You didn't build that, racist Kenyan a-hole!
"Death to America!"
Posted on 10/22/2018 2:35:25 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Former President Obama on Monday urged a crowd in Las Vegas to "remember who started" the current economic boom, reminding them that the country recovered from the Great Recession during his presidency.
Obama echoed language from President Trump, who in July claimed his administration unleashed an "economic miracle" with tax cuts legislation.
"When I walked into office ten years ago, we were in the middle of the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes," Obama said at a rally for Nevada Democrats. "By the time I left office, wages were rising, uninsurance rate was falling, poverty was falling, and that’s what I handed off to the next guy."
"So when you hear all this talk about economic miracles right now, remember who started it," he said to thunderous applause and a standing ovation.
The former president in recent weeks has criticized Trump's tendency to take full credit for healthy state of the U.S. economy.
"Six months ago, we unleashed an economic miracle by signing the biggest tax cuts and reforms ... the biggest tax cuts in American history," Trump said at an event in July.
The Associated Press fact-checker called this statement an "exaggeration," pointing out the economy has been expanding for the past ten years.
The tax cuts are also not the largest in U.S. history.
Obama during the Monday rally said economic growth during his presidency could partially be attributed to his administration "making sure the wealthiest Americans, folks like me, paid their fair share of taxes."
Obama has been stumping for Democrats across the country ahead of the November midterms, emerging from his year of relative silence on the Trump administration.
He has been vocal in his criticisms of the president since stepping back into the spotlight.
"Unlike some, I actually try to state facts," Obama said. "I believe in facts. I believe in a fact-based reality, fact-based politics. I don't believe in just making stuff up. I think you should actually say to people what's true."
George Bush?
TRUMP!
YOU LIE!
Obama during the Monday rally said economic growth during his presidency could partially be attributed to his administration “making sure the wealthiest Americans, folks like me, paid their fair share of taxes.”
I would like to know how he came to be one of the
wealthiest Americans. Just HOW did he get all that?
You didn't build that, racist Kenyan a-hole!
"Death to America!"
Every great economic recovery has to start from a terrible economy and that was indeed Obama’s contribution.
Well, it was you, Obama
“he said to thunderous applause and a standing ovation”
How can 10 people create “thunderous applause?” It feels like I’m reading propaganda from the old Soviet Union.
That wasted $10 Trillion.
Dont’t forget Cash for Clunkers.
Sure wasn’t you, Mr. Those-Jobs-Are-Not-Coming-Back.
Dream on, Hussein.
said the boy who declared 1.5GDP growth was the new normal and said it would take a magic wand to bring back jobs, feh...
This guy is the kiss of death for the Democrats.
They have no one to inspire them. Republicans are just flooding the early vote in key states.
What’s the Democrat message except hate Trump? You can’t beat something with nothing.
People can see the other side hasn’t even fielded a team.
U.S. economic growth slowed in 2016 to 1.6%
WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy lost momentum in the final three months of 2016, closing out a year in which growth turned in the weakest performance in five years, with the yearly rate down to 1.6 percent.
That compares unfavorably to 2.6 percent in 2015 and 2.4 percent in 2014.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-economic-growth-slowed-in-2016-to-1-9/
Hey Barack, you didn’t build that.
HEY BARRY: YOU DINT MAKE THAT!
I remember the same guy.
Eventually, I hope to forget the wun.
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