20% unemployment.

Obama is God!

he may not be perfect but we couldn't do much better.

>>24205

10%

It's not 20% yet.

>>24356

>believes fed propaganda

>>24356

>This is what sheep actually believe.

>>24356

It's called U6.

Look it up.

He needs to do SOMETHING, ANYTHING, because the country as a whole is starting to lose faith in him.

>>24356
It is 20% because the government doesn't count people who have stopped looking for work.

>>24389
Or people who had to settle for PT rather than FT

>>24203
lol @ noone wants to admit that alot of this is bushes fault. and its obamas fault for exacerbating things. lets hear it for hope and change!! too bad you fucking drones didnt wise up and vote independent. yall sold out your vote to a banker drone and an oil drone! BEHOLD THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT WING! america=tools

>>24205
Actually make that 22%, going by independent sources.

>>24425
Actually this is more so the Federal Reserve's fault than the president's. I consider the Fed chairman more powerful than the president at this point.

The bubble started during when Greenspan was Fed chairman, then blew up when Bernanke took chairmanship.

>>24345
McCain's finger inches from a red button, when he was a former P.O.W?

Palin inches away from becoming the leader of the U.S?

Hillary Clinton becoming the president when she has said for decades that she is the polar opposite of Bill Clinton?

America made the best possible decision.

the only thing he has done is strengthen the spying programs bush put in.

and piss off the CIA.

>>25039
While I agree with you there, Obama has still been bought and paid for by special interests.

worst president ever. he cant fix anything and is sending more troops to middle east

Obama is doing fine.

His detractors simultaneously complain that he "hasn't done anything" and that he's doing too much and turning America into SCARY SOCIALISM.

Neither of these is true, I think he's done well, but the country is in a shitty situation regardless of who we elected. If Mccain had won liberals would be pointing the finger at him just like conservatives are doing with Obama.

But I'm confident that we made the right choice.

>>25071
>and piss off the CIA.
Good. Under a true constitutionalist government the CIA wouldn't even exist. Unfortunately Obama is the exact opposite of a constitutionalist.

>>25087
He has done things, but many negative things, expanding the war in Afghanistan for instance. And I wouldn't call him a socialist, but rather a statist, since he obviously believes that the state should care for all of us from cradle to grave.

We need a third party to come up.

>>25087

It's not that he hasn't done enough, it's that what he's doing doesn't help the problems he was elected to fix. He knows that, especially in regards to the economy, because that's what he wants. Liberals want the economy to be bad, because then they can blame Bush and Wall St. and capitalism, and push in greater taxes and more stifling regulation.

>>24345
Ron Paul

>>25123
I voted for Chuck Baldwin after Paul ended his campaign.

ITT: OP fails at a meme

>>25092
Based on what justification is the CIA unconstitutional?

It was partially bush's fault, i'll give you that...but obama has only worsened the problem. Unemployment has gone up, the economy has gotten worse.
AND FUCK SOCIALISM.

American has gotten stupid....duh.

>>25157
It is an entity that is detrimental to the idea of bringing back the ideas of a non-interventionist foreign policy. Ron Paul himself has even said that they act like a government onto themselves with no accountability to anyone.

Obama hasn't fixed shit.

GG voting in a president based entirely on hype.

>>25178
U MENA BERNANKE

>>25113
>he obviously believes that the state should care for all of us from cradle to grave.

Lol.

I love all the silly implications people get from something as simple as universal health care. EVERY OTHER DEVELOPED COUNTRY HAS THIS. HEALTH CARE COSTS ARE EXORBITANT.

THE #1 RANKED "BEST COUNTRY TO LIVE IN" BY THE UN (Norway) HAS SOCIAL PROGRAMS OUT THE ASS.

IT IS THE DEFINITION OF A NANNY STATE.

NOW SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LETS HAVE SOME REFORM.

>>25184
yes, but it isn't unconstitutional.

>>24378
>Total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers

From second comma to third comma. Part-time =/= unemployed.

>>25190
You act like it was a one-way election...

>>25209
It isn't explicitly stated so in the constitution that a central bank is unconstitutional either, yet constitutionalists and others alike would like to see it abolished someday.

>>24203
obvious troll is obvious.
go back to +/n/, you jerk. stop trying to ruin this board before it even has a chance to spread its wings.

>>25205
I'm not just simply talking about healthcare, just everything in general. I find it funny that the same government that screwed up healthcare in the first place (with corporatist medicine since the Johnson administration) can actually fix what it broke in the first place.

