Misery Loves company.. Obama joins 6 other Presidents worst Misery!!!

[healthmyths]

Healthmyths, the Bush apologist/revisionist historian strikes out yet again. Dang!

BUT YOU HAVE NOT refuted any of these FACTS!

"The Stock Market Crash of 2000-2002 caused the loss of $5 trillion in the market value of companies from March 2000 to October 2002.[13]
Dot-com bubble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The ABOVE didn't happen is that what you are saying???

2) 9/11. Anyone remember this???
A) Govt direct spending due to 9/11 Creation of entire NEW cabinet level agency all within less then a year! Never been done before!
The US alone now spends about US $500 billion annually--20 percent of the US federal budget--on departments directly engaged in
combating or preventing terrorism, most notably Defense and Homeland Security.
Economic Impact of Terrorism -- A Review of the Economic Impact of Terrorism on September 11

B) National economy
1)Airline Traffic was more than 20 percent below year earlier levels in October 2001; it had been 4 percent above
2000 levels in August 2001. As a result, airline orders for new aircraft plummeted.
2)The attacks clearly deepened the recession that began in March 2001 and ended in November of that year.
3) On the fiscal side, within a week of the attacks Congress provided approximately $50 billion of emergency
my comment: MORE DRUNKEN SAILOR spending by BUSH RIGHT?
4) the attack on the Trade Center dealt a serious blow to the nation's financial system. The collapse of the
Towers disabled an adjacent Verizon facility responsible for 40 percent of the phone lines in lower Manhattan.
5) The stock market also closed and remained closed until Monday the 17th, and there were disruptions in the
commercial paper and other markets.
6) These actions of the Fed, in conjunction with numerous actions by bankers and others outside the Fed aimed
at the same result, succeeded in averting a broad financial meltdown,
Attack at the Economic Heart of America: What 9/11 Taught the United States about Its Economic Security - President Broaddus speech, October 29, 2003 - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Hurricanes...
Of the top 36 hurricanes since 1926 13 occurred from 2001 to 2008.
Of the total of $316 billion in damages these 13 cost 58% of that or $156 billion.
# 1Katrina (LA/MS/AL/SE FL) 2005 3 $81,000,000,000
# 3 through 7 hurricanes occurred from 2001 to 2008!
a) There were 26 named storms in 2005, surpassing the record of 21 set in 1933
b) Three of the hurricanes in the 2005 season reached Category 5 status, meaning they had wind speeds
greater than 155 mph at some point during the arc of the storm.
but we've never had three," said Steve Kiser, a tropical cyclone program manger at the National Weather Service.
Costliest U.S. Hurricanes | Weather Underground

SO AGAIN dumb shits..... DID THESE EVENTS HAPPEN OR NOT?
AND yet you idiots continue to Blame Bush who IN SPITE of these following FACTS not made up SUBSTANTIATED PROVE THEM WRONG!!:

The Gross Domestic Product Largest in history!!
When Bush took office in 2001 GDP was $12.355,271,000,000
when Bush left office in 2008 GDP was $14,359,490,000,000
A 16% increase in GDP or $2 TRILLION.
Bush growth of the GDP was greater then Clinton in 2005 GDP grew at 6.5% Clinton's best:6.4%
Measuring Worth - Measures of worth, inflation rates, saving calculator, relative value, worth of a dollar, worth of a pound, purchasing power, gold prices, GDP, history of wages, average wage

Highest Number of people employed IN HISTORY!!!
jobs end number of
of year new workers % increase

• 2000...... 131,785 2,792 2.16%
• 2001...... 131,826 41 0.03% Dot.com bust, 9/11 occurred $5 trillion in real losses, 18,000 businesses
• 2002...... 130,341 -1,485 -1.13% 9/11 residual losses
• 2003...... 129,999 -342 -0.26% tax cuts began
• 2004...... 131,435 1,436 1.10%
• 2005...... 133,703 2,268 1.73%
• 2006...... 136,086 2,383 1.78%
• 2007...... 137,598 1,512 1.11%
• 2008...... 136,790 -808 -0.59%
• 2009...... 130,807 -5,983 -4.37% absolute worst losses in in 28 years!
• 2010...... 129,818 -989 -0.76%
• 2011...... 131,159 1,341 +1.03%
• 2012 134,825 3,666 +2.7%

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ee/2011/ces/tableb1_201112.pdf


AGAIN I AM ASKING IDIOTS like you to refute THE FACTS!
Worst MSM bias in history..
Well, our job is to bash the president, that's what we do." --
Evan Thomas responding to a question on whether the media's unfair to Bush on the TV talk show Inside Washington,
February 2, 2007.Newsweek's Evan Thomas: 'Our Job Is To Bash the President' | NewsBusters

Worst EVENTS EVER to occur in one presidency!
1) Dot.com/Recession
2) 9/11 destructions airlines halted, Wall street down 10 days no time in history every!
3) Worst seasons (SEASONS) for hurricanes and worst hurricanes in that period in history!

