post to which I replied, you exhibited a willingness to delivered "in depth" facts, however, your discussion of the data point you there shared and your subsequent remarks in
post 198 show us that whereas you are quick to "consume" and share in isolation detailed pieces of data, you are not willing to perform the detailed analysis required to fully make sense of its merit and draw valid conclusions based on it. And guess what? That too is yet another form of incoherence.
But since you are a liberal, I know how far up Uranus, your head is.
Oh, and one more reason you should be embarrassed for yourself....You debased yourself even further by deigning to levy trite and unfounded insults at me. You'll notice I didn't need to do that to show the insufficiency of your cognition. I didn't because merely describing it and then providing evidence of the description's aptness is quite adequate. You may now consider yourself "schooled." I suggest you grow up before you again try to take me on with puerile effrontery and epithets.