“But I have laid out my ideas to create more jobs and grow more wages,” Obama told students at Northwestern University. ”A true opposition party should have the courage to lay out theirs. There’s a reason fewer Republicans are preaching doom on deficits – because they’re now manageable.”
He promised to cut the annual deficit in half long before now . . . . . not his annual deficit but Bush's (440 billion per year or less, on average). This year's deficit is close to 600 billion.
“There’s a reason fewer are running against Obamacare, because while good, affordable health care might still be a fanged threat to freedom on Fox News, it’s working pretty well in the real world.”
8 million reportedly signed up - half into Medicare/Medicaid which is not Obama Care, another 700,000 have unverifiable income info or are illegally enrolled. And 140 million enrolled via their employer/unions, have not been given the bad news because of postponements to the employer mandate.
The overall unemployment rate also dropped to 5.9% – the lowest since July 2008, which was over six years ago. At this point, with the year more than half over, 2014 is on track to be the best year for U.S. job creation since 1999.
ReplyDeleteScatological progressive myth. The ONLY REASON for the low unemployment number is found in the fact that the American workforce is at a 38 year low. When folks no longer are actively looking for work, they are no longer counted in the unemployment numbers released each and every month. In the 52 months of "job creation" as reported by an Administration bent misinformation for the sake of politics, more people have left the work force in 49 of the the 52 months cited, than were put to work. About 8 million folks working in 2009 are no longer working. They have put themselves on the food stamp roles, disability, or have gone "underground" and are working for themselves, "under the table." Now, if "Anonymous" thinks the lowest workforce in 38 years is progressive, who can stop him? I mean, he clearly does not know how to reason or do simply math. If we counted the workforce today, as with the same quantifying processes we used in 2008, unemployment would be around 14%, but Obama changed the way we count the unemployed, and in so doing, hides behind a wholly made up number.
DeleteMore than this, our GDP is trucking along at a 2.2% growth average and coming out of a recessionary cycle in the first quarter of this year.