Obama's first year by the numbers

[DarrinS]

From http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DA7L580&show_article=1



7,949.09—Dow Jones Industrial Average close on Jan. 20, 2009.

10,609.65—Dow Jones Industrial Average close on Jan. 15, 2010.

13 million—Number of people 16 and older unemployed as of January 2009.

14.7 million—Number of people 16 and older unemployed as of December 2009.

7.7 percent—Unemployment rate January 2009

10.0 percent—Unemployment rate December 2009

$787 billion—Cost of economic stimulus approved by Congress.

$10.6 trillion—Outstanding public debt Jan. 20, 2009.

$12.3 trillion—Outstanding public debt Jan. 14, 2009.

$296.4 billion—Federal spending from the financial crisis bailout fund before Jan. 20, 2009.

$173 billion—Federal spending from the financial crisis bailout fund after Jan. 20, 2009.

$165 billion—Amount of bailout funds repaid by banks and automakers.

139—Bank failures between Jan. 20, 2009, and Jan. 14, 2010.

274,399—Number of properties that received forclosure-related notices in January 2009.

349,519—Number of properties that received forclosure-related notices in December 2009.

34,400—U.S. troops in Afghanistan in January 2009.

70,000—U.S. troops in Afghanistan as of Jan. 12, 2010.

319—U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan from January 2009 through Jan. 15, 2010.

139,500—U.S. troops in Iraq in January 2009.

111,000—U.S. troops in Iraq as of Jan. 12, 2010.

152—U.S. military deaths in Iraq from January 2009 through Jan. 15, 2010.

539—Appointments to top federal policy positions submitted to the Senate

352—Appointments confirmed by the Senate.

180—Appointments in top policy positions carried over from the Bush administration.

12—Formal news conferences.

21—Foreign countries visited.

29—States visited.

10—Visits to Camp David.

2—Vacations.

[Bender]

$10.6 trillion—Outstanding public debt Jan. 20, 2009.

$12.3 trillion—Outstanding public debt Jan. 14, 2009.
fix your date... 1/14/2010

[jack sommerset]

Obama needs to be fired.

[Nbadan]

for what? The Bush recession?

[Jacob1983]

If I met Obama, I would ask him how long he's going to use the "its Bush's fault" or "I inherited this mess from Bush". When is Barry going to take some responsibility for his actions? When is he going to own up to his mistakes and failures as president?

[boutons_deux]

The right-wing lying machine continues its destructive, polarizing labors of love.

Magic Negro has spent his first year totally pre-occupied with shit handed to him by dubya and dickhead. Shit that right-wing lying machine is now saying it 100% Magic Negro's responsibility for causing.

Right-wing noise is nothing if not continually appealing to total dumb-fuck, red-state bubba, racist ignorance.

[clambake]

If I met Obama, I would ask him how long he's going to use the "its Bush's fault" or "I inherited this mess from Bush". When is Barry going to take some responsibility for his actions? When is he going to own up to his mistakes and failures as president?

when are you going to clean up aisle 4?

[TDMVPDPOY]

obama inherited this shit, just like every other fkn leader out there who took govt that year...all inherited someshit thats out of their control

compare the stimulus handouts obama signed with bush, even when he left govt he sign one last check....

[George Gervin's Afro]

obama inherited this shit, just like every other fkn leader out there who took govt that year...all inherited someshit thats out of their control

compare the stimulus handouts obama signed with bush, even when he left govt he sign one last check....

no, obama owns all of this now. it took 8 yrs to get into this mess but Obama must clean it up in 10 months or less... it's convenient to forget how long it took us to get where we are.

[cool cat]

What I want to see is what the numbers were on January 1st 2007 right before the Dems took over congress.

[baseline bum]

no, obama owns all of this now. it took 8 yrs to get into this mess but Obama must clean it up in 10 months or less... it's convenient to forget how long it took us to get where we are.

I gave Obama a year, but every reform he has promised has been a monumental fuck-up, from giving the credit companies extra time to jack up their rates, to keeping the status quo in the financial sector, to watering health reform down to essentially welfare for the insurance companies, and so on. Bush gave him a horrible situation no doubt, but Obama has done absolutely nothing to fix it and some of his solutions (i.e, the senate health bill he's cheerleading for) seem worse than the problems (which is saying a lot, considering how broken our current healthcare system already is).

[DarkReign]

^ rack.

