He just can't control his lies.

Quote:Yes, Barack Obama actually said this:

“We are better off now than when I took office.”

** The Mideast is being taken over by ISIS Islamists.
** The economy is shrinking at a historic 2.9% clip.
** Jobless rates are still at record levels.
** US debt is over $17 trillion.
** There are more Americans on food stamps than the population of Spain.
** Toddlers are making it across the open US border.
** The IRS is targeting conservatives and lying about it to Congress.
** Russia just stole Crimea from the Ukraine.
** Taxpayers are buying underwear for illegals.
** Obama wants more funding for rebel Islamist groups in Syria.

But, Obama thinks we are better off today.
Joseph Curl at The Washington Times reported:

“By every economic measure, we are better off now than we were when I took office. You wouldn’t know it, but we are,” the president said Friday.

That’s right, the president — the president of the United States, mind you — says Americans are better off, they just don’t know it.

That is the height to which the president has raised his level of mendacity. He has the sheer audacity to tell Americans that he has successfully turned the economy around, that things are all good, but that there are no real quantifiable indicators by which they could ever know that.

In fact, Mr. Obama says Americans have never had it so good.

“Over the past 51 months, our businesses have created 9.4 million new jobs,” he said at a feel-good stop in Minnesota. “Our housing market is rebounding. Our auto industry is booming. Our manufacturing sector is adding jobs for the first time since the 1990s. We’ve made our tax code fairer. We’ve cut our deficits by more than half. More than 8 million Americans have signed up for private insurance plans through the Affordable Care Act.”

Of course, as usual with the president, none of that is true. In 2007, there were 146.6 million Americans employed. Last month, there were 145.7 million people in the workforce. But it’s all worse than that. The labor force participation rate dropped more than 3 percentage points, which equals nearly 8 million people. Now, just 62.8 percent of working-age Americans hold jobs, a dismal number that’s the lowest in 35 years.

What’s more, Candidate Obama (is he ever anything else?) promised an unemployment rate of 5 percent as the impetus to pass his $1 trillion stimulus plan. While his minions now cooking the books claim the rate is 6.3 percent, millions of Americans have simply fallen out of the workforce — disappeared. The number of “underemployed” — those who want to work full time but can find only a part-time job — is 16 percent, Gallup says.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/06/...ok-office/

Are they sure he didn't say: " I'm better off now than when I took office."

He's not stupid. His plan all along was to screw up the country.

Who in hell believes his lies. Zero is richer now than when he took office, that may be what he means. Commietom needs to splain.

December 2008

Gasoline $1.65/gallon
Electricity 11.26cents/kwh
Loaf of Bread $1.68
Pound of Hamburger $3.68
Pound of Bacon $2.96
Gallon of Milk $2.65




2014

Gasoline $3.70/gallon
Electricity 12.31cents/kwh
Loaf of Bread $2.42
Pound of Hamburger $4.68
Pound of Bacon $4.54
Gallon of Milk $4.28

Costs we all must pay thanks to the democrats war on the middle class yet are not counted in inflation. Are you better off now than 6 years ago?

(07-01-2014 06:50 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote:  December 2008

Gasoline $1.65/gallon
Electricity 11.26cents/kwh
Loaf of Bread $1.68
Pound of Hamburger $3.68
Pound of Bacon $2.96
Gallon of Milk $2.65




2014

Gasoline $3.70/gallon
Electricity 12.31cents/kwh
Loaf of Bread $2.42
Pound of Hamburger $4.68
Pound of Bacon $4.54
Gallon of Milk $4.28

Costs we all must pay thanks to the democrats war on the middle class yet are not counted in inflation. Are you better off now than 6 years ago?

All Democrat "Progress":

Gasoline $3.70/gallon - EVIL OIL
Electricity 12.31cents/kwh - EVIL COAL/NUCLEAR
Loaf of Bread $2.42 - HELLO!!!! GLUTENS!!!!!
Pound of Hamburger $4.68 - PETA CHEERS
Pound of Bacon $4.54 - PETA CHEERS
Gallon of Milk $4.28 - PETA CHEERS

(07-01-2014 05:55 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  

Quote:Yes, Barack Obama actually said this:

“We are better off now than when I took office.”

By "we" he means "we Commies."

I thought he just meant him and Michelle.

Laughable

Brought to you by the Commissariat of Public Opinion

The gasoline has to be the DUMBEST metric you wing nuts can throw out there. Of course it was cheap we wre in a huge financial crisis. What was the Dow Jones at in 2008?

I tells ya.... What was the price of a car during the Great Depression..... Those were the days....

Clearly happy days are here again. Prices up, income static. Huzzah!

(07-01-2014 07:46 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  The gasoline has to be the DUMBEST metric you wing nuts can throw out there. Of course it was cheap we wre in a huge financial crisis. What was the Dow Jones at in 2008?

Talking about ignorant where are all the jobs the great recovery brought? I actually took the prices from websites but in reality a pound of bacon is more like $6.99 NOT $4.54, a pound of hamburger more like $7.99 and a gallon of milk more like $4.99. So again are you paying less or more for food and energy? 2014 Q1 GDP is negative, a warning of another recession? I thought Obama's policies would heal the world not just the US economy.

The criticism of using gasoline still stands and core inflation has been low. I know the wing nuts dismiss those numbers because they come from the gubment but.........

It's twrue. Look it up!!!!

We are living in a different world. We have a disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street. How do you improve the lives of Main Street when the jobs have been out sourced but it's still incredibly naive to cherry pick some metrics and then point your finger O's way and say there there. I told you so......I do understand the motivation though. Maybe we need to go back to the GOZp messiah W so we can appreciate these better times. You wing nuts have selective memories.

Mach doesn't want to hear it. What's far more important is to assign the blame! Problems are less important than blame!

(07-01-2014 07:59 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  The criticism of using gasoline still stands and core inflation has been low. I know the wing nuts dismiss those numbers because they come from the gubment but.........

It's twrue. Look it up!!!!

Core inflation what an IGNORANT statement. Do you buy food, do you buy gasoline, do you buy electricity? Of course you do and increases to these reduce your disposable income. It also robs you of raises to keep up with inflation since ALL employers use inflation rate as basis for standard salary increases. All this of course is part of the democrat war on the middle class.

Assigning blame...... You do realize that can be switched just as easily for the other side too???? The original critique still stands. Incredibly stupid to use the price of gasoline when O took office as a legitimate point of contention.

Herd,

Settle down and look at the CPI in the last twenty years. I think you'll be surprised.

(07-01-2014 08:12 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Assigning blame...... You do realize that can be switched just as easily for the other side too???? The original critique still stands. Incredibly stupid to use the price of gasoline when O took office as a legitimate point of contention.

Mach, Obama's regulations can't do anything other than raise prices.