Your ignorance about oil and private land owners.:
I don't know what state you live in but I was born and raised in oil country. In my state, when you buy property all you buy is topsoil. The mineral rights are retained by the state because they didn't want average people getting rich or standing in the way of oil production. Of course, in the past eminent domain would also be evoked to uproot anyone who didn't want to sell his/her land at fair market value. Those ruthless moves often had repercussions when voting time came around. So, to get around kicking people off their land, horizontal drilling was invented. Private landowners don't even know when oil is being tapped right under their feet.
Why the Democrats oppose Fracking:
Fracking has nothing to do with horizontal drilling but it is an environmental hazard. Ground and surface water contamination accompanied by increases in seismic activity are good enough reasons for federal oversight. It is highly restricted in some countries and banned altogether in others. Republicans don't care about the environment or the people living near fracking sites, Democrats do!
Those are all phony reports by leftists organizations. Even the EPA bowed out of fracking oversight under the Obama administration because there was nothing there for them to observe. BTW, you are wrong. Horizontal drilling is fracking. Early on, fracking was done straight down from the station. To extract more, more stations had to be setup. When horizontal drilling became perfected, they were able to frack going sideways from one station instead of just up to down. They were able to extract more with much less work.
The "NOSEDIVE" of your LFPR chart:
The nosedive in the LFPR didn't start with Obama's administration. Hell, I don't even know why we are having this conversation since the president has no control over the LFPR. However, Look closer at your chart and the rate rose steadily until
2002-2003. That was the onset of a precipitous drop.. Obama was no where in public view. Retiring Baby boomers had an impact on that decline and that sobering reality continues till this very day. Hopefully you don't think they are all retiring at the same time but large chunks of that population is every year.
I find it amazing you can't even look at a chart and spot the obvious. Yes, people have been retiring, but look once again at the chart. From the years you outlined, the participation dropped from 67% to 66% in those years. But it went up again before Bush left office to 66.5% in 2008, it was at 65.5% and dropped to 62.5% in a matter of five years; the lowest rate since the late 70's. In June of this year, it hit 62.2%
The President has no control over this? He extended unemployment to two years, he doubled the food stamp program. People applied and/or received disability payments in soaring numbers. Don't tell me it has nothing to do with the President.
You didn't acknowledge the fact that 16 year olds are counted as part of the labor force even though they have two more years of high school ahead of them. Most Americans between 16 and 21 are thinking more about going to college than they are looking for a job. That accounts for another large segment of people who might not be actively looking for work.
Looking at the facts as presented, you would have to be a brain dead Trump-Bot to construct some other untenable scenario.
I have some bad news for ya, 16 year olds and up have been part of the statistics for decades now. It hasen't changed. Also, they've always been in school as well be it high school or college.
When you see a drastic change in something, it's important to look for the cause. You can't say these bad excuses you're giving me are the causes because they've always been there. What hans't always been there was Obama and the Democrats. That's when this huge change took place. Look for the obvious.
Obama's military decisions:
Obama is one of the brightest presidents ever. His foreign policy decisions aren't made in a vacuum. He is constantly briefed by various intelligentsia and Intelligence agencies. I doubt if he would tell any of his advisors to F--k off. But he did remember the promise he made to the American people who voted for him. That promise, of course, was to withdraw from IRAQ. I think his kept promise helped him win a second term.
Why Joe, I think you're finally starting to learn something for a change. Yes, that was exactly it, he pulled out of Iraq for politics. Everything he's done is because of politics. The countless people that died in Iraq after ISIS took over, those who were hung on a cross and left to die, those who were tortured by being set on fire or watching their children executed right in front of them? Screw those people, DumBama wanted to stay in the White House four more years. Everybody has their priorities you know. As for the thousands of men and women that died liberating that country, screw them too. Their fight was in vain. Obama got a second term and that's all that counts.
You have never served but you think you know more than Obama and all the military people at his disposal. Your abject ignorance surfaces repeatedly and there seems to be no end to it. BTW you can't capture prisoners when you have no troops on the ground. But somehow, our intelligence operatives were able to get enough information to target Jihadist leaders for elimination by drone attacks. While you and your ilk may rebuff anything Obama does, a 53% domestic approval rating and even higher world approval rating shows he did something right.
All it shows is how many uninformed voters we have in this country. No doubt that people like DumBama personally, but his policies suck. That's why there were sweeping elections the last two midterms. The morons in the Democrat party assumed everybody liked their Communist policies. They were fooled once again as the last election showed.
No, I never joined the military because I am a sick man. They wouldn't let me join if I wanted to. But DumBama was never even a boy scout, yet in the same breath, you claim he is one of the brightest Presidents ever.
