# To all Obama apologists on the economy. You need to go fuck yourself today.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-obama-apologists-on-the-economy-you-need-to-go-fuck-yourself-today/618390
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [April 10, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-obama-apologists-on-the-economy-you-need-to-go-fuck-yourself-today/618390 "2012-04-10T18:01:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-obama-apologists-on-the-economy-you-need-to-go-fuck-yourself-today/618390/1 "2012-04-10T18:01:01Z")
Now going into a third straight year of budget and staff cuts, the district staff at my school district have just been told about massive staff cuts (me included). Why don’t you pull some more numbers out of Obama’s ass (they’re in there next to your head) and explain again about how the economy is recovering and has been for some time. Explain how real unemployment has gone down.
Look, the economy is in the shitter and everyone except you and your President know it. So out of respect for me being laid off for the second summer in a row (ya know, last hired = first fired), I order a 24 hour morotorium on any statement implying the economy has been getting better under your President.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-obama-apologists-on-the-economy-you-need-to-go-fuck-yourself-today/618390/2 "2012-04-10T18:06:27Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#):
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> Now going into a third straight year of budget and staff cuts, the district staff at my school district have just been told about massive staff cuts (me included).
How’s that starvey beastie thing working out for ya?
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### Author:  [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-obama-apologists-on-the-economy-you-need-to-go-fuck-yourself-today/618390/3 "2012-04-10T18:07:09Z")
Couldn’ta happened to a nicer, more rational guy.
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-obama-apologists-on-the-economy-you-need-to-go-fuck-yourself-today/618390/4 "2012-04-10T18:09:14Z")
I’m sorry to hear you’re losing your job, your idiotic OP notwithstanding.
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### Author:  [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-obama-apologists-on-the-economy-you-need-to-go-fuck-yourself-today/618390/5 "2012-04-10T18:14:19Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#):
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> I’m sorry to hear you’re losing your job, your idiotic OP notwithstanding.
Oh I know it’s an idiotic rant. It comes from minutes after finding out about the (job) massacre we’re having here I hear on talkradio about out we are in our 3rd year of recovery and unemployment is at its lowest point and it’s all thanks to Obama and I’m thinking, “You know, that is exactly the antithesis of what I want to hear right now.”
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### Author:  [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-obama-apologists-on-the-economy-you-need-to-go-fuck-yourself-today/618390/6 "2012-04-10T18:16:20Z")
Cool story, bro.
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### Author:  [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-obama-apologists-on-the-economy-you-need-to-go-fuck-yourself-today/618390/7 "2012-04-10T18:32:16Z")
I’m sorry, I have plans for today. Can I go fuck myself tomorrow?
Meanwhile, enjoy a delightful–and insightful–cartoon from the [Christian Science Monitor](http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Monitor-Political-Cartoons/%28photo%29/470979).
Oh, and spot on, **Ludovic**.
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### Author:  [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-obama-apologists-on-the-economy-you-need-to-go-fuck-yourself-today/618390/8 "2012-04-10T18:37:03Z")
I’d be curious as to what state the OP is in, and whether their state budget may have been a little teeny tiny factor in the layoffs.
That said, I can appreciate that hearing that news on the radio, right after being shit-canned, would tend to unleash an irrational rant.
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### Author:  [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-obama-apologists-on-the-economy-you-need-to-go-fuck-yourself-today/618390/9 "2012-04-10T18:42:18Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#):
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> It comes from minutes after finding out about the (job) massacre we’re having here I hear on talkradio about out we are in our 3rd year of recovery and unemployment is at its lowest point and it’s all thanks to Obama
Eh, if the same thing were happening with McCain as President the same sources would be saying it’s all thanks to McCain.
The fact is, we got hit in 2008 with the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression, and no administration without superhuman powers would be able to turn that around completely in a mere few years. Minor improvements are worth being thankful for, but we’re nowhere near out of the woods yet.
Which is why, as you note, a lot of people are still getting hurt in the current state of the economy. Sorry to hear about your job situation, and I hope it works out okay.
