1.9% GROWTH IN GDP IS NOT AN ECONOMIC RECOVERY

 

Liberal politicians and the main stream media have been telling us for months about the accelerating economic recovery. Citing the 3.2% growth rate of GDP reported for the fourth quarter of 2013 as if it were a positive indicator. Strange how the announcement that the growth figure for the last quarter of 2013 had been revised to 2.4% failed to make the front pages or evening news lead. If a person doesn’t look past the headlines you might think that the 100,000 jobs created in January is a good thing as the news media portrayed it, the fact is however that it requires more than three times that number just to maintain the unemployment percentage in this country.

This type of propaganda is typical of the progressive ideology. They would have us believe that there is little or no inflation. Look behind the numbers and you will find that the government leaves energy and food prices out of the calculation in its quest to show things in a positive light. The last five years have seen energy prices triple and food prices soar as well. Every failed socialist state has crumbled amid grand proclamations of record production and economic success. Ask the average American if the economy is recovering and if the country is moving in the right direction and almost 70% will say no to both questions. The press cannot hide the truth from Americans that the Obama administration has failed at domestic policy. The President knows that the Clinton-Gingrich combination of entitlement reform and capital gains tax reductions created a robust economy. He understands that his domestic energy production policies are hurting the country and that the new EPA carbon regulations spell disaster for our prosperity. The administration is so happy with their achievement in the affordable care act that they refuse to acknowledge the unmitigated disaster that all of us now know that it is.

Fortunately the President and Hillary can fall back on their foreign policy successes in Iran, North Korea, Syria, Egypt, China, Libya, Russia and the Ukraine to offset the domestic policy failures. The world is becoming such a model of cooperation between nations that we can scale back our defense budgets and concentrate on reducing our carbon footprint and achieving income equality.

The lies are not even slightly believable anymore, the President can’t even tell the truth about what he discussed with the Pope for crying out loud. The illegal actions of this administration have the country confused by the sheer number of scandals and if it were not for the complicity of the left wing press we would already have thrown this bunch of anti-American frauds out of office.

At 1.9% GDP growth for the calendar year 2013 we are losing ground just as we have every year of the Obama presidency. We have put a bunch of self proclaimed intellectuals in control of the world’s only superpower and its largest economy; they decided to force their social engineering ideology on us instead of doing the job we elected them to do.  Only a socialist would view the growing number of people receiving government assistance as success yet we are told it is.