PkrBum wrote: Bob wrote:Methinks that after the Americans have been taken hostage in Iran, President Obama and his speechwriters are huddled together to do a rewrite as we speak. lol
No doubt... lol. Or he won't mention it at all... like these other inconvenient facts since he took office:
Less full time workers.
This first one is flat out false, and I can't imagine where you would even see such a suggestion online, so I suspect that you completely made this up. Did you?
PkrBum wrote:Home ownership is down.
Six million more Americans live in poverty.
Food stamp recipients up 50%.
Median household income is stagnant... at best.
These next four are symptoms of the gross redistribution of wealth and income that we have seen take hold over the last 40 years. They are not indicative of short term policy changes. And I'm pretty sure this has been pointed out to you countless times.
And beyond this, democrats have offered an array of policies meant to address this problem. I'm not even sure republicans are willing to acknowledge this as being a problem at all. Members of the republican voting base - yourself, for example - reference the symptoms when it's convenient for them, but when someone tries to actually engage in discussion about these issues - as I am with you right now - the republicans always run away - as you are about to right now.
PkrBum wrote:The working age labor force participation is 62.5 percent... the lowest since carter.
Looks like it's time for another LPR thread: Here you are, PkrDumb. Be the next republican to bring this topic up and then run away from it.
https://pensacoladiscussion.forumotion.com/t23439-pkrbum-and-the-labor-force-participation-rate-yes-it-s-that-time-again PkrBum wrote:Debt to gpd ratio has skyrocketed.
Yes, because Obama inherited a $1.4 trillion deficit. How many times must this be explained to you? It doesn't matter who entered the white house in 2009; debit was necessarily going to skyrocket because we 1) cut taxes three times, 2) started two wars, 3) implemented a medicare prescription drug plan and then 4) the Great Recession came along. These increases in spending, decreases in tax rates, and shitty economy all combined to produce the $1.4 trillion dollar deficit that Obama inherited. Being it the case that debt is a function of annual deficits,
of course debt increased. It's not as if any politician can erase a $1.4 trillion dollar deficit overnight without there being dire economic consequences. And it's amazing that this need be explained to anyone who graduated high school, which leads me to question your academic background.
PkrBum wrote:The first credit rating downgrade.
See above. This point stems from precisely the same thing.
PkrBum wrote:The obama economy has grown at an annual rate of 2.2 percent.
The weakest recovery in modern time.
These two are effectively the same as well. Obama inherited 1) the worst recession since the great depression and 2) the worst budget deficit in US history. Perhaps these facts are news to you, but trust me when I say that they exhibit a great deal of influence on average annual GDP numbers.
Regarding the "weakest recovery in modern time", we have seen nearly 10 million private sector jobs - that's net - added to the economy during Obama's tenure. Roughly 14 million private sector jobs have been added to the the economy since the bottom of the recession in late 2009 early 2010. I don't know what you consider to be "modern time" but we can look back to the brief cyclical recession during the Bush years and see that today's recovery obliterates those numbers entirely.
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