Thanks Obama - Here Are 24 Stats That Show How Much You Have Royally Messed Up Our Economy

Thanks Obama - Here Are 24 Stats That Show How Much You Have Royally Messed Up Our Economy

Under Barack Obama, the U.S. economy has performed worse than it did under any other president since the end of the Great Depression. After every other recession since World War II, the U.S. economy always regained what was lost and got even stronger before the next recession began. During this "economic recovery", we have not even come close to getting back to where we were in 2008. In fact, the number of Americans living in poverty and the number of Americans that are dependent on the government both continue to explode even as Barack Obama runs up trillions of dollars of new debt. Anyone that believes that Barack Obama is going to "fix the economy" if he is given another four years in the White House has taken way too many sips of the Obama kool-aid. The truth is that Barack Obama is not going to save you. Barack Obama has royally messed up our economy (along with a lot of other things) and that is not something we should be thanking him for.

Yes, Barack Obama is not solely responsible for the economy. In fact, he does not even have the most influence over the direction of the economy.

However, if he had been willing or able to actually do what was necessary to fix the economy, he certainly had ample opportunity.

For example, the Democrats had full control of Congress during Obama's first two years in office.

They were in a position to push through just about anything that they wanted to.

But just about everything that did get through Congress during those two years was full of really, really bad ideas.

More importantly, Barack Obama has done absolutely nothing to stand in the way of the nightmarish policies of the Federal Reserve.

Yes, the Federal Reserve does have more power over the U.S. economy than Barack Obama does.

But Barack Obama has made no moves to reign in the Fed or to stop their idiotic policies.

In fact, Obama has had nothing but good things to say about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, and he nominated Bernanke for another term.

If you were the owner of a pro football team and your coach had lost every game for several years in a row would you give him a new contract?

But even though Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has a track record of failure that would make the Washington Generals blush, Obama has given Bernanke his unquestioning support.

Obama insists that it would be a really bad idea to ever question the "independence" of the Fed. Obama believes that it is a good thing that U.S. monetary policy is determined by a panel of "experts" that work for a secretive organization that has no direct accountability to the American people whatsoever.

So since Barack Obama has steadfastly refused to stand up to the Federal Reserve and has had nothing but wonderful things to say about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, it is fair to hold Obama at least partially responsible for the nightmarish economic conditions that Fed policies have helped create.

In the final analysis, basically every single decision that Barack Obama has made regarding the economy has been wrong. He has added trillions to our debt while flushing our economic future down the toilet at the same time.

The following are 24 stats that show just how much Obama has royally messed up our economy....

#1 Under Bill Clinton, the average unemployment rate was 5.2 percent. Under George W. Bush, the average unemployment rate was 5.3 percent. Under Barack Obama, things have been much worse. The month after he took office the unemployment rate rose above 8 percent and it has stayed there ever since.

#2 Under Barack Obama, the velocity of money (a very important indicator of economic health) has plunged to a post-World War II low.

#3 Real median household income has decreased by more than 4000 dollars since Barack Obama entered the White House.

#4 The United States has plenty of oil and we should not have to import it from the Middle East. Unfortunately, Barack Obama has an absolutely nightmarish energy policy. Under Bill Clinton, the number of drilling permits approved rose by 58 percent. Under George W. Bush, the number of drilling permits approved rose by 116 percent. Under Barack Obama, the number of drilling permits approved decreased by 36 percent.

#5 When Barack Obama took office, the average price of a gallon of gasoline was $1.85. Today, the average price of a gallon of gasoline is $3.71.

#6 Under Barack Obama, the United States has lost more than 300,000 education jobs.

#7 Since Barack Obama became president, the number of long-term unemployed Americans has risen from 2.7 million to 5.2 million.

#8 For the first time in the post-World War II era, the employment-population ratio has not bounced back after a recession. The percentage of working age Americans with a job has been below 59 percent for 35 months in a row.

#9 While Barack Obama has been president, U.S. home values have fallen by another 12 percent.

#10 More than three times as many new homes were sold in the United States in 2005 as will be sold in 2012.

#11 Electricity bills in the United States have risen faster than the overall rate of inflation for five years in a row. Thanks Obama.

#12 When Barack Obama first entered the White House, an ounce of gold was going for about $850. Today, the price of gold is over $1630 an ounce.

#13 Since 2008, our economy has lost 1.3 million jobs while at the same time 3.6 million more Americans have been added to Social Security's disability insurance program.

#14 The number of Americans on food stamps has grown from 31.9 million when Barack Obama took office to 46.4 million today. How much more "hope and change" are we going to be able to endure?

#15 As I wrote about the other day, it is being projected that Obamacare will add 16 million more Americans to the Medicaid rolls.

#16 If you can believe it (and this really is hard to believe), more than half of all Americans are now at least partially financially dependent on the government.

#17 The total amount of money that the federal government gives directly to the American people has grown by 32 percent since Barack Obama became president.

#18 Under Barack Obama, federal spending as a percentage of GDP (25 percent) is the highest that it has been since World War II.

#19 The Obama administration has been spending money on some of the most insane things imaginable. For example, in 2011 the Obama administration spent $592,527 on a study that sought to figure out once and for all why chimpanzees throw poop.

#20 The U.S. government has run a budget deficit of well over a trillion dollars every single year under Barack Obama.

