Party That Mocked President’s Lack of Experience Favors One with No Experience Whatsoever

Just more Right-wing hypocrisy. The GOP seems to have cornered the hypocrisy market. Is there ever a reason to listen to hypocrites? Naw!

Party That Mocked President’s Lack of Experience Favors One with No Experience Whatsoever
BY ANDY BOROWITZ
CREDITFROM LEFT: TRUMP & FIORINA: DARREN MCCOLLESTER/GETTY; CARSON: ANDREW BURTON/GETTY
(The Borowitz Report)—Republicans, who mercilessly mocked Barack Obama’s lack of government experience before he became President, now favor Presidential candidates with no experience whatsoever, the head of the Republican National Committee has confirmed.

The R.N.C. chief, Reince Priebus, said that he sees “no contradiction at all” between Republicans’ contempt for Obama’s pre-White House résumé, which included eleven years spent in public office, and their rabid enthusiasm for G.O.P. rising stars Donald Trump, Ben Carson, and Carly Fiorina, whose combined years in public office total zero.

 

It wasn't Obama's lack of experience in government that everyone mocked, it was his lack of leadership experience. I must say that those people who were mocking his lack of leadership experience have been vindicated... as the last seven years have proven.

True, proven, concrete leadership experience, in the business world or otherwise, is what this country could use now.

"Hope and change" didn't cut it.

 

Leadership eh? Well, let's take a look back.

FACT: America is in better economic shape than any other major nation on earth.
FACT: Crime is down.
FACT: Abortion rates are down.
FACT: Fourteen million new jobs have been created in five years.

Leadership! It seems that hope and change did work after all.

 

FACT: This is the slowest recovery in the modern era!
FACT: The average wage has decreased under Obama.
FACT: The under/un-employed has gone up under Obama (excluding Texas.
FACT: The poor have suffered the most under Obama.
FACT: The poor have increased under Obama.
FACT: The food stamp recipients have doubled under Obama.
FACT: The murder rates in the democratically controlled cities is going up.
etc. and so on and on and on and on

 

Yeah, and a pig in mud is happy, too. No wonder you and IClueless are so dirty. Ha, ha, ha!!!

 

So your solution is to elect the same folks that caused all the problem in the first place? Ah, the party of personal responsibility wants to blame everyone else for their fuck ups. Nice try.

 

Sorry if actual facts aren't to your liking.

 

Obama build that!

Jobless rate for Obama's ‪#‎SOTU‬ speeches:
2016: 5.0
2015: 5.7
2014: 6.6
2013: 7.7
2012: 8.3
2011: 9.1
2010: 9.8

 

I can't believe you are delusional enough to actually believe what you posted here, so I have concluded you just did it to get a rise out of us.

 

Please offer any evidence you can to prove me wrong. Here's a hint, you can't. Facts aren't disputable.

 

Sorry, but the jobless rate is 9.9%. The unemployment rate as the government calculates is 5.0%

 

And your solution is to continue on the coarse that brought us this disaster?

 

The exact same way the government has always calculated the unemployment rate.

Imagine how high the "actual" unemployment rate was under the Republicans.

 

“But there is another set of government statistics,” Sanders continued, “and that that real unemployment if you include those people who have given up looking for work and the millions of others who are working part-time 20, 25 hours a week when they want to work full-time, when you all of that together, real unemployment is 10.5 percent.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/06/b...double-the-official-rate-video/#ixzz3x95peV7x

 

Damn. 10.5%. I didn't realize it was THAT high. Is Bernie right about that?

 

The truth Republicans can't live with...

Job Creation Still On The Rise Under Obama- Unemployment Rate At 15-Yr Low
JANUARY 9TH, 2016 TIM KELLER ECONOMYr

The US unemployment rate has dropped to 5 percent, the lowest it’s been since 2001, according to a study released by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. For the 70th month in a row, the U.S. unemployment rate has fallen, and with it the hearts of Republicans desperately grasping for talking points.

The news must be welcome for President Obama, who despite entering office during a major recession, has struggled against deceptive and sometimes blatantly false assertions from the right about the impact of his presidency on the economy. The culmination of these claims was in February 2015, when presidential candidate Ted Cruz stated in a CNN interview that 92 million Americans aren’t working. And he was technically correct.

It’s a shocking statistic, but it’s deceptive in that it doesn’t take into account the actual spirit of what tracking unemployment is about. For starters, the Labor Department only treats citizens as unemployed if they’re actively looking for employment, and that’s certainly not the case with nearly a third of the country. So what exactly was going on?

Cruz’s figure comes from a Labor Department report released last year and represents people considered “not in the labor force”. This includes everyone in the country who’s not working for whatever reason. Stay at home parents compose a large chunk of this figure, as do the disabled or ill. The bulk of this number is made of roughly 41 million retirees, over 10 million of whom are over 80. 15 million students and even babies are significant contributors to Cruz’s increasingly delusional-looking statistic, too.

That’s right. Ted Cruz thinks your toddler and your grandma should both get off their butt and contribute to the labor force. That, or he’s tossing out irrelevant figures in a ploy to scare people into thinking a Cruz presidency is a good idea. I’ll leave it to you to decide between those two options.

Aside from being the unofficial point at which conservatives are going to need to find something else to pout at the camera and bemoan the state of, 5% unemployment is a milestone for another reason. According to a majority of economic models, it represents our country being near “full employment”. This is a threshold in economics where the negative effects of unemployment are minimized and unemployment is at a level to be expected from a healthy economy. A country enjoying “full employment” might have a large contingent of highly skilled workers looking for an ideal job, for example. This, in turn, is good for employers seeking such workers in highly competitive, specialized, or high-performance fields.

So what does all this mean for the common citizen, aside from a much less stressful election season? Low unemployment rates can mean a number of things, but the prognosis for the American economy is tentatively good. A massive spike in folks leaving the work force due to retirement between 60 and 70 means that a majority of citizens have the financial resources to take care of themselves in their old age. Percentages of young adults pursuing and completing higher education are on the rise, too. A fact made all the more impressive by the rapidly increasing costs of college in recent years.

This current employment statistic is encouraging for the future of our country, although there are still millions out there who can’t find work and need it. Nonetheless, conservatives are rapidly running out of stuff to be angry at our current administration about. That can only be a good thing in an election year when the GOP candidates range in quality from “I’m moving to Canada” to “I’m seeking political asylum in Norway”.

 

Sorry, but Senator Cruz made a mistake. The figure is actually 120 million. BTW, that figure comes from the United States Department of Labor.

 

I like the way you try and sound like you actually know what the hell you're talking about. It's cute in dirty old man kind of way.

 

Is Bernie right? Is the unemployment rate REALLY 10.5% like he says...?

 

That is U-6 from the DOL;

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics measurements U1, U2, U3, U4, U5 and U6. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)