[QUOTE="Ace6301"]Hate to see how things would have been under the other guys. As mediocre and occasionally outright bad as Obama is you guys dodged some bullets. theone86
Not to mention how ridiculously lopsided this article is. There are things you can criticize the President for, but this is just another example of blatant Obama-bashing to drum up people who aren't paying attention into a frenzy.
Does France still make guillotines?
1)** Barack Obama is the worst jobs president since the Great Depression.
2)** Poverty is at its highest rate since 1960s.
3)** America is experiencing its worst economic recovery ever.
4)** There are more Americans on food stamps than entire population of Spain.
5)** A record number of Americans are seeking jobs.
6)** Obamas trillion dollar stimulus failed.
7)** Under Obamas leadership we had four straight years of trillion dollar deficits.
8)** 8.8 million Americans are on disability.
In an article for Investors Business Daily, Anderson writes: Prior to Obama, the second term of President Bush featured the weakest gains in the gross domestic product in some time, with average annual (inflation-adjusted) GDP growth of just 1.9 percent but average annual real GDP growth during Obamas entire first term was less than half as much at a pitiful 0.8 percent.
That performance will establish Obama firmly as the worst president ever on the economy.
Obamas GDP growth is less than half as much as the worst president in the past 60 years.
Let that process slowly. That means that if President Obama could go back in time and find a way to double his GDP performance, hed still hold the record for the worst economic president in the past 60 years.
kingkong0124
1) President Obama came in at a time when the economy was hemmoraging jobs and reversed that trend through targeted spending programs that rebuild the country at the same time they put people to work. To blame him for this is fallacious in the first place as he inherited this mess, and then on top of that if a President who was against federal spending had come into office we'd have millions more Americans unemployed right now. Not to mention that every time he actually does something to try and help the economy he's accused of overreaching, so which one is it? Is he a horrible dictator who can't help but stick government fingers where they don't belong, or is he completely ineffective in his ability to single-handedly solve the economic crisis and put employment rates back to where they were under Clinton? Are you mad at him for doing too much or too little? Make up your minds.
2) Right, and this has everything to do with the President and nothing to do with the wealth disparity in America. It's not the people who are making billions of dollars each year and shipping jobs overseas we should be mad at, it's the President, despite the fact that he doesn't have the power to directly affect poverty rates. Here again, we run into the issue of him being blamed for doing too much and too little at the same time.
3) Here again we have the dual problems of blaming President Obama for things he can't control and blaming him for not doing enough while criticizing his proposals as overreaches. We're comparing President Obama's recovery to Presidents Carter and Roosevelt's? First off, they had Congresses that actually passed legislation, President Obama does not. Second, every time he invests money as both of those Presidents did in much greater numbers than he did he is criticized for overreaching. Again, either he's doing too much or too little, not both at the same time. Also, if conservatives are soo focused on the free market then why are they asking President Obama where the jobs are? Shouldn't they be asking their vaunted titans of industry?
4) Again, why is this the President's problem? Why aren't we asking why more companies aren't paying a living wage, why they aren't hiring more employees, or why they're so opposed to raising the minimum wage? Raise wages, fewer people on food stamps. Simple problem, simple solution.
5) When we're talking records we have to take population growth into account. Also, again, why are we blaming the President for this and not companies who aren't hiring?
6) Failed? It added millions of jobs to the economy, it kept people from unemployment. This is exactly the kind of hypocrisy that discredits articles like this, they harp and harp on President Obama for not doing anything and when they come to a point where he actually did do something they dismiss it as a failure.
7) We've had deficits in the trillions for years now, it's not limited to President Obama. President Obama has also reduced the deficit, and unlike our last REPUBLICAN president he is actually putting everything on the books. That's a large part of why the deficit ballooned like it did, was because whereas Bush was keeping wartime spending off the books Obama was putting on the books where it belongs.
8) You're criticizing the President for the number of Americans who are on disability? Do I even have to go into how ridiculously stupid that is?
Can I get you some knee pads?
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