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Originally Posted by evilnewbie
The insurance premiums exploded and vaporized my cash along with it... my taxes have gone up... The instability in the world begun during Obama's administration... Obama keeps claiming good things happening in the US because when in fact it had nothing to do with him... and the list keeps going on and on and on...
So I guess 9/11 and two wars in the middle east that cost us over 6 TRILLION dollars while Bush was president doesn't count?
Kennedy put a man on the moon,
Obama put a man in the women's restroom!
I'll start with a couple:
$10 trillion increase in the debt (most of any President in U.S. history)
Marginal GDP growth rate, slower than a snail's pace
Obamacare disaster
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The insurance premiums exploded and vaporized my cash along with it... my taxes have gone up... The instability in the world begun during Obama's administration... Obama keeps claiming good things happening in the US because when in fact it had nothing to do with him... and the list keeps going on and on and on...
The October Revolution and Six Days War really happened in 2009? I knew I should've paid more attention in history class!
The fact Obama's term correlated with certain positive improvements does not mean Obama was the cause for those improvements.
Well it took all of one post to come back with the typical right wing response. For my entire LIFETIME conservatives have trotted this out. Obama is just the latest democratic president to get the "in spite of.......not because of line." :rolleyes
Most Americans under Obama can't write a $500 check.
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just not true. Most Americans can fund a $500 need . But not from their checking account.
a family that cant write a cheque might have a HSA card with 5 or 50k available. They have assets, they have savings, just not much money in checking ..... 401k, HSA, IRA, stock accounts...
I am not saying everyone is fine at all. I am saying the $400 in cash story does not reflect the reality of modern money management.
Obama wasn't the best president ever, and wasn't the worst.. I'd put him right in the catagory of "average" .. and despite the liberal's rantings about Trump, I put him firmly in the catagory of "average" so far as well.. he is not a racist, anyone with half a brain can see that. He is simply trying to deliver on his campaign promises that won him the election, to the letter. Since he did promise a temporary ban, he's doing what he said, since he campaigned on it, and won the election, so clearly he thinks his voters wanted what he campaigned on.
He wants to let in immigrants who can prove their worth.. this is a good thing! He wants to keep out refugees and deport illegals with criminal records outside of merely "being here" .. there's nothing wrong with that! How is that racist.. if there's an illegal here who gets arrested for car jacking or drugs, they should be deported. How is this racist? It's common sense. Sometimes I wonder if liberals understand how violent Mexico is, the culture down there.. you have to protect your own nation's best interests and that includes keeping out undesirable elements, because those undesirable elements are going to take advantage of your compassion, not magically convert to your way of thinking. That culture of corruption and drug dealing, kidnappings, etc. must be kept south of the border.
I would rate Trump "above average" but all his late night tweeting, which I admit might actually be cleverly done as a way to distract the liberals from what he's trying to get done, still kind of gets under my skin a bit.. though maybe in retrospective I'll see it as a brilliant move since the media is so easily distracted. I'll reserve judgement until I see what he gets done, and doesn't get done.
Was finally able to move from a town we did not like and sell our house at a profit (after being trapped by the housing crash waiting for values to come back up for 6 years), was able to leave a job I pretty much hated, but still was able to afford health insurance and increased my income by 30% with a much more enjoyable and stress-free job.
What is coming does not look good. Very anti-consumer, pro-corporate legislation, in the form of big legal protections for corporate America, more expensive wifi and cable, more protection for banks/less protection for consumers by repealing Frank-Dodd, higher prices on everything due to tariffs.
There is no 'American Carnage' now, but it is on the horizon.
"...the Trump administration is threatening to blow up the job market recovery by rolling back financial market oversight. It’s repeal-without-replace all over again, invoking the feared economic shampoo cycle: bubble, bust, repeat..."
...Dismantling consumer protections, restoring conflicts of interest and cranking up the economic shampoo cycle are all absolutely fantastic ways to kill the expansion, end the job and wage gains finally starting to reach low- and moderate-income households, exacerbate the income and wealth inequality still very much embedded in our economy, and stick it to some of the very people that helped elect this administration...."
I bought a house, used the G.I. Bill to finish my degree, wife finished her masters, and we both landed our highest paying jobs of our careers under president Obama. We had some of the happiest and proudest moments of our lives while Barack was in the White House.
But if you let conservatives tell it, he came for their guns, made America a socialist country, ran the economy into the ground, and faked the death of Bin Laden.
I swore I just saw bin Laden at a 7-11 here in Charlotte, so his death may have indeed been CNNed.
Kennedy put a man on the moon,
Obama put a man in the women's restroom!
I'll start with a couple:
$10 trillion increase in the debt (most of any President in U.S. history)
Marginal GDP growth rate, slower than a snail's pace
Obamacare disaster
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Tell me how any of those things impacted your life or the lives of your average American.
Tell me how any of those things impacted your life or the lives of your average American.
My kids are now burdened with paying some of that debt.
GDP fell, consumer confidence down, you know the rest.
Healthcare through the roof.
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