Democrats Say to Hell with Poor Kids

[Dragonlady]

Democrats are liars and there's no bigger lie spewed by lying Democrats than "its for the kids".

The big lie is that Republicans are for "family values", and then they vote against maternity leave, higher minimum wage (which help poor families), universal health care, mandated vacation time, and school lunches for poor kids.

 

[BluesLegend]

Democrats are liars and there's no bigger lie spewed by lying Democrats than "its for the kids".

The big lie is that Republicans are for "family values", and then they vote against maternity leave, higher minimum wage (which help poor families), universal health care, mandated vacation time, and school lunches for poor kids.

Who's supposed to pay for all this free shit? Get a job, iron your clothes.

 

[francoHFW]

Democrats are liars and there's no bigger lie spewed by lying Democrats than "its for the kids".

The big lie is that Republicans are for "family values", and then they vote against maternity leave, higher minimum wage (which help poor families), universal health care, mandated vacation time, and school lunches for poor kids.

Who's supposed to pay for all this free shit? Get a job, iron your clothes.

For the billionth time, the BLOATED, undertaxed rich and giant corps. Get a job? We already have crap GOP jobs, dupe. lol. I'm retired thank god...

 

[BluesLegend]

Democrats are liars and there's no bigger lie spewed by lying Democrats than "its for the kids".

The big lie is that Republicans are for "family values", and then they vote against maternity leave, higher minimum wage (which help poor families), universal health care, mandated vacation time, and school lunches for poor kids.

Who's supposed to pay for all this free shit? Get a job, iron your clothes.

For the billionth time, the BLOATED, undertaxed rich and giant corps. Get a job? We already have crap GOP jobs, dupe. lol. I'm retired thank god...

You are still a burden to your country.

 

[Weatherman2020]

On negative effects of vouchers | Brookings Institution
On negative effects of vouchers | Brookings Institutionvouchers/
May 26, 2016 - Recent research on statewide voucher programs in Louisiana and Indiana has found ... For example, studies of the effects of charter schools have relied on ... What Works in Girls' Education: Evidence for the World's Best In ...


DON'T work. The problem with public HSs is inner city ones that don't work because they're in an underserved, poor WAR ZONE. DUH.

From YOUR link:

"None of these earlier studies reported significant negative effects on test scores, which adds to interest in what might be happening in Louisiana and Indiana that could explain negative effects. Is it something about how the research studies were designed, how the programs were structured, the quality of the public schools against which private schools were being compared?"

"There was an oddity in the structure of testing in Louisiana. Tests used there were mandated by the state to be the ones used for the Louisiana Education Assessment Program (LEAP) carried out in public schools. Students that used their voucher to attend private schools had to take LEAP tests, though other students in those schools did not. Because LEAP tests are part of the state’s accountability structure for its public schools, the tests are ‘high stakes’ for those schools but low stakes for private schools. Perhaps students in the voucher group did worse than those who remained in public schools because the public schools taught to the test, whereas the private schools did not."

More needs to be known about long-term outcomes from these recently implemented voucher programs to make the case that they are a good or bad investment of public funds.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Democrats are liars and there's no bigger lie spewed by lying Democrats than "its for the kids".

The big lie is that Republicans are for "family values", and then they vote against maternity leave, higher minimum wage (which help poor families), universal health care, mandated vacation time, and school lunches for poor kids.

Who's supposed to pay for all this free shit? Get a job, iron your clothes.

For the billionth time, the BLOATED, undertaxed rich and giant corps. Get a job? We already have crap GOP jobs, dupe. lol. I'm retired thank god...

For the billionth time, the BLOATED, undertaxed rich and giant corps

Sure glad Obama had those 3 dozen staffers linked to Goldman Sachs working for him

 

[FA_Q2]

Democrats are liars and there's no bigger lie spewed by lying Democrats than "its for the kids".

The big lie is that Republicans are for "family values", and then they vote against maternity leave, higher minimum wage (which help poor families), universal health care, mandated vacation time, and school lunches for poor kids.

Family values and support for public laws enforcing specific programs have nothing to do with each other.

 

[NightFox]

It is no accident that the Democrat Party stands for the very same things that the Communist Party did.

