Obama: Second Greatest Failure in 90 Years!

[PoliticalChic]

New announcement from the Obama White House, compounding his record of abject and dismal failure.


1. 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." President Obama's Growth Gap Hits $1.31 Trillion | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

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





2. Now This:
"White House Cuts Economic Growth Forecasts
Budget office sees 1.9% growth in 2016, 2.5% in 2017
The White House now forecasts that gross domestic product will rise 1.9% this year and 2.5% in 2017, down from estimates of 2.6% for both years in its February forecast. It reduced long-run growth forecasts, for years after 2018, to 2.2% from 2.3%.
White House Cuts Economic Growth Forecasts


The only question that remains is which of the following is to blame:
a. Police anti-black bias
b. Guns
c. Fox News
d. Christianity
e. Rush Limbaugh




Oh...and, that title?
The single greatest failure is that of Obama voters.

Damn Bebe ... you keep posting the same crap over and over in different threads.

The truth really hurts you, doesn't it.

That's why I do it.



More to come.

 

[Flash]

After Obama leaves office he will be rated by a few hundred of America's best historians. Of the 44 presidents to be rated where will Obama come out. The problem with the historians is they usually know most of the ins and outs of Obama's presidency, the errors the hardships, the cooperation of the Congress and so on. In the last survey Bush was rated fifth worst president. Bush will now be rated again will he go up or down or stay fifth worst?
If nothing much changes between now and the rating, I'll predict Obama will be twenty two or better.
I have spoken-it is so.

I wonder if any of these historians were laid off due to the sluggish economy or had their health care cost skyrocket because of Obamacare or had a family member killed by Muslim terrorists. How many of them had their family income decrease or had their taxes increased to provide Obamaphones to ghetto voters that voted for Obama?

If any of them live outside of the ivy towers of academia Obama would be lucky to be anywhere except last place.

Obama has been a disaster for this country.

 

[francoHFW]

Considering GOP obstruction of all the usual solutions in this GOP mess (infrastructure bank/jobs bill, raising min wage, tax cuts for the middle class, training for 3-7 MILLION tech jobs going begging) and their phony debt ceiling crises (costs 1%+ each time) and incessant fear mongering, he's doing great, dupes. And no corrupt GOP bubble/bust/recession.

You are truly a dunce...

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." President Obama's Growth Gap Hits $1.31 Trillion | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

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. America’s Economic Freedom Has Rapidly Declined Under Obama

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." Food Stamp Users Near Record High Despite Low Unemployment Rate

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..." Exclusive: Poverty up, services diminished in Chicago's black neighborhoods - study


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." Payrolls in U.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..." How Fiduciary Rule May Censor Financial Broadcasters Like Dave Ramsey

“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." Retail Sales in U.S. Decline 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." 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."

Soaring Suicides Emerge As a National Crisis Laid to Economic Stall - The New York Sun


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." U.S. Economy Expands to 0.5% Pace, Weakest 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." CBO: Nearly 1 in 6 Young Men in U.S. Jobless or Incarcerated - Breitbart

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." Stocks fall as inflation hits 3-year high

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." Weak U.S. employment report dims prospect of Fed rate hike


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 White House Cuts Economic Growth Forecasts



"OBAMA: Anyone claiming that America's economy is in decline is peddling fiction.” Obama: Anyone Claiming America's Economy Is In Decline Is Peddling Fiction


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.

Look around....and remember those who put this man in office.

Can you read? Great job, mindlessly obstructive GOP. Dear middle class: Welcome to poverty

 

[PoliticalChic]

Considering GOP obstruction of all the usual solutions in this GOP mess (infrastructure bank/jobs bill, raising min wage, tax cuts for the middle class, training for 3-7 MILLION tech jobs going begging) and their phony debt ceiling crises (costs 1%+ each time) and incessant fear mongering, he's doing great, dupes. And no corrupt GOP bubble/bust/recession.

You are truly a dunce...

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." President Obama's Growth Gap Hits $1.31 Trillion | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

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. America’s Economic Freedom Has Rapidly Declined Under Obama

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." Food Stamp Users Near Record High Despite Low Unemployment Rate

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..." Exclusive: Poverty up, services diminished in Chicago's black neighborhoods - study


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." Payrolls in U.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..." How Fiduciary Rule May Censor Financial Broadcasters Like Dave Ramsey

“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." Retail Sales in U.S. Decline 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." 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."

