Thursday, January 19, 2017

Before and After Obama: 10 Signs of a Diminished America

Before and After Obama: 10 Signs of a Diminished America:
"The media acted as if Donald Trump’s campaign slogan of “Make America Great Again” was an incomprehensible emotional outburst from people who didn’t realize, or wouldn’t accept, just how great Barack Obama was. 
President Obama has spent his final months in office giving juvenile speeches full of excuses for why nothing bad since 2009 was his fault, while everything good was his personal handiwork. 
Why, if you just ignore all the terrorist attacks that happened on American soil over the past eight years, you can believe his carefully-phrased assertion that there haven’t been any terrorist attacks!
In truth, everyone paying attention could see the signs of a diminished America, and they knew exactly what Trump was talking about. 
Image result for obama failA new Gallup poll finds that American believe the country slid backwards in 14 out of 19 policy domains, with the worst deterioration in the national debt, crime, income inequality, and race relations.
The four areas of improvement Gallup found were in the situation for gays and lesbians (Obama’s only truly high mark), energy (which got better despite his policy preferences, thanks to the private sector), climate change (whose partisans scream that it’s getting worse!) and the economy. 
“Health care” was a complete wash, which is awful, given the amount of money Obama spent on it.
The new administration has its work cut out for it to repair the damage caused by eight years of Obama’s policies in the following ten key areas.
Read 'em all.
Pretty sad legacy.

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