I disagree, IMHO they don't stand for the very same things that the Communist Party did, true Communists ultimately wanted a stateless society and thought that religion was an impediment to that end whereas the Democrats worship the state and think that religion gets in the way of making the state more powerful. They share methods, practices and the same idiotic economic theories but not the same belief system.

How about you take a look at the aims of the Communist Party, USA, and the aims of the modern Democrat Party.

I'm talking about Communism as defined by Marx and Engels, it's a stateless society, the fact that according to Marx society must pass through lower stage Communism (Socialism) to get there and that the Democrats happen to adhere to some of the methods for facilitating socialism is in my opinion, coincidental. The progressivism that the Democrats adhere to in order to turn the common citizenry into a uniform soup of tax slaves isn't the idealism preached by Marx, it's the objective pursued by Medieval European Nobility (in other words Modern Day Feudalism). Do you really think the Democrats are interested in a stateless society? That would be slaying their own god, no?

Say what you will about the ideals of Communists but equating the Democrats to Communists is an insult to Communists, at least Communists are driven by principle (as misguided as those principles may be), the Democrats (Progressives) are driven by nothing other than the quest for state power as a means to control and economically exploit the citizenry.

 

[NightFox]

The Democratic party has lost its mind — and its soul.

“Democrats claim to stand for the poor, immigrants and nonwhites. Yet given a chance to actually support someone who is dedicated to improving education for all America’s children, especially those trapped in urban failing schools, the Dems’ said no, hell no. . . . Trump has made rookie errors, but his resolve in picking DeVos and sticking with her proves he is deadly serious about fixing what’s broken in American education. What, pray tell, are Democrats serious about?”

Money and power.

DeVos was totally unqualified without an ounce of experience, just like El Presidente

Enough about Obama, he's out of office now, time to stop harping on what a completely inexperienced and unqualified executive he was.

If he was inexperienced, what could you possibly call Trump??????????????????????????????????/

Er ...um an experienced executive, after all Trump has been an executive for over 40 years, remind me, how much executive experience did Obama have when he entered office?

 

[PoliticalChic]

It is no accident that the Democrat Party stands for the very same things that the Communist Party did.

I disagree, IMHO they don't stand for the very same things that the Communist Party did, true Communists ultimately wanted a stateless society and thought that religion was an impediment to that end whereas the Democrats worship the state and think that religion gets in the way of making the state more powerful. They share methods, practices and the same idiotic economic theories but not the same belief system.

How about you take a look at the aims of the Communist Party, USA, and the aims of the modern Democrat Party.

I'm talking about Communism as defined by Marx and Engels, it's a stateless society, the fact that according to Marx society must pass through lower stage Communism (Socialism) to get there and that the Democrats happen to adhere to some of the methods for facilitating socialism is in my opinion, coincidental. The progressivism that the Democrats adhere to in order to turn the common citizenry into a uniform soup of tax slaves isn't the idealism preached by Marx, it's the objective pursued by Medieval European Nobility (in other words Modern Day Feudalism). Do you really think the Democrats are interested in a stateless society? That would be slaying their own god, no?

Say what you will about the ideals of Communists but equating the Democrats to Communists is an insult to Communists, at least Communists are driven by principle (as misguided as those principles may be), the Democrats (Progressives) are driven by nothing other than the quest for state power as a means to control and economically exploit the citizenry.

I'm putting the spotlight on every collectivist doctrine.
That includes, but it not restricted to, communism, socialism, Liberalism, Progressivism, Fascism and Nazism.

And, clearly, the Democrats fits right in there....which one? Depends on the day of the week.


Let's take the extremes as 'bookends'...

1. In Thoreau’s On the duty of Civil Disobedience, he states: “ There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all of its own power and authority are derived.”

And, here...the obverse:
2. "We must rid ourselves once and for all of the Quaker-Papist babble about the sanctity of human life."
Leon Trotsky

 

[brummelben]

The Democratic party has lost its mind — and its soul.

“Democrats claim to stand for the poor, immigrants and nonwhites. Yet given a chance to actually support someone who is dedicated to improving education for all America’s children, especially those trapped in urban failing schools, the Dems’ said no, hell no. . . . Trump has made rookie errors, but his resolve in picking DeVos and sticking with her proves he is deadly serious about fixing what’s broken in American education. What, pray tell, are Democrats serious about?”

