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I see people blaming President Obama for actions and decisions made, before he was approached for the office of President of the United States.
President Obama is an intelligent man, with fairly good judgement.
He was well informed about the mountain of trouble that he would be taking on.
He knew the that nearly half of the country chose unhinged Senator John McCain
and absolutely crack pated ex Governor Sarah Palin.
And yet, he took the job.
He did not take over a calm economy,with plenty of surplus left over from Bill Clinton. He took over a country teetering over a chasm of disaster.
The past year has consisted of paying attention to trivia, when the people of the United States are suffering from deprivation of the most basic of needs.
The people who are given a paycheck from the government to do a job, and the power to give help to children and mothers, and take sadistic joy in denying it.
/end gsgs comment
Trump is of the opinion that "..we’re a poor country now."
The most glaring mistake is that, unlike after World War II, America is a “poor country now.” This is simply untrue. In 1950, the U.S. economy (gross domestic product) produced $2.2 trillion of goods and services as measured by inflation-adjusted “2009 dollars.” In 2015, U.S. GDP was $16.3 trillion, or more than seven times greater. Eliminating any boost from population growth (a doubling since 1950 to 320 million) still leaves today’s economy nearly four times larger than its 1950 counterpart.
Living standards have moved broadly higher, despite a debate over how much of added income has recently gone to the top 1 percent.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...bbe9fc-f2bd-11e5-85a6-2132cf446d0a_story.html
Corporations are profiting and growing, and the same sneering executives are better off than they were.
It is the people who are living under a system that the corporations have bought and paid for.
President Obama is working within a frame work of what was, and what is.
Thank goodness, there are people assisting him, that know more than trivia.
President Obama took the weight of the world on his shoulders.
So did Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter was not a worldly man.
Jimmy entered the door at age 35.
He looked like an old man, when he left the Whitehouse.
President Obama is an intelligent man, with fairly good judgement.
He was well informed about the mountain of trouble that he would be taking on.
He knew the that nearly half of the country chose unhinged Senator John McCain
and absolutely crack pated ex Governor Sarah Palin.
And yet, he took the job.
He did not take over a calm economy,with plenty of surplus left over from Bill Clinton. He took over a country teetering over a chasm of disaster.
The past year has consisted of paying attention to trivia, when the people of the United States are suffering from deprivation of the most basic of needs.
The people who are given a paycheck from the government to do a job, and the power to give help to children and mothers, and take sadistic joy in denying it.
/end gsgs comment
Trump is of the opinion that "..we’re a poor country now."
The most glaring mistake is that, unlike after World War II, America is a “poor country now.” This is simply untrue. In 1950, the U.S. economy (gross domestic product) produced $2.2 trillion of goods and services as measured by inflation-adjusted “2009 dollars.” In 2015, U.S. GDP was $16.3 trillion, or more than seven times greater. Eliminating any boost from population growth (a doubling since 1950 to 320 million) still leaves today’s economy nearly four times larger than its 1950 counterpart.
Living standards have moved broadly higher, despite a debate over how much of added income has recently gone to the top 1 percent.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...bbe9fc-f2bd-11e5-85a6-2132cf446d0a_story.html
Corporations are profiting and growing, and the same sneering executives are better off than they were.
It is the people who are living under a system that the corporations have bought and paid for.
President Obama is working within a frame work of what was, and what is.
Thank goodness, there are people assisting him, that know more than trivia.
President Obama took the weight of the world on his shoulders.
So did Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter was not a worldly man.
Jimmy entered the door at age 35.
He looked like an old man, when he left the Whitehouse.