Soaring Suicides Emerge As a National Crisis Laid to Economic Stall - The New York Sun


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." U.S. Economy Expands to 0.5% Pace, Weakest 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." CBO: Nearly 1 in 6 Young Men in U.S. Jobless or Incarcerated - Breitbart

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." Stocks fall as inflation hits 3-year high

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." Weak U.S. employment report dims prospect of Fed rate hike


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 White House Cuts Economic Growth Forecasts



"OBAMA: Anyone claiming that America's economy is in decline is peddling fiction.” Obama: Anyone Claiming America's Economy Is In Decline Is Peddling Fiction


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.

Look around....and remember those who put this man in office.

Can you read? Great job, mindlessly obstructive GOP. Dear middle class: Welcome to poverty

"Can you read?"

Did you actually write that, after post #55 utterly destroyed any possible belief that your hero is effective, competent, or intelligent.


Oh...I get it...."Can you read?" is your feeble attempt to hide your inadequacies.....


You couldn't read post #55???


BUT.......
As a conservative is never so tall as when she stoops to teach a Liberal.....so, my Sunday good deed:

As one eventually becomes weary of having the dull, the uneducated, the ignorant, offer what they consider rebuff to intelligent and informed posts, and in the interests of better debate milieu.....I strongly suggest that no Leftists.....e.g., Democrat, Liberal, Socialist, Communist, Nazi, Progressive, or Fascist.....

....nor any combination or permutation of same, embarrass themselves by offering any post until such time that they complete a study of these three works:


1. "Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline,"
by Robert H. Bork




2. "Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change,"
by Jonah Goldberg




3. "American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character,"
by Diana West



They provide the context for the world you live in.

And, please do study the vast and scholarly documentation provided in each tome.

Without having digested the three above, and carefully decided whether they are correct or not, your posts reek of stupidity and a lack of understanding.

I mean that in only the kindest way, blanko.


And...based on your 'skills,' perhaps you should stick to audio versions.









I fully understand the difficulties that this course (pun intended) of action entails....

...as elucidated by the great mind herself...

"Liberals don’t read books- they don’t read anything. That’s why they’re liberals. They watch TV, absorb the propaganda, and vote on the basis of urges."

Coulter







But!!!

Having completed the above assignment, you will find that your experience.....and mine....here on the board will be greatly enhanced.

Begin immediately!!!

Forthwith!!!!!!

 

[francoHFW]

Jeebus you're full of irrelevant bs spam. Libs read a HELLUVA lot more than Foxbots and GOP working class bigots- what a joke...Your books are RW drivel, fool.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Jeebus you're full of irrelevant bs spam. Libs read a HELLUVA lot more than Foxbots and GOP working class bigots- what a joke...Your books are RW drivel, fool.

So....are you saying you've read all three of 'em?

Any of 'em?

Any book that didn't involve Crayolas????



Get out there and get those books.

Now!

 

[francoHFW]

Pure crap. I read all of Lib Fascism. Hilarious BS.

The one tax graph you really need to know

 

[gipper]

Whats funny is you republicans think your shit don't stink but the policies of Hurting and Hover caused the Great depression. FDR wasn't even in power! Yet he had to clean up your cluster fuck!

George w Bush housing program and deregulations caused the great recession! But, hey lets blame the black guy for doing it!!!! While taking a double standard when he ask congress for some more investment money.

To hell with you republicans.

What's funnier is that you think that somehow presidents single handedly control the economy.

If any president came close to single handedly controlling the economy it was FDR. In fact, if any president wanted to change our system of government as some countries were doing, FDR could have come the closest to that change also.

Yep...FDR was a liar, scumbag, tyrant, deceitful, underhanded, traitorous, and worse.

 

[francoHFW]

Whats funny is you republicans think your shit don't stink but the policies of Hurting and Hover caused the Great depression. FDR wasn't even in power! Yet he had to clean up your cluster fuck!