Money and power.

DeVos was totally unqualified without an ounce of experience, just like El Presidente

Enough about Obama, he's out of office now, time to stop harping on what a completely inexperienced and unqualified executive he was.

If he was inexperienced, what could you possibly call Trump??????????????????????????????????/

Er ...um an experienced executive, after all Trump has been an executive for over 40 years, remind me, how much executive experience did Obama have when he entered office?

What good does executive experience do? You are the same people who told us when McCain ran that a President needed military experience. Now where is Trumps political experience? He has shown that he knows nothing. This is the man who called a military leader in the middle of the night to ask him if a strong or weak dollar was better. The man is nuts

 

[PoliticalChic]

The Democratic party has lost its mind — and its soul.

“Democrats claim to stand for the poor, immigrants and nonwhites. Yet given a chance to actually support someone who is dedicated to improving education for all America’s children, especially those trapped in urban failing schools, the Dems’ said no, hell no. . . . Trump has made rookie errors, but his resolve in picking DeVos and sticking with her proves he is deadly serious about fixing what’s broken in American education. What, pray tell, are Democrats serious about?”

Money and power.

DeVos was totally unqualified without an ounce of experience, just like El Presidente

Enough about Obama, he's out of office now, time to stop harping on what a completely inexperienced and unqualified executive he was.

If he was inexperienced, what could you possibly call Trump??????????????????????????????????/

Er ...um an experienced executive, after all Trump has been an executive for over 40 years, remind me, how much executive experience did Obama have when he entered office?

"...how much executive experience did Obama have when he entered office?"

And, as much as he did when he left.

 

[brummelben]

The Democratic party has lost its mind — and its soul.

“Democrats claim to stand for the poor, immigrants and nonwhites. Yet given a chance to actually support someone who is dedicated to improving education for all America’s children, especially those trapped in urban failing schools, the Dems’ said no, hell no. . . . Trump has made rookie errors, but his resolve in picking DeVos and sticking with her proves he is deadly serious about fixing what’s broken in American education. What, pray tell, are Democrats serious about?”

Money and power.

DeVos was totally unqualified without an ounce of experience, just like El Presidente

Enough about Obama, he's out of office now, time to stop harping on what a completely inexperienced and unqualified executive he was.

If he was inexperienced, what could you possibly call Trump??????????????????????????????????/

Er ...um an experienced executive, after all Trump has been an executive for over 40 years, remind me, how much executive experience did Obama have when he entered office?

"...how much executive experience did Obama have when he entered office?"

And, as much as he did when he left.

Political experience, everything trump lacks

 

[NightFox]

The Democratic party has lost its mind — and its soul.

“Democrats claim to stand for the poor, immigrants and nonwhites. Yet given a chance to actually support someone who is dedicated to improving education for all America’s children, especially those trapped in urban failing schools, the Dems’ said no, hell no. . . . Trump has made rookie errors, but his resolve in picking DeVos and sticking with her proves he is deadly serious about fixing what’s broken in American education. What, pray tell, are Democrats serious about?”

Money and power.

DeVos was totally unqualified without an ounce of experience, just like El Presidente

Enough about Obama, he's out of office now, time to stop harping on what a completely inexperienced and unqualified executive he was.

If he was inexperienced, what could you possibly call Trump??????????????????????????????????/

Er ...um an experienced executive, after all Trump has been an executive for over 40 years, remind me, how much executive experience did Obama have when he entered office?

What good does executive experience do?

Hold up, are you asking what good executive experience does when considering someone's fitness for an executive position? You are aware that the Presidency and the Cabinet posts are executive positions, right?

Sheesh it's no wonder Washington is so fucked up.

 

[PoliticalChic]

DeVos was totally unqualified without an ounce of experience, just like El Presidente

Enough about Obama, he's out of office now, time to stop harping on what a completely inexperienced and unqualified executive he was.

If he was inexperienced, what could you possibly call Trump??????????????????????????????????/

Er ...um an experienced executive, after all Trump has been an executive for over 40 years, remind me, how much executive experience did Obama have when he entered office?

"...how much executive experience did Obama have when he entered office?"

And, as much as he did when he left.

Political experience, everything trump lacks

You dunce....he has an unbroken record of failure in both domestic and in foreign policy.

