Funny thing, kinda. What I mean by that is the fact that the 8.5 percent unemployment rate announced this past Friday is remarkably close to the rate forecasted by Barry, way back in 2009, if his $825-billion stimulus package was not passed and sent to him for signing. Besides funding myriad government projects and more public employees, the so-called “stimulus” was supposed to keep unemployment below 8 percent. So, what exactly did the spending of nearly a trillion dollars get us? And even at that, knowing as we do the ease with which this administration demonstrates a willingness to manipulate numbers, how do we know this 8.5 is anywhere near accurate? What we do know, and with some degree of certainty, is that the real unemployment figure still remains very firmly in double-digits, and in the very high double-digits for minorities. But don’t expect to hearing or reading about that in the state-controlled media, because such facts are nowhere to be seen. Such information could be considered as being detrimental to Barry’s re-election. How different things would be if he were a Republican.
Anyway, I’m sure you all remember how we were all told that without the implementation of Barry’s magical “stimulus,” unemployment was projected to rise to 8.8 percent by the fourth quarter of 2010. That number came to us courtesy of a report generated by Christina Romer, then the chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisors, and Jared Bernstein, then the chief economist for Vice President “Slow Joe” Biden. “In the absence of stimulus, the economy could lose another 3 to 4 million more [jobs],” said the January 2009 reports coming out of the Obama administration. “Thus, we are working to counter a potential total job loss of at least 5 million. As Figure 1 shows, even with the large prototypical package, the unemployment rate in 2010Q4 is predicted to be approximately 7.0%, which is well below the approximately 8.8% that would result in the absence of a plan.” Well we can now fully recognize that as nothing more than a work of pure fiction. It was a con job perpetrated against the American people, and nothing more. But do enough people really care that their president has so little respect for them?
The present 8.5 percent, if we can believe it, is the lowest rate since February 2009, when Barry “Almighty” first came diddy-boppin into the Oval Office in January of that same years with a 7.8 percent unemployment rate he “inherited” from George W. Bush. However, the unemployment rate has steadily risen since Barry has been in office. “Obviously, we have a lot more work to do,” Barry said on Friday. “But it is important for the American people to recognize we’ve now added 3.2 million new private sector jobs over the last 22 months, nearly 2 million new jobs last year alone. So after shedding jobs for more than a decade, the manufacturing sector is also adding jobs two years in a row now. So we’re making progress. We’re moving in the right direction.” Okay, time for a reality check here, because the truth tells a very different story. You see, since Barry “Almighty” took office, over 1.7 million jobs have been lost. The “official” unemployment rate has remained above 8 percent for 35 months, and the average duration of unemployment has increased from 19.9 weeks to 40.8 weeks, at least according to Barry’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
What’s important for the American people to recognize, is the fact that they have been continually lied to by the man who promised them “Hope and Change.” His dishonesty is surpassed only by the level of his narcissism. And I suppose in some sense it can be considered as being sad, because so many people really did believe all those things he said. But sadder still is the fact that many people, a great number, really don’t care about all of the dishonesty. Because what’s most important to them is they’re continuing ability to get their free money from the government. And it is those people who Barry is relying on to assist him in his re-election effort. And if you can believe some recent polling data it wold appear that those people may be willing to accept any level of dishonesty or corruption as long as that check keeps on coming. To see what the American people have now been reduced to is what forms the basis for the loathing that I have for Barack Hussein Obama. It has been his efforts to “fundamentally transform” our nation that have brought us to the brink of financial and economic collapse. We cannot afford another four years of this guy.
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