The Obama presidency in numbers

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KPO

Wednesday, July 27, 2016 5:49 AM

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So how has the country been doing during President Obama's term in office? Here's a scattering of indicators and how they've changed from 2008 (the last year of the Bush presidency) to now:

1. Unemployment rate (U3): DOWN from 5.8 percent to 4.7 percent.
2. Underemployment rate (U6): DOWN from 10.6 percent to 9.6 percent.
3. Violent crime rate (per 100,000 residents): DOWN from 459 to 366.
4. Fear of crime: DOWN from 37 percent to 35 percent.
5. Uninsured rate: DOWN from 19.7 percent to 10.3 percent.
6. Number of illegal immigrants: DOWN from 11.8 million to 11.3 million.
7. Illegal immigrants from Mexico: DOWN from 6.6 million to 5.6 million.
8. Teen pregnancy rate (per thousand females): DOWN from 40 to 25.
9. Current account balance (trade deficit): DOWN from 4.6 percent of GDP to 2.3 percent of GDP.
10. American war deaths: DOWN from 469 to 28.
11. Inflation rate: DOWN from 3.8 percent to 1.1 percent.
12. Shootings of police officers: DOWN from 149 to 120.
13. Abortion rate (per thousand women): DOWN from 19 to 16.9 (through 2011).
14. Federal deficit: DOWN from 3.1 percent of GDP to 2.5 percent of GDP.
15. Drug abuse: DOWN from 22.4 million to 21.6 million (through 2013).
16. Drug abuse among teenagers: DOWN from 7.7 million to 5.2 million (through 2013).
17. Household debt (as percent of disposable income): DOWN from 12.8 percent to 10 percent.
18. Public high school graduation rate: UP from 74 percent to 82 percent (through 2013).

I'm not presenting this stuff because I think it will change anyone's mind. Nor because Obama necessarily deserves credit for all of them. You can decide that for yourself. It's mostly just to get it on the record. And it's worth noting that none of this may matter in the face of two other statistics that might be more important than all the rest put together:

19. Median household income: DOWN from $55,313 to $53,657 (through (2014).
20. Americans killed in terror attacks: UP from 14 to 50+ (so far in 2016).

If you measure household income more broadly, it looks better than the raw Census figures. And household income has finally started increasing over the past couple of years. On the terror front, the absolute number of American fatalities from terrorist attacks is obviously very small. Still, the number of brutal attacks in the US and Europe (the only ones Americans care about) has obviously spiked considerably over the past year.

Are these two things enough to outweigh everything else? Maybe. Come back in November and I'll tell you.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/07/18-great-trends-obama-ad
ministration%E2%80%94and-2-terrible-ones

KPO

Wednesday, July 27, 2016 5:51 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Sunday, July 31, 2016 2:09 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by kpo:
Quote:
So how has the country been doing during President Obama's term in office? Here's a scattering of indicators and how they've changed from 2008 (the last year of the Bush presidency) to now:

1. Unemployment rate (U3): DOWN from 5.8 percent to 4.7 percent.
2. Underemployment rate (U6): DOWN from 10.6 percent to 9.6 percent.
3. Violent crime rate (per 100,000 residents): DOWN from 459 to 366.
4. Fear of crime: DOWN from 37 percent to 35 percent.
5. Uninsured rate: DOWN from 19.7 percent to 10.3 percent.
6. Number of illegal immigrants: DOWN from 11.8 million to 11.3 million.
7. Illegal immigrants from Mexico: DOWN from 6.6 million to 5.6 million.
8. Teen pregnancy rate (per thousand females): DOWN from 40 to 25.
9. Current account balance (trade deficit): DOWN from 4.6 percent of GDP to 2.3 percent of GDP.
10. American war deaths: DOWN from 469 to 28.
11. Inflation rate: DOWN from 3.8 percent to 1.1 percent.
12. Shootings of police officers: DOWN from 149 to 120.
13. Abortion rate (per thousand women): DOWN from 19 to 16.9 (through 2011).
14. Federal deficit: DOWN from 3.1 percent of GDP to 2.5 percent of GDP.
15. Drug abuse: DOWN from 22.4 million to 21.6 million (through 2013).
16. Drug abuse among teenagers: DOWN from 7.7 million to 5.2 million (through 2013).
17. Household debt (as percent of disposable income): DOWN from 12.8 percent to 10 percent.
18. Public high school graduation rate: UP from 74 percent to 82 percent (through 2013).

I'm not presenting this stuff because I think it will change anyone's mind. Nor because Obama necessarily deserves credit for all of them. You can decide that for yourself. It's mostly just to get it on the record. And it's worth noting that none of this may matter in the face of two other statistics that might be more important than all the rest put together:

19. Median household income: DOWN from $55,313 to $53,657 (through (2014).
20. Americans killed in terror attacks: UP from 14 to 50+ (so far in 2016).

