Posted on 01/13/2015 3:04:05 PM PST by Kaslin
Everywhere we turn in the media, we hear the lie that the Obama economy is in “recovery.” Bill Maher actually taunted Republicans on his show last week, daring them to attack Obama’s economic record. Now it appears that Hillary has bought into this great lie. The word is that Hillary is about to tie her presidential campaign to Obama’s economic policies. Why? Because for the first time she believes the economy is in “recovery.” She is no longer afraid or embarrassed to support Obama’s policies.
Where are the GOP leaders to rip this narrative to shreds? Are they so blind, deaf and dumb that they have no idea there is no recovery for the middle class. There is only misery and poverty. Do Republican leaders believe the lies and propaganda spewed by Obama, his socialist cabal and the biased leftist media? It’s so easy to attack the lies and rip the “good news” to shreds.
So here’s a lesson for GOP leaders from a successful small businessman operating in the REAL OBAMA ECONOMY. Listen and please take notes.
The narrative provided by Obama and his Kool-Aid drinking fans in the media (like Bill Maher) is that the economy is doing great…GDP is up dramatically… unemployment is way down…healthcare costs are down…and Obama has lowered the deficit. These are the same lies told by every Democratic member of Congress, and the GOP lets them get away with these lies. Here is how you debunk them.
First the economy is not “recovering” or “healthy” for anyone but corporate elite, billionaires, bankers and Wall Street. Main Street and small business are dying. The American middle class is being murdered. For the first time in history our middle class is no longer number one in the world - Canada’s is. For the first time in history more businesses are failing each day than opening. For the first time in history there are more people on welfare, food stamps and other handouts than working in the private sector. We have the lowest workforce participation rate in history. Almost 100 million working-age Americans aren’t working. 107 million Americans are on some form of welfare. This is Obama’s definition of success? This cannot go unchallenged by GOP leaders.
Obama’s supporters claim healthcare costs are down while GDP is up. Really? Here are the facts. Health insurance premiums have gone up more in the past year than in the 8 years prior to Obamacare combined. And that is precisely why GDP was up. Almost the entire increase in 3rd quarter GDP was fueled by the massive increase in healthcare costs due to Obamacare.
So let me get this scam correctly. Obama's voters get "free" healthcare, while middle class America and small business gets bankrupted with the huge bill. Our health insurance premiums are skyrocketing, destroying our quality of life, and Obama calls that proof that GDP is up. That's an achievement?
The GOP needs to attack aggressively. The idea that GDP is rising because of higher healthcare costs that are bankrupting middle class Americans, is not a reason to celebrate.
But wait, the lies get bigger. If the GDP increase for one quarter was primarily produced by increased healthcare spending, then how can Obama’s defenders claim that healthcare spending is down? Where did they get that lie from? Jonathan Gruber? The left just makes up lies - and no one challenges them. My health insurance bill went from $500 per month to $1700 under Obama. Challenge these lies. This message will resonate with middle class consumers (and voters).
Next Obama’s defenders claim unemployment is down. How could it be down if the workforce participation rate is the lowest in history? The answer is fraud. The government doesn't count the people no longer looking for jobs…or who don’t want a job (who would rather sit home collecting welfare). True unemployment is at Great Depression levels.
Worse, the jobs being created are crappy, low wage, part-time jobs. Can you imagine what liberals would say if a white Republican was president and every job created was flipping burgers, mowing lawns or cleaning toilets? They'd say he was trapping minorities in a life of poverty and hopelessness. But a black liberal president receives congratulations. Amazing.
Democrats also crow about the stock market under Obama. Republicans go along with this narrative. Well a rising stock market based on good news and positive economic fundamentals would be great. But a rising stock market based on fake money printing by the Fed, misleading economic stats and massive debt is not so great. Actually it’s a tragedy. Our stock market under Obama resembles the sub-prime mortgage crisis. It’s a debt bubble about to pop.
The stock market is up because Obama has added $8 trillion in debt. This is the world's largest Ponzi scheme. We’ve printed trillions in fake dollars to make the stock market go up for the corporate elite (Obama’s biggest donors), to prop up union pension funds (to benefit Obama’s biggest union supporters), and to pay for 107 million Americans on welfare and food stamps (Obama’s most loyal voters). But the mountain of debt is like a credit card credit line that will soon explode, destroying our country and our children’s future. Every politician who supported it should be in jail.
Anyone can use credit cards and mortgages they can't afford to look like they're rich. But when the bill comes due, the whole scheme comes crashing down. America under Obama is one big fraud. The “prosperity” is a mirage, propped up by debt. We are living on borrowed credit.
Debt is a cancer that kills every country it has ever touched. Study ancient Greece, or the Roman Empire. Or ask Venezuela. They are following the exact Obama game plan. They now have massive unrest, starving citizens, food and toilet paper shortages…and the highest stock market in history!
