Health Care BS

Last year, when unemployment was below 6% and GDP was still growing, Barack Obama’s supporters kept saying we were in “the worst economy since the Great Depression.”

Now, when unemployment is at nearly 10%, and we are actually experiencing negative growth, these very people are yammering about “the recovery.” Sullivan is typical:

I have no doubt that the recovery is still fragile; but I do think it’s worth noting that very few people expected a Dow 10,000 any time soon last January. Obama has done the critical - and largely overlooked - thing. He has restored confidence in the markets and the economy after what came close to a total panic and meltdown. That is not easy. It is not sufficient, but it was necessary. And he did it.

I’m sure those 15 million out-of-work Americans are VERY impressed that the Dow is finally back to pre-Obama levels, but I have a feeling that they’d rather have jobs. 

Unemployment is at a 26-year high. But in the Orwellian world of the Obot, mere facts are meaningless. For the rest of us, this is what Obama’s “recovery” looks like:

This is why polls are showing that Obama couldn’t get re-elected if voters had to choose today. If these numbers don’t get (a lot) better before November 2012, he’s toast.

UPDATE:

The Foundry provides the following graph showing the (non)results of Obama’s stimulus package compared to the results he promised.

Unfortunately, his health care “reform” package will probably just as ineffective in holding down health costs as his stimulus package has been at creating jobs.

But, then, I keep forgetting that actual results don’t matter. As the Nobel Prize committee has clearly demonstrated, only the hopey changy happy talk matters.