Voters give Obama no credit on economy

The Washington Examiner ^ | November 6, 2014 | 5:00 am | Joseph Lawler

[MrB]

My exact sentiments - I give him

FULL

credit for the state of the economy.

[BCW]

Obama wants to talk about people hurting economically...no jobs...no opportunity....and yet he finds the time and money to go on vacations and golf tours...what an arrogant POS...the sooner he is out of office...the better....it was Obamacare and the 30 hrs reg that cost so many jobs and wages...and yet he does not see it...

And the 1/ 3 voting comment...well the votes are in and the liberals lost..it was an election fair and square and it will have consequences!

[Sooth2222]

They did in Virginia...

[walford]

I have many family members and friends who are working two and three part-time jobs and making less money, than six years ago when they were working one job, with benefits.

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As I said in the OP:

“...Employers are keeping their workers in the part-time threshold to keep them exempt from Obamacare. So workers must work multiple low-paying jobs that have no benefits — and are thus in effect working unpaid overtime with no benes.

Employers are getting more labor for less money. People who do have jobs are expected to make up for the workers who have been laid off — or not been hired at all.The stock market is doing great under this paradigm...”

[Malone LaVeigh]

I think the voters are waking up to the fact that all the economic numbers coming from his administration are lies.

BINGO!

[Milton Miteybad]

President Obama said Wednesday that concerns about his administration might be dragging down voters' estimation of the recovery. "If they’ve been watching Washington over the last two, four years, what they’ve seen is a lot of arguing and a lot of gridlock but not a lot of concrete actions, at least legislatively, that have made a difference in their lives.”

Well, Mr. Boob, we witnessed your fecklessness in handling the 2009 stimulus package. You got $900 billion to spend, and somehow came out of that episode with absolutely nothing to show for it, except for your admission that you mishandled the whole thing ("...I guess 'shovel-ready' wasn't as shovel-ready as we thought...")

So while I'm willing to give you credit for somehow blowing through $900 billion in borrowed money to no useful purpose whatsoever, I can't give you credit for much else. After all, new unemployment claims are still running 300,000 plus each week, meaning the economy is still losing 1 MM jobs every month. Funny thing, though...you forgot to mention that in your pathetic plea for credit.

I wonder why.

[VRW Conspirator]

Voters give Obama no credit on economy

But they do give him blame.

[ViLaLuz]

I give him all the credit for wrecking the economy.

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[Major Matt Mason]

The unemployment rate has fallen by nearly three percentage points

Now that the election has passed, this number will start heading back upward and Obama and his flying monkeys in the media will blame the Republicans for the increase.

[Iron Munro]

I give Obama all the credit for the economy.

Savings account interest 1/10 of 1%.

This week’s supermarket ads:

Beef Hot dogs between $5.00 and $6.99 a pound/

Ground Chuck at $4.99 a pound

Bacon $7.00 a pound

NY Strip steak $9.99 a pound on sale!

[kevao]

The U3 unemployment rate, which does not count discouraged workers, is at “only” 6%.

But the U6 rate, which does include discouraged workers and which is still calculated by BLS, is at 12%:

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

Using the flawed U3 number as the official rate is dishonest, IMO.

[Fledermaus]

The unemployment rate has fallen by nearly three percentage points and the U.S. economy has added 4.6 million jobs since President Obama won re-election in November 2012, but voters in the midterm elections gave him no credit for the improvement.

BS. This "reporter" believes the lies (statistics) from the government? Have the Wash Examiner's standards dropped?

[DaveA37]

I don’t give odumbo credit for anything positive, his only real accomplishments have all been of a negative connotation for this country. Please tell me which “good” thing odumbo has done? Obviously I missed it.

[onevoter]

I am not an expert in the field but I read recently that, if the unemployment rate were reached with the same data that was used during the Reagan years, it would be over 23 percent. They change the way they sort the data and can’t understand why the public sees through it.

“Experts” have also taken the cost of both food and gasoline out of the equation when they tally inflation- with complete disregard for the fact that food and gasoline are the two things consumers have to purchase regularly. My guess is that, if we had a Republican in office, both food and gas would be put back into the equation. Everything this government and the lapdog press puts out to us is smoke and mirrors.

[Bubba_Leroy]

[piytar]

Oh, we gave Obola plenty of credit for the sucky state of the economy, as did most voters. We just don’t believe the government “statistics” aka lies. We know better and give Obola FULL credit, or rather BLAME!

[william clark]

Giving Obama credit for this economy is a bit like being shoved into a ten-foot pit and then being grateful to the guy who pushed you in when he tosses down a two-foot ladder.

[MasterGunner01]

So, once more, what has Obamination done to fix the economy? Nothing that will put people back to work or create private sector jobs. Obama is the unemployment, food stamp, and Obamaphone czar. I'm Barry Obamination and I brung ya’ll this free sh*t! Your Messiah is here.

[pallis]

Voters proved to be smarter than the liars who are promoting an imaginary economic recovery.