#21 Under Barack Obama, U.S. debt was downgraded from AAA status for the first time ever.

#22 Since Barack Obama took office, the U.S. national debt has increased by 50 percent.

#23 Since Barack Obama became president, the U.S. national debt has increased by an average of more than $64,000 per taxpayer.

#24 During the Obama administration, the U.S. national debt has grown more than it did from the time that George Washington became president to the beginning of Bill Clinton's second term as president.

What about the 20 million homeless?

During Bush41's second campaign, Mitch Snyder crowed without proof about the 3 million homeless. The megaphone media joined in. Why not just co-opt a winning issue from years past, after all, demos are once again Foley-ing every Republican candidate with the Akin mess.

Stop talking sense. There is no solution to socialist/marxist policies other than get those utopians out of control over our lives and Nation. If the ballot box doesn't work come this November, I'm hoping that enough States will further their efforts as is currently underway regarding many issues.

I see a HUGE Constitutional crisis coming if the above occurs and will support ANY State that tells the Fedgov to shove it! I don't see Civil War II. I see the Feds backing down if enough States just say NO! Even though we were handed an erroneous decision by Justice Roberts, the USSC has NO power if the States nullify Fedgov mandates/directives.

There is no longer any will for a CWII in this day. It won't happen. However, the Governors and legislatures of many States ARE getting tired of being dictated to. Witness some 27 States suing against Obamacare. Yeah, we lost on a technicality, but the Supremes also said the Fedgov can't force the States to increase Medicade or lose federal funding.

That is the opening, and many Governors are already saying no to State healthcare cooperatives. Yes, the Fedgov can set them up anyway, but what if the States refuse to acknowledge them? Then what? The Feds stop sending tax funds to the States for various projects? Well, then States can just stop forwarding tax receipts to the Fedgov. Tit for tat. We still have the power if we can convince our Governors and local legislatures to use it.

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Overall, Obama is some good ways down the road to creating
an America he said existed BEFORE he came “into power”,
and the device he and his surrogates used to convey this
fantasy was nothing less than to state and state again in a thousand different ways that we are standing under a permanent avalanche of “bad stuff” (radioactive economic fallout, as it were) created by “eight years of failed Bush policies”. This imaginary fallout from Bush absolves Obama
from having ANY negative effect on America or its economy:
and at the center of it all is his belief that even with a relatively scant margin of victory, he got a mandate to dismantle America from the top down. He has been fitfully successful in doing this, or at least putting in place policies designed to ultimately do it, and labors relentless to convey the impression that he just can’t work fast enough to get the ball rolling on “re-making America”. Unfortunately for him, NONE of his policies has created anything positive on ANY level. He will be gone by next year, and all his smiling-through-the-Apocalypse spin will be UNSPUN.

The commander-in-chief and Chief Executive is more and more acting like an emperor. Fortunately some of the appeals courts are more conservative than the high court. And, as you say, it becomes more and more politically feasible for some states simply to resist federal mandates. Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana have similar policies.

Basically I agree with you.

I think that you are correct that most Americans either are too stupid or too lazy to implement a second Civil War. However, in states like Wisconsin, I can see a possibility where a conservative governor takes a stand against the Fed and if the Fed were to try to arrest the governor, enough citizen supporters would show up with arms to repel the Federal agents. Something like that could cause a second civil war, especially if a bloc of states work together against the wishes or mandates of the Fed.

sorry, there are parts of your list that are “O.K.” and parts that are just silly, or duplicative, or wrong to be placed as “Obama’s fault” in a manner that in some cases is no different than when people said “Bush’s fault”.

But, the worst offense is the ship of fools that populist sentiments about such lists represents, “under” any administration.

The crux of that offense is the projection that “under this President” someone is/was/can be the Wizard of Oz of the nation and by the levers at his command alone, the ship of state sails.

It is as false in helping to understand the economy as it was “under” one President as it is at devising expectations of, or believing the prophecies of what will happen “under” the next President.

The entire nation would be best served by disavoing itself of the notion that the “last President was” or the “next President can be” the Wizard of Oz of the economy. None of them have ever been or ever could be. The more that is expected of them, the more harm they do.

I'm well aware of all that you say and agree with some. My intent was/is to have another headline 'out-there' that says Obama messed up.

It is so rare to see a headline these days that isn't praising or at least sympathetic to Obama.

We don't want him as our president.

“My intent was/is to have another headline ‘out-there’ that says Obama messed up......We don’t want him as our president.”

I don’t fault your intent, and I totally don’t ant to see Obama re-elected.

However, in a debate, it’s not a lack of “facts” that loses, it’s the weaker argument.

That list will not be good for helping to win any arguments, with anyone who can see the problems in the list.

The argument has to show cause behind the facts, and simply “under the Presidency of.....” shows “under the Presidency of” and not cause, because the actions alone of any one President are very often not, or not the only cause behind many “facts” that occur, “under their Presidency”.

So, if you want to talk, in a numerical list, about the things that Obama did, even suggesting the “20 worst things that Obama did”, and, in pointing out those things, you can point out the ill affects you think they have had.

But, lists of examples of things “under so-and-so’s time in office”, produce examples that are sometimes very bad examples, and not very good arguments, for any number of reasons. Stick to what a President did/does, and why you think it is/was bad.

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