THESE ARE NOT apologies, revisions... THESE ARE THE FACTS!
And as long as idiots like you CAN'T REFUTE THEM all they do are glaringly show your idiocy and what historians will use to declare Bush
one of the Greatest presidents who had
A) The press against him.. B) natural events i.e. hurricanes.. C) Attacks by enemies & D) Economic duress and STILL managed to
provide The highest growth rate of GDP and the highest number of people employed!
The FACTS speak for themselves and idiots like you just continue to show your total IGNORANCE!

 

[jwoodie]

Why are we talking about PEOPLE instead of their POLICIES?

 

[NYcarbineer]

Since the latest misery index is 8.96,

not 10.5 as the OP claims,

this is just one more healthmyths troll thread based on an outright lie.

US Misery Index

 

[healthmyths]

The "misery index" was a transparent PR trick from the get-go. But make one slight adjustment and it works pretty well (also makes R pres look worse). Just subtract 4% from the unemployment figure and 3% for inflation ("normalizing" both to a target instead of to zero). Treat all resulting negative numbers as zero. I used to have this all on Excell but I will have to recreate it.

Yeah, that's the kind of dishonest shit the AGW cult does to data, too.

Yeah sure, dumb ass. And all the Scientific Societies, all the National Academies of Science, and all the major Universities are dishonest. Because they show data and evidence that an ananomous poster on the internet does not like.

Evidence like this???

12.5% of the Earth's land mass is missing in the temperature readings which by omission has skewed the average temperature higher as only those stations in large population centers were used.

"The number of [Siberian] stations increased from 8 in 1901 to 23 in 1951 and then decreased to 12 from 1989 to present only four stations,
those at Irkutsk, Bratsk, Chita and Kirensk, cover the entire 20th century.

IEA analysts say climatologists use the data of stations located in large populated centers that are influenced by the urban-warming effect
more frequently than the correct data of remote stations…

The scale of global warming was exaggerated due to temperature distortions for Russia accounting for 12.5% of the world’s land mass.

The IEA said it was necessary to recalculate all global-temperature data in order to assess the scale of such exaggeration.
Climategatekeeping: Siberia « Climate Audit

So with 12.5% of Earth's land mass i.e. Siberia... NOT included in the "Rising" earth's average temperature.. that is like making a conclusion about Old Rock!
"OLD Rock" is missing a leg, or an arm or most likely a portion of his brain because 12.5% of his body temperature is below average 98.6 degrees!
Or another analogy...
"OLD Rock" house's temperature is always 12.5% cooler then his neighbor because OLD ROCK with 12.5% more body hair i.e. being the Neanderthal that he has exhibited, he keeps his house cooler!

See OLD ROCK like many really stupid people still haven't figured out that by ignoring 12.5% of the land mass the average temperature WILL be higher!
PLUS again OLD ROCK like other neanderthals obviously doesn't keep up with the LATEST AGW data...

Why Hasn’t the Earth Warmed in Nearly 15 Years?
There is no statistically significant warming trend since November of 1996 in monthly surface temperature records compiled at the University of East Anglia.
Do we now understand why there’s been no change in fourteen and a half years?

Why Hasn't the Earth Warmed in Nearly 15 Years? | Cato Institute

PLUS OLD ROCK has obviously NEVER HEARD of this...
"The U.S. landscape acts as a net carbon sink—it sequesters more carbon than it emits.
Two types of analyses confirm this:
1) atmospheric, or top-down, methods that look at changes in CO2 concentrations; and
2) land-based, or bottom-up, methods that incorporate on-the-ground inventories or plot measurements.
Net sequestration (i.e., the difference between carbon gains and losses) in U.S. forests, urban trees and agricultural soils totaled almost 840 teragrams (Tg) of CO2 equivalent (or about 230 Tg or million metric tons of carbon equivalent) in 2001 (Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks).
This offsets approximately 15% of total U.S. CO2 emissions from the energy, transportation and other sectors. Net carbon sequestration in the forest sector in 2005 offset 10% of U.S. CO2 emissions. In the near future, we project that U.S. forests will continue to sequester carbon at a rate similar to that in recent years. Based on a comparison of our estimates to a compilation of land-based estimates of non-forest carbon
sinks from the literature, we estimate that the conterminous U.S. annually sequesters 149–330 Tg C year1. Forests, urban trees, and wood
products are responsible for 65–91% of this sink.

