Cruize

The deficit is $11 trillion. Unemployment is 7.9%. Gas is $3.29/gallon where I live. Dow is 12,996.

Some simple ways to track and judge the next four years.

saintfan

where was it 4 years ago? why start now?

If either of these numbers are better, Obama will take credit. If any are worse (and they will be worse) Omaba will blame Bush and the Republicans, and so will you, so what's the point here?

SapperSaint

I hope this gets turned into a "Sticky". Because when all this crap gets worst, I want to throw it in every Liberal (Solcialist) fickin' face.

This whole f'in subject makes me sick. I really wish HALO would get rid of the political bull**** on here. Because I come here and want to read Saints stuff, but instead I find Obama lambs spewing Obama bull****.

Beastmode

Think I'm getting into acting. Directors will be amazed how I will be able to cry on cue. My secret; take one look at my 401K.

Danno

Lets focus on his accomplishments to date...

23 million unemployed
The middle class has lost 40% of its net worth under Obama
Black poverty at record highs
Black youth unemployment over 50%
Hispanic unemployment at 11%
Food prices up 15% under Obama
A record 45 million on food stamps
Gas prices doubled under Obama
42 months of unemployment above 8%
Obama has the worst job creation record since 1945
Obama recovery the worst in 75 years
Median household income $4,300 declines under Obama
Average family health insurance up $1,500 under Obama
Added $6 trillion to our debt...more than all previous Presidents combined
Presided over only US credit downgrade

Wow, I'm really looking forward to 4 more years of this moron.

Danno

Some more promising information you'll ignore...

•Barack Obama has been increasing the national debt during his presidency by an average of $4.24 billion per day putting him on a pace to increase the national debt by well over $6 trillion by the end of his term on Jan. 20, 2013, according to the debt figures published by the U.S. Treasury. That $6+ trillion is more debt than was accumulated by all U.S. presidents from George Washington through Bill Clinton combined.

•Economist Edward Lazear has cut through all of Barack Obama's claims about "creating jobs" with one plain and inescapable fact -- "there hasn't been one day during the entire Obama presidency when as many Americans were working as on the day President Bush left office." Whatever number of jobs were created during the Obama administration, more have been lost.

•In October 2012, there were 12.3 million officially unemployed workers. That’s 209,000 more than when President Obama took office in January 2009 – when the Administration said “we were in economic free-fall.”

•If the unemployment rate included the “invisible unemployed” (discouraged workers who have dropped out or never joined the workforce), the October 2012 unemployment rate would be 10.9%

•During the Obama Administration workforce dropouts have outnumbered new employees by almost 7 to 1.

•For every person added to the jobs rolls since January 2009, 75 people have been added to the food stamp rolls. Think about that. Every person with anew job had his or her own 75 food stamp parasites to support. This can only be done with borrowed money.

•In October 2012, there were 5.0 million long-term unemployed (that is, for over six months) – 2.3 million more than when President Obama took office in January 2009.

•Since January 2009, the number of full-time employees has fallen by 371,000 while part-time employment has grown by over 1.5 million. This means part-time workers account for all of the net employment growth in the Obama years

•October’s 7.9% unemployment rate remains far above the 5.4% rate the Administration predicted for this month in their January 2009 report on the projected effects of stimulus. Democrats actually predicted unemployment would peak at the current 7.9% rate in July 2009 – over three years ago.

•This is the only “recovery” since World War II (when official jobs data began) when jobs lost in the recession had not been recovered by this point.

•In 1934, 35 and 36 our economy grew at 11%, 9% and 13%. Economic growth in 2010 was 3%. In 2011 it was 1.7%. This year we’re running between 2 and 3%.

•During the time Barack Obama has been president, the U.S. government debt has increased from approximately $143,255 per American under 18 to approximately $218,676 per American under 18--a climb of $75,421 or about 53 percent.

•If Barack Obama wins re-election, the national debt will hit $20 trillion. America’s gross federal debt will reach $20.3 trillion at the end of 2016 under Obama’s budget path, according to the White House Office of Management and Budget.

•60 percent of American households now get more in federal transfer income than they pay in all federal taxes. While it is not surprising that low income households receive more in transfer income than they pay in all federal taxes, it was surprising to learn that households in the middle quintile are now over that threshold.

•Since January 2009, 586,000 manufacturing jobs have been eliminated, the opposite of the Administration’s projected increase of 408,000 manufacturing jobs due to their trillion-dollar stimulus.

•The first year of the Obama presidency, 2009, is the largest year in decades, with federal outlays totaling a whopping 25.2 percent of GDP. Since then, federal outlays relative to GDP have fallen, but they are still incredibly large. In fact, you have to go back to 1946 to find a year when federal outlays were as large as they have been every year of the Obama presidency.

•According to a new report released by the World Bank, “policymakers in 108 economies implemented 201 regulatory reforms in the last year alone that made it easier for their entrepreneurs to do business.” But here’s the catch … the United States wasn’t one of them! In fact, we are going in the opposite direction: “America’s competitiveness dropped in seven of the 10 sub-indicators, including paying taxes, enforcing contracts, and starting a business."

