M2RB:
Excuse me please one more drink
Could you make it strong cause I don’t need to think
She broke my heart my Grace is gone
One more drink and I’ll move on
One drink to remember, then another to forget
How could I ever dream to find sweet love like you again
One drink to remember, and another to forget
Excuse me please one more drink
Could you make it strong cause I don’t need to think
She broke my heart my Grace is gone
One more drink and I’ll move on
One more drink and I’ll be gone
Pssst: Hope-n-Change don't pay the bills!
Subpar Obama Recovery: 6.5 Million Jobs Below Average
In
his recent speeches on the campaign trail and at official functions,
President Obama typically touts the fact that over the past two years,
the economy has created more than 4 million new jobs, with more than 1
million in the past six months alone.
At a fundraiser last month, he called this "extraordinary progress."
But the economic recovery that Obama has presided over has been far from extraordinary. It hasn't even been ordinary.
In fact, it's come in well below average on several key indicators
compared with the previous 10 economic recoveries, dating back to 1949, according to an IBD analysis of various economic data.
And on several measures, the current recovery — which started five
months after Obama took office and is now in its 35th month — is the
worst on record since World War II.
Here are the results.
Employment: By this point, the average job growth in the past 10
recoveries was 6.9%. Under Obama, jobs have grown by just 1.9%,
according to data from the Minneapolis Federal Reserve.
Had the current recovery kept pace with just the average recovery
over the past 60 years, there would be 6.5 million more people with jobs
today, and the unemployment rate would be below 7%, instead of above
8%. That assumes several million more Americans would have joined the
workforce. If the current anemic labor force were unchanged, those 6.5
million jobs would drive unemployment to 4%.
GDP growth: The Obama recovery has also performed far worse than
average when it comes to GDP growth. After 11 quarters, the economy is
still only 6.8% bigger than it was when the recession ended. In
contrast, GDP was 16% bigger, on average, by this point in the previous
10 recoveries, the Minneapolis Fed data show.
The current recovery is so slow, in fact, that it just barely beats
GDP growth 11 quarters after the 1980 recession ended — even though
there was the intervening long and painful 1981-82 recession. And unless
GDP shoots up in Q2, the current recovery will soon be the absolute
worst since the Great Depression.
Had the Obama recovery tracked the average GDP growth in the 10
previous recoveries, the economy would be almost $1.2 trillion bigger
today.
Incomes: By the third year of the past five recoveries, real median household incomes climbed an average 2.8%, according to the Census Bureau, which only has household income data back to 1967.
But in the current recovery, real household incomes dropped 5.4% during the recovery, according to Sentier Research, which compiles a monthly household income index using Census data.
"Unlike previous recoveries, we actually saw household incomes drop
faster during the recovery than they did during the recession itself,"
said Gordon Green, who co-founded Sentier.
Deficits: The current recovery also doesn't stack up well when it
comes to annual federal deficits. By this point in previous recoveries,
deficits were running an average 2.2% of GDP. This year, they're
expected to be 7.6%, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Here's another way to look at it: If the deficit-to-GDP ratio matched
the average of the previous recoveries, it would be around $341
billion, instead of $1.2 trillion.
National debt: Although Obama claims that he's cleaning up after the
"wild debts" Republicans ran up, the national debt has climbed much
faster during Obama's economic recovery than the typical recovery in the
past.
On average, federal debt climbed 9.5% in the first three years of
those recoveries, after adjusting for inflation. Under Obama, debt has
climbed $4 trillion since the recovery started, a 28% increase in real
terms.
So what explains today's historically poor economic recovery?
Obama routinely blames the deep recession. The problem is that,
historically, the deeper the recession, the stronger the recovery has
been.
Others have argued that recoveries from financial crises produce sluggish recoveries. However, a paper published by the Atlanta Fed
concluded that U.S. history provides "no support" for linking the
current mediocre recovery "with the financial crisis of 2007—2008."
And there are those who argue that the stimulus was insufficient. But
that's hard to believe, too, since spending has averaged more than 24%
of GDP over the past three years, and deficits averaged 9.3% — higher
levels than at any time since World War II.
Obama most recently has argued that Republicans are thwarting the recovery.
"We've got too many of my dear Republican friends in Congress that
have been standing in the way of some steps that we could take that
would make a difference at the moment," Obama said last week.
But Obama got everything he wanted in terms of economic policy his
first two years in office, when he had solid Democratic majorities in
the House and Senate, including a massive stimulus, Cash for Clunkers,
mortgage aid, Wall Street reform, ObamaCare and so on.
But even Democratic support for Obama's recent economic proposals has
been lukewarm. Sen. Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., for example, said that he
had concerns "about the level of spending that President Obama
proposed," after Obama outlined a new stimulus plan last fall.
Meanwhile Republicans say they've passed 30 jobs-related bills in the
House since 2011 that have been held up in the Senate. One that did get
through — the JOBS Act, which eased some financial regulatory burdens
on small companies — was sponsored by Republicans, and opposed by more
than 60 Democrats in the House and Senate.
Grace Is Gone - Dave Matthews Band
Neon shines through smoky eyes tonight
It’s 2 am - I’m drunk again it’s heavy on my mind
I could never love again so much as I love you
Where you end where I begin is like a river going through
Take my eyes,take my heart cuz I need them no more
If never again they fall upon the one I so adore
Excuse me please one more drink
Could you make it strong cause I don’t need to think
She broke my heart my Grace is gone
One more drink and I’ll move on
One drink to remember, then another to forget
How could I ever dream to find sweet love like you again
One drink to remember, and another to forget
Excuse me please one more drink
Could you make it strong cause I don’t need to think
She broke my heart my Grace is gone
One more drink and I’ll move on
One more drink and I’ll be gone
You think of things impossible then the sun refused to shine
I woke with you beside me your cold hand lay in mine
Excuse me please one more drink
Could you make it strong cause I don’t need to think
She broke my heart my Grace is gone
One more drink and I’ll go
Excuse me please one more drink
Could you make it strong cause I don’t need to think
She broke my heart my Grace is gone
One more drink and I'll move on
One more drink and I’ll be gone
One more drink my Grace is gone
One more drink my Grace is gonetake
Neon shines through smoky eyes tonight
It’s 2 am - I’m drunk again it’s heavy on my mind
I could never love again so much as I love you
Where you end where I begin is like a river going through
Take my eyes,take my heart cuz I need them no more
If never again they fall upon the one I so adore
Excuse me please one more drink
Could you make it strong cause I don’t need to think
She broke my heart my Grace is gone
One more drink and I’ll move on
One drink to remember, then another to forget
How could I ever dream to find sweet love like you again
One drink to remember, and another to forget
Excuse me please one more drink
Could you make it strong cause I don’t need to think
She broke my heart my Grace is gone
One more drink and I’ll move on
One more drink and I’ll be gone
You think of things impossible then the sun refused to shine
I woke with you beside me your cold hand lay in mine
Excuse me please one more drink
Could you make it strong cause I don’t need to think
She broke my heart my Grace is gone
One more drink and I’ll go
Excuse me please one more drink
Could you make it strong cause I don’t need to think
She broke my heart my Grace is gone
One more drink and I'll move on
One more drink and I’ll be gone
One more drink my Grace is gone
One more drink my Grace is gonetake
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