http://www.ncrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/jrnl/2007/nrs_2007_woodbury_001.pdf

 

[regent]

Do the most miserable periods in history produce the greatest presidents? I think of the Great Depression and historians rating FDR as America's greatest president, and Lincoln, second best. If historians can tell the difference between miserable periods and presidents perhaps citizens can?

 

[Freewill]

Hey dumb shit healthmyths, the American people passed judgement on the silly shit you post on 6Nov12. And President Obama was re-elected. Now you and the others like you, just keep pushing this dumb flap-yap, and it will be a Dem President for sure in 2016.

Dillweed, Bush was elected twice the people spoke. Obama was elected twice for one reason and it wasn't the economy.

The disaster that NEVER WAS A DEPRESSION although the lying left wants us to believe it, was caused mostly by the disaster of 2006 when the democrats took over congress. THEY control the purse strings they are responsible much more then Bush. Certainly will be hard for you to argue otherwise, just look at the economy before and after 2006. But you will deny it because that is what liberals do.

 

[Freewill]

Since the latest misery index is 8.96,

not 10.5 as the OP claims,

this is just one more healthmyths troll thread based on an outright lie.

US Misery Index

According to this web site Obama's average is 10.5. Sure seems like Barrrack wants to be just like Nixon.

US Misery Index - Index by President

President

Richard M Nixon 1969-01 - 1974-07 7.80 17.01 9.21 10.57
James E Carter, Jr. 1977-01 - 1980-12 12.72 19.72 7.00 16.26
Dwight D Eisenhower 1953-01 - 1960-12 3.28 7.96 4.68 6.26
Barack H Obama 2009-01 - 2013-05 7.83 8.96 1.13 10.48
Lyndon B Johnson 1963-11 - 1968-12 7.02 8.12 1.10 6.77
George H.W. Bush 1989-01 - 1992-12 10.07 10.30 0.23 10.68
George W Bush 2001-01 - 2008-12 7.93 7.39 -0.54 8.11
John F Kennedy 1961-01 - 1963-10 8.31 6.82 -1.49 7.14
William J Clinton 1993-01 - 2000-12 10.56 7.29 -3.27 7.80
Gerald R Ford 1974-08 - 1976-12 16.36 12.66 -3.70 16.00
Ronald W Reagan 1981-01 - 1988-12 19.33 9.72 -9.61 12.19
Harry S Truman 1948-01 - 1952-12 13.63 3.45 -10.18 7.88

 

[daveman]

Since the latest misery index is 8.96,

not 10.5 as the OP claims,

this is just one more healthmyths troll thread based on an outright lie.

US Misery Index

According to this web site Obama's average is 10.5. Sure seems like Barrrack wants to be just like Nixon.

US Misery Index - Index by President

President

Richard M Nixon 1969-01 - 1974-07 7.80 17.01 9.21 10.57
James E Carter, Jr. 1977-01 - 1980-12 12.72 19.72 7.00 16.26
Dwight D Eisenhower 1953-01 - 1960-12 3.28 7.96 4.68 6.26
Barack H Obama 2009-01 - 2013-05 7.83 8.96 1.13 10.48
Lyndon B Johnson 1963-11 - 1968-12 7.02 8.12 1.10 6.77
George H.W. Bush 1989-01 - 1992-12 10.07 10.30 0.23 10.68
George W Bush 2001-01 - 2008-12 7.93 7.39 -0.54 8.11
John F Kennedy 1961-01 - 1963-10 8.31 6.82 -1.49 7.14
William J Clinton 1993-01 - 2000-12 10.56 7.29 -3.27 7.80
Gerald R Ford 1974-08 - 1976-12 16.36 12.66 -3.70 16.00
Ronald W Reagan 1981-01 - 1988-12 19.33 9.72 -9.61 12.19
Harry S Truman 1948-01 - 1952-12 13.63 3.45 -10.18 7.88

Averages are racist.

