Just the Facts, Ma'am

At a New Year's party yesterday, a dear friend of mine went on and on and on about what a wonderful job President Obama is doing.  (His performance would be even better, I was told, if it weren't for those obstructionist Republicans.)  Wisely, I kept mum.

We can have our own opinions.  We cannot, however, have our own facts.  Here are some.

Every day, the U.S. government takes in $6 billion and spends $10 billion. This means that every day the federal government spends $4 billion more dollars than it has.

The real unemployment rate is a jaw-dropping 11 percent.

Every fifth man you pass on your way to work is now out of work.

College graduates are now 34% less likely to find a job under Obama than they were under President George W. Bush.

Every seventh person you pass on the sidewalk now relies on food stamps.

The ravages of the Obama economy now mean that more Americans live under the federal poverty line than at any time in U.S. history since records have been kept.

Under President Barack Obama, every fifth child in America now lives in poverty.

These are not partisan jabs, manufactured statistics, or ideological swipes. These are mathematical facts. And the presidential candidate who can most clearly and credibly articulate them—and their concomitant solutions—is bound to win.

Comments

[jammen]

"We can have our own opinions. We cannot, however, have our own facts."

Hey, that's always been my line to you. You can't steal it.

p.s. The big winner of Iowa was Barack Obama.

[Peg]

You may be correct that "the big winner was Barack Obama."

But if you don't think that that is an opinion..... what can I say? LOL!