Quote: truthkeeper wrote in post #3

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I sure miss the old America.

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Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #2

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Zitat

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During President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, he told voters that manufacturing jobs would be a crucial part of the American economy’s resurgence. His administration set a goal to “create 1 million new manufacturing jobs by the end of 2016.”

At the time, manufacturing insiders cheered. The national unemployment rate had fallen 3 percentage points from its high point in 2009. The U.S. economy had added 4.4 million jobs since 2009, on its way to adding 13 million to date.

But factory jobs haven’t gotten the bump the president strived for: Only 331,000 of those many millions of new positions created since the start of his second term have come in manufacturing.

The United States would need to create 74,000 manufacturing jobs each month to reach Obama’s goal by the end of the year, and prospects are not good. American manufacturers have actually shed 20,000 jobs since January 2015 amid difficult economic circumstances

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http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/o...ocid=spartandhp

Aside from pointing out how Obama lied about increasing manufacturing jobs this piece has its own problems with the truth, such as on the unemployment rate.

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The blue line in the chart below is the unemployment rate as if it were calculated without sundry enhancement circa 1995:



As you look at this chart remember that is does not reflect the fact that since about 1990 there has been steady replacement of high paying, full time jobs with benefits and a future with part time, minimum wage jobs with neither benefits nor a future.

There has also been a steady replacement of native born with sundry immigrants - illegal aliens, guest workers, and legal immigrants.

National Data: March Jobs—Immigrant Displacement Of Americans Workers Hits All-Time High!




http://www.vdare.com/articles/national-d...s-all-time-high

Anyone who points out the above stats is has been labeled and ridiculed as a racist, xenophobic, low info, low IQ, bitter clinger. The descendants of those who founded this country are being effectively marginalized and culturally cleansed. Note I didn't say ethnically bur culturally cleansed.

Quote: ThirstyMan wrote in post #4

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Quote: truthkeeper wrote in post #3

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I sure miss the old America.

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ME TOO!!!




President Barack Obama said Saturday that the country is “a better place today” than when he graduated from college more than 30 years ago, citing his historic election as “one indicator of how attitudes have changed.”

But gaps persist, he told Howard University’s Class of 2016, citing racism and inequality as examples.

In a commencement speech at one of the nation’s leading historically black schools, Obama said there were no black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and few black judges when Columbia University awarded him a bachelor’s degree in 1983.

“A lot of folks didn’t even think blacks had the tools to be a quarterback,” Obama said. “When I was graduating, the main black hero on TV was Mr. T. Rap and hip-hop were counterculture, underground. Now Shonda Rhimes owns Thursday night and Beyonce runs the world.” Rhimes is the executive producer of television hits “Scandal” and “Grey’s Anatomy,” which air on Thursdays.

Today, he said, “We’re no longer entertainers. We’re producers, studio executives. No longer small-business owners, we’re CEOs. We’re mayors, representatives” — and someone in the crowd shouted out, “President.”

“I’m not saying gaps do not persist. Obviously, they do,” Obama said. “Racism persists, inequality persists.”

He called on the university’s 2,300 graduates to step up and take on the work of closing those gaps.

“America needs you to gladly, happily take up that work … so enjoy the party, because you’re going to be busy,” Obama said.

He cited income inequality, an issue in the presidential campaign to choose his successor in November, as well as disparities in unemployment, pay and criminal justice. He also listed disease and conflict worldwide, along with terrorism and climate change as other issues needing attention.

“So make no mistake, Class of 2016. You’ve got plenty of work to do,” said Obama, who was awarded an honorary doctor of science degree. “But as complicated and sometimes intractable as these challenges may seem, the truth is that your generation is better positioned than any before you to meet those challenges.”

“America is a better place today than it was when I graduated from college,” Obama said, adding “by almost every measure.” He said the country “also happens to be better off than when I took office, but that’s a longer story.”

The line drew cheers and applause. “That’s a different discussion for another speech,” Obama said.

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http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nation...aduated-college
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Obama has been saying that America is better off than when he took office for at least two years. Today he said it again to the college kids. Will they buy that? evidently they cheered!??! I would have thought they'd have been leaving the commencement ceremony for the security of their safe spaces. TM

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