George w Bush housing program and deregulations caused the great recession! But, hey lets blame the black guy for doing it!!!! While taking a double standard when he ask congress for some more investment money.

To hell with you republicans.

What's funnier is that you think that somehow presidents single handedly control the economy.

If any president came close to single handedly controlling the economy it was FDR. In fact, if any president wanted to change our system of government as some countries were doing, FDR could have come the closest to that change also.

Yep...FDR was a liar, scumbag, tyrant, deceitful, underhanded, traitorous, and worse.

And the number 1 president of the last 150 years, hater dupe. But thanks for 9/11 thru sheer incompetence, the stupidest wars ever, ANOTHER corrupt GOP world depression, 8 years of mindless obstruction, and the worst bs propaganda/hate machine in our history,..

 

[francoHFW]

After Obama leaves office he will be rated by a few hundred of America's best historians. Of the 44 presidents to be rated where will Obama come out. The problem with the historians is they usually know most of the ins and outs of Obama's presidency, the errors the hardships, the cooperation of the Congress and so on. In the last survey Bush was rated fifth worst president. Bush will now be rated again will he go up or down or stay fifth worst?
If nothing much changes between now and the rating, I'll predict Obama will be twenty two or better.
I have spoken-it is so.

I wonder if any of these historians were laid off due to the sluggish economy or had their health care cost skyrocket because of Obamacare or had a family member killed by Muslim terrorists. How many of them had their family income decrease or had their taxes increased to provide Obamaphones to ghetto voters that voted for Obama?

If any of them live outside of the ivy towers of academia Obama would be lucky to be anywhere except last place.

Obama has been a disaster for this country.

Reagan/Booosh phones you mean, which cost taxpayers NOTHING. Brainwashed functional moron...82 months of growth after a corrupt GOP WORLD DEPRESSION despite total mindless obstruction of all the usual solutions. Change the gd channel sometimes ferchrissake, Rush.

 

[Flash]

[

Reagan/Booosh phones you mean, which cost taxpayers NOTHING. Brainwashed functional moron...82 months of growth after a corrupt GOP WORLD DEPRESSION despite total mindless obstruction of all the usual solutions. Change the gd channel sometimes ferchrissake, Rush.

Sorry Moon Bat but you get to post your crap and run away.

I was against the cell phone program when Reagan started it. We should never have any program where we take money away from the people that earn it and give it away to those that didn't earn it.

However, to put things in the right perspective Reagan thought it would be nice to provide a few thousand phones for elderly people in rural areas for emergency purposes. It was that idiot Obama that turned it into a massive program to buy votes from the welfare queens. If you have a cell phone you are paying the tax to provide free phones to the welfare shitheads. That is despicable.

By the way Moon Bat, the economy was doing fine until that filthy ass 2008 elected Democrat Congress took over. You know the one that had Barney Queerboy, Obama, Peloski and that shithead Reid. Then the economy went to hell and Obama has done a piss poor job of any recovery and a really great job of increasing poverty, increasing debt, increasing welfare and decreasing family income while never achieving even a modest 3% growth rate like every other President did.

 

[regent]

Whats funny is you republicans think your shit don't stink but the policies of Hurting and Hover caused the Great depression. FDR wasn't even in power! Yet he had to clean up your cluster fuck!

George w Bush housing program and deregulations caused the great recession! But, hey lets blame the black guy for doing it!!!! While taking a double standard when he ask congress for some more investment money.

To hell with you republicans.

What's funnier is that you think that somehow presidents single handedly control the economy.

If any president came close to single handedly controlling the economy it was FDR. In fact, if any president wanted to change our system of government as some countries were doing, FDR could have come the closest to that change also.

Yep...FDR was a liar, scumbag, tyrant, deceitful, underhanded, traitorous, and worse.

Wow, is that your argument or just practicing your name calling?

 

[gipper]

Whats funny is you republicans think your shit don't stink but the policies of Hurting and Hover caused the Great depression. FDR wasn't even in power! Yet he had to clean up your cluster fuck!

George w Bush housing program and deregulations caused the great recession! But, hey lets blame the black guy for doing it!!!! While taking a double standard when he ask congress for some more investment money.

To hell with you republicans.

