Statistics That Obama Neglected To Mention During The State Of The Union Address


#1 According to a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, only 28 percent of all Americans believe that the country is moving in the right direction.

#2 In 2008, 53 percent of all Americans considered themselves to be "middle class". In 2014, only 44 percent of all Americans consider themselves to be "middle class".

#3 In 2008, 25 percent of all Americans in the 18 to 29-year-old age bracket considered themselves to be "lower class". In 2014, an astounding 49 percent of them do.

#4 Right now there is approximately a billion square feet of vacant retail space in the United States.

#5 There are 46.5 million Americans that are living in poverty, and the poverty rate in America has been at 15 percent or above for 3 consecutive years. That is the first time that has happened since 1965.

#6 Barack Obama says that the unemployment rate has declined to 6.7 percent, but if the labor force participation rate was at the long-term average it would actually be approximately 11.5 percent, and it has stayed at about that level since the end of the last recession.

#7 While Barack Obama has been in the White House, the number of Americans on food stamps has gone from 32 million to 47 million.

#8 While Barack Obama has been in the White House, the percentage of working age Americans that are actually working has declined from 60.6 percent to 58.6 percent.

#9 While Barack Obama has been in the White House, the average duration of unemployment in the United States has risen from 19.8 weeks to 37.1 weeks.

#10 While Barack Obama has been in the White House, social benefits as a percentage of real disposable income has risen from about 17 percent to nearly 21 percent.

#11 While Barack Obama has been in the White House, the rate of homeownership in the United States has fallen to levels that we have not seen in nearly two decades.

#12 While Barack Obama has been in the White House, median household income in the United States has fallen for five years in a row.

#13 While Barack Obama has been in the White House, the average cost of a gallon of gasoline has gone from $1.85 to $3.27.

#14 At the end of Barack Obama's first year in office, our yearly trade deficit with China was 226 billion dollars. Now it is over 300 billion dollars.

#15 Workers are taking home the smallest share of the income pie that has ever been recorded.

#16 Sadly, 1,687,000 fewer Americans have jobs today compared to exactly six years ago even though the population has grown significantly since then.

#17 One recent study found that about 60 percent of the jobs that have been "created" since the end of the last recession pay $13.83 or less an hour.

#18 Only 47 percent of all adults in America have a full-time job at this point.

#19 It is hard to believe, but an astounding 53 percent of all American workers make less than $30,000 a year.

#20 The Obama years have been absolutely brutal for small businesses. According to economist Tim Kane, the following is how the number of startup jobs per 1000 Americans breaks down by presidential administration...

#21 You can still buy a house in the city of Detroit for just one dollar.

#22 The U.S. cattle herd is at a 61 year low.

#23 It is being projected that health insurance premiums for healthy 30-year-old men will rise by an average of 260 percent under Obamacare.

#24 According to the most recent numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau, an all-time record 49.2 percent of all Americans are receiving benefits from at least one government program each month.

#25 When Barack Obama was first elected, the U.S. debt to GDP ratio was under 70 percent. Today, it is up to 101 percent.

#26 The U.S. national debt is on pace to more than double during the eight years of the Obama administration. In other words, under Barack Obama the U.S. government will accumulate more debt than it did under all of the other presidents in U.S. history combined.

#27 Right now, there are 1.2 million students that attend public schools in the United States that are homeless. That number has risen by 72 percent since the start of the last recession.

#28 Only 35 percent of all Americans say that they are better off financially than they were a year ago.

#29 Only 19 percent of all Americans believe that the job market is better than it was a year ago.

#30 According to a recent CNN poll, 70 percent of all Americans believe that "the economy is generally in poor shape".

#31 According to a recent Pew Research survey, only 19 percent of all Americans trust the government. Back in 1958, 73 percent of all Americans trusted the government.

#32 According to another poll that was recently released, 70 percent of all Americans do not have confidence that the government will "make progress on the important problems and issues facing the country in 2014."

The 82 Unfulfilled 'State of the Union' Promises of Barack Obama (Video)

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Of course he didn't...........lol Notice how die hard supporters are silent? I think America is starting to open their eyes to what has been going on the past 50 or so years. Obama is not the whole problem, just a percentage. But he has the honor of being one of the last straws. WAKE UP EVERYONE! You think this wasn't planned? And Hilliary is poised to drive the last nail in the US coffin!

Obama is worthless and weak , and a 2 faced arrogant lying fool

Quite frankly, I find those above-posted "statistics" quite meaningless.

Welcome, Mr Workin4it.

True. This has been circulating for a while now, and not much, if any, can be attributed directly to Obama's tenure in office. It's convenient for right-wing propaganda that Obama gained office just after the GFC hit.

Most of these type people would agree with you...



The Odumboites.

LOL What a crock!

So then you agree with the sheeple philosphy.



Or maybe this best describes it...



But you see the real story is...

Yeah, that is another way of saying sheeple. But I much prefer...



Leading the lamb to the slaughter.

Adding straw doesn't improve an argument.

well the statistics are not properly cited but the fact is that Obama is one hot mess just like like plan he concocted. I have no trouble believing that those statistics could be true

Sorry, but this is just silliness. 'Sheeple' is just another dumb internet ad hominem directed at those who don't agree with the claimant. It's rather puerile to say the least, and I don't ascribe or subscribe to such games.

What argument? An argument is two opposing views, not when one side gets stuck and starts repeating itself, that turns into....

Sent to school to learn to read, but comprehension was not on the curriculum.

noun
informalderogatory
plural noun: sheeple

1. people compared to sheep in being docile, foolish, or easily led.

All those Odumboites out there would be a good example for the word.

But I like this definition even better for the Odumboites...

Sheeple
People unable to think for themselves. Followers. Lemmings. Those with no cognitive ablilities of their own.

so,all we need to do is vote the right Men into Office,and all will be Hunky-Dory,Pico-Bello,Happy Days-Are-Here-Again, etc?
They will be fixing it,with more Government!
Has it occurred to any of you that it could be Government that is the problem?
And definitely been the last 150 years or so!

Blaming Obama for everything may be a little much. However, the fact is that, under his leadership, the nation has spent more money than it can pay back and the debt is crushing the economy. Many of the the downward trends in business and productivity can be linked to the debt, entitlements, and the growth of the "nanny state". Obamacare may the be straw on the camel's back.

Yeah, like liberals calling anyone who questions the answers CTs

Stupidity can even be found in supposed intelligence.

Only a fool would never question the answers

LOL. Who are these 'liberals' exactly? No-one labels those 'who questions' as you put it, 'CT's', that is an absurd generalisation. Conspiracy theorists, along with their ignorant acolytes and sycophants are labelled CT's. See the difference?



You have a talent for the obvious, of course anyone can be stupid, but it would be more common among the unintelligent, if not endemic. That stands to reason, but I do understand exactly where you are going with this veiled ad hominem, just enough baiting to avoid moderation.



Of course, but a bigger fool would make such a banal assumption that anyone who disagrees with him or her doesn't 'question the answers'. That would be quite a failure in logic (as a process of evaluation).

However, at a base level you raise the issue of how one determines causation based upon the evidence presented. One should try to disprove to one's self any posited 'theories' (using the term in a loose sense), before determining an outcome, and indentifying any prejudice and confirmation bias within one's self that may influence this outcome-basically, try to be objective. That is not to say, that any determination is to be set in stone, but the individual should remain open to the assimilation of new evidence that may conflict with the original hypothesis.

To put it simply, just common sense.