 

[J.E.D]

Caveman and the USMB Wingnut Brigade is flocking to this latest Healthmyths fraudulent thread like flies to shit. No surprises.

 

[daveman]

Caveman and the USMB Wingnut Brigade is flocking to this latest Healthmyths fraudulent thread like flies to shit. No surprises.

Man, you Obamabots sure do take criticism of your little tin god personally, don't you?

That's unhealthy, man. You should discuss it with your therapist.

 

[auditor0007]

The latest misery index under the Obama administration is 10.5, according to NPA Services Inc.
Obama is doing so well he is 11th worst , 14th worst and 23rd worst in the president's Misery index...
Oh by the way where is George Bush??? First appears 2008, 27th.. 9.65

Also Obama has the dubious distinction also of being the ONLY President in history whose administration has purposely created unemployment!
See below why 41% businesses not hiring!!!

• 1 1980 20.76 Carter D
• 2 1981 17.97 Reagan R
• 3 1975 17.68 Ford R
• 4 1979 17.07 Ford R
• 5 1974 16.67 Nixon R
• 6 1982 15.87 Reagan R
• 7 1978 13.69 Carter D
• 8 1977 13.55 Carter D
• 9 1976 13.45 Carter D
• 10 1983 12.82 Reagan R
• 11 2011 12.11 Obama D
• 12 1984 11.81 Reagan R
• 13 1948 11.49 Truman D
• 14 2010 11.27 Obama D
• 15 1951 11.16 Eisenhower R

The highest one-year misery index under President Barack Obama was 12.11,
and Obama's average has been 10.78.

The highest under Bush was 9.65 in 2008
and his average was 8.11.

The misery index under President Jimmy Carter
averaged 16.26, with a high of 20.76 in 1980.

Then President Ronald Reagan took over the index was 17.97, his highest.
If any president had an excuse to blame the previous administration, Reagan did.
Instead the misery index declined by 9.61 points to 9.57 end of 1988.

US Misery Index - Custom Index by year

So why is unemployment so bad????


41% of Small Businesses Froze Hiring Over ObamaCare
We were startled because we know that employers were concerned about the Affordable Care Act and the effects it would have on their business, but we didn’t realize the extent they were concerned, or that the businesses were being proactive to make sure the effects of the ACA actually were minimized,” said attorney Steven Friedman of Littler Mendelson. His firm, which specializes in employment law, commissioned the Gallup poll.

“If the small businesses’ fears are reasonable, then it could mean that the small business sector grows slower than what economic conditions otherwise would indicate. And small businesses have been a growth engine in the economy,” Friedman told CNBC.

Forty-one percent of the businesses surveyed have frozen hiring because of the health-care law known as Obamacare. And almost one-fifth—19 percent— answered “yes” when asked if they had “reduced the number of employees you have in your business as a specific result of the Affordable Care Act.”
41% of Small Businesses Froze Hiring Over ObamaCare | FrontPage Magazine

Despite the excuses over Obamacare, the fact is that businesses have not picked up hiring because there has been no increase in demand for products and services. It amazes me how you dweebs continue to ignore basic economics.

 

[healthmyths]

Caveman and the USMB Wingnut Brigade is flocking to this latest Healthmyths fraudulent thread like flies to shit. No surprises.

F...king LIAR!!! Where is the FRAUD???
What is the Fraud???
YOU are saying the Federal U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment rates are a FRAUD?
YOU call this source a FRAUD?? Consumer Price Index (CPI)

The misery index was initiated by economist Arthur Okun, an adviser to President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960's. It is simply the unemployment rate added to the inflation rate.

NOW HOW can you possibly call that A FRAUD???

US Misery Index

May 2013 1.4% annual inflation rate
May 2013 7.6% unemployment:
Added together makes misery index of 9 for May 2013.
Again.. compared to BUSH average for 8 years of 8.1
Obama his AVERAGE Misery Index is:10.6 which is 30% greater then Bush's average.

 

[Freewill]

More surprising news, not sure if this is normal or not.

Only 47% of Adults Have Full-Time Job

 

[healthmyths]

The latest misery index under the Obama administration is 10.5, according to NPA Services Inc.
Obama is doing so well he is 11th worst , 14th worst and 23rd worst in the president's Misery index...
Oh by the way where is George Bush??? First appears 2008, 27th.. 9.65

Also Obama has the dubious distinction also of being the ONLY President in history whose administration has purposely created unemployment!
See below why 41% businesses not hiring!!!