What's funnier is that you think that somehow presidents single handedly control the economy.

If any president came close to single handedly controlling the economy it was FDR. In fact, if any president wanted to change our system of government as some countries were doing, FDR could have come the closest to that change aFD
Wow, is that your argument or just practicing your name calling?

Damn. Have you forgotten the numerous threads in which I informed you of FDR's many heinous actions?

Do you come here new every day.

Damn. Have you forgotten the numerous threads in which I informed you of FDR's many heinous actions?

Do you come here new every day.[/Q

 

[regent]

Whats funny is you republicans think your shit don't stink but the policies of Hurting and Hover caused the Great depression. FDR wasn't even in power! Yet he had to clean up your cluster fuck!

George w Bush housing program and deregulations caused the great recession! But, hey lets blame the black guy for doing it!!!! While taking a double standard when he ask congress for some more investment money.

To hell with you republicans.

What's funnier is that you think that somehow presidents single handedly control the economy.

If any president came close to single handedly controlling the economy it was FDR. In fact, if any president wanted to change our system of government as some countries were doing, FDR could have come the closest to that change aFD
Wow, is that your argument or just practicing your name calling?

Damn. Have you forgotten the numerous threads in which I informed you of FDR's many heinous actions?

Do you come here new every day.

Everyday with an open mind, recognizing opinions from fact.

 

[francoHFW]

[

Reagan/Booosh phones you mean, which cost taxpayers NOTHING. Brainwashed functional moron...82 months of growth after a corrupt GOP WORLD DEPRESSION despite total mindless obstruction of all the usual solutions. Change the gd channel sometimes ferchrissake, Rush.

Sorry Moon Bat but you get to post your crap and run away.

I was against the cell phone program when Reagan started it. We should never have any program where we take money away from the people that earn it and give it away to those that didn't earn it.

However, to put things in the right perspective Reagan thought it would be nice to provide a few thousand phones for elderly people in rural areas for emergency purposes. It was that idiot Obama that turned it into a massive program to buy votes from the welfare queens. If you have a cell phone you are paying the tax to provide free phones to the welfare shitheads. That is despicable.

By the way Moon Bat, the economy was doing fine until that filthy ass 2008 elected Democrat Congress took over. You know the one that had Barney Queerboy, Obama, Peloski and that shithead Reid. Then the economy went to hell and Obama has done a piss poor job of any recovery and a really great job of increasing poverty, increasing debt, increasing welfare and decreasing family income while never achieving even a modest 3% growth rate like every other President did.

So you LIED about Obamaphones like your heroes, show the racist video behind all that (doesn't take much to make the ignorant dupes believe total crap...). Bush changed the program, not Obama.

Blaming Dems for the GOP World Depression is ridiculous. Time for more tin foil, dupe.

 

[gipper]

What's funnier is that you think that somehow presidents single handedly control the economy.

If any president came close to single handedly controlling the economy it was FDR. In fact, if any president wanted to change our system of government as some countries were doing, FDR could have come the closest to that change aFD
Wow, is that your argument or just practicing your name calling?

Damn. Have you forgotten the numerous threads in which I informed you of FDR's many heinous actions?

Do you come here new every day.

Everyday with an open mind, recognizing opinions from fact.

You mean an empty mind.

 

[Tax Man]

New announcement from the Obama White House, compounding his record of abject and dismal failure.


1. 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." President Obama's Growth Gap Hits $1.31 Trillion | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

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





2. Now This:
"White House Cuts Economic Growth Forecasts
Budget office sees 1.9% growth in 2016, 2.5% in 2017
The White House now forecasts that gross domestic product will rise 1.9% this year and 2.5% in 2017, down from estimates of 2.6% for both years in its February forecast. It reduced long-run growth forecasts, for years after 2018, to 2.2% from 2.3%.
White House Cuts Economic Growth Forecasts


The only question that remains is which of the following is to blame:
a. Police anti-black bias
b. Guns
c. Fox News
d. Christianity
e. Rush Limbaugh




Oh...and, that title?
The single greatest failure is that of Obama voters.

Desperation is showing in your post.