If you measure household income more broadly, it looks better than the raw Census figures. And household income has finally started increasing over the past couple of years. On the terror front, the absolute number of American fatalities from terrorist attacks is obviously very small. Still, the number of brutal attacks in the US and Europe (the only ones Americans care about) has obviously spiked considerably over the past year.

Are these two things enough to outweigh everything else? Maybe. Come back in November and I'll tell you.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/07/18-great-trends-obama-ad
ministration%E2%80%94and-2-terrible-ones

You seem to be missing all the data on "workplace violence" (as Obama now calls it) that is really the Islamic Jihadist Extremist Terrorist attacks within America's borders.
Hmmmm?

REAVERFAN

Sunday, July 31, 2016 2:22 AM

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:

You seem to be missing all the data on "workplace violence" (as Obama now calls it) that is really the Islamic Jihadist Extremist Terrorist attacks within America's borders.
Hmmmm?

White Americans are the biggest terror threat in the United States

White Americans are the biggest terror threat in the United States, according to a study by the New America Foundation. The Washington-based research organization did a review of “terror” attacks on US soil since Sept. 11, 2001 and found that most of them were carried out by radical anti-government groups or white supremacists.

Almost twice as many people have died in attacks by right-wing groups in America than have died in attacks by Muslim extremists. Of the 26 attacks since 9/11 that the group defined as terror, 19 were carried out by non-Muslims. Yet there are no white Americans languishing inside the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. And there are no drones dropping bombs on gatherings of military-age males in the country's lawless border regions.

Attacks by right-wing groups get comparatively little coverage in the news media. Most people will struggle to remember the shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin that killed six people in 2012. A man who associated with neo-Nazi groups carried out that shooting. There was also the married couple in Las Vegas who walked into a pizza shop and murdered two police officers. They left a swastika on one of the bodies before killing a third person in a Wal-Mart parking lot. Such attacks are not limited to one part of the country. In 2011, two white supremacists went on a shooting spree in the Pacific Northwest, killing four people.

More from GlobalPost: Turns out people get angry when you say white Americans are terrorists, too.

Science. Facts. Reichwingers no likey. ^

http://www.globalpost.com/article/6...icans-are-biggest-terror-threat-
united-states

Jihadist attacks are so rare here as to be inconsequential. Stop buying the fear Faux and reichwing media have pounded into your feeble brain, and look at the facts.

1KIKI

Sunday, July 31, 2016 2:45 AM

This vote will be a referendum on Obama v 'ANYthing is better than more of the same'. And for many people "it's the economy, stupid". How has Obama's economy been for Main Street?

Let me just point out that the author left out vital relevant facts in the opinion piece. Doing that is known as cherry-picking. And whether you do that in the news, in discussion, in debate or in opinion, when you distort the facts, you've changed the nature of your communication into propaganda. But WE don't have any of THAT in the US, do we?!

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Wednesday, August 3, 2016 3:25 AM

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Quote:
Originally posted by kpo:
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So how has the country been doing during President Obama's term in office? Here's a scattering of indicators and how they've changed from 2008 (the last year of the Bush presidency) to now:

1. Unemployment rate (U3): DOWN from 5.8 percent to 4.7 percent.
2. Underemployment rate (U6): DOWN from 10.6 percent to 9.6 percent.
3. Violent crime rate (per 100,000 residents): DOWN from 459 to 366.
4. Fear of crime: DOWN from 37 percent to 35 percent.
5. Uninsured rate: DOWN from 19.7 percent to 10.3 percent.
6. Number of illegal immigrants: DOWN from 11.8 million to 11.3 million.
7. Illegal immigrants from Mexico: DOWN from 6.6 million to 5.6 million.
8. Teen pregnancy rate (per thousand females): DOWN from 40 to 25.
9. Current account balance (trade deficit): DOWN from 4.6 percent of GDP to 2.3 percent of GDP.
10. American war deaths: DOWN from 469 to 28.
11. Inflation rate: DOWN from 3.8 percent to 1.1 percent.
12. Shootings of police officers: DOWN from 149 to 120.
13. Abortion rate (per thousand women): DOWN from 19 to 16.9 (through 2011).
14. Federal deficit: DOWN from 3.1 percent of GDP to 2.5 percent of GDP.
15. Drug abuse: DOWN from 22.4 million to 21.6 million (through 2013).
16. Drug abuse among teenagers: DOWN from 7.7 million to 5.2 million (through 2013).
17. Household debt (as percent of disposable income): DOWN from 12.8 percent to 10 percent.
18. Public high school graduation rate: UP from 74 percent to 82 percent (through 2013).

I'm not presenting this stuff because I think it will change anyone's mind. Nor because Obama necessarily deserves credit for all of them. You can decide that for yourself. It's mostly just to get it on the record. And it's worth noting that none of this may matter in the face of two other statistics that might be more important than all the rest put together:

19. Median household income: DOWN from $55,313 to $53,657 (through (2014).
20. Americans killed in terror attacks: UP from 14 to 50+ (so far in 2016).

