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Obama: ‘It’s Pretty Hard To Find An Economic Measure Where We’re Not Significantly Better Off’
Daily Caller ^ | 7/24/14 | y Brendan Bordelon

Posted on 07/24/2014 6:12:19 PM PDT by Nachum

President Obama put his rosy glasses on for an interview with CNBC on Thursday, claiming “It’s pretty hard to find an economic measure where we’re not significantly better off.” Obama spoke with CNBC’s Steve Liesman about the economic policies pushed by the White House and what the federal government expects going forward. “What can you tell average Americans about the outlook of the economy?” Liesman asked, noting that even Obama’s own former economic advisor Larry Summers is forecasting lower growth over the next few years. Obama dismissed that notion. “If you think about where we were, Steve, when I came

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KEYWORDS: economic; measure; obama; significantly
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1 posted on 07/24/2014 6:12:19 PM PDT by Nachum
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2 posted on 07/24/2014 6:12:42 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum

delusional


3 posted on 07/24/2014 6:12:44 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Nachum

Obama says it.....POOF.....it’s true! That’s how it always work with him and his Media. And the Low Info Voters eat it up!


4 posted on 07/24/2014 6:14:00 PM PDT by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: Nachum

Well, how about that, Obama has single-handedly solved all our problems.


5 posted on 07/24/2014 6:14:04 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Nachum

‘It’s Pretty Hard To Find An Economic Measure Where We’re XXX Significantly Better Off’.

Uh, I can name at least one. Ummm, errr, uh, gasoline prices? Does that one count?


6 posted on 07/24/2014 6:14:27 PM PDT by rktman (Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
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To: Nachum

Pssst…hey POSOTUS…

http://www.usdebtclock.org


7 posted on 07/24/2014 6:14:54 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Nachum

Actually I don’t think (either) party is doing a thing to improve the economy.

Dems aren’t, but the GOP also is out to lunch.

I’m series. Bring back jobs to America.


8 posted on 07/24/2014 6:16:01 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: Nachum

Labor participation rate - good. More people get to sleep till noon.


9 posted on 07/24/2014 6:16:33 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Nachum
and up is down, black is white and we have always been at war with Eastasia...
10 posted on 07/24/2014 6:17:08 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Nachum
It's pretty hard that's about all the zero can say without lying.
11 posted on 07/24/2014 6:17:46 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: PGalt

Blank-Rich, I think it used to be called.


12 posted on 07/24/2014 6:18:32 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Nachum

Maybe I have this wrong, but didn’t the economy shrink by -2.9 gdp last quarter?

if so, then the economy must be racist.


13 posted on 07/24/2014 6:18:59 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (false claims of racism--the first refuge of a liberal scoundrel)
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To: Nachum

HOW ABOUT THE PRICE OF MEAT??? Even the price of pink slime enhanced rolled hamburger at WallyWorld is higher than the price of steak when Zero took office.


14 posted on 07/24/2014 6:19:01 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Kerry, as Obama's plenipotentiary, is a paradox - the physical presence of a geopolitical absence")
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To: Nachum
Sssh! It's all in his mind! He's in his happy place! The staff knows to leave him alone when he gets that "far away" look. He sits in the Oval Office for hours like this...


15 posted on 07/24/2014 6:19:41 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: Nachum
“It’s pretty hard to find an economic measure where we’re not significantly better off.”

That would be because most of the economic measures are kinked up by the government.

However, I have a kind of common sense measure that tells me what is real and what is spin.

I just look at the number of freeloaders swarming our borders to get in. I then look at the businesses that are swarming our border to get out. And that tells me what I need to know.

16 posted on 07/24/2014 6:19:45 PM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: Nachum

Better off than what? Dead....?


17 posted on 07/24/2014 6:19:59 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storarned m chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: Nachum

How about gas and food just to start. What’s better about that?


18 posted on 07/24/2014 6:20:04 PM PDT by reefdiver (Be the Best you can be Whatever you Dream to be)
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To: Nachum

cnbc’s LIES MAN. Head man in charge of lies.


19 posted on 07/24/2014 6:20:20 PM PDT by paintriot (On the Conservative Coast.)
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To: Nachum

Labor

Participation

Rate


20 posted on 07/24/2014 6:21:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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