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Obama Follies and Facts
As of Sept. 2012:
**Obama so loves the poor, he's created millions more.
**Fewer people are working now than when Obama took office
**Unemployment was 7.8% when he took office, it's now 8.3%
**23 million unemployed or underemployed
**Lowest job participation rate (percentage of population actually working) in over 30 years
**The middle class has lost 40% of its net worth under Obama
**659,000 more long-term unemployed than there were in June 2009
**Food prices up 15% under Obama
**A record 45 million on food stamps, increased 59% in just 3 years under Obama
**Gas prices doubled under Obama
**Oil production on federal lands is down more than 7% - that's Obama.
**43 months of unemployment above 8%
**Obama has the worst job creation record since 1945 (BLS)
**Obama recovery the worst in 75 years
**Poverty rate highest since the 60s
**nearly 2.7 million more in poverty than when the Obama recovery started
**Regulations and compliance costs are up drastically, more under Obama than any other president.
**55% of small business owners and manufacturers would not have started their businesses in today’s economy, according to a new poll that also reports 69 percent say President Obama’s regulatory policies have hurt their businesses.
**Median household income declines $4,300 under Obama
**Since 2009, average incomes of the middle 20% of American households dropped 4%. In 2011 alone, they fell 1.7%.
**Incomes of the poorest 20% dropped more than 7% since 2009. Now lower than they've been at any time since 1985, after adjusting for inflation.
**These results are highly unusual in an economic recovery, which typically produces income gains across the board
**60% of jobs lost in recession were midwage, just 22% of those created during the recovery paid as well. 21% of the jobs lost in the recession were low-wage, 58% of those created during Obama's recovery paid low wages
**Average family health insurance up $2,370 under Obama - he vowed decrease of $2,500. premiums climbed faster in Obama's four years than they did in the previous four under President Bush.
**Added $5.3 trillion to our National Debt, from $10.6T to $16T
** Income inequality has reached new heights
**Presided over only US credit downgrade - twice
**Long-term unemployed: More than three years into Obama's recovery, 811,000 more still fall into this category than when the recession ended.
**Black poverty at record highs
**Black youth unemployment over 50%
**Hispanic unemployment at 11%
**Illegals due to receive roughly $7.4 billion through Obama's Additional Child Tax Credit.
**11.8 million more people on food stamps since Obama's recovery started
**50% of college graduates unable to find a job within a year after graduating
**Misery Index: When Obama took office, the combination of unemployment and inflation stood at 7.83. Today it's 9.71
**More than 1 million workers been added to Social Security's disability program in the last three years
**Even unions are worse off, with membership dropping half a million between 2009 and 2011
**An increase in long-term unemployed from 1.6 million in early 2009 to 3.6 million today.
**The unemployed out of work for a year or more jumped from 11.8% in the first quarter 2009 to 29.5% in the first quarter 2012
**Worst uprisings in the Middle East in decades,
**First Ambassador killed in over 30 years
**No increased security on 9/11 even though there were advanced actionable warnings
**Massive multiple intelligence leaks almost certainly from White House itself
**Failed negotiations with Iraq for post withdrawal issues
**Iran on the brink of nuclear weapons
**Unilateral action taken on Libya without congressional approval
**Sovereignty of other nations routinely violated
**increased spending on foreign aid by 80 percent and, in fiscal 2011, spent 76 percent more on foreign aid than it did securing the borders of the United States
SO IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT? ANOTHER 4 YEARS OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL UPHEAVAL? DO YOU ACTUALLY THINK OBAMA HAS IMPROVED THE QUALITY OF LIFE, IMPROVED FOREIGN RELATIONS (OTHER THAN TO THOSE FOREIGN COMPANIES HE GAVE BILLIONS TO UNDER HIS FAILED STIMULUS PLAN) AND MADE THE U.S.A. A STRONGER AND BETTER PLACE? NOT ME-I WANT THE LYING SOB OUT OF OFFICE-MAYBE ONCE IN HIS POS LIFE HE CAN ACTUALLY WORK FOR A LIVING IN A PRIVATE SECTOR JOB INSTEAD OF LIVING OFF THE TAXPAYER AS HE HAS DONE HIS WHOLE LIFE.
I HOPE SOME DEMOCRAT CAN ANSWER WHY THEY SUPPORT SUCH A POTUS FOR RE-ELECTION. I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING SOME SORT OF INTELLIGENT RESPONSE.