How could you miss that??????


He couldn't organize a two-car funeral procession.

 

[brummelben]

Enough about Obama, he's out of office now, time to stop harping on what a completely inexperienced and unqualified executive he was.

If he was inexperienced, what could you possibly call Trump??????????????????????????????????/

Er ...um an experienced executive, after all Trump has been an executive for over 40 years, remind me, how much executive experience did Obama have when he entered office?

"...how much executive experience did Obama have when he entered office?"

And, as much as he did when he left.

Political experience, everything trump lacks

You dunce....he has an unbroken record of failure in both domestic and in foreign policy.

How could you miss that??????


He couldn't organize a two-car funeral procession.

Must be why our economy, stock market, employment, and housing did so well these past 8 years

 

[Weatherman2020]

If he was inexperienced, what could you possibly call Trump??????????????????????????????????/

Er ...um an experienced executive, after all Trump has been an executive for over 40 years, remind me, how much executive experience did Obama have when he entered office?

"...how much executive experience did Obama have when he entered office?"

And, as much as he did when he left.

Political experience, everything trump lacks

You dunce....he has an unbroken record of failure in both domestic and in foreign policy.

How could you miss that??????


He couldn't organize a two-car funeral procession.

Must be why our economy, stock market, employment, and housing did so well these past 8 years

Must be why our economy, stock market, employment, and housing did so well these past 8 years

Where do you live? Here in America one out of seven Americans requires aid just to put food on the table and home ownership rate is the lowest since 1967 while the 1% got wealthier.

Homeownership rate drops to lowest since 1967

 

[PoliticalChic]

If he was inexperienced, what could you possibly call Trump??????????????????????????????????/

Er ...um an experienced executive, after all Trump has been an executive for over 40 years, remind me, how much executive experience did Obama have when he entered office?

"...how much executive experience did Obama have when he entered office?"

And, as much as he did when he left.

Political experience, everything trump lacks

You dunce....he has an unbroken record of failure in both domestic and in foreign policy.

How could you miss that??????


He couldn't organize a two-car funeral procession.

Must be why our economy, stock market, employment, and housing did so well these past 8 years

OK, ok....you've demanded I expose your ignorance....

Perhaps you should pick up a newspaper once in a while....


1. "...take-home pay for many American workers has effectively fallen since the economic recovery began in 2009, according to a new study by an advocacy group that is to be released on Thursday.
The declines were greatest for the lowest-paid workers in sectors where hiring has been strong — home health care, food preparation and retailing — even though wages were already below average to begin with in those service industries.
“Stagnant wages are a problem for everyone at this point, but the imbalance in the economy has become more pronounced since the recession,”..."http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/b...rkers-see-biggest-drop-in-paychecks.html?_r=0


2. "....US hourly wages have not only not increased for the past 7 years, but for thevast majority of the labor force continue to decline,.... just the month of August will be enough to provide the Trump - and every other - campaign with enough soundbites and pivot points to last it for weeks on end: namely, that in August a whopping 698,000 native-born Americans lost their job. This drop was offset by 204,000 foreign-born Americans, who got a job in the month of August. .... since December 2007, according to the Household Survey, only 790,000 native born American jobs have been added. Contrast that with the 2.1 million foreign-born Americans who have found a job over the same time period..." 698K Native-Born Americans Lost Their Job In August: Why This Suddenly Is The Most Important Jobs Chart | Zero Hedge


3. October 2015: "Payrolls Disaster: Only 142K Jobs Added In September With Zero Wage Growth; August Revised Much Lower" Payrolls Disaster: Only 142K Jobs Added In September With Zero Wage Growth; August Revised Much Lower | Zero Hedge




4. "Obamacare health insurance co-ops surged past the $1 billion mark in losses this week, making history of sorts.The insolvencies, totaling $1.36 billion, mean that the co-ops have burned through more than half of the original $2 billion appropriated in 2010 for the program under the Affordable Care Act. The funds were loaned to the start-up co-ops in 2012 and were to be repaid in 15 years, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which manages Obamacare.
...13 of the 23 federally-financed Obamacare co-ops have officially failed in only two years. Most are in the process of default as insurance regulators attempt to pay customer’s medical bills, cover medical providers and pay other creditors.
Obamacare Co-Op Mess Causes $1.3 Billion In Losses