[George Gervin's Afro]

I gave Obama a year, but every reform he has promised has been a monumental fuck-up, from giving the credit companies extra time to jack up their rates, to keeping the status quo in the financial sector, to watering health reform down to essentially welfare for the insurance companies, and so on. Bush gave him a horrible situation no doubt, but Obama has done absolutely nothing to fix it and some of his solutions (i.e, the senate health bill he's cheerleading for) seem worse than the problems (which is saying a lot, considering how broken our current healthcare system already is).

Don't get me wrong I have never stated that he's done a great job rather he hasn't been as bad as the dead enders have complained about.

[baseline bum]

Don't get me wrong I have never stated that he's done a great job rather he hasn't been as bad as the dead enders have complained about.

I think he's been spectacularly bad. He has the one chance our country has had for decades to reform our corrupt healthcare system, and his decision is to expand the horribly inefficient status-quo by making buying into it mandatory? That's the last straw for me, and he will not get my vote in 2012.

[George Gervin's Afro]

I think he's been spectacularly bad. He has the one chance our country has had for decades to reform our corrupt healthcare system, and his decision is to expand the horribly inefficient status-quo by making buying into it mandatory? That's the last straw for me, and he will not get my vote in 2012.


I'm not a fan of the mandatory buy in either..for the record.. I do agree that he had an opportunity but, like bush, he catered to his base and that is where the problems began. In my opinion the far right and left base of each party should be ignored.

[Jacob1983]

I ain't cleanin up shit. I don't get paid enough to clean shit up. Janitors make more than I do. Sad but true. We are in the Obama administration years now. The Bush administration is over. It was over when Obama was sworn in as president. People need to get the fuck over Bush. Obama is the man in charge now. He needs to step up to the fuckin' plate and do his job. If he didn't want all of this responsibility, then he should haven't been elected. You have to take the good with the bad, Barry. Obama knew that Bush fucked up America while he was president. Obama knew what kind of shit he was getting into. It's just sad that Obama has to be a crying bitch and blame everything on Bush all the time.

[TeyshaBlue]

From http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DA7L580&show_article=1



7,949.09—Dow Jones Industrial Average close on Jan. 20, 2009.

10,609.65—Dow Jones Industrial Average close on Jan. 15, 2010.

13 million—Number of people 16 and older unemployed as of January 2009.

14.7 million—Number of people 16 and older unemployed as of December 2009.

7.7 percent—Unemployment rate January 2009

10.0 percent—Unemployment rate December 2009

$787 billion—Cost of economic stimulus approved by Congress.

$10.6 trillion—Outstanding public debt Jan. 20, 2009.

$12.3 trillion—Outstanding public debt Jan. 14, 2009.

$296.4 billion—Federal spending from the financial crisis bailout fund before Jan. 20, 2009.

$173 billion—Federal spending from the financial crisis bailout fund after Jan. 20, 2009.

$165 billion—Amount of bailout funds repaid by banks and automakers.

139—Bank failures between Jan. 20, 2009, and Jan. 14, 2010.

274,399—Number of properties that received forclosure-related notices in January 2009.

349,519—Number of properties that received forclosure-related notices in December 2009.

34,400—U.S. troops in Afghanistan in January 2009.

70,000—U.S. troops in Afghanistan as of Jan. 12, 2010.

319—U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan from January 2009 through Jan. 15, 2010.

139,500—U.S. troops in Iraq in January 2009.

111,000—U.S. troops in Iraq as of Jan. 12, 2010.

152—U.S. military deaths in Iraq from January 2009 through Jan. 15, 2010.

539—Appointments to top federal policy positions submitted to the Senate

352—Appointments confirmed by the Senate.

180—Appointments in top policy positions carried over from the Bush administration.

12—Formal news conferences.

21—Foreign countries visited.

29—States visited.

10—Visits to Camp David.

2—Vacations.

Overall relevance factor: .000000000125

[j.dizzle]

LOL in 3 years we'll still be hearing "We inherited this mess"..Its getting old mang.

[Winehole23]

It's true mang.

[Winehole23]

But it is old.

[Wild Cobra]

for what? The Bush recession?
Why is this the Bush recession?

Why wasn't 2001 the Clinton recession?

Why wasn't 1981 the Carter recession?

Funny how all three had democrats running congress....

I'd say they are all democrat recessions!

[Winehole23]

House and Senate were Republican until 2006.

[Winehole23]

There's a little hitch in yer git along, WC.

[doobs]

House and Senate were Republican until 2006.

There was a hiccup with Jeffords giving Democrats control of the Senate in 2001.

[Winehole23]

yeah. that was awhile back.

