Obama's SOTU Speech

[BlueDawg]

Fact off the top of my head because I don't have time to research. George contributed to the fall of the economy but he did not act alone. It started with Bill and the dems that had the idea that over 50% of Americans should own a home so Freddie and Fannie lowered standards allowing banks to give crazy home loans. Bill and the dems started it but I agree George did not stop it and he should have.

As far as the deficit cuts that is all smoke and mirrors. I don't have have time to give you an economics lesson but in short the deficit is tied to the GDP. The deficit swelled in 2009 and was somewhere around 10%. Because of the bail outs and stimulus packages that had to be done. Today the deficit is around 2 or 3% of the GDP. So technically you are right, BUT the economy is mending like it does after every down turn despite who the President is and those stimulus packages (2009) have ran their coarse. What has not been addressed is entitlement program like medicare, medicaid, and Social Security. I will not even go into the $18 TRILLION debt that this administration accumulated.

[BlueDawg]

Did not have to look too far to discount many of your claims MG.

(Source MSN)

Summary
President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address came up short of the facts on several topics:

• He embellished his record on jobs, citing “more than 14 million new jobs,” without mentioning that’s only private sector jobs and only since the job losses hit bottom in February 2010.
• Obama similarly omitted part of his presidency in boasting of nearly 900,000 manufacturing jobs “in the past six years.” Over his entire time in office, manufacturing jobs have gonedown by 230,000.
• And he said he had cut the country’s deficits by “almost three-quarters.” But that’s measured from fiscal 2009, which included some increased spending by Obama.
• He repeated his now years-long claim of crediting the Affordable Care Act for a slowdown in health care spending, which economists have linked mainly to the economy. In fact, the growth rate jumped in 2014, when the law’s coverage provisions were implemented.
• Obama claimed, like he did in 2014, that the U.S. has “cut carbon pollution more than any other country on Earth.” That’s true in terms of total tonnage but not in terms of percentage reductions.
• He said that the U.S. spends “more on our military than the next eight nations combined.” That’s close enough in terms of dollars, but as a share of the nation’s economy, the U.S. is only the fourth highest of the top 15 countries.

[dbarham]

Where is boom????

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[JT]

Stop..yall have to remember you're arguing with a guy that thinks Bruce Jenner a/k/a Caitlyn Jenner is "hot".

doesn't that tell you something?

Other than doing so just because he doesn't know his a-- from a hole in the ground and its entertaining, don't get all fired up about it.

[Termo]

OK JT.....I concede! TRUMP 2016. Make America Stupid Again! (See George Bush)

[JT]

i hear you Termo.. The guy is only worth about 4-5 billion..what a dumb buutt he is. Had he never had a job (see obama) and gone into politics (again see obama) he'd probably be worth twice that much when he left office (see obama again)

[JT]

"When politicians insult Muslims, when a mosque is vandalized, or a kid bullied, that doesn't make us safer. That's not telling it like it is. It's just wrong. It diminishes us in the eyes of the world,"

That was from Obama last night.

Can you ever even imagine a past President making a statement so absurd? Im like Boom, about one more election of this ilk and Im moving. I can see someone in New Hampshire or California voting for him, but for somebody down in this part of the world?

[mgstei1]

Dawg,
what about the rest i mentioned ? He gets his facts from speech writers like the rest of the politicians.
Just put him in the column with Reagan and Bush for being liars.You love them, I love Obama.
I still like him for what he has done.
He caused high gas prices and so I guess he caused low gas prices also.

JT, you and Rush Limbaugh will make fine BB's somewhere in Ethiopia, if they let you in.
Trust me, Texas and the South will turn purple and then Blue once again.
Thatll make our country great again.


And it wont matter anyhow as the rest of the country will elect Hillary or Bernie over that ex democrat.
8 of Hillary and 8 of Elizabeth Warren coming up.

With price of oil Boom will be in the next sequel of Trading Places.

Im still cleaning that Grouper from Florida.
.

[Robalo]

Again I say: Obama is a lying POS race baiting demagogue and a gummint leech that I wouldn't waste spitting on if he was on fire. I hope many of his 'sons' like Trayvon Obama die a horrible death that they deserved.

[BlueDawg]

MG you keep cleaning grouper from Florida. Maybe we should live in the spirit world like you are. The facts are the facts our country is not headed in the right direction and I blame all of Washington. Trump is not from Washington and he is our only hope because he is not bought and paid for.

[H.Maier]

I'm disappointed. What about our great senator Cruz? No love for this great Texan?

[Robalo]

"When politicians insult Muslims, when a mosque is vandalized, or a kid bullied, that doesn't make us safer. That's not telling it like it is. It's just wrong. It diminishes us in the eyes of the world,"

That was from Obama last night.

Can you ever even imagine a past President making a statement so absurd? Im like Boom, about one more election of this ilk and Im moving. I can see someone in New Hampshire or California voting for him, but for somebody down in this part of the world?

Their mother's were sniffing glue, chugging denatured alcohol thinking it was ethanol, smoking crack and meth when they were pregnant and it caused severe brain damage.

[JT]

I'm disappointed. What about our great senator Cruz? No love for this great Texan?

He is a real countryman. I know your love is with the "great Kenyan".. I bet your old man would've kicked your butt had he seen you support him no matter what the party was. That ought to tell you something.

[Dawg]

Dawg,
what about the rest i mentioned ? He gets his facts from speech writers like the rest of the politicians.
Just put him in the column with Reagan and Bush for being liars.You love them, I love Obama.
I still like him for what he has done.
He caused high gas prices and so I guess he caused low gas prices also.

JT, you and Rush Limbaugh will make fine BB's somewhere in Ethiopia, if they let you in.
Trust me, Texas and the South will turn purple and then Blue once again.
Thatll make our country great again.


And it wont matter anyhow as the rest of the country will elect Hillary or Bernie over that ex democrat.
8 of Hillary and 8 of Elizabeth Warren coming up.

With price of oil Boom will be in the next sequel of Trading Places.

Im still cleaning that Grouper from Florida.
.

How did I get thrown in this thread?

[Curmudgeon]

How did I get thrown in this thread?

Lol!