1. The stock market has boomed and unless someone is a chimpanzee or has a chimpanzee as an "advisor" they've done very well.
2. US corporations are more profitable than ever and distributing those profits as dividends.
3. Osama bin Laden is dead
4. The auto industry is alive and well
5. We have the start of a national health system - now we just need to get the insurance companies out of it.
6. We didn't go to war in Libya
7. We won't go to war in Syria
8. We stayed out of Egypt
9. We won't attack Iran, a nation that has never attacked anyone
10 We have our foreign creds restored.
11. Our economy didn't tank
12. Jobs are coming back, slowly, but they're coming back.
13. al Queda operatives are getting killed on a weekly basis.
The right-wing denies and wants to reverse all this. Plus add women-hating agendas. The right-wing must hate profitable US companies.
First I'd like to ask how Gnomoron could think of responding to a thread I started when he is supposedly ignoring me? What else would I expect from a ball-less liar?
1) The DJIA is still almost 1000 points below it's all time high reached in Oct 2008. Adjust for inflation and the picture is even worse.
2) Corporate profits were higher as a percentage of GDP in 1952 than they are now. Obama's hidden inflation in the midst of a severe recession skews this too. Profits have largely increased as a result of outsourcing of higher wage jobs which flourished after Bill Clinton signed NAFTA. Bush and Obama continued to sign free trade agreements which cost us more than they benefitted us.
3) Osama bin Ladin is dead... thanks to intelligence garnered through waterboarding of Khalid Sheik Mohammed... a technique that Obama vehemently opposed. If Obama had his way on waterboarding, bin Ladin would've died of old age. Bush deserves much more of the credit for the success of this op than Obama.
4) The auto industry is a shadow of it's former self. American made parts content has dropped below 45% vs. 65% 4 years ago. New workers now start at less than $15.00/hr. vs almost twice that 4 yrs. ago. They now must fund their own 401K out of their $30K annual wages. The pension plans are a thing of the past. GM is struggling and hasn't came close to paying back TARP money. They probably never will. Obama's taxpayer funded gift to the UAW.
5) Health care costs are still rising far beyond the general rate of inflation. Hiring is stagnant because of the uncertainties and burdens Obama-care has placed on them. We are still paying for health care costs of illegals.
6), 7), and 8) Thanks to our brilliant Kenyan foreign policy, the Arab Spring has proliferated the influence of radical Shia power. Think Hezbollah and the nut cases who run Iran.
9) Glad you brought up Iran. They have doubled the number of centrifuges used to enrich uranium. They want to wipe Israel off the map, and when they block the Strait of Hormuz, $4.00/gallon gas will seem like the good old days. Only a stupid liberal liar could think our dealings with Iran's pursuit of nukes has been intelligent.
10) Foreign creds restored? Everyone likes a push-over. They're laughing at us! Remember, Obama will have more latitude to give more to Putin if he wins re-election.
11) Economy didn't tank? What are you smoking?
12) Jobs are not coming back. The few that have been created are mostly low wage-no benefits type jobs. The rate of increase is not even keeping up with population growth of new workers TRYING to enter the workforce. REAL unemployment numbers are probably twice what they are telling us. Unemployed who have ran out of benefits, underemployed, and workers who have given up and gone on welfare are not counted.
13) al Qaeda operatives are indeed being killed as well they should. Bush didn't go into Iraq to fight them. They came to Iraq to fight us. Bush also did take the fight to them in Afghanistan. He went in to Iraq because Saddam was violating U.N. sanctions and he claimed to have WMD. Leading Democrats agreed he had WMD, and that we had to stop him. Unfortunately, we gave him almost a year to hide those WMD, and no doubt, some of the chemical weapons we are now concerned about in Syria came from Iraq. Saddam absolutely did have WMD, and the Polish Army contingent of the coalition found artillary shells loaded with cyclosarin in Iraq in 2004. The liberal press did as much as they could to hide this fact.
Now Gnomoron, where are these woman hating agendas? The real hate for women (and men, and minorities) is to keep them bound by the failed economic policies of Obama. Figures lie and liars figure. And Gnomoron is the biggest liar we are likely to ever encounter on this forum.
I'll have a new Merkel please. Box lock, 12 bore, minimal engraving, nothing fancy. 