Wednesday, October 24, 2018

The Miracle Jerker

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There are times in our lives, times we’re not particularly proud of, when we fantasize about being able to wallop someone with a Costco-sized banana cream pie with extra whipped cream. And one of those times was Monday, when Barack “the future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam” Obama spoke at a political rally in Las Vegas.

(A brief but important aside: the last time we recall Obama attending a political rally in Las Vegas was while the ruins of our embassy in Benghazi were literally still smoking. And there, he likened the “sacrifices” of political volunteers to those who sacrificed their lives in Libya. The rat bastard.)

But here in the present day, it wasn’t our embassy on fire, but rather Barack Obama’s pants for approximately the millionth time. And the whopper that particularly caught our attention was this one: “When you hear this talk about economic miracles, remember who started it!

Well we do remember, and it sure as Shinola wasn’t Barry. He further explained, “By the time I left office, wages were rising, the uninsurance rate was falling, poverty was falling, and that’s what I handed off to the next guy.”

But let’s slip into our hip waders and parse this nonsense. Wages were “rising” from the grave at a nearly imperceptible rate owing to Obama’s successful efforts to impede economic recovery as long as possible (indeed, it was the slowest economic recovery ever).  The rate of uninsurance declined only because people were ordered under penalty of law to get Obamacare, with taxpayers and the middle class getting stuck for the wildly unaffordable premiums. The claim that “poverty was falling” is absolutely unsubstantiated, and the notion that Barry handed off a nascent economic miracle to Trump is absurd on its face.

To that end, we’d like to take an opportunity to remind everyone of what Obama was actually handing off to his successor…

This is the man who spent hundreds of billions on fake “shovel ready jobs” that never materialized, but somehow managed to enrich the coffers of Democrats and radical liberal groups…

And this same economic genius actually proposed this as an idea to create a million new jobs (spoiler alert: it didn’t create any)…

And he followed up that inspiration with this unintentional bit of “transparency”…

Yep, even with record unemployment and no hope on the horizon, Obama disbanded his advisory Jobs Council after not bothering to meet with them for over a year.

Make no mistake, Obama was an economic disaster for America and much of it was intentional on his part. The “economic miracle” is that we somehow managed to survive his eight year reign of error.