>THE #1 RANKED "BEST COUNTRY TO LIVE IN" BY THE UN (Norway) HAS SOCIAL PROGRAMS OUT THE ASS.

We're talking about the USA, not Norway. Thank you.

I am sick of Obama's shit.

He hasn't done anything but create corrupt as fuck mondo bills loaded with pork and tried to cram them up the ass of an unwilling American public like some kind of fucking date rapist.

Everything Republicans said about him looks like it's coming true. He is inexperienced, he lets foreign leaders walk all over him, he doesn't know how to deal, he's soft on terrorism, and he is obsessed with complete bullshit instead of the hard economic recovery America needs.

The most insulting part is, it's been a year, with him in full control with a supermajority in what was supposed to be "the most ethical Congress ever" and he didn't do shit, and every single time he appears to speak to the American people he casually slides in a Bush bash like Bush is voodoo fucking with him from beyond the presidency.

BUSH IS NOT THE PRESIDENT ANYMORE, NIGGA. YOU ARE.

>>25222
part-time increases during deep downturns in the economy/job market because former full timers take whatever they can find, and part-time goes up.

Also, businesses prefer filling part time positions over full time, because part timers don't get the full benefits packages and coverage that full time employees get. That makes the part timers cheaper to the business.

When the labor market is thin, they want to hire people full time, to secure their labor for an extended time.

>>25233
The CIA can be argued to be an extension of the military. The 10th Amendment bans the federal gov. from having a central bank.

>>24203
0/10

jesus christ. people are so fucking stupid.

>>25282
Well, it still isn't accountable to anyone. It either should be abolished or fully investigated upon.

>>25287
Let's think about this for a second. If you can see the glare from a bear trap in the woods, do you stick your foot into it to see if it is real or not?

if obama is so great then why are we in a recession

I'm not a big fan of the guy, but I think neither his critics or his proponents are giving him a damn chance. His critics think he's both the devil incarnate that will demolish America and somehow also a total failure that will do nothing. Meanwhile his proponents act like he's some damn savior that will change the world at the snap of his fingers and they'll all be living in a paradise where the government give them all tree that grows money.

>>25305
you stick...you stick your foot into it.

>>25305
Listen here, jerkface. Obama can't fix the economy because the economy isn't under his control. No one can, because the economy shouldn't be under control at all. If anyone is to be the target of people's anger it should be Ben Bernanke.

>>25302
It is accountable to the President, just like the military, the president just likes to denie it sometimes.

>>25336
It's not accountable to congress.

>>25332

>Listen here, jerkface. Obama can't fix the economy because the economy isn't under his control.

...Nah, too easy.

>>25351
Federal Reserve, bro. IHBT.

>>25349
The Constitution puts the military under the executive, not the legislative.

>>25373
It could be argued that the CIA is part of the military, but they're not. They're an entity all to themselves. So that doesn't apply to them.

>>25366

Obama does have control over the economy. He also has power over the Fed. It's just that he is a total dipshit.

>>25386
Or an "extension", rather. But they're not.

>>25386
Constitutionally it could be, just like how NOAA is part of the military.

>>25205

And they are identical to us except for healthcare, amirite? Even if our healthcare is boned out the asshole, we aren't them. We have different populations (and densities), infrastructure, unemployment rates, etc.

It isn't so easy as to just say "WE'LL ALL PAY FOR IT" Why should I have to pay for 20%+ of healthcare for the unemployed? Won't that lower the quality of my healthcare, including waiting times and what surgeries I am allowed at what cost?

You're over generalizing.

Just another puppet America Lost it's real presidents a long time ago. Although the only difference now is we are learnig that they are shit so much quicker thanks to the internet.

Before we just had to rely on what news reports where telling us.

I also remember when TV media news was not a corrupt pit of faggots

>>25390
>He also has power over the Fed
Can he create money out of thin air? No. That's the job of the Fed chair, and board members, and also the Treasury Secretary. Obama just pretends to make people believe that he's actually running the show in regards to the economy.

Blaming the president on the economy is like blaming the bat boy for the baseball team losing against their opponent.

>>25313
actually we're not anymore,technically speaking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z7hPxNg1SY

>>25400
They're still dangerous to have around. CIA should be dismantled.

>>25316
This. Personally, I like the guy. The expectation that he would "fix the economy" within a year is unrealistic. Also agree with him on Afghanistan (given that Pakistan's stability is a cause of concern).