Posted on 06/07/2010 12:25:18 PM PDT by justsaynomore
Last week the political campaign propaganda season began, and President Obama fired the first shot at Republicans. In an effort to shift the subject from the Gulf oil disaster, the president went into campaign mode (again) when he said, "We can return to the failed economic policies of the past, or we can keep building a stronger future."
Unfortunately, the facts do not substantiate the president's claim when we compare December 2008 economic statistics before Obama took office to where we are today.
| December 2008 | June 2010 | |
| National debt | $9.5 trillion | $13 trillion |
| Gross Domestic Product , or GDP | $14.1 trillion | $14 trillion |
| Unemployment rate | 7.2 percent | 9.7 percent |
| Unemployed workers | 11.1 million | 15 million |
As you can see, none of these statistics improved. They all got worse. But maybe it depends on one's definition of "improved."
The president and the liberals would also like for us to not remember that the $826 billion in stimulus spending was supposed to keep the unemployment rate below 8 percent. The unemployment rate has not been below 8 percent since the stimulus bill passed in early 2009. In fact, it has been consistently closer to 10 percent.
After the president declared in his State of the Union address last February that job creation would be a top priority, the number of government jobs has increased while private sector jobs have continued to decrease. Even when the administration was tempted to boast about the 431,000 new jobs created in May (oops!), we soon learned that 411,000 of those jobs were government Census jobs.
In that same speech, the president said, "We can't go back. We have got to move forward." You do the math! We are clearly not moving forward. Again, maybe it depends on one's definition of forward. On the other hand, maybe this is the direction the president and the liberals want to take this country – backward.
The president and the liberals said that the health-care deform bill would reduce the deficit and bring down health-care costs. After uncovering some of the administration's accounting gimmicks, the Congressional Budget Office has now indicated that the bill will cost $115 billion more than originally estimated over 10 years. That reduces the estimated deficit reduction to $28 billion.
If you think that will happen on a $1 trillion new bureaucracy, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn I would like to sell you. It's being renovated!
The president and the liberals would also like for us to forget the fact that 63 percent of the voters want Obamacare repealed. This percentage has increased from 54 percent as people learn more and more about what's really in the legislation.
Ignoring the facts is one of the liberals' favorite tactics, because their agenda is not motivated by any facts at all. Their agenda is totally politically motivated for the purpose of concentrating more power to government rather than the people.
Campaign propaganda just does not work like it used to work. The facts are too compelling and easily accessible, and there are fewer and fewer uninformed voters. There are still too many clueless voters, but the intelligence trajectory is pointing upward. This is another encouraging sign for the elections in November 2010.
Unfortunately, the economic trajectory for the country is pointing downward, and the spending trajectory is pointing upward. That does not look like a stronger future as the president claims.
No matter how much the president and the liberals try to talk their way around the facts with propaganda and lies, the facts don't lie.
Liberals hate the facts.
Liberals live in their own “Alternative Universe”.
Now THAT's what I'M talking about!
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Wasn’t exactly pretty in December of 2008 either.
Both parties failed us.
Another category should be the number of people employed by federal and state governments. Yet another should be the number of people with part time employment.
Reality is not kind to liberal policies.
Dummies (aka Liberals) just sit around and think up fantasies.
Then like cockroaches the fan out to spread the disease of lying around the communities.
Clearly, this is Bush’s fault. The quagmire he made for us is even worse than we thought, which is why our fixes aren’t fixing. More government is needed. More government is the answer.
(Did I get that right?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw&feature=related
Perfect example of how stupid they realy are.
You should suggest/email that to Herman (hc@hermancain.com)- when you figure it that way the numbers are even worse
In the case of the Jews, I would not say they are stupid. I would say that many are rigidly left-wing ideologically. Support for abortion on demand and same sex marriage trumps support for more practical things, like Israel’s survival.
Your talking about people that study issues. This is directed at the kneejerk lefties that vote.
Even more stunning would be to compare today to the same time in 2006 before Nazi and Hairy took over congress.
Liberals don’t hate facts...if they don’t like any facts they see, they just make up new ones.
Facts are to liberals as garlic is to vampires.
Last week he was claiming economic success, today he’s trying to blame the economy on the oil spill. We need to hire some of those guys who kept box scores on baseball games to track this guy’s contradictions.
Always triple spell-check when writing about another person’s intelligence. Otherwise, irony will bite you on the bun.
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