Chris Christie needs to read more.
The New Jersey governor, and a probable Republican candidate for president next year, thinks the economy has tanked under President Obama’s administration.
Interesting.
http://wegoted.com/2015/05/chrsitie-goes-after-president-obamas-economic-policies/
The stock market is at record highs. Unemployment is at its lowest level in about a decade. Jobs are being created at a rate not seen since the Clinton administration, when everyone — even Republicans — say the economy was booming. The banking and auto industries have recovered. Automakers have paid back the funds they borrowed when the government bailed it out shortly after Barack Obama took office as president.
“This president is failing because he cares more about redistributing wealth than he cares about creating and growing new wealth in our economy,” Christie said on a radio talk show.
Here’s a flash: The president may be criticized for a lot of things, but the economy is in full recovery mode. Even the New Jersey governor ought to understand that.
Has the president done everything he said he’d do? No. We haven’t stabilized Middle East politics. We haven’t brought a world of peace and plenty to places that have neither. It can be argued that the war on terror hasn’t progressed as the president promised it would when he took office.
The nation’s economy — while it isn’t perfect — is in far better shape than when the 44th president moved into the White House.
Then again, when has the economy ever been in perfect condition?
“So far all of the gains of the recovery have gone to the top 1 percent,” Justin Wolfers wrote for the New York Times.
Who was it that kept reminding us that what happened on Wall Street didn’t matter if it didn’t translate into gains on Main Street? That’s right, then-Sen. Obama.
The median household income is down 8 percent since before the recession, there are still fewer full-time jobs and the job creation that has happened hasnt kept up with immigration during the president’s term.
For a longtime liberal, it didn’t take much, John, to turn you into a cheerleader for the 1 percent at the expense of everyone else. Have you started wearing a black top hat and monocle in your retirement years?
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/apr/19/bernie-s/bernie-sanders-says-99-percent-new-income-going-to/