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stagnating wages, rising food, fuel and just about everything else. Jobs being shipped overseas and companies sitting on top of a lot of cash not hiring as they are doing more (or the same) with less. the country is strained to the breaking point, and hope and optimism have been replaced by anxiety and strife. "A bump in the road?" This is a sinkhole, And no on seems to know how to fill it. lest remind you it was once a place where ANYONE could rise to almost limitless heights. And it seems being just content with surviving is the new "American dream" and the populace has had enough. And something has to give. There will always be ups and downs, but America being unable to get off the canvas for years is unacceptable. We need to find the battering ram, and break down these gates of constraint!
Exactly! A bump in the road? More like f'ing land mines!
Other than adding about a million private sector jobs you mean, right?
How can we know for sure he added any Jobs, more people are filing for unemployment every week and the unemployment number has not gone down? Just because "he" said so does not make it true. Every time he opens his mouth he lies. His Big Plan is to Educate more people for Green Jobs, people need jobs now ! Why is he stuck on this Green Jobs garbage? How about we stop with all the stupid Regulations that's put a strangle hold on Businesses and worry about the Green later!!!!!!
I live in NC, this State Voted for Obama in a big way in 08 I wonder how many will Vote for him again???I sure hope they learned their lesson and don't Vote him in again. He is really hurting our Country.
How can we know for sure he added any Jobs, more people are filing for unemployment every week and the unemployment number has not gone down? Just because "he" said so does not make it true. Every time he opens his mouth he lies. His Big Plan is to Educate more people for Green Jobs, people need jobs now ! Why is he stuck on this Green Jobs garbage? How about we stop with all the stupid Regulations that's put a strangle hold on Businesses and worry about the Green later!!!!!!
I still haven't heard what those who say Obama hasn't done anything would have done instead.
Mitt Romney wrongly claimed deficits "multiplied … by a factor of four or five" under President Barack Obama. He also incorrectly stated that auto companies have repaid only a "small" share of the government bailout money.
The deficit was already running at $1.2 trillion when Obama took office, and it grew to more than $1.4 trillion during his administration — an increase of far less than 400 percent to 500 percent."
The U.S. sold almost half of its stake in the nation’s largest automaker for $33 a share -- about $10 less than it needs to break even. The remaining shares will need to sell for about $20 higher to make up the difference. GM opened at $35 and stayed within $1.11 of that price all day. Selling the remaining shares at that price would produce a loss of about $9 billion.
That may go down as a bargain. The U.S. would have lost $28.6 billion in spending on social services and missing tax revenue if not for the bailout of GM, its former lending arm and Chrysler Group LLC, according to a study released Nov. 17 by the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
“GM ends up an economic contributor to the U.S. economy,” said Barry Ritholtz, author of “Bailout Nation” and chief executive officer of New York investment research firm FusionIQ. “It’s manufacturing products, it’s creating jobs, it’s buying wholesale parts, it’s doing what an industrial company is supposed to do.”
I still haven't heard what those who say Obama hasn't done anything would have done instead.
How about lower the Corporate Tax Rate, I believe we have the second Highest Rate in the World, getting rid of his 2000 page Bill on Regulations,Redoing Obamacare better yet dump it,Opening up the Drilling and Mining, taking away the power he gave the EPA, following the Law on Illegals so States can stop Supporting them, and stop the money going to Nations that "are not " our Friends we don't need to pay anyone to hate us we have enough of them without having to pay!!!! And how about just being in support of our own Country and not worry how you look to the rest of the world! After we get ourselves back on track we can then worry about supporting the World!
7.6% unemployment on inauguration day, 9.1% today.
After $800 BILLION in "stimulus", 1 TRILLION in bailouts.
Again, as far as his "job creation"....
"Would you like fries with that?"
Net GAIN of 2.1 million private sector payroll. If you would rather go by unemployment rate, you perhaps also believe that 2001-2004 were great times for job growth (when in reality payroll shrunk by almost a million at the end of four years) while 1981-1984 sucked (when in reality, private sector payroll expanded by over 5 million at the end of four years)? But then, reality does no good to help arguments such as those you want to make.
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