The U.S. Unemployment Rate was 5.0% in December, 2007. It was 8.6% in November 2011.


Several days ago this administration claimed that extending unemployment would create approximately 600,000 JOBS!! Can someone please explain to me how, if you allow people to stay on unemployment it will create more jobs?
Oh maybe they meant that if you keep Americans on Unemployment it will create 600,000 jobs overseas. Oh, I get it now. I see.


The Dow Jones was at 13,371.72 on November 30, 2007. On November 25, 2011 it closed at 11,231.78

In between the above dates this is what took place :

On August 22, 2008 the Dow closed at 11,628.06. On August 25th 2008 Barack Obama received the democratic nomination and the very next day the dow dropped almost 400 points. On Wednesday November 5th, the day after Barack Obama was elected president, the Dow fell sharply dropping 513 points. So yes, it has climbed back up since HIS being nominated and then elected obviously caused it to drop.

US Retail Gas Price Dec. 31, 2008 : $1.61 per gallon

In 2010 President Obama imposed a moratorium on offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. by December of 2010 the retail price for gas shot up to $2.98 per gallon.

US Retail Gas Price Dec. 12, 2011 : $3.35 per gallon

More than DOUBLED since he took office!

A record 2.82 million US homes faced foreclosure in 2009 jumping 21 percent from 2008 and 120 percent from 2007! By the end of 2010 the U.S. Foreclosure Market Report showed approximately 3.8 million foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions.

2011 has produced a record number of people defaulting on government-backed mortgages. Washington is sitting on nearly a third of the nation’s 800,000 repossessed houses, making the U.S. taxpayer the largest owner of foreclosed properties.

Wasn't it Jon Corzine who this President picked to be his trusted financial adviser?

Where has this economy been stimulated?

Who's economy has he helped to stimulate? China's?... which now owns about 30% of the U.S. because of their holding of our increasing debt under this administration.

As a person who loves this country, I sincerely wanted to see this president succeed in all he claimed that he would be able to do. I love this country and would never want our leader, no matter what political affiliation they may be, to fail.

But at this point, after almost 3 years in office, this President talked a good game...but is turning out to be a miserable failure. It's a shame and I only hope and pray that things will get better for many people in this country, even by his own hand so that I can say that I was wrong about him. I sincerely hope that he proves me wrong by the end of his term.

Unfortunately I just don't see it happening.