Comment Re:This is great news! (Score 4, Interesting) 485
But I would really like to hear one person such as yourself explain, by the numbers, how this is not a time of relative peace and prosperity?
Well, the last time Republicans were in charge was Jan 2007. At that time, the unemployment rate was 4.6% and falling, and the deficit was $161 billion. Since a year after the Democrats have taken Congress, neither the unemployment rate nor the deficit has been this low.
As for now, 95% of the "recovery" has gone to the top 1% and the labor participation rate is at the lowest point since the '60s.
As for "peace", we've lost more soldiers in Afghanistan in six years under Obama than we lost in eight years of Bush. Iraq is on fire with women and children being sold into slavery or have their heads cut off and placed on stakes like the men. ISIS, a group that makes Al Qaeda look like alter boys, has taken over much of Iraq and is even making money from the oil sales. In Africa, school girls are being kidnapped and sold as sex slaves or wives, as if there is a difference.
Are these the numbers you were looking for?