As this article points out the income for the top 1% in the US has risen a meager 31.4% since 2009. In the same period the income for the rest of the 99% has risen by a whopping .4%. http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/28/news/economy/super-rich-attack/index.html?source=cnn_bin It's no wonder that the wealthy feel Obama isn't the answer because if their income had risen by 60% or more then surely the rest of us would share in that windfall..... right? Right? :lol: :lol:
"This country had serious problems in 2008".... Serious is an understatement. Banks on the verge of collapse.... home prices in a freefall..... Dow down to 6500 and two stalwarts of American business and industry ( Chrysler and GM ).... going bankrupt. Oh... and sorry you're not one of those one percenters George.... obviously. And before any of you get up on your high horse soapbox about me personally wanting a "gift" etc. let me explain that I have been very productive for my company and yet have had no raise in 4.5 years..... the same kind of boat endured by most Americans. Well..... somebody is getting a friggin raise.
I own a company have not taken a single penny more since 2006. Obama helped create this widening gap. The artificially depressed interest rates have made the stock market the only investment choice for 5+ years now. The only thing that will close the gap are jobs. By the way, Obama's wealth has risen to over $300 million in his five years as a tenant in DC. When he parties, I don't imagine he heads to Tampa to hang with you at Houlihan's. He IS what you claim to despise. So are almost all of thse fat cats in Congress.
That I am pretty sure of. My personal problem is that my legs were so cut out from under me in 2008... it was such a stunner.... that I never recovered from the shock and distrust that I had for Wall Street's ability to steal my money and after putting what I had left in my 401K into fixed return investments I never had the cahones/risk taking mindset to catch the speeding train. Therefore I lost when I sold and have never gained it back because of those low interest rates you mention. It is kind of an extra addition of salt on the wound as I have watched the Dow climb and climb and make trillions for those who have money and are not averse to the risk. Just a little baggage that goes along with getting laid off in a recession at age 54. Fun times.
For those of you that may not be facebook friends This defines voting liberal better than a thousand words could ever do!
That would not be the case obviously for the ultra rich Tom. Neither would it be the case for the poor/rural underemployed conservatives and yet a good portion of the GOP voting base comes from both strangely enough.
The liberals voted into office are the 100% cause of this crap. Listen to this and if you voted liberal, this is the fruit of your efforts. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/wRRwZDSmTVI" frameborder="0"></iframe>
I was in the jam packed waiting room of a county social services office today. I was there on business. The other folks, I'd say 100-125 of them were there for benefits. I overheard one of the interviewers tell one of the applicants that there was an 8 hour wait to speak to a case worker.
So where do we start? How about the "stimulus?" Almost a trillion dollars spent creating almost zero jobs. Who will ever forget the "Summer of Recovery?" Yes he's been "laser-focused" on jobs. Since the "Messiah" has been president 16 million Americans have gone onto food stamps, TWICE as many as have gotten jobs. He has been a complete disaster. He got reelected on a gigantic lie that Obamacare was going to be beneficial to most Americans. He won the Nobel Peace Prize and then killed weekly with drones, used the air force in Lybia and threatened to "surgically strike" Syria. He's pissed away billions on green industry busts. He's been a terrible leader and blaming any of his disasters on Bush is delusional. Barney Frank and Dennis Dodds are no longer viable Democratic politicians because the voters of Mass. and Conn. know how they were responsible in many ways for what happened in 2008.
When Obama was elected he boasted that if he couldn't fix things in three years he should not be re-elected. He is now in Year 6 and things are immeasurably worse. And it is his own people he has hurt the worst. Blacks are in worse shape now than they have been in decades if not ever. Drugs, street gangs and black on black violence is epidemic. Three of every four blacks babies only have one parent on site, if that. Unemployment is double the white rate. He mentioned none of this in his lamentable speech the other night.