5. "Obama Administration Announces 144 Big Regulations Right Before Thanksgiving
This is a new record, beating the previous high of 136 set by President Obama this spring."
Obama Administration Announces 144 Big Regulations Right Before Thanksgiving


6. "...ObamaCare experiment costing taxpayers $2.4 billionis failing. The co-ops were founded on the idealistic belief that community members could band together to create health insurance companies that would be member-driven, service-oriented, and would not have to answer to shareholders or turn a profit."
400,000 Citizens To Lose Health Insurance (Again) Because Of Obamacare Co-Op Failures



7. "The U.S. expanded at a 2.2% rate through the first nine months of the year, and the economy is projected to grow at a similar pace in the fourth quarter that ends on Dec. 31. If so, the economy will have failed to reach 3% growth for the 10th straight year, marking the slowest stretch since the end of World War II.
Historically the economy has expanded at a 3.3% rate." U.S. economy set to grow less than 3% for the 10th straight year


8. "Congress has now cleared the way for federal debt to pass $20 trillion by the end of the president’s second term. President Obama said the new budget deal will be paid for in a “balanced” and “responsible” way, but on the day the deal was signed, the federal debt jumped $339 billion—a third of a trillion dollars in one day."Societywatch


9. The GDPNow model forecast for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the fourth quarter of 2015 is 0.8 percent on January 8, down from 1.0 percent on January 6. The forecast for the contribution of inventory investment to fourth-quarter real GDP growth declined 0.2 percentage points to -0.8 percentage points after this morning's wholesale trade report from the U.S. Census Bureau.GDPNow


10. "Retail Sales in U.S. Decrease to End Weakest Year Since 2009 Sales at U.S. retailers declined in December to wrap the weakest year since 2009, raising concern about the momentum in consumer spending heading into 2016. The 0.1 percent drop matched the median forecast of 84 economists surveyed by Bloomberg and followed a 0.4 percent gain in November, Commerce Department figures showed Friday in Washington. For all of 2015, purchases climbed 2.1 percent, the smallest advance of the current economic expansion." Retail Sales in U.S. Decrease to End Weakest Year Since 2009


11. " The federal government heavily subsidizes higher education through a complex system of grants and loans. While the programs are great for colleges — they have enabled an astronomical increase in tuition — they contain few measures holding the institutions accountable to their students. As a result, only 59 percent of students graduate from four-year colleges and universities within six years. Those lucky enough to graduate face another hurdle: 44 percent of recent college graduates occupy jobs which do not require a college degree. Taken together, these numbers suggest that only one-third of college enrollees emerge from the system with both a degree and a relevant job." What "Free" College Can't Fix | Preston Cooper
12. Obama is the first President never to have had a year of 3% or better economic growth: "... annual growth during Obama’s “recovery” has never topped 3%. By comparison, it never fell below 3% during the Reagan recovery. And in the nine years following the 1990-91 recession, GDP grew faster than 3% in all but two. Heck, even Jimmy Carter had some strong growth years." http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/with-gdp-downgrade-obama-growth-gap-expands/
a. "The years since 2007 have been a macroeconomic disaster for the United States of a magnitude unprecedented since the Great Depression." Obama: Always Wrong, Never In Doubt
b. ".... first president since Hoover to never have a single year above 3% GDP growth." Obama economy is 'amazing,' says hedge fund billionaire


13. According to the 2016 Index of Economic Freedom, an annual publication by The Heritage Foundation, America’s economic freedom has tumbled. With losses of economic freedom in eight of the past nine years, the U.S. has tied its worst score ever, wiping out a decade of progress. Since early 2009:
• Government spending has exploded, amounting to $29,867 per household in 2015.
• The national debt has risen to $125,000 for every tax filing household in America—a total over $18 trillion.
• The government takeover of health care is raising prices and disrupting markets.
• Bailouts and new government regulations have increased uncertainty, stifling investment and job creation. http://dailysignal.com/2016/01/31/a...rPUfGjI4ASMpgMa+TFAwTG5toziV8R7jHKM1t0sEQWBHm
14 "Despite the unemployment rate being at an eight-year low (4.9 percent as of January 2016), the number of people on food stamps remains near an all-time high which was 47,636,000 in 2013.
Why the disparity in the numbers? Well, the unemployment rate does not take into account people who are not in, or have dropped out of, the workforce altogether.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in January of this year that approximately 94 million Americans are not participating in the workforce.
We now have a country based on government dependence." http://www.mrctv.org/blog/despite-low-unemployment-rate-food-stamp-users-remains-near-all-time-high
15. "CHICAGO (Reuters) - Predominantly African-American neighborhoods in Chicago have seen poverty rise and services diminish even as the nation's third largest city has become less racially segregated,.... black areas are seeing economic stagnation or decline,.... mostly black areas have lost health clinics, social service agencies and other areas of support..." https://ca.news.yahoo.com/exclusive...-neighborhoods-study-130930393--business.html

