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Old 02-22-2011, 01:50 PM
 
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Two years ago today, Barack Obama was inaugurated as president of the United States. Are you better off today than you were two years ago?

Two years ago today, Barack Obama was inaugurated as president of the United States. Are you better off today than you were two years ago? Numbers don't lie, and here are the data on the impact he has had on the lives of Americans:
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Old 02-22-2011, 01:53 PM
 
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How do numbers reflect freedom and the expansion of the federal government beyond its Constitutionally enumerated powers?

"Better off" is subjective at best.
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Old 02-22-2011, 01:56 PM
 
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Did you visit the link? It doesn't make Barry look good, everything is going in the wrong direction under his so called leadership.

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How do numbers reflect freedom and the expansion of the federal government beyond its Constitutionally enumerated powers?

"Better off" is subjective at best.
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Old 02-22-2011, 01:57 PM
 
Location: Georgia, on the Florida line, right above Tallahassee
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Obama, destroyer of Crops.

Global Food Crisis (washingtonpost.com)

Numbers don't tell the whole story. That would be an honest headline.
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Old 02-22-2011, 01:57 PM
 
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Did you visit the link? It doesn't make Barry look good, everything is going in the wrong direction under his so called leadership.
Yes, I visited the link. My purpose was to point out that some things cannot be measured with numbers and that we are worse off in those areas as well.

Any statistician can manipulate and present numbers in such a manner as to prove a point.
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Old 02-22-2011, 01:58 PM
 
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Are you better off today than you were two years ago?
since i bought a house and invested in the market 2 years ago....... i'd say yes.
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Old 02-22-2011, 02:01 PM
 
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Better off than we would be under McCain/Palin, Apsolutely!
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Old 02-22-2011, 02:04 PM
 
Location: Don't be a cry baby!
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At first I thought the thread was going to be a statistic and in my opinion, statistics are a “fools” proof. These numbers are hard and factual, and Barry says there is no inflation.
(There’s a sucker born every minute) Good stuff, thanks!

I think what Barack Hussein Obama is trying to say is that these numbers would have been worse if anyone other than him was elected POTUS. That Obama, he should have received the Nobel ESP Prize too. (Jobs saved/money saved/nations saved/economy saved/freedom gone!)
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Old 02-22-2011, 02:16 PM
 
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This is the scariest one of all, IMHO.

Number of long-term unemployed
2009 -2,600,000
2011 -6,400,000
Change +146.2%
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Old 02-22-2011, 02:20 PM
 
Location: Georgia, on the Florida line, right above Tallahassee
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BHO had a choice to make. Let the economy collapse, or stimulate it. Any other person would've had to make the same choice.

You do know food prices are up due to natural disasters, right? So those food prices blamed on Obama means that he is God and can control the weather.

Four main factors are seen as driving prices higher: weather, higher demand, smaller yields and crops diverted to biofuels. Volatile weather patterns often attributed to climate change are wreaking havoc with some harvests. Heavy rains in Australia damaged wheat to the extent that much of its usually high-quality crop has been downgraded to feed, experts noted.

Ah hell with it, you're right, let's just blame Obama.
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