President Obama is not running for office this year. However, he has not hesitated to tell anyone who will listen what a great President he has been. Some of us aren’t convinced.
On Friday, The New York Post posted an article about President Obama’s recent claims about the economy.
The article states:
‘Anybody who says we are not absolutely better off today than we were just seven years ago, they’re not leveling with you. They’re not telling the truth,” Obama said last week. “By almost every economic measure, we are significantly better off.”
The article then goes on to report some of the actual statistics:
- The labor force participation rate over that period has slid from 65.7 percent to 62.9 (the lowest reading since March 1978) — down 4.3 percent.
- On Obama’s watch, the percentage of Americans below the poverty line has grown, according to the most recent Census data, from 14.3 percent to 14.8 percent in 2014 — up 3.5 percent.
- Real median household income across that interval sank from $54,925 to $53,657 — down 2.3 percent.
- Food Stamp participants soared in that time frame from 32,889,000 to 45,874,000 — up 39.5 percent.
- Meanwhile, from Obama’s arrival through the fourth quarter of 2015, the percentage of Americans who own homes sagged from 67.3 percent to 63.8 — down 5.2 percent.
I don’t think we can afford another four years of this sort of economic success.