16. "Employers added more workers in February than projected but wages unexpectedly declined, dashing hopes that reduced slack in the labor market was starting to benefit all Americans..... Average hourly earnings dropped by 0.1 percent from the prior month, the first decline since December 2014 the Labor Department’s figures showed. Worker pay increased 2.2 percent over the 12 months ended in February, less than the 2.5 percent forecast in the Bloomberg survey. Wage growth has been hovering just above 2 percent year-over-year on average since the current expansion began in mid-2009." http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...s-surge-while-wages-drop-in-mixed-jobs-report
17. New Obama regulation will deprive middle class investors of access to financial information. "...the controversial pending Department of Labor regulation that would impose new restrictions on a vast swath of financial professionals... a newreport for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, similar restrictions in Great Britain have caused a “guidance gap” in which brokers have largely stopped serving customers with assets less than £150,000 ($240,000).... Such limits on financial discussion may seem to violate the First Amendment..." http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnber...l-broadcasters-like-dave-ramsey/#2962753ee696
“this Obama rule will kill the Middle Class and below ability to access personal advice.”
18. "U.S. retail sales dropped in February and the prior month’s gain was revised to a decline, calling into question the narrative that bigger gains in consumer spending would propel economic growth at the start of 2016. The 0.1 percent decline in purchases followed a revised 0.4 percent January decrease, Commerce Department figures showed Tuesday.... “We’re seeing higher rents, higher healthcare expenses,.... Retail sales excluding autos fell 0.1 percent after a 0.4 percent decrease in January, according to Tuesday’s report." http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...s-fell-in-february-after-january-revised-down
19. "That basic math is why middle class incomes have been in decline under Obama. The Census Bureau reports that since Obama became President 7 years ago, real median household income has fallen by $1,300 a year. Heritage Foundation Chief Economist Steve Moore explained in testimony before the Ways and Means Committee, “At 2 percent growth the economy doesn’t spin off enough jobs to increase wages, and tax revenues grow much too slowly to balance the budget.”
The recession officially ended more than 6 years ago. Wages and incomes have always grown in recoveries, not declined. Moreover, the American historical record is the deeper the recession, the stronger the recovery. The economy is supposed to boom in a recovery to catch up with its long term economic growth trendline. But over 6 years after the recession ended, that still has not happened. Instead, what we have gotten under President Obama is the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression." http://limittaxes.org/2016/02/realizing-the-super-bowl-of-american-economic-growth/
20. "8 More Obamacare Co-ops Will Probably Shut Down

12 of the 23 taxpayer funded non-profit co-ops created under the Affordable Care Act were shuttered, and the largest of them is under investigation.
Records obtained by Richard Pollack of the Daily Caller indicate another 8 co-ops might be on their way out this year:
'...there’s not a turnaround in sight. The same problems that plagued them before are continuing,”
8 More Obamacare Co-ops Will Probably Shut Down
21. the United States had lost its once-enormous global lead in middle-class pay, based on international income surveys over the last three decades. After-tax median income in Canada appears to have been higher last year than the same measure in this country. The poor in Canada and much of western Europe earn more than the poor here. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/29/u...dgety-boys-and-a-sputtering-economy.html?_r=0
22. Middle aged people laid off and unable to find work are taking another way out. They're killing themselves. Suicide rates are soaring, according to federal data released last week. Especially in economically depressed states and job-starved upstate New York. People in need of work are twice as likely to take their own lives as employed people, and people fired in their forties and fifties find it hardest to get hired again.
That makes boosting economic growth a life- and- death issue. But you wouldn't know it listening to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. President Obama whitewashes reality, claiming the "American economy is pretty darn good right now."
http://www.nysun.com/editorials/soaring-suicides-emerge/89558/