Black Activists From Chicago Tell Obama “Just Quit” After Watching The SOTU <iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/L7mYg6Gt15o?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0"></iframe> “It is our job to hold all elected officials to be true to the Constitutional values they say they represent.” You tell ‘em! They basically say we knew he would be fail because he didn’t do anything good in Chicago. Via IJR: Tuesday night, activists in Chicago were interviewed shortly after the President delivered the State of the Union address, offering their perspective and feedback on what the President had to say. Rebel Pundit has released video of those reactions, including remarks from J.R. Fleming of the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign, Joe Watkins, Founder of V.O.T.E. (Voices of the Ex-Offender), and Mark Carter, of V.O.T.E., among other activists. Mark Carter commented, “We’d be better of with you cutting off your presidency right now. Just quit.” Obama’s blame game is not selling, with Fleming saying “the reason why our economy is dying is because the President’s approach as always is to place blame.” http://www.ijreview.com/2014/01/111774-black-grassroots-activists-chicago-react-state-union/
Dave, I've given you several posts to rectify it, but it's clear what you're doing. I gave you a rather detailed and clear timeline showing the picture/situation is much bigger than certain pundits (and you) like to pretend it to be. I drew that line right straight back to the previous administration. Instead, you ignored that and somehow magically pulled the George W Bush rabbit out of your hat and started talking about that again..
Corey, There's a lot of cons.... and pros.... with regard to what Obama has been doing. That said.... he wasn't my first choice.... but I sure as hell didn't want more of the same back in 2008. Why in hell would I have wanted that? In 2012 I actually could have lived with Mitt..... but he.... like just about any viable GOP presidential candidate had the Tea Party radicals wrapped around his neck and I sure as hell don't want that. If the GOP can come up with a guy that can say F-off to the Tea Partiers.... and offer clear solutions and progressive programs of his own instead of lazily sitting back and Rush Limbaughing Obama then I'll listen in 2016. FYI.... most of what I read here that is overtly critical of Obama I take with a grain of salt..... like I am reading it in some right-wing radical rag.... which is where it comes from 75% of the time.
The Tea Party is the only thing that makes guys like you at least think about your individual and cosntitutional rights before you surrender them to the progressives. I don't get you, Dave. A bunch of middle class, working pocket protector wearing 50 and overs who champion the values this nation was founded and prospered on and you never miss a chance to trash them. How about sharing your views on the cumulative mass genocide of 55,000,000 babies by a progressive outfit that operates under the misnomer of "Planned Parenthood" ? How about voter intimidation and fraud, disability fraud, the proliferation of drugs, the swarms of illegals who will soon have the same rights we have fought and paid for? These things and many more have prospered under the name of liberalism and progrssive politics. This is your new world order. How is it working out for you?
George, when 15% of the people want to enforce their radical views on the other 85%.... I'll never go for that. When that same 15% drowns out moderate....rational thinkers in it's own political party I'll never go for that either. You don't think the Tea Party intimidates? You must be talking about conservative Gov. Rick Scott of Florida with that statement. Fraud? You want fraud check out his record on medicare fraud.
Radical views? What radical views? The US Constitution? The Bill of Rights? Your individual rights to make decisions for you and your family without government aaproval? Your right to defend yourself? Your rights to have a Nativity display in your front yard? Whcih of those views do YOU consider radical?
No sir..... nothing radical about Mike Lee of Utah: "Lee offered glimpses of a truly radical vision of the U.S. Constitution, one that sees the document as divinely inspired and views much of what the federal government currently does as unconstitutional. Lee proposed to dismantle, on constitutional grounds, the federal Departments of Education, and Housing and Urban Development. He insisted that “the Constitution doesn’t give Congress the power to redistribute our wealth” and vowed to phase out Social Security. He proposed repealing the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the progressive federal income tax, and called the 17th Amendment, which allows senators to be elected by popular vote rather than by state legislatures, a “mistake.” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/magazine/28FOB-idealab-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 And further analysis of how the Tea Party radicals differ from their normally conservative members of the GOP: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/how-did-conservatives-get-this-radical/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
There is nothing radical about that. But you failed to answer my questions. What do you think the role of government should be?