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Obama's Approval Rating Drops to Lowest Ever, According to Gallup

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Nor is it growing like it should have spending over a trillion dollars and seeing 4 trillion added to the debt. Apparently spending that much money and generating these kind of results works for a liberal who has such low standards

Obama economic results in 2011, .4% GDP and 1.3% GDP growth in 2011, 24+ million unemployed or under employed Americans in 2011, 4 trillion added to the debt in less than 3 years, and a downgrade of the U.S. credit rating. Rising Misery index 7.83 to 12.67. First President in U.S. History to have our credit downgraded on his watch! 39% JAR and well over 50% disapproval ratings.

It's not growing like it "should have" according to whom? What would you do different? What are the Republican ideas to grow the economy and create jobs? Still waiting on those answers....

And what Obama inherited: economy shedding 700,000+ jobs per month, GDP shrinking at 6+% per year, financial institutions teetering on the edge of collapse, trillion+ deficit.... Nice improvement.
 
Well maybe because we are still dealing with the effects of what happened when Bush was President and a ideological roadblock in Congress. Like so many riht leaning well respected economists have pointed out.

I know Hannity disagrees though.



Why don't ya just put that in your tag line man.

And just maybe the country elected an unqualified, incompetent individual in Obama. Name for me one other President in the last 50 years who had total control of Congress, spent over a trillion dollars, had a blank check and generated the results I keep showing? You call it an ideological roadblock in Congress? I call it incompentent leadership who never takes responsibility for anything.
 
Name for me one other President in the last 50 years who had total control of Congress, spent over a trillion dollars, had a blank check and generated the results I keep showing?
George Dubya Bush.
 
And just maybe the country elected an unqualified, incompetent individual in Obama. Name for me one other President in the last 50 years who had total control of Congress, spent over a trillion dollars, had a blank check and generated the results I keep showing? You call it an ideological roadblock in Congress? I call it incompentent leadership who never takes responsibility for anything.

Name me one President in the last 50 years who inherited an economy that was shedding over 700,000 jobs a month, contracting at better than a 6% clip, with financial institutions on the brink of collapse, an auto industry on the brink of collapse, a built-in $1 trillion+ deficit and $10+ trillion already in debt before he could spend a single penny.
 
It's not growing like it "should have" according to whom? What would you do different? What are the Republican ideas to grow the economy and create jobs? Still waiting on those answers....

And what Obama inherited: economy shedding 700,000+ jobs per month, GDP shrinking at 6+% per year, financial institutions teetering on the edge of collapse, trillion+ deficit.... Nice improvement.

According to the 54% that disapprove of the job Obama is doing. Do results matter to you? How do you justify adding 4 trillion to the debt, increasing unemployment and under employment to 25 million. seeing a downgrade to our credit rating, having fewer jobs(people EMPLOYED) and call that adequate growth?

How would Republicans stimulated the economy? They wouldn't have passed a 800 billion dollar stimulus program that bailed out state budgets and union benefits. They wouldn't have shutdown drilling in the Gulf, they wouldn't have turned loose the EPA, HSE, OSHA, NLRB, and prevented plant openings because the state was a right to work state. They wouldn't have mandated health insurance for all employees which creates added expense for business, and Republicans wouldn't be demonizing wealth creation and profits of private business. You won't see Republicans talking about wealth redistribution and promoting class warfare.
 
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He is right now on TV talking about the bad economy but he is not saying anything about his plans on "HOW TO FIX IT". Nothing but bull crap coming out of his mouth AND BLAMING OTHERS.

well, to be fair, that's not entirely true. he has promised to "lay out a jobs plan".... just not until, you know, after his vacation. :) a man needs his rest from all those fundraisers, after all.
 
Name me one President in the last 50 years who inherited an economy that was shedding over 700,000 jobs a month, contracting at better than a 6% clip, with financial institutions on the brink of collapse, an auto industry on the brink of collapse, a built-in $1 trillion+ deficit and $10+ trillion already in debt before he could spend a single penny.