23. "U.S. Economy Expands to 0.5% Pace, Weakest in Two Years
The U.S. economy expanded in the first quarter at the slowest pace in two years ....Gross domestic product rose at a 0.5 percent annualized rate after a 1.4 percent fourth-quarter advance, Commerce Department data showed Thursday. The increase was less than the 0.7 percent median projection in a Bloomberg survey and marked the third straight disappointing start to a year." http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...in-first-quarter-at-slowest-pace-in-two-years
24. "Nearly one in six young men (between the ages of 18-34) in the U.S. were either jobless or incarcerated in 2014, according to a new government report. It details a striking amount of male alienation that has been on the rise since the 1980s.
According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), out of the 38 million young men in the U.S. in 2014, 16 percent were jobless (5 million or 13 percent) or incarcerated (1 million or 3 percent). The share of young men without a job or in prison has increased substantially since 1980, when just 11 percent of young men fit into either category." http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...early-1-6-young-men-u-s-jobless-incarcerated/
25. "Stocks fall as inflation hits 3-year high
...consumers prices at the consumer level for items ranging from toilet tissue to gasoline rose 0.4% last month, slightly above the 0.3% estimate but its strongest monthly gain in more than three years." http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2016/05/17/stocks-dow-tuesday/84481164/

26. "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy created the fewest number of jobs in more than five years in May as employment in the manufacturing and construction sectors fell sharply, suggesting a deterioration in the labor market ...Nonfarm payrolls increased by only 38,000 jobs last month, the smallest gain since September 2010, the Labor Department said on Friday. Underscoring the report's weakness, employers hired 59,000 fewer workers in March and April than previously reported. While the unemployment rate fell three-tenths of a percentage point to 4.7 percent in May, the lowest since November 2007, that was in part due to people dropping out of the labor force." https://ca.news.yahoo.com/u-job-gains-may-likely-dented-verizon-strike-043534655--business.html

27. "Then came the jobs numbers. Employers added 38,000 jobs in May, the weakest performance since September 2010. Revisions to previous payroll data showed employers added a combined 59,000 fewer jobs in April and March than previously reported. That brought average monthly job growth in the past three months to 116,000, a sharp slowdown from the average growth of 219,000 over the prior 12 months.

One economist dubbed it “an unqualified dud.”

by Erik Holm"
Recap: Janet Yellen on Economy, Monetary Policy
28. White House Cuts Economic Growth Forecasts
Budget office sees 1.9% growth in 2016, 2.5% in 2017 http://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-cuts-economic-growth-forecasts-1468601249
29. "20 million college grads living with their parents, courtesy of Obama ...reflects how dismal the economy still is today. Today we have college grads — along with working moms and 60-somethings — flipping burgers at Wendy’s and stocking the aisles at Walmart. Left-wing groups and union leaders are now demanding “a living wage” for jobs that were never intended to be held by heads of households. Who’s against higher wages for American workers? But wasn’t this what Obamanomics was supposed to deliver?
Seven years ago, Barack Obama promised a progressive workers paradise — a recovery from recession that would leave no one behind. Hope and Change would deliver high employment and rising wages. No one bought into this idyllic vision more than college kids.
President Obama and his supporters proclaim that he has saved America from the second Great Depression — a message we will hear again over and over in the months ahead. But even his own voters don’t believe him anymore ..." http://newbostonpost.com/2015/09/19...-living-with-their-parents-courtesy-of-obama/

