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Not everyone will agree, but America is failing and is
headed toward irrelevance. One could argue that the country is actually
improving by some standards. If that’s the case, it’s the standards that should
be questioned.
There is one website in particular, Citizens
Fed Up, that distorts the results of President Obama’s administration. They
would say that according to government statistics, or other such data, that he
has “doubled the stock market, cut the unemployment rate in half, ended the
shrub’s recession, stabilized the housing market, helped bring back American
manufacturing, cut the uninsured rate in half, and cut the shrub’s budget
deficit, by 2/3rds”. Despite the condescending tone of their rhetoric, there’s
a lot of debate on not only the accuracy of these claims but also on the
validity of the data.
The point right now, however, is not to go through each
claim and fact check or debate them. Let’s, for now, take these claims at face
value. We might say that the economy is improving, that more people are
employed, and that the country is better off financially than before President
Obama took office.
The question really is what is the standard by which we
claim America is improving?
