I’ve said before that numbers don’t lie, politicians do, and well, here we go again.
Just recently President Barack Obama gave this ridiculous statement in a New York Times interview with Andrew Sorkin, “I actually compare our economic performance to how, historically, countries that have wrenching financial crises perform. By that measure, we probably managed this better than any large economy on Earth in modern history.” And in responding to the criticism coming from Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Obama responded, “It has frustrated me only insofar as it has shaped the political debate,” he said. “We were moving so fast early on that we couldn’t take victory laps. We couldn’t explain everything we were doing. I mean, one day we’re saving the banks; the next day we’re saving the auto industry; the next day we’re trying to see whether we can have some impact on the housing market.”
Sorry President Obama. If I may paraphrase a line from Tom Hanks in the movie “A League of Their Own,” there is no whining in being president. It’s been almost seven-and-a-half years and there’s no one else with whom to find blame than yourself and your own economic policies, which by all indications have and are failing. Dodd-Frank hasn’t saved the banking industry – as a matter of fact, it has only solidified the “too big to fail” mantra as it has forced the collapse of our small community bank market – the lifeblood to small businesses. Ford automotive did just fine without any taxpayer-funded bailout. By all indications, we still have large issues with our housing market and a mild resurgence of the issues that caused the problem in the first place — government intervention into a private sector. And Obamacare certainly hasn’t been a success. The costs are way over $1 trillion — and we shared with you the recent decision by United Healthcare, the nation’s largest healthcare company, to drop out of the Obamacare exchanges due to massive losses — something like $1 billion.
Here are the real numbers about the Obama economy, not the inane rhetoric. As shared by Gateway Pundit, “On Thursday the Commerce Department announced that the U.S. economy expanded at the slowest pace in two years. GDP growth rose at an anemic 0.5 percent rate after a paltry 1.4 percent fourth quarter advance. Ronald Reagan brought forth an annual real GDP growth of 3.5 percent. Barack Obama will be lucky to average a 1.55 percent GDP growth rate. This ranks Obama as the fourth worst presidency on record.