• 1 1980 20.76 Carter D
• 2 1981 17.97 Reagan R
• 3 1975 17.68 Ford R
• 4 1979 17.07 Ford R
• 5 1974 16.67 Nixon R
• 6 1982 15.87 Reagan R
• 7 1978 13.69 Carter D
• 8 1977 13.55 Carter D
• 9 1976 13.45 Carter D
• 10 1983 12.82 Reagan R
• 11 2011 12.11 Obama D
• 12 1984 11.81 Reagan R
• 13 1948 11.49 Truman D
• 14 2010 11.27 Obama D
• 15 1951 11.16 Eisenhower R

The highest one-year misery index under President Barack Obama was 12.11,
and Obama's average has been 10.78.

The highest under Bush was 9.65 in 2008
and his average was 8.11.

The misery index under President Jimmy Carter
averaged 16.26, with a high of 20.76 in 1980.

Then President Ronald Reagan took over the index was 17.97, his highest.
If any president had an excuse to blame the previous administration, Reagan did.
Instead the misery index declined by 9.61 points to 9.57 end of 1988.

US Misery Index - Custom Index by year

So why is unemployment so bad????


41% of Small Businesses Froze Hiring Over ObamaCare
We were startled because we know that employers were concerned about the Affordable Care Act and the effects it would have on their business, but we didn’t realize the extent they were concerned, or that the businesses were being proactive to make sure the effects of the ACA actually were minimized,” said attorney Steven Friedman of Littler Mendelson. His firm, which specializes in employment law, commissioned the Gallup poll.

“If the small businesses’ fears are reasonable, then it could mean that the small business sector grows slower than what economic conditions otherwise would indicate. And small businesses have been a growth engine in the economy,” Friedman told CNBC.

Forty-one percent of the businesses surveyed have frozen hiring because of the health-care law known as Obamacare. And almost one-fifth—19 percent— answered “yes” when asked if they had “reduced the number of employees you have in your business as a specific result of the Affordable Care Act.”
41% of Small Businesses Froze Hiring Over ObamaCare | FrontPage Magazine

Despite the excuses over Obamacare, the fact is that businesses have not picked up hiring because there has been no increase in demand for products and services. It amazes me how you dweebs continue to ignore basic economics.

Hey I am not making those above numbers up! They come from small businesses surveyed!
Why would they LIE? Besides. The POINT if you read closely was THEY LET people go because it was going to cost them more in this
languishing economy caused by dipsticks ANTI-CAPITALIST ANTI-Business mentality!

Surely even idiots can recognize that Obama is a community organizer FIRST.. NEVER made a payroll much less do I really think he knows
that employers contribute an equal amount to the employees' Medicare/SS payments!
The f...king idiot IS KILLING tax revenue because of that!
FACT:

Did you know :
In 2011 this was the Total Federal Revenues and sources:
REPEAT this is total Revenue sources for Federal Government!!!

• Personal income tax $1,015 47.4% people that work for companies that work for profits primarily.
• Social security/Medicare tax 818 35.5% employer pays Half of total paid-- where will that come from???
• Corporate income tax 181 7.8% corporate evil profits generate taxes - then dividends taxed again!
• Customs,Duties, Misc. 131 5.7%
• Excise taxes 72 3.1%
• Estate & Gift 7 0.4%

Total: $2,302 100%
Federal Revenues by Source

Do you and other IDiOTS understand that over 95% of the FEDERAL REVENUE comes from people working, from SS/Medicare and from
corporate TAXES?
And when this dipstick for a president says:
1) says "I'd like higher gas prices.."
2) said:“Under my plan....electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.
3) said: So, if somebody wants to build a coal[electric utility] plant, they can it’s just that it will bankrupt them,!"
4)Told Brazil.."we'll be your best [oil] customer".
5) said "I favor single payer insurance".. meaning 1,400 insurance companies stop:
paying $100 billion in Fed/state/local taxes as well as LOCAL property taxes.
400,000 employees let go collecting $6 billion in unemployment checks!

Do you honestly think BUSINESSES want to expand with THAT destructive mind set of this dippy president???

 

[daveman]

More surprising news, not sure if this is normal or not.

Only 47% of Adults Have Full-Time Job

It's normal NOW.

