The economy and country is worse now than in 2008. Why?
Unemployment is higer.
Food stamp use is higher.
National debt is higher.
Foreclosures are higher.
The misery index is higher.
Oil/Energy prices are higher.
Homeless is higher.
Food prices are higher.
Healthcare costs are higher.
Government spending is higher.
Chronic unemployment higher.
How is it better?
Your list would be appreciated !
Originally Posted by Whirlaway
Lies lies and more lies- google any source you want and I will stand by word- find me one reputable economist who will say that the 9.1% UE rate that we have today is largely due or credit to Obama. If you find me that one source I will deactivate my account- in fact I have heard economist say that as much a 70 to 80% of the CURRENT UE rate is largely attributed to Bush or the collapse in 2008. When Obama took office in 2009 the UE rate was still spiraling upwards with many economist saying that it could hit anywhere between 15 to 20%.
What you are not mentioning WW is that had this administration made "bad" choices the UE rate could have hit 20%.
Govt spending higher- that's a straw man's defense- in order to stimulate the economy the govt is going to spend more- duh!
Foreclosure higher- and this happened on whose watch????
Homeless is higher- has always been higher but if you want to include homeless due to people losing their homes and not the alcholics or bum on the street than again- housing market collapse on Bush's watch.
Oil prices higher- that's not controlled by any one President- that's controlled by the World market- again are you saying the majority of Bush's years gas was cheap? Are you saying it never hit 4 dollars a gallon and even 5 a gallon in Hawaii during the Bush years. Also don't try to throw in that little one or two week period during the Bush years when gas was cheap- if you take the average Gasoline prices over the Bush years it was significantly higher than the Clinton years.
Food prices are higher- show me one Presidential term in which food prices went down across the board- do you understand how the economy
works??? Oil prices contribute a lot to food prices- weather also contributes to food prices-economic disasters in other parts of the world or natural disasters can affect food prices- those are all things no one President has any control over- are you saying if a GOP wins in 2012 that food prices are going to come down????
Healthcare prices are up- yep and I guess they were dirt cheap during the Bush years and a guess if the GOP wins and they repeal Obamacare that Healthcare will go back down to super cheap affordable rates that everyone will be able to afford.
National debt is higher- when was the last time debt went down???? How much did those 2 unfunded wars costs?????
Misery Index: Listening to the GOP clowns and you and Marshall will drive up anyones Misery
The economy has been growing(slowly) during Obama's term:
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/unit...tes/gdp-growth