Posted on 10/11/2011 11:46:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Barack Obama’s presidency can be boiled down to four numbers: 9.1 percent unemployment, nearly $3 trillion in budget deficits, a sick economy barely growing at less than 1 percent, and a job approval rating that has fallen to below 40 percent.
The president can spin his excuses every which way from Sunday, zigzag from one policy to another or point the finger of blame at his predecessor or the Republicans who control half of Congress, but he can’t refute the failing grades on his report card.
The Gallup Poll’s daily tracking survey, which showed his job approval numbers sinking to 39 percent on Sunday, said he had lost support in just about every single political subgroup in the country.
Notably, just 30 percent of the independents who put him in office still approve of the job he is doing. His approval rates among others who helped elect him have fallen to just 49 percent of Hispanics, 48 percent of voters age 18 to 29, 44 percent of females, 36 percent of seniors and just 33 percent of whites.
His approval numbers among dispirited Democrats are nothing to write home about, either: 79 percent of liberal Democrats, 70 percent of moderate Democrats and 64 percent of conservative Democrats.
As he nears the end of the third year of his presidency, with the economy edging closer to another recession, he’s even beginning to lose support from one of his most loyal constituencies: the liberal news media....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
At least the article title is correct.
Economy is going to get worse and pain is going to get s bad that sheeple will beg for anyone to fix, even if they need to become govt slaves.
All part of the plan from the beginning of 0 term.
0 set out to kill capitalism and middle class, his numbers should be higher amongst his fellow travellers. Only reason they are not, is that his fellow travellers thought they would have a place at the table, and they are only getting table scraps.
Sucks to be fellow traveller of the ahole in office
It's the Republcans. The TEA Party terrorists! No wait, it's the Japanese Spring, or the Arab Tsunami, the Texas Drought! Global Warming! It's Greece's fault! Yeah, we'll run against the the Greeks!
I agree.
In my opinion polls don't mean anything at this point in time.
I also want to know how they conduct the polls. Is it phone calls? Is it "Man on the street"? Is it mail? Is it online?
Any poll giving this idiot any more than 20% is just a made up poll. . . . . And 20% is still too HIGH
Few if any of Obama's supporters realize he's destroying on purpose, it's why he is POTUS. Obama is an economic terrorist, bought and sold by one of America's enemies.
Most Americans will still roll their eyes back and say, CONSPIRACY, and immediately fall back to their brainwashed programing and think, it couldn't happen in America, when actually what you're saying is that the MSM would expose such a plot.
As we watch them try to BURY FAST AND FURIOUS and the MSM's coverage which amounts to virtually nothing, how do they do that? The answer is the MSM "controllers" simply do not believe that Obama could be a traitor working to destroy the United States.
Could Obama be so stupid that he wants to spend $$ to lower unemployment figures? Of course not. But Obama's supporters are stupid enough to follow this traitor over the cliff.
Whether you believe Obama is a traitor or an idiot is somewhat irrelevant at this point. It is clear we have to get rid of him. If he is a traitor, we can't wait until the election, it's time to take him down on FAST AND FURIOUS, something that only a COMMUNITY ORGAINIZER could dream up.
Good thing ‘Bammy and his minions are too arrogant to read real American History...because the Warren Harding prescription would get unemployment below 7.5% before the election if implemented by 11/01...
all anybody need to do is grab a history text book...
Warren Harding figured it out in 1920...
Congress and the Executive Branch have lots to do.
So far they’re not doin’ it right..
Harding cut the government’s budget nearly in half between 1920 and 1922. The rest of Harding’s approach was equally laissez-faire. Tax rates were slashed for all income groups. The national debt was reduced by one-third. The Federal Reserve’s activity, moreover, was hardly noticeable. As one economic historian puts it, “Despite the severity of the contraction, the Fed did not move to use its powers to turn the money supply around and fight the contraction.” 2 By the late summer of 1921, signs of recovery were already visible. The following year, unemployment was back down to 6.7 percent and was only 2.4 percent by 1923.
http://www.firstprinciplesjournal.com/articles.aspx?article=1319&loc=r
BTW..ole Warren ALSO fixed immigration...
Mr. Harding signed into law the Emergency Quota Act[3] which sought to control immigration following World War I and preserve the distinctive American culture by ensuring the majority of immigrants came from the historically compatible cultures of Northern Europe. This law aimed to bring wages of hard working Americans under control by limiting immigration to 3% of the 1910 census. It was followed on by a similar act in 1924, after Mr. Harding’s death.[4]
A Warren Harding prescription...if filled ...would ignite the afterburners on the US job machine and the economy. However DC would have to yield on a tremendous amount of power. Our job as We the People...is to persuade them of the “utility” ..shall we say..of doing so. In all probability the same minds that made the mess...aren’t capable of the solution however.
BTW any takers that ‘Bammy couldn’t even tell you that Warren Harding was one of his predecessors in office?
Even more telling about what our betters in the RinoCracy think of a Constitutional President..
http://www.usnews.com/listings/worst-presidents/warren-harding
The one thing never mentioned is that GDP includes government spending. I don’t have the numbers in front of me, but take out ridiculously huge spending by the government, and that 1% growth is possibly a negative number. In other words, you actually can spend enough to increase GDP theoretically, but it doesn’t provide a clear picture of how the private economy is doing.
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