Subj : Re: Vote 4 Obama To : All From : FrankGalikanokus@nospam.net Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:20:08 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september ..org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-septemb er.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!b order3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com !nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-fo r-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 14:34:30 -0500 Message-ID: <509571C8.4D05FEAD@nospam.net> Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:34:32 -0400 From: Frank Galikanokus Organization: very little X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: az.politics,rec.collecting.coins,dfw.politics Subject: Re: Vote 4 Obama References: <50953445.C3D1D3FB@nospam.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 65 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-iaCprDCa40/xg3LU4XKHiAH/6xVakL1WRaHYf7ry368qMVmj7g+i/elF3ZPKTn1r591Wv0Kt7AI t43e!o4xyKv4ZCUKRStljgM/A/4ZPwUadYbJSZCC2N7X0qgrfTAyxWF4= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 4379 Xref: news.eternal-september.org az.politics:2705 rec.collecting.coins:5503 dfw.politics:339 Mark Hill wrote: > > On 11/3/2012 9:12 AM, Frank Galikanokus wrote: > >> > Obama-Nation is an Abomination. > > This kind of lunacy does not deserve a response. > > This does: > > http://online.wsj.com/ > > Mr. Obama told Americans in 2009 that if he did not turn around the > economy in three years his Presidency would be "a one-term proposition." > Joe Biden said three years ago that the $830 billion economic stimulus > was working beyond his "wildest dreams" and he famously promised several > months after the Obama stimulus was enacted that Americans would enjoy a > "summer of recovery." That was more than three years ago. > > In early 2009 soon-to-be White House economists Ms. Romer and Mr. > Bernstein promised Congress that the stimulus would hold the > unemployment rate below 7% and that by now it would be 5.6%. Instead the > rate is 8.1%. The latest Census Bureau report says there are nearly > seven million fewer full-time, year-round workers today than in 2007. > The labor participation rate is the lowest since 1981. > > So it has gone with nearly every prediction the President has made about > where the economy would be today. Mr. Obama promised that the deficit > would be cut in half in four years, but the fiscal 2012 deficit > (estimated to be above $1 trillion) will be twice the 2008 deficit ($458 > billion). > > Mr. Obama said that his health-care plan would "cut the cost of a > typical family's premium by up to $2,500 a year," but premiums for > employer-sponsored family coverage have gone up $2,370 since 2009, > according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. > > He said that the linchpin for a growing economy would be renewable > energy investment, and he promised to "create five million new jobs in > solar, wind, geothermal" energy. Mr. Obama did invest some $9 billion in > green energy, but his job estimate was off by at least a factor of 10 > and today many solar and wind industry firms are fighting bankruptcy. > The growth in domestic U.S. energy production that he now takes credit > for has come almost entirely from the fossil fuels his Administration > has done so much to obstruct. > > Associated Press > There's nothing unusual about candidates making grandiose promises that > don't come true. And it's a White House tradition to blame one's > predecessor when things don't get better. (Usually these Presidents end > up one-termers.) > > The bad faith wasn't then. It's now. Mr. Obama really believed that > government spending would unleash a robust recovery in employment and > housing—an "economy built to last." Now that this hasn't happened and > with the Congressional Budget Office predicting a possible recession for > 2013, Team Obama claims these woeful results were the best that could > have been expected. > > The problem with this line is that every President who has inherited a > recession in modern times has done better. (See nearby table.) Under Mr. > Obama, measured on the basis of jobs, GDP growth and incomes, this has > been by far the meekest recovery from the past 10 recessions. Ya don't think the party of NO had anything to do with this do ya? JAM --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .