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Originally Posted by Guest
You're wrong. You can compare historical notes. You are probably the only one that would deny the facts. And the facts remain that this country's economy is down and we are being told obvious lies. Unemployment lies, for one. If half the work force quit looking for jobs, then you have an employment problem. You don't say Obama has the best unemployment figures in years. That doesn't compute. If you have 45 million families on food stamps, that doesn't show a great economy. If you have a negative GDP growth, that's not something to celebrate. When you have the lowest minority employment rate in many years, you don't applaud. Just because Obummer goes on TV and tells you that everything is peachy, you might as well believe that Clinton didn't transmit gov emails over an unsecured private Internet server. You liberals are very naive and that's not healthy.
History shows that almost any other president would have done better for an economic recovery. But, you go ahead and kiss Obummer's butt, because he will not be able to do any more damage in a few more months.
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Half the work force has stopped looking for work. The total work force is 156 million. The total US population is 323 million. 156 x 2 = 312 million.
So, children of school age and under, and retired people in the US makes up the difference 11 million. Don't you think that half is just a little high?
45 million people on food stamps maybe the result of the minimum wage being too low. With many production jobs leaving the US, we are a service country. Many of the service jobs pay next to nothing. Wal-Mart was receiving billions of dollars from the US by underpaying their employees. Their employees received the money from the government. However, if Wal-Mart had paid them a living wage, they wouldn't need food stamps. Wal-Mart said that they will be paying their employees more, because light was shed on them, and they don't want their customers going elsewhere.
Why do you think that they called the Great Recession? No other president had to deal with a recession like the one he was handed. To make matters worse, the Republican obstructed everything Obama wanted to do from day one of his presidency. To place all the blame on Obama is a typical right wing attempt to change history. It just won't fly.