haha no responses. What happened to the big circle jerk.. you guys would rather sit around marveling at AK's monumentally ridiculous chart than confront reality? What a joke.
and what happened to my charts i wasted time putting them in but they're gone now
haha no responses. What happened to the big circle jerk.. you guys would rather sit around marveling at AK's monumentally ridiculous chart than confront reality? What a joke.
and what happened to my charts i wasted time putting them in but they're gone now
It was never about the chart PB,its Romney saying in his own words that when you come into office with jobs falling off a cliff and it turns around that is progress and it takes awhile to get things turned around
It was never about the chart PB,its Romney saying in his own words that when you come into office with jobs falling off a cliff and it turns around that is progress and it takes awhile to get things turned around
As you can see in the data from my post there has been very little progress since obama took office. I am not saying that if there wasn't a bailout things wouldn't have been worse, but there is no reason to think that we wouldn't be doing better right now, or be in about the same spot. Obama was the one who claimed his spending plan would reduce unemployment to 5.6% and that the private sector was fine. But according to the actual govt data, almost nothing has been accomplished by all that spending. If instead of being so cocky on a subject that he clearly is not too well informed on, he was more practical, then maybe he would be tolerable. However, he was cocky and he was wrong. About the only thing he did that was any good was to extend the bush tax cuts, while making the same mistake as Bush, increasing spending.
keep in mind that I am not naive enough to give any President full credit or blame for the economy. My problem here is that charts like the one you posted along with outright lies about the number of 'new' jobs created by obama are so stupid, it is insulting.
Anyway you can really only judge the effect a Pres/Congress has on the economy by their policies. In no uncertain terms, taxes and regulation HURT the private sector. Whether they are necessary, whether the public wants them, whether we NEED them to bring down the debt (highly debatable).. they hurt the private sector. So I am naturally opposed to guys that want to beef up regs or increase taxes. I absolutely hate people who need to lie about what they are doing.. he can say his rules and taxes are necessary, but he can't claim they actually help the economy. that is what the whole dem party does now and it is just a big lie.