[Winehole23]

Good catch doobs.

[doobs]

Good catch doobs.

No prob---though I think this kind of inquiry is misguided. Rather than point the finger at who was "in charge" at some time, it'd be better to analyze and put into context actual policies and economic data.

[Mr. Peabody]

Why is this the Bush recession?

Why wasn't 2001 the Clinton recession?

Why wasn't 1981 the Carter recession?

Funny how all three had democrats running congress....

I'd say they are all democrat recessions!

Actually, Bush was still calling it the Clinton recession in 2002 . . . .


Bush says he inherited recession
Bush, Cheney take advantage of revised GDP data to say economy a mess when they took office.

August 7, 2002: 6:04 PM EDT
By Mark Gongloff, CNN/Money Staff Writer

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Although last week's revision of U.S. gross domestic product data for 2001 may have been old news for the economy, it was something of a stroke of luck for President Bush, who has since used it as evidence that he inherited an economic mess when he took office.

Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, in separate speeches Wednesday, both claimed the U.S. economy was already in recession when they were inaugurated in January 2001, implying the blame for the slowdown rested on President Clinton's shoulders.

Both men also made assurances that they had a handle on the problems facing the economy.

"When I took office, our economy was beginning a recession," Bush said in a speech at a Mississippi high school. "Then our economy was hit by terrorists. Then our economy was hit by corporate scandals. But I'm certain of this: We won't let fear undermine our economy and we're not going to let fraud undermine it either."

. . . .

[TDMVPDPOY]

htf are you going to clear 12 trillion in debt in one year?

only if america starts growing its own substance and sellin it out wholesale

[TeyshaBlue]

No prob---though I think this kind of inquiry is misguided. Rather than point the finger at who was "in charge" at some time, it'd be better to analyze and put into context actual policies and economic data.

But..but...that's too hard! And you just cant find that cogent analysis on blogs! :depressed

[Def Rowe]

Actually, Bush was still calling it the Clinton recession in 2002 . . . .

I don't think that guy ever knows wtf he's talking about.

[Wild Cobra]

House and Senate were Republican until 2006.
Technically true.

However, as you know, I don't count RINO's as republicans.

[Supergirl]

Republican strategy: Do our best to destroy the country and then sit back while the people vote the Democrats into power to try and clean up their mess. Then blame the Democrats for not getting it cleaned up faster, conveniently denying who broke everything in the house in the first place.

[possessed]

Republican strategy: Do our best to destroy the country and then sit back while the people vote the Democrats into power to try and clean up their mess. Then blame the Democrats for not getting it cleaned up faster, conveniently denying who broke everything in the house in the first place.

And they all gather at the death star where they unhatch their evil conspiracies whilst feasting on newborn babies alongside Satan, Simon Cowell and the ghost of Hitler.

Myopic much?

[panic giraffe]

I ain't cleanin up shit. I don't get paid enough to clean shit up. Janitors make more than I do. Sad but true. We are in the Obama administration years now. The Bush administration is over. It was over when Obama was sworn in as president. People need to get the fuck over Bush. Obama is the man in charge now. He needs to step up to the fuckin' plate and do his job. If he didn't want all of this responsibility, then he should haven't been elected. You have to take the good with the bad, Barry. Obama knew that Bush fucked up America while he was president. Obama knew what kind of shit he was getting into. It's just sad that Obama has to be a crying bitch and blame everything on Bush all the time.


hahaha no wonder you don't have a real job, and you have a degree, right? sad.

by using the flawed logic you have, any company that spirals downward would never have sound management. a new manager would come, things would be the same while new company policies would be in put to work, then the guy would be put out to dry for not fixing it fast enough.

and if you ever see the guy talk and not just whatever clips glen beck plays for you, he made it pretty clear "it's going to get worse before it gets better".

the guy before always gets the blame in politics if things are going south. hell dana perino practically said that 9/11 happened during the clinton years just a couple of months ago. so get over it.

[coyotes_geek]

Republican strategy: Do our best to destroy the country and then sit back while the people vote the Democrats into power to try and clean up their mess. Then blame the Democrats for not getting it cleaned up faster, conveniently denying who broke everything in the house in the first place.

Correction.

republican strategy = democrat strategy = say whatever will get you into power, give your team 100% of the credit for anything good, give the other team 100% of the blame for anything bad

[Jacob1983]

Panic giraffe, so my job is not real? You have no idea what you're talking about so just shut the fuck up. You don't know anything about me too. And don't act like you know me so well. Oh yeah, I do have a fucking college degree. Do you have one? Do some research and get your facts right before you start judging me, dickhead.

