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? asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 8 years ago

Can a Republican give me some facts?

What facts do you have to support the statement "Obama is destroying America"?

Update:

Can we try for some FACTS? Not pot shots, suppositions or generalizations, please.

Update 2:

Can we try for some FACTS? Not pot shots, suppositions or generalizations, please.

Update 3:

Unless I am mistaken, I think that the debt, foreign aid, missile defense cuts and renewal of the Patriot Act are the purview of Congress. The President has nothing to do with gas prices; that's the free market. What is Obama doing to shrink the middle class? The rest of the assertions fall into the category of my first post.

Update 4:

Stimulus is also Congress.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    YOU CAN"T HANDLE THE FACTS.

    My apologies to Jack Nickleson.

  • 8 years ago

    Here are some links, and explanations of of them (I think you will agree most of the sources are impeccable).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Competitivenes... (US competitiveness vis a vis the rest of the world has declined since the Democrats took both houses of congress in 2007)

    http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000 (in terms of jobs we are now in the 1970's - see historical function)

    Contrast with:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzqlH60sSCI

    http://www.people-press.org/2013/01/31/trust-in-go... (The public distrusts the federal government more than ever - lots of graphs here, check them out.)

    http://www.usdebtclock.org/ (everyone is tightening their budget, except the Federal Government - spending more than you take in is not tightening.) Compare this to a successful handling of a recession:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_of_1920%E2...

    Given that the government will not reduce spending, and, the shrinking jobs market, I can only believe that concerning the economy, Obama trying to bring about a variant of the Cloward and Piven strategy:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven...

  • 8 years ago

    The main problem is the economy. Before him, we were in $14 trillion in debt (which is still a huge amount), but now we are $70 trillion in debt. His presidency isn't even over yet. Also, he threatened congress that if they don't pass a law, that he would spend 600 billion dollars and cut 750,000 jobs in the military and border control. They didn't do that, so he had to follow up with his blackmail scheme. He is thinking about taking away our guns and legalizing gay marraige. Also, he supports abortions. The only thing he did that was good was let the military do what they want to do. Since he did this, some of the biggest terrorists in the world were assassinated, but it cost us a fortune. Obamacare is taxing the rich people and giving it to the poor people so they can have medicare. I do understand how some people aren't able to work, but we are just giving it to lazy people. I'm only 15, so these are the few things that I can come up with.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Unemployment over 7.5 for over four years

    The rich getting richer, the middle class contracting and the poor getting poorer.

    More people on food stamps than EVER before.

    Gas prices over 3 bucks a gallon since shortly after him taking office and not a thing done about it.

    Christianity under attack on a daily basis, but islam gets a free pass.

    ETC, ETC, ETC.

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    He renewed the Patriot Act. The federal debt is almost $17 trillion. Unemployment is still high.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    Shrinking middle class

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Unemployment rate is about equal to his golf handicap.

  • 8 years ago

    Running up federal debt at a level never seen in history before. his 6.5 mil in debt vs. all the other presidents in history at 6.3

    endorsed and benefitted from systematic violation of election and campaign funding laws

    lending, aiding, and supporting money to terrorists / those against the USA (for example, several months ago $250 mil to the muslim brotherhood)

    our shrinking middle class

    reduced funding for missile defense and is threatening to eliminate the program entirely (If you know anything about national security, you know how important this is)

    ...Those are all facts. Need sources? I know how much you obama lovers love to use google.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    If workforce participation was the same rate today as it was 5 years go, unemployment would be at over 13%.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    He was born in Kenya.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    he has no birthcertificate

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