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Unemployment rate: October 2009 10% Today 7.8%
Foreclosure Filings: December 2008 303,0000 December 2012 153,000
Retail and Food Service Sales: December 2008 $334 Billion December 2013 $415 Billion
GDP Increase: 3rd Quarter 2008 0.5% 3rd Quarter 2013 3.1%
Stock Market: 1/16/2009 8,281.22 Yesterday 16,360.18
There's five key economic indicators that are much improved. Personally, put me in that 57%.
Every item you listed is the result of a natural economic business cycle, but since you want to confuse them with the nation as a whole..
You do realize the stock market gains take place because businesses lay off employees, and thus you quoting the stock market is the completely opposite of your intended message, right?
And GDP growth is because government is growing, not the economy, but government growth takes place at the expense of the private sector.
Well, I'm not in defensive mode or anything. I don't really care who's president. All of this talk about health care and/or unemployment benefits have absolutely nothing to do with me. I've never been on unemployment. Even when I wasn't employed, it never felt right to go on unemployment, so I never did. I have the best healthcare money can buy. The reason I work 60 hours a week is because I do the work of 2 people. So, none of these politics have anything to do with me.
It's just that seeing people voting against their interest is like watching a train wreck.
Anyway, chances are we'll have a republican congress and probably a republican presidency in a couple years. Again, I don't care because it doesn't affect me at all.
You must be quite young if you don't think the makeup of the Fed Gov. doesn't effect you at all. Extremely naive.
Taxes have gone down since Obama took office. Not by much, though.
I wasnt talking about if taxes have gone down or up. If you pay taxes , then yes whatever this country or president does will affect you and everyone else. Do you even know how or where your tax money gets sent to?
So, admittedly, when Obama took over we were in a severe recession, and under Obama's leadership we've recovered?
So people who say the "country is better off today" are correct?
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Recovered what? If you like our countries new hot career of "welfare and unemployment benefits" then sure i guess thats a lil better off huh?
I guess if you are happy and consider that a better off then i really do feel sad for you. Any able bodied person could of went into office and made a better country at that present time, so that kind of says something about your standards in life or your just very very uneducated, or both.
Taxes have gone down since Obama took office. Not by much, though.
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