Already written into the history books as the first black american president.
His legacy does not reflect that achievement.
It is quite clear to even the most bespectacled that the democratics used the black/liberal vote to gain power and changed virtually nothing
At least we could all laugh at Bush for how stupid he was, Obama on the other hand has hissed like a snake promised everything and delivered nothing.
Yeah, he's really fucked things up. And honey, when the uber-conservative Wall Street Journal does a mea culpa like this, you'd better sit up and pay attention.
U.S. Job Growth Is Strongest Since 1999
Unemployment Rate, 5.6% in December, Is Lowest Since 2008
U.S. Job Growth Is Strongest Since 1999 - WSJ
Hey idiot, explain why 47 million Americans are on food stamps.
Newt’s Faulty Food-Stamp Claim
Newt Gingrich claims that “more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history.” He’s wrong.
More were added under Bush than under Obama, according to the most recent figures.
Under President George W. Bush the number of recipients rose by nearly 14.7 million. Nothing before comes close to that.
And under Obama, the increase so far has been 14.2 million. To be exact, the program has so far grown by 444,574
fewer recipients during Obama’s time in office than during Bush’s.
Obama’s Responsibility
Gingrich often cites the number of persons on food stamps to support his view that the U.S. is becoming an “entitlement society,” increasingly dependent on government aid. And he has a point. One out of seven Americans is currently getting food stamps.
But Gingrich strains the facts when he accuses Obama of being responsible. The rise started long before Obama took office, and accelerated as the nation was plunging into the worst economic recession since the Great Depression.
The economic
downturn began in December 2007. In the 12 months
before Obama was sworn in, 4.4 million were added to the rolls, triple the 1.4 million added in 2007.
Who Gets Food Stamps?
The most recent
Department of Agriculture report on the general characteristics of the SNAP program’s beneficiaries says that in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2010:
- 47 percent of beneficiaries were children under age 18.
- 8 percent were age 60 or older.
- 41 percent lived in a household with earnings from a job — the so-called “working poor.”
- The average household received a monthly benefit of $287.
- 36 percent were white (non-Hispanic), 22 percent were African American (non-Hispanic) and 10 percent were Hispanic (Table A.21).