•President Obama has spent the past year punting on a slew of job-killing EPA regulations that will destroy millions of American jobs and cause energy prices to skyrocket even more. From greenhouse gas regulations to water guidance to the tightening of the ozone standard, the Obama-EPA has delayed the implementation of rule after rule because they don't want all those pink slips and price spikes to hit until after the election. The independent and non-partisan Manhattan Institute estimates that the EPA’s greenhouse gas coal regulation will cost the U.S. economy $700 billion.

•Some 10,215 new federal regulations from the Obama administration are costing consumers, businesses and the economy overall $46 billion annually, more than five times the regulatory price tag of former President Bush in his first three years in office.

•In 2007 90% of all college graduates found a job. Today that figure is 56%.

•Means-tested welfare spending has increase 32% since 2008. The largest increase in welfare spending went to none other than food stamps – a 71% increase in spending since 2008. According to the Heritage Foundation, “If converted to cash, means-tested welfare spending is more than five times the amount needed to eliminate all poverty in the United States.”

•There are upwards of 20 new taxes included in order to pay for the President’s takeover of the healthcare industry. Several taxes for ObamaCare have yet to take effect, though the largest – an increase in the Hospital Insurance portion of the payroll tax – begins in 2013. Combined, the taxes will cost Americans $836.3 billion through 2022.

•Obama has called Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget “an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country,” but if something radical doesn’t happen, entitlement spending will nearly double by 2050.

Courtesy of a true American...Neal Boortz

Beastmode

You left out looming student debt for profit schools left us. At least tell tell them no more enrolling ham sandwiches.

saintfan

The deal is this:

Obama DID inherit a mess. He could point to Bush and say, "it was all his fault." Of course that isn't the whole truth, but what WAS true was that the mess was not of Obama's making.

So he could blame somebody else...and boy did he...at every turn...

But in 4 years that won't fly. The liberals are going to nominate who? Biden? Hillary? There won't be a soul in that party with a snowball's chance unless things improve drastically, honestly, in about 3 years.

That isn't going to happen - it probably wouldn't improve drastically in 3 years regardless, and so the liberal agenda is on the clock and is on life support, and Obama will maneuver and manipulate as best he can, but he will fail because his policies have done nothing over the last 4 years except make matters worse.

In the end the Middle East will get worse. Iran will have developed or be on the cusp of having developed Nuclear Weapons. Obama will further alienate Israel. Fringe Muslim groups will gain a greater foothold because Obama will look the other way. His 'spend' solution - actually it's not his, it's the democratic party's mantra - will ultimately fail. The credit rating will drop. The value of the dollar will fall further. The trade deficit will soar. His 'green energy' agenda will stagnate because it's bogus to begin with and those failures will simply continue. Gasoline will top 5 dollars a gallon on average. Food will cost 1/3 more than it does today. People will begin to see what a cluster **** Obamacare truly is as it becomes increasingly difficult to get the care they're accustomed to getting. Our taxes will have increased over and above the health care tax anywhere from 500 on up depending on income, which will continue to decline because businesses aren't going to increase hiring anytime soon because they don't know what it is, exactly, that Obamacare will do and they don't trust that Obama won't find new and exciting ways to tax them even more. The number of people on food stamps, currently 15% of the population, will increase to well over 20% of the population. Illegal immigration, already a huge problem, will continue to strain the system because Obama will do nothing about it for fear of 'alienating his base'. Unemployment will stay at or around 8% because Obama will manipulate the numbers by hiring enough government employees to offset the influx - and he will call this success.

And about 3 years from now, you'll start to hear how the job isn't done. You begin to hear talk of how the hole was so big it's going to take more time, and Obama will throw his endorsement behind the next liberal in line.

But by then the fringe will be on to it. Oh sure, the uber-liberals are going to come back out from under their rocks. They'll still carry 95 percent of the black vote. They'll be strong with the Latinos again, but those white folks - the 40+% that actually voted for him again this time? They will have had enough.

I'll be my 401k on it, which by then wouldn't win you much - for anyone interested in taking me up on that bet. As my Grandmother used to say:

Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel...

SmashMouth

Not badly but rather aptly cited.

Some other place on this planet is being developed as an alternative destination point for those who can afford it. And those who can will depart... leaving eventually nothing but the moochers and the looters. By then, of course, there will be no one else left to foot the bill, not that even if you confiscated every asset today from the 5%, no not 1%, would even make a difference. One of the FB founders has already left. And then those who voted Obummer in will remember vaguely what happened to Greece, and soon France, Spain, Portugal, just to name a few. The USA is too big to fail. The trouble is there is no one to bail us out. It won't happen tomorrow, but it will happen probably faster than you think.

Beastmode

At some point everyone on this free big yellow school bus that keep backfiring with plumes of black smoke are going to have to get off. It's inevitable. This POS is going to break down. It needs repair. Either pay the fare or start walking.