30. "94,609,000 Not in Labor Force; Participation Rate Drops to 62.8% (CNSNews.com) - In its final report before next week's presidential election, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Friday that 94,609,000 Americans are not in the labor force, 425,000 more than last month's 94,184,000, and the second highest number on record." http://cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/americans-not-labor-force-participation-rate-risesdrops
31. (CNSNews.com) - The federal debt moved above 19,900,000,000,000 for the first time as of the close of business, Nov. 22, the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, according to data released by the Treasury.
On that day, it rose from $19,899,004,081,493.50 to $19,907,540,739,514.52." http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/federal-debt-tops-19900000000000-black-friday
32. " According to the Labor Department, 95,055,000 Americans were out of workforce in November, meaning they were neither employed nor had made an effort to find work over the previous month.
The level of Americans outside of the workforce last month — due to retirement, education, discouragement, or otherwise — represented a substantial 446,000 increase over the month of October.... 591,000 discouraged workers or those who are not looking for a job because they do not think there is a job out there for them. When President Barack Obama took office, 80,529,000 Americans were out of the workforce. That number has since grown by 14,526,000.
The workforce participation rate also dipped in November, hitting 62.7 percent, hovering around levels not seen since the 1970s." http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/02/record-95055000-americans-out-of-the-labor-force/
33. "White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said that 805,000 manufacturing jobs have been created since President Barack Obama has been in office. In fact, there has been a net loss of 303,000 manufacturing jobs since January 2009.... Manufacturing employment was 12,258,000 in October 2016, according to the most recent estimates from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s down 303,000 from the number employed in January 2009, the same month that Obama was sworn in as president. http://www.factcheck.org/2016/12/obamas-record-on-manufacturing-jobs/
34. "Record 95,102,000 Americans Not in Labor Force; Number Grew 18% Since Obama Took Office in 2009" http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article...-labor-force-number-grew-18-obama-took-office
35. BEA: 2016 GDP growth worst since 2011, dives a full point from 2015 CNNMoney

✔@CNNMoney
U.S. economy slowed in the fourth quarter. For all of 2016, growth was 1.6%, weakest since 2011. http://cnnmon.ie/bkgnews

8:37 AM - 27 Jan 2017


.... a full point lower than 2015’s 2.6% growth rate — which itself wasn’t anything to write home about. Barack Obama finished his two terms as the first post-war president to fail to achieve 3% GDP growth in any year of his presidency, despite having eight chances at it."
BEA: 2016 GDP growth worst since 2011, dives a full point from 2015 - Hot Air





"OBAMA: Anyone claiming that America's economy is in decline is peddling fiction.” http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi...conomy_is_in_decline_is_peddling_fiction.html

OMG!!!!

You probably imagine that ObamaCare is still a great idea, too.....


Just one more failure by this tin-pot dictator, the titular head of the LGBT movement, to impose policies that will injure the American people.



Let's stipulate this:

Barack Hussein Obama, the selectee of the Liberals/Democrats has been

a. the worst steward of the American economy in neigh on 100 years

and

b. has left the world in the worst turmoil, and closer to nuclear chaos than any President in memory.

See if you can find a single error in any of those documented, linked and sourced failures by Obama.

Let me know if you need another thirty.

 

[Weatherman2020]

DeVos was totally unqualified without an ounce of experience, just like El Presidente

Enough about Obama, he's out of office now, time to stop harping on what a completely inexperienced and unqualified executive he was.

If he was inexperienced, what could you possibly call Trump??????????????????????????????????/

Er ...um an experienced executive, after all Trump has been an executive for over 40 years, remind me, how much executive experience did Obama have when he entered office?

"...how much executive experience did Obama have when he entered office?"

And, as much as he did when he left.

Political experience, everything trump lacks

Political experience, everything trump lacks

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

DeVos was totally unqualified without an ounce of experience, just like El Presidente

Enough about Obama, he's out of office now, time to stop harping on what a completely inexperienced and unqualified executive he was.

If he was inexperienced, what could you possibly call Trump??????????????????????????????????/

Er ...um an experienced executive, after all Trump has been an executive for over 40 years, remind me, how much executive experience did Obama have when he entered office?

"...how much executive experience did Obama have when he entered office?"

And, as much as he did when he left.

Political experience, everything trump lacks

Did it ever cross your mind that perhaps this is what the country wants?

When the professional politicians run things, people complain that they are professional politicians and looking out only for themselves. So now we finally have a non-professional politician to see if he can do things better than the professionals.

Trump doesn't owe anybody political favors. Trump does not care about reelection which is the primary concern of most professional politicians. He doesn't care about writing books or trying to make money giving speeches when he leaves the White House. He doesn't even want to get paid to do the job.

What a relief. Finally somebody that is only looking out for the country instead of his party, his future, his pocketbook, his legacy, just somebody that wants to actually do the job.