With all those jobs shedded Bush had a net job gain and increased employment. Obama has a net job loss and higher unemployment 2 1/2 years after taking office. Doesn't look like he solved the problem
 
According to the 54% that disapprove of the job Obama is doing.

i believe you have mis-typed. that number is now 26%. :)


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According to the 54% that approve of the job Obama is doing. Do results matter to you?
Really, Con, you're among the last of those who should be demanded that results matter as your actions have proven conclusively that the only "R" word you care about is "R"epublican, not "R"esults.
 
With all those jobs shedded Bush had a net job gain and increased employment. Obama has a net job loss and higher unemployment 2 1/2 years after taking office. Doesn't look like he solved the problem

Obama still has a year and a half to go in his first term. What would Shrub's numbers look like if you just took his last 2 1/2 years? Progress, right? :lol:
 
George Dubya Bush.

That is a lie, seek some help for your BDS. Never in my life have I run into someone like you who has such hatred for a past President and yet so little knowledge of exactly how our economy works. You really need some help.
 
Obama still has a year and a half to go in his first term. What would Shrub's numbers look like if you just took his last 2 1/2 years? Progress, right? :lol:[/QUOTE

Again, someone else with a bad case of BDS. Bush isn't in office, an incompetent is and the results are quite telling. when you get a job see how long you would keep it if you spent as much as Obama and generated the results Obama has generated.
 
Near as I can tell, the economy lost about 5 MILLION JOBS just in Bush's last year. Awesometastic.
 
Near as I can tell, the economy lost about 5 MILLION JOBS just in Bush's last year. Awesometastic.

Yet Bush had a net job gain and employment gain for his term. Also looks to me like the Democrat controlled Congress was more interested in regaining the WH than working on jobs. Now they are full of bull**** going ofter the idiots that voted for Obama in the first place
 
Yet Bush had a net job gain and employment gain for his term

Well that's just peachy. Too bad he didn't hand over the wheel before he ran it off the rails.
 
Well that's just peachy. Too bad he didn't hand over the wheel before he ran it off the rails.

Tell that to the 25 million unemployed and under employed Americans TODAY and see if they are happy with "your" President
 
Tell that to the 25 million unemployed and under employed Americans TODAY and see if they are happy with "your" President

I don't imagine that they'd be happier if their unemployment benefits were cut off as Republicans would like to do.
 
I don't imagine that they'd be happier if their unemployment benefits were cut off as Republicans would like to do.

Probably not, they would be working at whatever job they could get instead of being pandered to by a Democrat Party that keeps them dependent. sounds like just the party for you
 
That is a lie, seek some help for your BDS. Never in my life have I run into someone like you who has such hatred for a past President and yet so little knowledge of exactly how our economy works. You really need some help.
Nope, not a lie. Bush had a Republican Congress for most of his two terms. His tax cuts cost well over $2 Trillion in federal revenue. His 2009 budget spent $3.3 trillion (down from $3.5T because Obama spent $200B). His results? FY2009, which was Bush's final budget year, increased the national debt by $1.8 trillion. Unemployment doubled as 6 million jobs were lost during his 8 years (not even counting the addition 3.5 million until the end of the Bush Great Recession). An additional 5 million (on top of the 6 million who lost their jobs) fell victim to underemployment. GDP growth was the worst performance than every other president going back to FDR at a humble 17% over his 8 years in office. Finally, his (and Republicans) policies led to the recession in 2007 and economic crash in 2008 which crumbled our housing markets and credit markets.

If I lied, it was that Bush was far worse than Obama.

Now add in that he did nothing to prevent 9.11 and took us to war with Iraq over WMD that weren't there and you have the temerity to ask what's to hate about Gee Dubya Bush?

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Nope, not a lie. Bush had a Republican Congress for most of his two terms. His tax cuts cost well over $2 Trillion in federal revenue. His 2009 budget spent $3.3 trillion (down from $3.5T because Obama spent $200B). His results? FY2009, which was Bush's final budget year, increased the national debt by $1.8 trillion. Unemployment doubled as 6 million jobs were lost during his 8 years (not even counting the addition 3.5 million until the end of the Bush Great Recession). An additional 5 million (on top of the 6 million who lost their jobs) fell victim to underemployment. GDP growth was the worst performance than every other president going back to FDR at a humble 17% over his 8 years in office. Finally, his (and Republicans) policies led to the recession in 2007 and economic crash in 2008 which crumbled our housing markets and credit markets.

