stop lying (whether intentional or not)
Obama took office on Jan 20th 2009 and the UE rate at that time was 7.80%
Obama was re-elected in Nov 12 and the UW rate at that time was 7.70%
We'll ignore the OBVIOUS FACT that the UE rate was 8.2% in Feb 09 ( I'm sure you think he should have had a handle on UE by then - shit he had been in office for almost 4 weeks by that time)
http://ycharts.com/indicators/unemployment_rate
You mean stop telling the truth:
The unemployment rate – currently at 8.6 percent – has remained above Obama’s promised target of 8 percent for his entire presidency. It stood at 7.6 percent in January 2009, when Obama took office on Jan. 20. It was 8.1 percent in February 2009.http://cnsnews.com/news/article/dnc-chair-falsely-claims-unemployment-has-not-increased-under-obamaAnd by the time of the 2012 election, unemployment was supposed to be around 5.5%.
Regarding the deficit - it was projected by the CBO to be 1.2 trillion for 2009 and that's BEFORE Obama took office and of course you failed to admit that Obama was dealing with a Bush Budget for that year even though he was the POTUS
The FACT is that the deficit has dropped every year since 2009
If you start with 1.2T and end with 1.2T, that is a net deficit of......ZERO.
And, lest you forget, he was supposed to cut the deficit IN HALF by the end of his first term. Dropping it, at best, by a few billion is NOT cutting it in half (even using the graph you provided).
Of course, since you think Obama hiking taxes then lowering them back to their previous levels is a tax cut, it's little surprise you think that keeping the deficit AT THE EXACT SAME level as it was when he took office equate to lowering the deficit.
Regarding the credit downgrade the rating agencies said it was specifically due to the GRIDLOCK in Washington and the majority of the country knows who is responsible for that
Yet, the CATO Institute that actually studied the problem (not the low-information voters, led by the fact-distorting media) cited BOTH PARTIES for the problem: One for not raising taxes; the other for not cutting spending.
So, once again, you're completely wrong about everything but I understand you need to believe shit that is simply not true in order to deal with reality
Try again, Straw.
I deal with reality on a regular basis. And unfortunately, I will deal with the reality of misguided folks like you, who foolishly re-elected a guy who failed on virtually every economic promise he made to the American people, namely:
- Keeping unemployment under 8%
- Not raising taxes on the middle class
- Cutting the deficit in HALF by his first term's end
- Shovel-ready jobs (by his own admission, they weren't as shovel-ready as he'd hoped).
- Fixing the economy in three years
- Immigration reform, in his first year of his first term
- 5.5% unemployment by 2012's end.
And, that's just the short list.