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Talk about an elitist "let them eat cake" mentality. And the sad part is so many of his supporters are poor rural voters and some how they think a billionaire from New York City actually cares about them.
Yeah, that is funny. Why do Democrats keep wanting filthy rich scum like the Clintons and Bloomberg to be rulers over them? Makes no sense.
PS you know the Russian compounds Obama seized in December 2016 as punishment for Russian interference in the election? Trump is giving them back...splain that one.
Are you serious? Obama left the Nation in much better shape than it was when he took office.
Unemployment
When Obama came into office during January 2009, the unemployment rate was 7.8%. The highest point in the data set came in October 2009, when unemployment hit double digits at an even 10%. The final unemployment report under Obama put the unemployment rate at 4.7% for December 2016.
The jobs that came back were low paying. Unemployment going down doesn't help when more people are on government assistance. The UE is similar to 2006 when food stamp participation was 26 mil vs 43 mil when obama left office
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Job Creation
The Obama administration created 11.3 million jobs in eight years, and the economy added jobs for 75 straight months, a record that totals 6½ years. More jobs were created under Obama than under George W. Bush, who only created 2.1 million jobs.
Government doesn't create jobs, they create debt.
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Median Household Income
In 2015, the median was $56,516, which was a 5.2% increase from 2014. This was also the first increase in median income since 2007, before the economic crash.
As usual the left discounts spending. Prices are rising faster than income. obamacare is a big part of that. 2006 food stamp participation was 26 mil vs 43 mil when obama left office. Nothing says success than a huge increase in government assistance.
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Poverty Rate
The poverty rate in the United States in 2015 was 13.5%. This is down 1.2 percentage points from 14.8% in 2014. In 2015, there were 43.1 million people in poverty, 3.5 million fewer than in 2014.
In pre crash 2007 the rate was 12.7. Eight years in office and he couldn't get it back down to pre crash levels.
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Stock Market
Since Obama's first inauguration on Jan. 20, 2009, U.S. equities have surged 12% a year, not counting dividends, in what turned out to be the second-longest bull market in history.
Why don't you look up Quantitative Easing and get back to us.
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Job Creation SNAP Beneficiaries
14.7 million people were added to the food-stamp rolls during George W. Bush’s time in office. By comparison, the net gain under Obama now stands at under 11.6 million — and the number leaving the food stamp rolls has accelerated lately.
The weak economy caused by the bipartisan congress saw food stamps level off somewhat during 2005-2007 with participation topping out at ~26 million. The crash hits in 2008 and usage goes to 28.2 mil. When the economy crashes knowledgeable people understand there will be a rise in government assistance. What wasn't expected is the huge increase to 40 million in 2010 and the continued length of time it stayed at or close to all time highs. The number of people on food stamps as of Dec 2016 was 42.9 Million.
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Health Coverage
As a percentage of all U.S. residents, the uninsured have dropped to 9.1 percent of the population last year, from 14.7 percent in 2008.
Costs for health care insurance has risen. And the deductible has skyrocketed. Strange how costs going up doesn't matter to you.
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And what has Trump done? Well...let's see. He has not signed one piece of legislation, he appointed a Supreme Court Justice picked for him by the radical Federalist Society, and he has signed dozens of executive orders,most of which are purely symbolic. And what about his promises? Repeal the ACA on Day One, Mexico will pay for the wall, no one will lose medicaid, stay out of the middle east, drain the swamp, ban lobbyists from his cabinet, ban Muslims from the US. And his party controls both houses so it's just slightly absurd to try to blame Democrats for Trump's failures.
Trump's only major accomplishment has been to make the US the laughing stock of the entire world but I guess that at least proves he's capable of doing something
Agreed. Trump can't be trusted. Same as obama. The progressives on the right are no different than the progressives on the left. Just the hand picked winners and losers change.
One could make a good argument that before this last administration the repubs were the big spenders.
Originally Posted by steven_h Exactly right!
The Left have become the party of the rich. Stop acting like they still care about the average Joe, because they do not.
Originally Posted by steven_h The Left have become the party of the rich. Stop acting like they still care about the average Joe, because they do not.
And my question was, if the left is the party of the rich, since I'm a 'lefty' where's my money?
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