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### Author:  [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-obama-apologists-on-the-economy-you-need-to-go-fuck-yourself-today/618390/10 "2012-04-10T18:46:28Z")
[According to this, the unemployment rate is getting better.](http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z1ebjpgk2654c1_&met_y=unemployment_rate&tdim=true&fdim_y=country:US&fdim_y=seasonality:S&dl=en&hl=en&q=unemployment+rate#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=unemployment_rate&fdim_y=country:US&fdim_y=seasonality:S&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=country:US&ifdim=country&tdim=true&tstart=1289368800000&tend=1328853600000&hl=en_US&dl=en) YMMV.
No presidents or ownerships of presidents mentioned in this post, so the moratorium doesn’t apply to me.
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### Author:  [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-obama-apologists-on-the-economy-you-need-to-go-fuck-yourself-today/618390/11 "2012-04-10T18:47:06Z")
So let me get this straight - Obama issued you a layoff? Wow, that sucks.
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-obama-apologists-on-the-economy-you-need-to-go-fuck-yourself-today/618390/12 "2012-04-10T18:47:08Z")
Schools get their funds cut even when times are good. Not sure how having a hockey mom and a zombie puppet in charge would have helped at all.
Life’s handed you a shit sandwich. Direct your anger appropriately, but stop undercutting someone who, at worst, has nothing to do with it.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-obama-apologists-on-the-economy-you-need-to-go-fuck-yourself-today/618390/13 "2012-04-10T18:51:33Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#):
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> Schools get their funds cut even when times are good. Not sure how having a hockey mom and a zombie puppet in charge would have helped at all.
They would have been a whole lot better for public sector employment, that’s for sure. Burn, village, and all that.
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### Author:  [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-obama-apologists-on-the-economy-you-need-to-go-fuck-yourself-today/618390/14 "2012-04-10T18:54:53Z")
How are those tax cuts working out for you now, you dumb motherscratcher?
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### Author:  [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-obama-apologists-on-the-economy-you-need-to-go-fuck-yourself-today/618390/15 "2012-04-10T18:58:30Z")
I realize it’s a personal bummer for you and your family. Are you just now getting the message that you happen to be in that segment of the ‘Gummint’ that Grover Norquist and his ilk want to “drown in the bathtub”? If you happen to be a true conservative you might applaud the efforts to get rid of these over-reaching government programs.
Again, man, I do feel for 'ya - a lot of ‘us’ are in the same boat, but you do need to remember the old saying:
Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-obama-apologists-on-the-economy-you-need-to-go-fuck-yourself-today/618390/16 "2012-04-10T19:02:11Z")
I didn’t like hearing “Sugar, Sugar” right after my girlfriend dumped me, but not enough to put a contract hit out on the Archies.
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-obama-apologists-on-the-economy-you-need-to-go-fuck-yourself-today/618390/17 "2012-04-10T19:05:04Z")
I support President Obama, the country is better off with him in the White House, and with any luck, the entire Republican Party will implode this November so we can finish what needs to be done to repair the damage caused by two terms of conservative misadventure. Tax cuts don’t create jobs.
I hope that makes you feel better. OK, not really.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-obama-apologists-on-the-economy-you-need-to-go-fuck-yourself-today/618390/18 "2012-04-10T19:06:08Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#):
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> I didn’t like hearing “Sugar, Sugar” right after my girlfriend dumped me, but not enough to put a contract hit out on the Archies.
That would be a lot more justified than the OP.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-obama-apologists-on-the-economy-you-need-to-go-fuck-yourself-today/618390/19 "2012-04-10T19:07:35Z")
> [@Kimstu](#):
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> Eh, if the same thing were happening with McCain as President the same sources would be saying it’s all thanks to McCain.
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> The fact is, we got hit in 2008 with the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression, and no administration without superhuman powers would be able to turn that around completely in a mere few years. \
When I hear things like the OP here, I am a little boggled - you think President Obama managed to dump the global economy in 2008, before he was even President? Wow, he really IS the most powerful man alive! What, he hasn’t completely fixed everything in three years, with the Republicans dragging their feet on every motion? I guess he’s completely useless then.
ETA: And I really am sorry that you’re about to lose your job, **Saint Cad**. Regardless of the circumstances or the politics, that sucks.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2012, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-obama-apologists-on-the-economy-you-need-to-go-fuck-yourself-today/618390/20 "2012-04-10T19:08:57Z")
> [@](#):
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> …but not enough to put a contract hit out on the Archies.
You didn’t have the money. You aren’t fooling anybody here, **Vinny**. Bloodthirsty motherscratcher.
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