Posted on 02/05/2016 1:25:44 PM PST by Kaslin
"Americans are working," President Obama proudly declared at a White House press conference Friday morning.
He was referring to the new jobs report that revealed unemployment has dropped to 4.9 percent - the first time it's fallen below 5 percent in 8 years.
The president also remarked on how his administration has added 14 million new jobs over his tenure and that over the past 6 months wages have risen at an impressive rate. He couldn't help pointing to falling gas prices as well.
After gleefully sharing these new numbers, Obama quipped that the supposedly successful economy is "inconvenient" for Republican stump speeches as the 2016 candidates talk about "doom and gloom."
"I guess you can't please everybody," he said.
Yet, Republicans aren't the only ones not satisfied with the numbers. Both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have sparred about how to encourage the struggling middle class. Moreover, a majority of Americans continually say they are not happy with the direction America is heading.
As for those unemployment numbers, economists would argue it is more like 9.9 percent.
All repubs need to say is as the question, “Are you better off now than you were 7 years ago?” Most, if they are honest would say either about the same or worse.
No dumbama. No one believes your numbers. We know that you are a dishonest @$$, and so we quit paying attention to anything your government spits out.
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The low employment number is even more inconvenient for democrats. It’s the voters who are not employed who know the truth about low unemployment.
That arrogant pos thinks the people are stupid. They know better.
Yup.
It’s a friggin lie. He put the rest on welfare and disability and they do not appear on the unemployed rolls any longer. What a lying sack of crap.
I don’t think I’ve ever know an individual who really believes the sun rises and sets on his a$$.
Ignore the unemployment figures. They are the province of statisticians (see: Mark Twain, in re- lies, damn lies and...).
Pay attention to the federal revenue intake. If more Americans are working, and unemployment is falling, then why is federal income tax revenue down?
Fake numbers doesn’t make it real, typical Obama.
And the answer is "no" because of H1B visa workers undercutting jobs and wages and greedy corporations shifting jobs overseas for profits. DC, across the political spectrum, owns the destruction of the middle class. It's an argument for not having a politician as the next president.
Income tax revenue is down because Americna are one stuck in retail, and restaurant jobs service industry!!! Obammie can crow all he wants he is an absolute SOB he has done this purposely to punish America for all the wrongs we have done in his eyes!!!
What? middle class workers are not better off than they were 50 years ago and it doesn't make any difference who was President then.
God help us if we can’t elect a constitutional conservative as POTUS after eight long years of this narcissistic, America-hating, Muslim-loving, radical-Marxist POtuS.
It’s an argument for not having a politician as the next president.
Nor anyone who participates in Crony Capitalism!
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