[ameribbean expat]

Obummer's going to have a much more difficult post-presidency than he thinks. Not a W fan, but he's done the right thing by letting the dust settle.

[Farmer Dean]

Any income gains we made here were wiped out by huge property tax increases.

[exDemMom]

Why do writers keep sticking the word “recovery” after “Obama” when writing about the economy? Calling it that over and over does not make it so. If you could make something true just by saying it over and over, it would be easy to become a millionaire...

[WilliamofCarmichael]

I think the problems settled in before Obama. It's been awhile since we've had business cycles like I remember over the decades.

I created a "graph" from the Bureau of Economic Analysis' national income and product accounts (NIPAs) Table 1.5.2. Contributions to Percent Change in Real Gross Domestic Product, Expanded Detail (both annual and quarterly). Though crude it shows that the economy recovered and grew in the past but no longer does that. Yes we all know that; but here is a "picture" literally backed by Table 1.5.2 numbers.

Table 1.5.2 data are there but you have to hover the columns to see the data behind the simple color and symbol codes.

scroll down to the table

[hattend]

Reagan had a recovery.

Obama’s hasn’t started yet.