Cutis Report: Mr. President numbers don’t lie

By Barry Curtis

President Barack Obama has been running around the country on a campaign style whirlwind that rivals his previous 2012 campaign. He and his band of tried and true big liberal spenders have been trying to convince the American people that the economy is doing great and that Mr. Obama was the great savior of the nation’s economic prowess. Look at his rhetoric! It starts always with “we have done this” and “we have done that.” Mr. Obama might have been born humble, but it wore off. Not so fast Mr. President let’s look at the facts. The mainstream media might be giving you a pass but we studied patriots are not.

The census department released its yearly report last week on the state of income, poverty and healthcare in the country last week. This report highlighted an anemic economy and a troubling state of income for most Americans.

Patriots let’s be clear that this president continues to push the same old liberal policies of tax, spend, tax some more and spend even more. We all know the historical consequences of these policies. These actions don’t make him a good democratic leader they make him a bad history teacher

The census report found that median household income, adjusted for inflation, was $51,017 in 2012, down about 9 percent from an inflation-adjusted peak of $56,080 in 1999, mostly as a result of the longest and most damaging recession since the Depression. Most people have had no gains since the economy hit bottom in 2009 The New York Times reported.

The government has taken on a maternal role in this economic calamity stepping in with huge government spending increases. The federal government has expanded unemployment benefits in the last year keeping 1.7 million people out of the poverty level. In addition food stamps if counted as income would account for an additional 4 million people not hitting the poverty line. This accounts for the poverty level remaining the same at around 15 percent from last year’s report.

Five years after the swearing in of the nation first black president, the income gap among races is stunning. The median income for Asian households was $68,600. For non-Hispanic whites $57,000, while the Hispanic households had an income of $39,000.the most stunning part of the report is that after all of the great society programs from the 1960’s on and the massive government spending on food stamps and other educational programs blacks remain at the bottom of the median house hold income level. Blacks were at $33,300.

Mr. President this is shameful and numbers don’t lie. Here are some additional statistics to think about Mr. Obama.

1. Since Mr. Obama has taken office 7 out of 8 jobs created in this country have been part time.

2. Today 53 percent of America’s workforce makes less than $30,000 dollars a year.

3. Since Mr. Obama has been president the mortgage delinquency rate has increased from 7.85 percent to 9.72 percent today.

4. The median house hold income has fallen for the last 4 years. That’s a total of $4,000 less for each American.

5. When Mr. Obama was sworn in office the average price of gasoline was $1.85 today its $3.53 a gallon.

6. Since Mr. Obama has taken office the number of Americans on food stamps has increased 11 thousand a day.

7. When Mr. Obama took office the average length of unemployment in this country for out of work people was 19.8 weeks now its 36.6 weeks.

8. When Mr. Obama took office there were 32 million Americans on food stamps now there are 47 million.

9. Since Mr. Obama took office the percentage of Americans getting direct money from the federal government has increased 32 percent.

10. During Mr. Obama’s first term the federal government accumulated more new debt then then it did under the first 42 U S presidents combined.

You see Mr. President numbers don’t lie. You have a right to your own opinion Mr. President but you don’t have a right to your own set of facts. Numbers don’t lie, but presidents might.

You can reach Barry Curtis at www.thecurtisinitiative.com.