Facts. Try them, please.
I recognize both sides may be cherry picking facts, they have to do that to get elected and make their preferred point, so we have to be our own honest broker and dig up the complete story ourselves.
We owe it to our country to do so! These statistics are based on the Congressional Budget Office. That is Congress are of the Government.
An alternative site, the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
http://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.us.htm
Another alternative site, FactCheck.org
http://www.factcheck.org/2016/01/obamas-numbers-january-2016-update/
WE HAVE TO CONNECT THE DOTs!
Get the TRUTH on employment, DO NOT TAKE YOUR FACTs FROM ANYONE WITH AN AGENDA FOR EITHER CANDIDATE.
I keep hearing folks say they were told something by a friend as a "fact" That's not going to help you connect the dots, get the facts, and vote right.
I heard Hannity last night with Donald Trump's son and Hannity ran through lots of numbers so fast I wondered if what he said was accurate or complete. It was at least incomplete.
On the statistical facts, which should be Sean's focus, Sean Hannity feels it is his mission to overstate his position to beat down all the "liberals." If we cannot state all the facts in the complete form in the complete context, than who do we serve?
Hannity wants us to see everything as black and white, obviously favoring Donald Trump. Everything in employment and the economy is only bad since Obama came to office according to Hannity. Hannity seemed 100% focused this Government's failing America the last 8 years.
To start, it is obvious Hannity ignored the full story, as do most people who list how bad off this country is today, starting with the economic ABYSS our Government started with in 2008.
From the "Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, [here is the link - please read the explanations to understand the facts and not just Hannity's narrow slice of reality]
http://www.cbpp.org/research/economy/chart-book-the-legacy-of-the-great-recession
You can go to this site and decide if they are favoring liberals or conservatives.
"The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) was founded in 1981 to analyze federal budget priorities, with a particular focus on how budget choices affect low-income Americans. We have broadened our work considerably over the years as we responded to new developments and entered new areas of research."
"The United States went through its longest, and by most measures worst economic recession since the Great Depression between December 2007 and June 2009. This chart book documents the course of the economy following that recession against the background of how deep a hole the recession created – and how much deeper that hole would have been without the financial stabilization and fiscal stimulus policies enacted in late 2008 and early 2009.
[each bullet below has a full explanation at the web page; I only provide a little of what they explain]
Part I: Recovery Began in June 2009
Part II: The Recession Put the Economy in a Deep Hole
GDP Fell Far Below What the Economy Was Capable of Producing
[I add a couple parts of this section worth writing because the deal with Hannity's twisted version of the facts; out of context is his technique - Hannity is "cherry picking" how he tells the story, skewing the truth]
GDP rose at a 1.4 percent annual rate in the second quarter of 2016 and was 1.3 percent higher than in the same quarter a year ago. The latter figure is lower than the 2.1 percent average annual growth since the start of the recovery, which has been insufficient to close the output gap.
The sharp rise in the unemployment rate and discouragement over the prospects of finding a job caused a decline in the percentage of the population in the labor force (those either working or looking for work). As a result of rising unemployment and declining labor force participation, the percentage of the population with a job fell sharply in the recession and stayed low through much of the recovery. It began to move up in 2014 and 2015 as falling unemployment offset still-falling labor force participation
Average hourly earnings of employees on private payrolls have been growing modestly throughout the recovery, averaging about 2.1 percent annually. Inflation has been modest as well, but over the course of the economic recovery, real (inflation-adjusted) wages have hardly grown and have failed to keep up with increases in workers' productivity (output produced per hour of work). As a result, the share of national income going to profits has increased relative to that going to wages.
Part III: The Great Recession Would Have Been Even Worse without Financial Stabilization and Fiscal Stimulus Policies
GDP Would Have Been Lower Without the Recovery Act...
...And Unemployment Would Have Been Higher
The Congressional Budget Office estimated that because of the Recovery Act, the unemployment rate has been lower each year since 2009 than it otherwise would have been. The maximum effect was in 2010, but CBO estimates that even in the fourth quarter of 2012 the unemployment rate was 0.1 to 0.4 percentage points lower than it otherwise would have been and employment was between 0.1 million and 0.8 million jobs greater than it otherwise would have been.
Footnote:
Sean Hannity web site post.
"DISGUSTING: 2008 Video Appears To Show Obama Flaunting His Privates To Female Reporters"
Really, Sean Hannity? This is as childish as it gets. Immature! The salacious video post is as UNPROFESSIONAL as a person can be on the job. What is your profession? You are sicko like Rush Limbaugh, a shock jock for fun, doing harm for the sake of hurting people. I need a shower after going to your web page for the first, and LAST time.
Sean delivered this nasty video post and used the word "appeared" to try to skate his ugly innuendo. Ugly to the max! See Sean's negligent web page 12 Oct 2016. Why is Sean looking for dirt on Obama, who is NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. Sean, why? Hillary is the Democratic candidate. If this is how you focus on the issues to elect a President for the United States, God help America. Jon Stewart probably sees this as too immoral to call out to the world.
Sean seems a little off his game to me. Sean seems like the disgusting one. Like it or not, Sean, you are disrespecting the President of the United States, which seems more of a white man's inclination than a black man's inclination since 2008. Yep, the "race card." Why is this video relevant Sean, in a campaign for ELECTING a new president? Why? You will say there is a double standard or a conspiracy. Those are silly, adolescent excuses, Sean. Child-like even. It looks like a doctored video to me, but even if not, why would anyone do that? Obama has never said he will grab a woman's pussy. Donald is our "Bill Cosby" candidate and the first reaction by you finding a video you think shows Obama flaunting his aroused cock on an airplane trip while talking on the phone? But as he goes VERY low, we should find the truth, IN FULL CONTEXT.
I want a few minutes without paranoid, alternate reality, whining about a rigged election. The United States and our Government has issues, but I am not about to bow to those who want to use reverse psychology to steal the office of the President of the United States.
If this election is rigged, they all must be rigged. You can't use that excuse half way, so the United States is a dictatorship of the rich, and elite class, right? By the way the Donald Trump is a rich elite and could have stepped up 30 years ago, right? Where was Donald all these years? Feeling up 22 year old secretaries in elevators?
Hillary has been working in politics, sort of, while Bill ran for office, so maybe we an go back 30 years for her career. That takes her back to a Governor's wife by the way, so she could not change the Federal level.
Donald Trump admitted numerous times that he gave money to politicians for favors. And now people believe he has changed? Really? The only evidence we have of the change in his beliefs and that he is not part of the establishment is Trump's statement, "Believe me!" THAT is an alternate reality.
Like anyone running for President, he will do and say anything to get elected. Same for Hillary, of course. But at least let's get at the real and complete facts.
Donald Trump's sleazy character is not an issue, I get it. We have had sleazy Presidents, so we can agree to ignore his life as a sexual predator. But how to you bring in Obama in this story? That behavior is not in Obama's DNA> Obama has always been a class act you idiot! Why does your video show he has a big cock? Obama may not have a big cock, Sean. If Obama has a average cock, even, 6", where does that put you on the racist continuum since you believe the video "apparently" shows him flaunting a rather long cock? This put Sean Hannity as LOW and LOW can get!