Obama has corrupted and destroyed the system. It’s rigged to make the stock market go up, while hiding the fact that he’s piling up the most debt in world history, mortgaging our future, destroying the middle class, and driving most of the workforce into poverty and government dependency.
Finally there’s the lie that Obama has reduced the deficit. Well this fantastic “reduced” deficit is still higher than the highest deficit under Bush. But let’s give credit, where credit is due. The deficit is down due to you and me-the taxpayers. Obama pushed through the highest tax increases in history. We’re all paying much higher taxes. That’s why the deficit is down. How is that an achievement?
Middle class America has been fleeced so Obama can brag he’s reduced the deficit. Is the GOP really this stupid? They can’t figure this out? Higher taxes have produced new government revenue, which has reduced the deficit. That’s not an achievement, it’s a rip off.
The entire Obama economic “recovery” is a lie. It’s all based on lies, misrepresentations, in some cases pure fraud, higher taxes, massive debt, and on the income redistribution of money from the middle class to the poor and the corporate elite. The rest of us are either drowning, or hanging on for dear life.
Now it’s time for the GOP to go on the offensive. It’s time to debunk the narrative that Obama has produced a “recovery.” If we don’t make that case, get ready for President Hillary Clinton.
Hillary is saying what she is told to say. She is no more her own person than Obama is. They all answer to the big money boys. And that’s the truth!!!!
Just tell the truth
We don't need a naive, simplistic view of Islam. Hillary is DELUSIONAL about Islam.
Are they so blind, deaf and dumb that they have no idea there is no recovery for the middle class.
There is only misery and poverty.
Do Republican leaders believe the lies and propaganda spewed by Obama, his socialist cabal and the biased leftist media?
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Well DUH!..
The libs would not let a Bush Sr. get away with it, but idiots are in the GOP.
The proof that the economy is doing better is that every month fewer and fewer people qualify for unemployment. At the same time more and more of them qualify for subsidized Obamacare. The fact that so many people are getting subsidized Obamacare is further proof of how great the economy is doing.
At this then maybe one of these days we’ll be just as prosperous as Venezuela is!
Just point out the price of groceries. That hits home...
Food Stamp Prezzy.
Bread $5. Eggs $4.50. Bolo from 6.49 cheap fatty kind to $13.99 good leaner kind. “The world’s best $5 burger “ per poster on their wall — now runs $9.46 (with tax ). Economy is in the toilet. Republicans need only speak truth. That, however, may be hoping for too much. They are politicians. After all. So, we will probably have another “irrelevant” campaign with mostly just empty sloganeering peppered with false claims
No kidding. Since Obama took office my grocery bill has almost doubled. Anyone looked at the price of a bucket of KFC chicken lately? It’s over $40.00! I’ll miss it.
“Now it’s time for the GOP to go on the offensive.”
That is true, but the Republican leadership is too corrupted. Just watch. They will complain that they only control two-thirds of the government and they are too righteous to be crude enough to fight Obama.
$40 for a bucket of KFC?!!!!!!!??????
WOW!
Those must be very high-class, range-fed, eco-friendly miniature pheasants under glass!!
$40 — WOW!
(I guess I’ll stop grumbling about my diner’s little $5 glass of orange juice....)
We are so screwed!...
Where the hell are you shopping? I didn't know Neiman Marcus had grocery stores!
I'll say again, where are you shopping? I can get a bucket of KFC for about 12 bucks!!
You live in Hawaii???
cheese (yes they have some cheaper ones too) $20 to $25 (for the ones I, unfortunately, like..and they’re not the very most expensive varieties, either). Potatoes (which I used to help put out on display for 10 cents/lb) now $2 or $2.49 a pound. Apples which used to be 10 or 15 cents a pound are all $2 to $3, depending on variety. Of course, we all remember the 5 cent candy bar (now $1.79) and the 10 cent bottle of soda (now $1.75 to $2.25). Some of us even remember today’s $3 million houses that we lived in when they were now and selling for $11,500.
While it is necessary to have something in the bank, that’s clearly a losing strategy given how our politicians are depreciating the purchasing power of the dollar. Soon, we will be wiping our .... with USD’s (have you priced TP recently!?)
It has gotten far worse on most necessities and things more-of-less average people might want ......in the last 4 or 5 years.
Let’s hope they don’t lose all control of what they’re doing ....?
Do you live in Hawaii??
2. Under Obama there is the blurred distinction of economic parity under the Welfare State and Working Middle-Class leaving most American's wondering which segment of the "economy" is better off.
3. What is the number of full time jobs vs. part time jobs between the Bush economy and the Obama economy, accentuated by the number of working Americans and those having left the workforce under age 65.
4. Ask yourself if you are better off today than you were before this Administration (welfare state need not answer)?
5. Strip away the thin veneer of of printed dollars vs. dollars created by economic activity (mention vaguely how in 6-7 years Obama printed and put into debt 50% of the total cumculative debt since the founding of the republic).
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