If I lied, it was that Bush was far worse than Obama.

Now add in that he did nothing to prevent 9.11 and took us to war with Iraq over WMD that weren't there and you have the temerity to ask what's to hate about Gee Dubya Bush?

:naughty:

Bush had total control of the Congress from 2003-2006. Democrats controlled the Senate in 2001-2002 and then total Congress from 2007-2008. Do you ever stop lying.
 
Would love to but what purpose does it serve today? We have Obama in office over 2 1/2 years with total control of Congress two of those years along with a blank check and the following results today. He was hired to fix the problem and failed miserably thus his 39% approval rating. Bush isn't on the ballot nor are the Bush policies. The only thing you do bringing up Bush diverts from the Obama record and I don't blame you

Obama economic results in 2011, .4% GDP and 1.3% GDP growth in 2011, 24+ million unemployed or under employed Americans in 2011, 4 trillion added to the debt in less than 3 years, and a downgrade of the U.S. credit rating. Rising Misery index 7.83 to 12.67. First President in U.S. History to have our credit downgraded on his watch! 39% JAR and well over 50% disapproval ratings.

What's done is done. Since these warnings were all over the place, President Bush must have known about this, so I would say he was an empty suit and had a failure of leadership by not handling the situation. Do you think it was a failure of leadership on his part or not?
 
What's done is done. Since these warnings were all over the place, President Bush must have known about this, so I would say he was an empty suit and had a failure of leadership by not handling the situation. Do you think it was a failure of leadership on his part or not?

So the "failure of leadership" claimed by you is justification for the incompetence in the WH right now, the massive spending, the blame game. and the terrible economic results? 2 1/2 years after taking office Obama has fewer people employed than when he took office and wasn't it you that claimed population growth should have prevented that? Obama has more unemployed than when he took office and that is after a blank check and a stimulus plan for shovel ready jobs. Obama has a debt of 14.5 trillion dollars and is spending 3.7 trillion a year. Where is the Obama leadership right now?
 
So the "failure of leadership" claimed by you is justification for the incompetence in the WH right now, the massive spending, the blame game. and the terrible economic results? 2 1/2 years after taking office Obama has fewer people employed than when he took office and wasn't it you that claimed population growth should have prevented that? Obama has more unemployed than when he took office and that is after a blank check and a stimulus plan for shovel ready jobs. Obama has a debt of 14.5 trillion dollars and is spending 3.7 trillion a year. Where is the Obama leadership right now?


Empty Suit, Failure of Leadership - President George W. Bush
June 14, 2007

U.S. Mortgages Enter Foreclosure at Record Pace (Update5) - Bloomberg

June 14 (Bloomberg) -- The number of Americans who may lose their homes because of late mortgage payments rose to a record in the first quarter, led by subprime borrowers pinched in an economy that grew at the slowest pace in four years.

The share of all mortgages entering foreclosure rose to 0.58 percent from 0.54 percent in the fourth quarter, the Mortgage Bankers Association said in a report today. Subprime loans entering foreclosure rose to a five-year high of 2.43 percent, up from 2 percent, and prime loans rose to a record 0.25 percent.

The median U.S. home price probably will fall this year for the first time since the Great Depression in the 1930s, according to Lawrence Yun, a National Association of Realtors economist. Tumbling prices make it difficult for people who fall behind in loan payments to escape foreclosure by selling, said Doug Duncan, chief economist for the Washington-based bankers' group.

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Probably not, they would be working at whatever job they could get instead of being pandered to by a Democrat Party that keeps them dependent. sounds like just the party for you

Sure, they're all just lazy, right?

Are you ever going to answer my questions? What do you think Obama should have done differently to create jobs? What is the Republican plan to create jobs?
 
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