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Originally posted by RELDDIR
Here are the stats:
Unemployment: 7.8% then, 8.3% now
Median income: $54,983 then, $50,964 now
Gas prices: $1.85 per gallon then, $3.78 now
National debt: $10.6 trillion then, $15.9 trillion now
Are Americans better off? Obama aides won't say
By BEN FELLER and DAVID ESPO | Associated Press
news.yahoo.com...
Originally posted by RELDDIR
Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?
PURE CRAP!
Originally posted by RELDDIR
Here are the stats:
Unemployment: 7.8% then, 8.3% now
Median income: $54,983 then, $50,964 now
Gas prices: $1.85 per gallon then, $3.78 now
National debt: $10.6 trillion then, $15.9 trillion now
Are Americans better off? Obama aides won't say
By BEN FELLER and DAVID ESPO | Associated Press
news.yahoo.com...
Originally posted by crazyguy2012
financially? No. But emotionally and physically yes... I have learned a lot about myself in the last four years. The last four years have been the most financially difficult times of my life. I was on my way to making a very decent living. I had my own business. Things were great. Then it all fell apart almost overnight. My wife and I ended up homeless. But I also think the last four years have been the best years of my life so far. I have never had so much fun and joy of life. Now I am back to work... I am making a little more than half of what I used to make. I am working longer hours than I ever had too. If I had too chose I would choose broke and happy over rich and miserable.
Originally posted by RELDDIR
Here are the stats:
Unemployment: 7.8% then, 8.3% now
Median income: $54,983 then, $50,964 now
Gas prices: $1.85 per gallon then, $3.78 now
National debt: $10.6 trillion then, $15.9 trillion now
Are Americans better off? Obama aides won't say
By BEN FELLER and DAVID ESPO | Associated Press
news.yahoo.com...
Originally posted by pajoly
reply to post by RELDDIR
PURE CRAP!
Thanks for proving my point. That's your answer when confronted by facts. Fail.
But, alas, I expect that from a group who:
1. Says openly that facts won't govern their campaign.
2. You largest state group wants to amend curriculum to remove all critical thinking
I'd say those two things completely calls in to question everything the Right does and will claim this cycle. It is a shame the American people must, because of their own words, start with the assumption that the GOP is lying to you. How proud we are of what we've become.
Lying has become so ingrained into the conservatives’ national dialogue that they are now dangerously demagogic or, worse, severely unhinged. Blind rage at the election of Barack Obama has wrecked a once great political party. Its leaders have made so many deals with the devil in their almost pathological obsession with unseating Obama that they have pushed the GOP into its own version of political hell – unable to speak truths to their now-rabid and conspiracy-addled base and unable to right the party back onto a path of responsibility.
One in six Americans is receiving help from the government, just as fiscal austerity threatens to reduce some of that aid
A record one in six Americans is on Medicaid, the government's health program for the poor, according to USA Today. And Medicaid is just one of several government anti-poverty programs that have seen large increases in caseloads and in costs.
So it's perhaps unsurprising that more than 50 million Americans are now on Medicaid, up by at least 7 million people, or 17% since the recession began in December 2007, USA Today's research shows. Also not surprising is the fact that the federal government's outlays on Medicaid jumped 36% in the past two years to $273 billion.
t is just getting sad now. In April the number of people not in the labor force rose by a whopping 522,000 from 87,897,000 to 88,419,000. This is the highest on record. The flip side, and the reason why the unemployment dropped to 8.1% is that the labor force participation rate just dipped to a new 30 year low of 64.3%.
Total student debt outstanding appears to have surpassed $1 trillion late last year, said officials at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,
online.wsj.com...