**Obama so loves the poor, he's created millions more.
**Fewer people are working now than when Obama took office
**Unemployment was 7.8% when he took office, it's now 8.3%
**23 million unemployed or underemployed
**Lowest job participation rate (percentage of population actually working) in over 30 years
**The middle class has lost 40% of its net worth under Obama
**659,000 more long-term unemployed than there were in June 2009
**Food prices up 15% under Obama
**A record 45 million on food stamps, increased 59% in just 3 years under Obama
**Gas prices doubled under Obama
**Oil production on federal lands is down more than 7% - that's Obama.
**43 months of unemployment above 8%
**Obama has the worst job creation record since 1945 (BLS)
**Obama recovery the worst in 75 years
**Poverty rate highest since the 60s
**nearly 2.7 million more in poverty than when the Obama recovery started
**Regulations and compliance costs are up drastically, more under Obama than any other president.
**55% of small business owners and manufacturers would not have started their businesses in today’s economy, according to a new poll that also reports 69 percent say President Obama’s regulatory policies have hurt their businesses.
**Median household income declines $4,300 under Obama
**Since 2009, average incomes of the middle 20% of American households dropped 4%. In 2011 alone, they fell 1.7%.
**Incomes of the poorest 20% dropped more than 7% since 2009. Now lower than they've been at any time since 1985, after adjusting for inflation.
**These results are highly unusual in an economic recovery, which typically produces income gains across the board
**60% of jobs lost in recession were midwage, just 22% of those created during the recovery paid as well. 21% of the jobs lost in the recession were low-wage, 58% of those created during Obama's recovery paid low wages
**Average family health insurance up $2,370 under Obama - he vowed decrease of $2,500. premiums climbed faster in Obama's four years than they did in the previous four under President Bush.
**Added $5.3 trillion to our National Debt, from $10.6T to $16T
** Income inequality has reached new heights
**Presided over only US credit downgrade - twice
**Long-term unemployed: More than three years into Obama's recovery, 811,000 more still fall into this category than when the recession ended.
**Black poverty at record highs
**Black youth unemployment over 50%
**Hispanic unemployment at 11%
**Illegals due to receive roughly $7.4 billion through Obama's Additional Child Tax Credit.
**11.8 million more people on food stamps since Obama's recovery started
**50% of college graduates unable to find a job within a year after graduating
**Misery Index: When Obama took office, the combination of unemployment and inflation stood at 7.83. Today it's 9.71
**More than 1 million workers been added to Social Security's disability program in the last three years
**Even unions are worse off, with membership dropping half a million between 2009 and 2011
**An increase in long-term unemployed from 1.6 million in early 2009 to 3.6 million today.
**The unemployed out of work for a year or more jumped from 11.8% in the first quarter 2009 to 29.5% in the first quarter 2012
**Worst uprisings in the Middle East in decades,
**First Ambassador killed in over 30 years
**No increased security on 9/11 even though there were advanced actionable warnings
**Massive multiple intelligence leaks almost certainly from White House itself
**Failed negotiations with Iraq for post withdrawal issues
**Iran on the brink of nuclear weapons
**Unilateral action taken on Libya without congressional approval
**Sovereignty of other nations routinely violated
**increased spending on foreign aid by 80 percent and, in fiscal 2011, spent 76 percent more on foreign aid than it did securing the borders of the United States
SO IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT? ANOTHER 4 YEARS OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL UPHEAVAL? DO YOU ACTUALLY THINK OBAMA HAS IMPROVED THE QUALITY OF LIFE, IMPROVED FOREIGN RELATIONS (OTHER THAN TO THOSE FOREIGN COMPANIES HE GAVE BILLIONS TO UNDER HIS FAILED STIMULUS PLAN) AND MADE THE U.S.A. A STRONGER AND BETTER PLACE? NOT ME-I WANT THE LYING SOB OUT OF OFFICE-MAYBE ONCE IN HIS POS LIFE HE CAN ACTUALLY WORK FOR A LIVING IN A PRIVATE SECTOR JOB INSTEAD OF LIVING OFF THE TAXPAYER AS HE HAS DONE HIS WHOLE LIFE.
I HOPE SOME DEMOCRAT CAN ANSWER WHY THEY SUPPORT SUCH A POTUS FOR RE-ELECTION. I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING SOME SORT OF INTELLIGENT RESPONSE.