[Nbadan]

Republican strategy: Do our best to destroy the country and then sit back while the people vote the Democrats into power to try and clean up their mess. Then blame the Democrats for not getting it cleaned up faster, conveniently denying who broke everything in the house in the first place.

No doubt...what a colossal failure the GOP strategy of further tax-cuts would have been....the Bush tax cuts did little to stimulate private job growth during a economic expansion...

[panic giraffe]

Panic giraffe, so my job is not real? You have no idea what you're talking about so just shut the fuck up. You don't know anything about me too. And don't act like you know me so well. Oh yeah, I do have a fucking college degree. Do you have one? Do some research and get your facts right before you start judging me, dickhead.

mwahahaha butthurt much?

[Jacob1983]

I will ask you again. Do you have a degree and do you have a real job or do you orgasm by talking shit about people who you don't know anything about?

[SA210]

I gave Obama a year, but every reform he has promised has been a monumental fuck-up, from giving the credit companies extra time to jack up their rates, to keeping the status quo in the financial sector, to watering health reform down to essentially welfare for the insurance companies, and so on. Bush gave him a horrible situation no doubt, but Obama has done absolutely nothing to fix it and some of his solutions (i.e, the senate health bill he's cheerleading for) seem worse than the problems (which is saying a lot, considering how broken our current healthcare system already is).

[TeyshaBlue]

Republican strategy: Do our best to destroy the country and then sit back while the people vote the Democrats into power to try and clean up their mess. Then blame the Democrats for not getting it cleaned up faster, conveniently denying who broke everything in the house in the first place.

Supergirl strategy: Fling vapid reductions against the wall and hope something sticks.

[TeyshaBlue]

No doubt...what a colossal failure the GOP strategy of further tax-cuts would have been....the Bush tax cuts did little to stimulate private job growth during a economic expansion...

You know that what you said makes absolutely zero sense, right?

When you have an economic expansion, you generally have job growth. How can you differentiate job growth from expansion vs. tax cuts? Linkage would be nice before you just pull something outta your ass and proclaim it gospel.

[SnakeBoy]

No doubt...what a colossal failure the GOP strategy of further tax-cuts would have been....the Bush tax cuts did little to stimulate private job growth during a economic expansion...

Some democrats are pushing for Obama to propose further tax cuts to try and save the dems asses. I think he'll do it and when he does I think you will say what great policy it is.

[panic giraffe]

I will ask you again. Do you have a degree and do you have a real job or do you orgasm by talking shit about people who you don't know anything about?


yes to all.


oh, and can i get a price check on "shut the fuck up and get over it already, that was like two fucking days ago moron"? thanks, you should be employee of the month.

[Nbadan]

When you have an economic expansion, you generally have job growth. How can you differentiate job growth from expansion vs. tax cuts? Linkage would be nice before you just pull something outta your ass and proclaim it gospel.

In 2001, the Bush tax-cuts amounted to a 1.35 trillion redistribution of wealth to the very rich and corporations...

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/02/13/1795170.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

[Nbadan]

More bang for your buck?


http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2009/01/bang-for-the-buck.jpg

[florige]

The right-wing lying machine continues its destructive, polarizing labors of love.

Magic Negro has spent his first year totally pre-occupied with shit handed to him by dubya and dickhead. Shit that right-wing lying machine is now saying it 100% Magic Negro's responsibility for causing.

Right-wing noise is nothing if not continually appealing to total dumb-fuck, red-state bubba, racist ignorance.



Yeah but all they are worried about are the independents buying their load of shit.

[Marcus Bryant]

Naturally our government should be determined by what stimulates expenditures the most, or to which we can apply the largest multiplier. Liberty be damned. Great fucking argument. Let's just bend over for the Fortune 500 now.

[Marcus Bryant]

In 2001, the Bush tax-cuts amounted to a 1.35 trillion redistribution of wealth to the very rich and corporations...

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/02/13/1795170.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

Wouldn't that be a re-re-distribution, tard?

[spursncowboys]

Republican strategy: Do our best to destroy the country and then sit back while the people vote the Democrats into power to try and clean up their mess. Then blame the Democrats for not getting it cleaned up faster, conveniently denying who broke everything in the house in the first place.

Is this the broom analogy?

[Jacob1983]

panic giraffe, so how is your job real and mine is fake? I work 5 days a week and get paid every 2 weeks. I also get benefits so please tell me how my job isn't real since you're an expert on my job and me?