SHARE as OBAMA will comitt INTERSTATE FRAUD,WASTE OF US TAX $$$,,costing HINDREDS MILLIONS US TAX $$ on his NATION WIDE LIE TOUR he used in his LYING SOTU,,, By Christopher S. Rugaber and Calvin Woodward, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. may not have risen from recession quite as rousingly as President Barack Obama suggested in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night. Seven years after that severe downturn began, household income hasnt recovered and healthy job growth is complicated by the poor quality, and pay, of many of those jobs. Its always problematic when a president takes credit for an improving economy, just as it is when hes blamed for things going bad. A leader can only do so much, for better or worse, and there are two sides to every economy. But after an election in which Obama largely held off on chest-beating, he claimed credit in bold terms for what is going right. Also in his speech, Obama skimmed over the cost to taxpayers of free community college tuition and invited closer scrutiny with his claims about U.S. support for Syrian moderates and about his record of public-lands preservation. A look at some of his claims, and the facts and the political climate behind them, as well as a glance at the Republican response: OBAMA: —At this moment - with a growing economy, shrinking deficits, bustling industry and booming energy production - we have risen from recession freer to write our own future than any other nation on Earth. THE FACTS: By many measures, the economy is still recovering from the deep scars left by the Great Recession. Job growth has been healthy, but fueled in part by lower-paying jobs in areas such as retail and restaurants, which have replaced many higher-paying positions in manufacturing and construction. Part-time jobs also remain elevated: There are still 1.7 million fewer workers with full-time jobs than when the recession began in December 2007. And the faster hiring hasnt pushed up wages much. They have been growing at a tepid pace of about 2 percent a year since the recession ended 5 1/2 years ago. Thats barely ahead of inflation and below the annual pace of about 3.5 percent to 4 percent that is typical of a fully healthy economy. That has left the income of the typical household below its pre-recession level. Inflation-adjusted median household income reached $53,880 in November 2014, according to an analysis of government data by Sentier Research. That is about 4 percent higher than when it bottomed out in 2011. But it is still 4.5 percent lower than the $56,447 median income in December 2007, the month the recession began. Booming energy production is indeed a reality, but thats a phenomenon many years in the making, with the development of cost-effective extraction from fracking and other means playing into the rise of the U.S. as an energy production giant. read more at bigstory.ap.org
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:50:11 +0000
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