If you measure household income more broadly, it looks better than the raw Census figures. And household income has finally started increasing over the past couple of years. On the terror front, the absolute number of American fatalities from terrorist attacks is obviously very small. Still, the number of brutal attacks in the US and Europe (the only ones Americans care about) has obviously spiked considerably over the past year.

Are these two things enough to outweigh everything else? Maybe. Come back in November and I'll tell you.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/07/18-great-trends-obama-ad
ministration%E2%80%94and-2-terrible-ones

You seem to be missing all the data on "workplace violence" (as Obama now calls it) that is really the Islamic Jihadist Extremist Terrorist attacks within America's borders.
Hmmmm?

And no data on Black Extremist Racists Assassinations of Police, either? An apparent increase of infinity?

KPO

Thursday, August 4, 2016 6:00 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Quote:
Originally posted by kpo:
Quote:
So how has the country been doing during President Obama's term in office? Here's a scattering of indicators and how they've changed from 2008 (the last year of the Bush presidency) to now:

1. Unemployment rate (U3): DOWN from 5.8 percent to 4.7 percent.
2. Underemployment rate (U6): DOWN from 10.6 percent to 9.6 percent.
3. Violent crime rate (per 100,000 residents): DOWN from 459 to 366.
4. Fear of crime: DOWN from 37 percent to 35 percent.
5. Uninsured rate: DOWN from 19.7 percent to 10.3 percent.
6. Number of illegal immigrants: DOWN from 11.8 million to 11.3 million.
7. Illegal immigrants from Mexico: DOWN from 6.6 million to 5.6 million.
8. Teen pregnancy rate (per thousand females): DOWN from 40 to 25.
9. Current account balance (trade deficit): DOWN from 4.6 percent of GDP to 2.3 percent of GDP.
10. American war deaths: DOWN from 469 to 28.
11. Inflation rate: DOWN from 3.8 percent to 1.1 percent.
12. Shootings of police officers: DOWN from 149 to 120.
13. Abortion rate (per thousand women): DOWN from 19 to 16.9 (through 2011).
14. Federal deficit: DOWN from 3.1 percent of GDP to 2.5 percent of GDP.
15. Drug abuse: DOWN from 22.4 million to 21.6 million (through 2013).
16. Drug abuse among teenagers: DOWN from 7.7 million to 5.2 million (through 2013).
17. Household debt (as percent of disposable income): DOWN from 12.8 percent to 10 percent.
18. Public high school graduation rate: UP from 74 percent to 82 percent (through 2013).

I'm not presenting this stuff because I think it will change anyone's mind. Nor because Obama necessarily deserves credit for all of them. You can decide that for yourself. It's mostly just to get it on the record. And it's worth noting that none of this may matter in the face of two other statistics that might be more important than all the rest put together:

19. Median household income: DOWN from $55,313 to $53,657 (through (2014).
20. Americans killed in terror attacks: UP from 14 to 50+ (so far in 2016).

If you measure household income more broadly, it looks better than the raw Census figures. And household income has finally started increasing over the past couple of years. On the terror front, the absolute number of American fatalities from terrorist attacks is obviously very small. Still, the number of brutal attacks in the US and Europe (the only ones Americans care about) has obviously spiked considerably over the past year.

Are these two things enough to outweigh everything else? Maybe. Come back in November and I'll tell you.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/07/18-great-trends-obama-ad
ministration%E2%80%94and-2-terrible-ones

You seem to be missing all the data on "workplace violence" (as Obama now calls it) that is really the Islamic Jihadist Extremist Terrorist attacks within America's borders.
Hmmmm?

Point 20 in the article - "Americans killed in terror attacks". Read all the way to the end of the article next time JSF?

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KPO

Thursday, August 4, 2016 6:02 PM

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
This vote will be a referendum on Obama v 'ANYthing is better than more of the same'. And for many people "it's the economy, stupid". How has Obama's economy been for Main Street?

Better than Bush's.

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Russia's and Assad's War Crimes in Syria - http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=60278
Evidence the Syrian regime sponsors ISIS - http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=60521
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KPO

Thursday, August 4, 2016 6:14 PM

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And no data on Black Extremist Racists Assassinations of Police, either? An apparent increase of infinity?

Black anger at police killings of unarmed black citizens has increased due to high profile incidents captured on camera phones. Technology is shining a light on an ugly aspect of American society that has been ignored before now.

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Russia's and Assad's War Crimes in Syria - http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=60278
Evidence the Syrian regime sponsors ISIS - http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=60521
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KPO

Thursday, August 4, 2016 6:46 PM

More 'data' for JSF:

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Russia's and Assad's War Crimes in Syria - http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=60278
Evidence the Syrian regime sponsors ISIS - http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=60521
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