Thank you, President Obama.

 

[ShaklesOfBigGov]

Market bouncing around an alltime high. Jobs slowly coming back. Home values rising again. Construction picking up again.

And all the end of the world economically predictions made on this board by the "Conservatives" shown to be utter bullshit.

Now you really think this kind of mewling and puking is impressing anyone?

Commercial construction has a very long way to go in seeing a recovery. Here is a brief history of the jobs lost during 2013. Does this look like an economic recovery?

March 2013 - Ohio loses 20,400 jobs Ohio loses 20,400 jobs in March, leading the nation in monthly job loss | cleveland.com

March 2013 - Illinois lost a net 17,800 jobs in March, leaving the state with one of the highest unemployment rates in the country and 629,000 people looking for work.
Illinois Unemployment Holds At 9.5 Percent « CBS Chicago

April 2013 - Wisconsin losing 22,000 jobs
Wisconsin sees biggest monthly job loss since 2009 : Ct

April 2013 - Michigan

Since April 2012, employment levels in the broader sector were essentially flat, as strong job gains in Professional, science and technical services (+8,300) were nearly matched by a combination of job losses in Administrative and support and waste management services (-7,000) and Management of companies (- 1,200). For the first four months of 2013, Professional & business services jobs in Michigan remained about 0.6 percent above the 2012 average.

April 2013 - Nationally
Unemployment did tick down to 7.6 percent in April, it was largely due to the declining labor force participation, not employment growth.
http://www.freddiemac.com/news/finance/docs/April_2013_public_outlook.pdf[/QUOTE

June 2013 - Washington

Washington state officials released Boeing's fourth official layoff notice in two months Thursday. The number of workers affected by the most recent series now totals 1,557.

http://m.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2013/06/27/new-boeing-warn-layoff-notice-brings.html?r=full

 

[daveman]

Unemployment goes down.

Obama supporter: Yay Obama!

Unemployment goes down not because there are more jobs, but because more people have given up looking for work.

Obama supporter: Doesn't matter! Unemployment went down! Yay Obama!

 

[J.E.D]

Caveman and the USMB Wingnut Brigade is flocking to this latest Healthmyths fraudulent thread like flies to shit. No surprises.

F...king LIAR!!! Where is the FRAUD???
What is the Fraud???
YOU are saying the Federal U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment rates are a FRAUD?
YOU call this source a FRAUD?? Consumer Price Index (CPI)

The misery index was initiated by economist Arthur Okun, an adviser to President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960's. It is simply the unemployment rate added to the inflation rate.

NOW HOW can you possibly call that A FRAUD???

US Misery Index

May 2013 1.4% annual inflation rate
May 2013 7.6% unemployment:
Added together makes misery index of 9 for May 2013.
Again.. compared to BUSH average for 8 years of 8.1
Obama his AVERAGE Misery Index is:10.6 which is 30% greater then Bush's average.

Because you're a fruad. Asshole. Calm the fuck down before you have an aneurism.

 

[Nova78]

Even Jimmy Carter produced 4 times as much economic growth during his one term as Obama did during his entire first term. In fact, real GDP growth under Obama has been the worst of any President in the last 60 years!

But it’s even worse than that. Obama’s real GDP growth has actually been less than half as much as the worst of any President in the last 60 years. In other words, even if you doubled actual GDP growth under President Obama, it would still be the worst record of any President in the last 60 years!

 

[daveman]

Caveman and the USMB Wingnut Brigade is flocking to this latest Healthmyths fraudulent thread like flies to shit. No surprises.

F...king LIAR!!! Where is the FRAUD???
What is the Fraud???
YOU are saying the Federal U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment rates are a FRAUD?
YOU call this source a FRAUD?? Consumer Price Index (CPI)

The misery index was initiated by economist Arthur Okun, an adviser to President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960's. It is simply the unemployment rate added to the inflation rate.

NOW HOW can you possibly call that A FRAUD???

US Misery Index

May 2013 1.4% annual inflation rate
May 2013 7.6% unemployment:
Added together makes misery index of 9 for May 2013.
Again.. compared to BUSH average for 8 years of 8.1
Obama his AVERAGE Misery Index is:10.6 which is 30% greater then Bush's average.

Because you're a fruad. Asshole. Calm the fuck down before you have an aneurism.

Well, that masterfully refutes his citations.

Oh, wait...no, it doesn't. It just makes you look like a little bitch.