 

[francoHFW]

[

Reagan/Booosh phones you mean, which cost taxpayers NOTHING. Brainwashed functional moron...82 months of growth after a corrupt GOP WORLD DEPRESSION despite total mindless obstruction of all the usual solutions. Change the gd channel sometimes ferchrissake, Rush.

Sorry Moon Bat but you get to post your crap and run away.

I was against the cell phone program when Reagan started it. We should never have any program where we take money away from the people that earn it and give it away to those that didn't earn it.

However, to put things in the right perspective Reagan thought it would be nice to provide a few thousand phones for elderly people in rural areas for emergency purposes. It was that idiot Obama that turned it into a massive program to buy votes from the welfare queens. If you have a cell phone you are paying the tax to provide free phones to the welfare shitheads. That is despicable.

By the way Moon Bat, the economy was doing fine until that filthy ass 2008 elected Democrat Congress took over. You know the one that had Barney Queerboy, Obama, Peloski and that shithead Reid. Then the economy went to hell and Obama has done a piss poor job of any recovery and a really great job of increasing poverty, increasing debt, increasing welfare and decreasing family income while never achieving even a modest 3% growth rate like every other President did.

And it costs taxpayers NOTHING. You know nothing about it, so stfu. lol. Oh right, it's the GOP way, all they've got, total bs for the chumps.

 

[Flash]

[

Reagan/Booosh phones you mean, which cost taxpayers NOTHING. Brainwashed functional moron...82 months of growth after a corrupt GOP WORLD DEPRESSION despite total mindless obstruction of all the usual solutions. Change the gd channel sometimes ferchrissake, Rush.

Sorry Moon Bat but you get to post your crap and run away.

I was against the cell phone program when Reagan started it. We should never have any program where we take money away from the people that earn it and give it away to those that didn't earn it.

However, to put things in the right perspective Reagan thought it would be nice to provide a few thousand phones for elderly people in rural areas for emergency purposes. It was that idiot Obama that turned it into a massive program to buy votes from the welfare queens. If you have a cell phone you are paying the tax to provide free phones to the welfare shitheads. That is despicable.

By the way Moon Bat, the economy was doing fine until that filthy ass 2008 elected Democrat Congress took over. You know the one that had Barney Queerboy, Obama, Peloski and that shithead Reid. Then the economy went to hell and Obama has done a piss poor job of any recovery and a really great job of increasing poverty, increasing debt, increasing welfare and decreasing family income while never achieving even a modest 3% growth rate like every other President did.

And it costs taxpayers NOTHING. You know nothing about it, so stfu. lol. Oh right, it's the GOP way, all they've got, total bs for the chumps.

Bullshit Moon Bat. You are lying or else you are just plain confused.

The program is paid for by increased Federal telephone taxes that have risen 83% in the last few years.


What Those Rising Taxes on Your Phone Bill Pay For: A Fraud-Friendly ‘Obamaphone’ Program

Lifeline is funded by a “universal service fee” — essentially, a tax — placed on your phone bill. And since 2008, Lifeline spending has almost doubled, growing from $819 million to $1.6 billion. To finance this and other spending on universal services, the tax rate on Americans’ phone bills has increased by 83 percent over the past seven years.

The tax rate on Americans’ phone bills has increased by 83 percent over the past seven years. So where does your hard-earned money go? So where does your hard-earned money go? Unfortunately, Lifeline, known in some circles as the “Obamaphone” program, is plagued by waste, fraud, and abuse. And ground zero for the program’s current woes is the state of Oklahoma. Why? The typical Lifeline subsidy is $9.25 per month. But those who live on lands designated as “tribal” receive $34.25 per month, whether or not they are Native Americans.


Read more at: What Those Rising Taxes on Your Phone Bill Pay For: A Fraud-Friendly ‘Obamaphone’ Program

 

[regent]

If any president came close to single handedly controlling the economy it was FDR. In fact, if any president wanted to change our system of government as some countries were doing, FDR could have come the closest to that change aFD
Wow, is that your argument or just practicing your name calling?

Damn. Have you forgotten the numerous threads in which I informed you of FDR's many heinous actions?

Do you come here new every day.

Everyday with an open mind, recognizing opinions from fact.

You mean an empty mind.

Every time you name call I recognize you have nothing to add.