4.2% growth in 2nd quarter - thank you Mr. Obama

Who?

The recession and recovery belong to the American people, not the presidents.

The U.S. is significantly better off than it was when Obama took office, but few people care. Since 2010, the company I work at, has posted record profits each year. Still, everyone bitches about the economic path the country is currently on.

The deficit is down and, economically, I think Obama had done as good a job as can be expected considering what he walked into and the opposition he's encountered during his presidency.

firsttimeonthisputer wrote:

Bush's recession continues to be overcome by Obama's policies. Post your thanks here.

I know you are joking, but think how much worse things would be now if the republicans had had their way - their plan to get out from the crisis was to let the market clear - meaning,to do nothing.

We would have lost the entire auto industry and most of the financial industry. Collateral damage would have been tremendous. Literally millions would have lost their jobs and I think civil unrest would have occurred.

I'll take a few years of substandard growth over that. I think Obama and team did a fine job.

tell yellen/bernanke to put their printer away. see where we would be then.

i doubt any of obamas policies had anything to do with "recovery".

Cue anapix's insane conservative rant in 3, 2, 1............

bro science wrote:

tell yellen/bernanke to put their printer away. see where we would be then.

i doubt any of obamas policies had anything to do with "recovery".

Had they not printed, aka taken the conservative advice, things would be dreadful now. We agree about that.

I continue to laugh at the idiots who support me. Less people are working today than when I took office never mind the potential work force is larger.

Relations with EVERY country are worse under my presidency and we are on the verge of WWIII but who cares I'll just go play more golf and incite more racism if anyone challenges me.

Mr. President, I'm not surprised that you're trolling LR instead of leading the country. I also wouldn't have been surprised if you were golfing or at another fundraiser (i.e., pretending that you're on the campaign trail again, so you can avoid any duties of leadership).

Obama here wrote:

Relations with EVERY country are worse under my presidency

ha ha good one

ouoiunj wrote:

The U.S. is significantly better off than it was when Obama took office, but few people care. Since 2010, the company I work at, has posted record profits each year. Still, everyone bitches about the economic path the country is currently on.

I guess it's good that your company has posted record profits.

Have they given record raises and bonuses to everyone or did they get their profits by keeping wages down?

Because a lot of companies have had nice gains by squeezing their employees.

Bin Laden's dead, and GM's alive.

Obama here wrote:

Relations with EVERY country are worse under my presidency

seriously - I'm legitimately curious - what evidence do you have for this? Cause everything I've seen says put int'l views of obama something like this:

2009: way, way better than under bush

then it has eroded a bit among spy scandals but still way above bush relations. They really hated that guy.

Obama here wrote:

I continue to laugh at the idiots who support me. Less people are working today than when I took office never mind the potential work force is larger.

Relations with EVERY country are worse under my presidency and we are on the verge of WWIII but who cares I'll just go play more golf and incite more racism if anyone challenges me.

and the debt is only $17T+ not including unfunded liabilities totaling several times that number. Good thing we got all those shovels ready back when the "stimulus" was funded by a mortgage on our kid's future. At least we're still buying groceries for 45+ million Americans on food stamps while the Middle East & North Africa are on fire. Happy times are here again. Thank you Mullah Obama!

Roy D. Mercer wrote:

Obama here wrote:

I continue to laugh at the idiots who support me. Less people are working today than when I took office never mind the potential work force is larger.

Relations with EVERY country are worse under my presidency and we are on the verge of WWIII but who cares I'll just go play more golf and incite more racism if anyone challenges me.

and the debt is only $17T+ not including unfunded liabilities totaling several times that number. Good thing we got all those shovels ready back when the "stimulus" was funded by a mortgage on our kid's future. At least we're still buying groceries for 45+ million Americans on food stamps while the Middle East & North Africa are on fire. Happy times are here again. Thank you Mullah Obama!

I would love, LOVE to read your proposed solutions.

what was 1Q growth initially reported as? And what was it quietly later 'corrected' to?

The deficit built up by the Bush administration has been dropping rapidly under Obama. Just as Clinton turned the Reagan/Bush deficit into a surplus. The surplus that Bush II turned into the largest deficit in the nation's history.

Oh, and that evil "Obamacare" thing? It's done two things that all red-blooded american patriots hate:

1) Obamacare has allowed millions of people access to healthcare (those moochers, why don't they just die of AIDS already!) Just 'cause I'm a patriot doesn't mean I don't want my fellow americans to die by the thousands! If they're black and/or poor they must just be Kenyans or Mexicans, not Americans, right?

2) Obamacare has stopped the drain on our budget that healthcare has been. Republicans LOVE deficits! Can we elect a Republican in 2016, please? Seeing all the deficits go down is really weird. How are the republican traitors going to keep destroying the USA from the inside with all these policies going into place that aren't meant to bankrupt us?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/upshot/medicare-not-such-a-budget-buster-anymore.html?hpw&rref=upshot&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHedThumbWell&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1&abt=0002&abg=1

Obama here wrote:

Relations with EVERY country are worse under my presidency and we are on the verge of WWIII but who cares I'll just go play more golf and incite more racism if anyone challenges me.

Yeah, I'm interested too. How are relations any worse than when Bush left? How are we on the verge of WWIII?

Obama here wrote:

I continue to laugh at the idiots who support me. Less people are working today than when I took office never mind the potential work force is larger.

Relations with EVERY country are worse under my presidency and we are on the verge of WWIII but who cares I'll just go play more golf and incite more racism if anyone challenges me.

1) First of all, the word you should have used is "Fewer".

2) And NO, fewer people are not working today.

3) You are wrong about relationships with other countries. Most of the world hated Bush.

4) Making fun of Obama for playing golf is ridiculous. G.W. Bush spent 1020 days on vacation in his 8 years in office. Obama is at about 150. The three Presidents in my lifetime with the least days off as President are 1) Jimmy Carter, 2) Bill Clinton, 3) Barack Obama. Now, Obama has time left, but he's pretty far back that he will likely stay in third place. People ALWAYS rip on whoever is the current president for the vacation they take. I've never been bothered by that. A vacation day for the President of the United States isn't like a vacation day for any of the rest of us. He still has to deal with events of the day, reporters, Secret Service. They may get a couple hours of relaxation while on vacation, but they are not totally away.