Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Not Trying to Cause a Fight but....

I saw this and thought I should share. These statistics are SCARY! And I think it is important that we start focusing on improving our country's economy during this election and focus less on the "social issues." Honestly I think most social issues should be voted on at a state level anyway. If I can't spend more than I make, then the government shouldn't be able to either.


What are your thoughts? I think this chart is a great piece to share on Facebook. Feel free to save it and share it if you like. 

12 comments:

  1. eeeek, i saw this too! i hate talking politics but something has GOT to change. love your blog btw, super cute!!

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  2. i posted on my fb jaime. thank you for sharing!

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  3. I'm thinking WOW...Thanks for sharing!

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  4. This is a little scary...no matter who the President is, this should never be okay!

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  5. Thank you soooo much for sharing this!! Proves that Obama really has not done anything to help our country!

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  6. Posted this on my fb and got this bitchy message from someone who I never talk to about where I need to find where true political junkies look for their information. I'm sure a democrat. Isn't it hilarious how ppl are so ignorant to think that things like this don't stem from some truth!!! Everything is slanted in some way! Ugh...ppl drive me nuts.

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  7. Definitely scary as I'm sure these statistics came from credible sources. As much as I respect his job as the President, and give him credit for (finally) bringing the troops back, I do think President Obama tend to make empty promises :O(
    www.thegirlieblog.com

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  8. This guy can't get out of office fast enough. Arrogant, whiny, and completely incompetent!! How he was ever elected with zero experience still blows my mind. People are so ignorant.

    The "food stamp" president is the best I've heard yet. We've turned into a nation of lazy people who think they are entitled to other peoples' hard work (99 weeks of unemployment?? I know someone who was fired from her job in July of '10 and she hasn't even looked for work! We are paying for her to sit on her a_ _ and collect! 99 WEEKS! That's almost 2 YEARS!). Makes me sick! My husband and I started at the bottom and worked our way up - isn't that they way it's supposed to bel??? I grew-up during the Reagan years - what an incredible/inspirational man. When the media compares Obamanation to Reagan it infuriates me. Not even in the same ballpark.

    Thanks for sharing!

    Sorry for the rant! LOL...

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  9. I had my own outraged thoughts about this but I think Cool Gal said it best and described it to a T!
    Yes we do need a change....Change the president and our future. With this chart Im afraid to see what the next year will look like!

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  10. TBH I'm not an Obama fan by any means, but some of this stuff he can't really help - i.e. college tuition and home values. College tuition has been steadily rising for years and I'm pretty sure it actually took its biggest jump back in something like 2004-2006. Home values have crashed because of the banks giving out mortgages [to people who couldn't afford them] like candy from about the mid-'90s to say 2007. For instance - my ex and I were able to get a mortgage on a $190,000 house in 2007 despite the fact that together we made only $50,000, already had a $135,000 mortgage on a house were trying to sell, and both had car payments on $20,000+ cars. Not to mention he had over $20,000 in college loans as well and I'm pretty sure we had at least $5,000 in credit card debt between the two of us. Thankfully we sold our other house fairly quickly and we were able to make things work, but WTF? No bank should have EVER given us a mortgage. Ever.

    That said - the thing that really irks me is the health insurance costs, mainly because I do all of the finance/HR stuff for a small company and I see what we pay and what our employees pay for what is honestly barely even halfway decent healthcare. And it absolutely did go up in cost about 20% a couple years ago (I want to say it was 2010 that we really saw the difference)...because insurance companies freaked out about Obama's health care plan and the government did NOTHING to keep the insurance companies from inflating their prices, which they literally did so that they could make as much money as possible before the US health care system really saw any changes. I actually don't disagree with some sort of universal health care system, but if you're going to try to implement something like that you need to do the background work first and put measures in place so that insurance companies can't just rape the consumer while the government spends years hemming and hawing over the terms of the health care plan.

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