elklindo69 wrote:Leroy....
A simple question, a yes or no answer would suffice.
Do you deny that the economy is gaining strength?
Is that assessment accurate or not?
1. When you look at the jobs numbers for the 4th quarter in 2012, they were 200K+ for each of the months, except for Nov, 256K, which is probably not believeable.
2. Auto sales are increasing rapidly.
3. Real estate sales are on the way up.
Elk, what I see is something you don't seem to see. After a year or more of inaction and outright dishonesty from Obama Admin on the taxes, years worth of unfriendly business practices, companies hold off to make major purchases until they knew what the tax code was going to be, with odumbass being reelected they know they can't wait any longer, that they are going to be screwed for at least four more years, so they, after he was re-elected, went ahead with their purchases.
You say that Real Estate sales are on their way UP, yet you missed how 2012 was the worst fall since 1963, and Dec 2012 was down 2.2% over that.
Car sales are up because there are fewer and fewer parts to repair cars thanks to the cash-4-clunkers program. People can't find parts to repair their cars cheaply, so they are opting for used or new cars instead.
If you look at the BLS numbers, the U6 number, which is the real unemployed rate, it's not a good picture, 14.4% still unemployed.
As for how things are really going - look at the total number of people receiving public assistance or newly on disability - that will tell you how the Jobs and Economy are really going - Obama's increased those numbers every year.
Maybe you should start working with businesses, so that you actually know how Obama is impacting business (including real-estate).