"GROAN" where do you nuts come from? The unemployment rate is down, the auto industry has rebounded, gasoline is affordable, 20 million poor people have healthcare, Bin Laden is dead, etc...etc.... YET you want to sow the seeds of derision and vilify the man responsible for all of that.
The unemployment rate is down: much of it due to record amounts of Americans of working age not working. If you tell the survey people you don't work and are not looking for a job, they don't count you as being unemployed.
Gasoline is affordable: No thanks to DumBama. Drilling and permits on public land were lowered under DumBama, but private lands--especially those used for fracking is what lowered all our fuel costs, were up.
20 million poor people have healthcare: Only a leftist would celebrate 20 million more new government dependents in this country. And let's not forget the millions that lost their healthcare insurance as well thanks to Commie Care. Middle-class workers lost their healthcare so french fry makers at McDonald's can get insurance. Now premiums are more than doubling in places like Arizona.
Bin Laden is dead: Yes, thanks to a plan that started under Bush. DumBama was at the right place at the right time. And what good did it do? After 911, it was the only successful terrorist attack throughout Bush's eight years. How many have we had under DumBama now? Why one just happened right here in my state last week. Of course it will be like pulling teeth to get them to say it was a terrorist attack by a foreigner.
Your skewed view of the unemployment rate and LFPR.
The unemployment rate is about 4.9% right now. That means that out of all the number of people looking for work only 4.9% of them haven't found a job. The Labor Force Participation Rate is about 62.8% and that isn't all that bad considering the present social dynamics affecting it.
1. Baby Boomers are retiring in great numbers. Retiring means they are dropping out of the labor force.
2. Since 16 to 21 year olds are considered part of the Labor Force, and I suspect this age group is where another large part of non participation occurs, I am not surprised that the LFPR is 62.8 since many of those counted are college or high school students and Senior citizens.
Affordable Obamagas:
You haven't a clue about the oil and gas industry do you? I guess you haven't been listening to our experts telling us that OPEC nations are turning up production to discourage the USA from tapping domestic oil reserves and becoming independent.
Why oil prices keep falling — and throwing the world into turmoil
(snip)As prices slid, many observers waited to see whether OPEC, the world's largest oil cartel, would cut back on production to push prices back up. (Many OPEC states, like Saudi Arabia and Iran, need higher prices to balance their budgets.) But at its big meeting last November,
OPEC did nothing. Saudi Arabia didn't want to give up market share and refused to cut production — in the hopes that lower prices would help throttle the US shale boom. That was a surprise. So oil went into free-fall.(snip)
Obama had nothing to do with the oil crash. But he was given credit for the low prices that ensued on his watch.
Frankly, I am thankful. It saved the average American billions collectively and made moving products OTR far cheaper for businesses.. Inflation has also been kept low by the Democrats as has interests rates on loans.
A word about the PPACA:
I am not a leftist but I do see the sense of having former uninsured people pay at least SOME part of their healthcare instead of getting it completely free in emergency rooms where the costs skyrocket. Often the cost of an ER is far beyond the cost of care they receive from their primary care doctors through insurance.
So you don’t think Mc Donald workers deserve healthcare ? Fast Food workers ought to be taken care of for free because they prepare what many of us eat.
Premiums have always gone up before and after the PPACA; but, now they are going up because people are using their insurance to obtain medical care. Lives are being saved and the populous is healthier but all you can do is bray about your premiums rising. Here is a solution. Lets push for socialized medicine and make all medical care federal. Curt out the middle man who does nothing but write up policies he hopes he won’t have to honor.
Obama record on terrorists:
911 was the was the most devastating attack on American soil to date by a foreign entity. Bush destabilized the middle east by going into IRAQ and killing the wrong man, Saddam Hussein, based on the word of a flaky informant saying he had WMDs. There was no connection to 911 and there were no WMDs. After he had destroyed IRAQ Bush lost interest in finding Bin Laden. He even said so in a dismissive interview. Obama picked up the trail and got his man. Under Obama’s presidency a number of high profile Jihadists were killed in drone strikes.
Most of the domestic terrorism on Obama’s watch has been at the hands of native born Islamic converts. By any stretch, those events were mild by comparison to 911 or the Oklahoma bombing by Timothy McVeigh in 1995.