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| Note: The Colored Bars are the plots of the expanded US Debt by president - using the numbers provided by The Grio.com article. Since Obama is the sitting president the data for the 2009 & 2010 debt limit increases and the proposed (presently under debate) numbers came from press reports. The projections for future debt comes from Congressional Budget Office federal deficit projections. (I will afix the actual numbers for the CBO projections through 2016 - and remove this part of the note) |
On Wednesday of this week I sat in on a presentation review meeting with my boss's boss. I was brought to the point of cursing in my mind as he took the data that I had collected on behalf of an important client and then trashed them. He demanded quantitative information and not "platitudes" for the consulting recommendations to be presented to the customer. At the end of the meeting I got past my frustration at having invested the time compiling information that I had collected and then edited from a team of other people ultimately having to toss a large portion of it.
A few day's later we had the actual customer meeting and it turned out that my up-line who pissed me off was correct in what the customer was going to do. They challenged us to prove our findings using empirical data and not just pronouncements.
Years of this type of "abuse" - first by those inside of my company who don't want to be embarrassed by data - and then later by customers who are taking our recommendations and then needing to convince their own management that the strategy is sound.
In summary - scrutiny and then defense of your "numbers" is a good thing. It forces those who generate opinion and analysis to operate within certain boundaries.
What Was The Grio-Root's Agenda In Their Obama Bad Credit Article?
When you see an operative projecting "Obama the 'Black President' " into a policy debate that has nothing to do with his race - you should understand that you are dealing with a scoundrel who is seeking to compel YOU into a racially defensive posture so that they can ultimately advance their own agenda.
The analysis of The Grio's Robert Henderson Jr should be filed along with the recent open letter from radio mogul Tom Joyner who suggested that Blacks should reelect Commander In Chief Obama for the purposes "Black racial pride".
As you come across people like this you are advised to hide your wallet.
The chart above attempts to unravel the application of factual data to make a dishonest point. This is what Mr Henderson is guilty of doing.
Shame On You Mr Henderson & The Root.Com
Let me start out with my conclusion:
WHEN (not if) Commander In Chief Barack Obama, having been successfully elected to a second term in office is also tagged as having grown a debt in 8 years that is larger than George W Bush's ($6.1T) debt - do not expect the "Obama Fist Bump Black Press" to report this news as an INDICTMENT.
These are strange days that we are living in.
If you have ever took time to sit back and analyze the key principles of Hard-Left/Progressive-Fundamentalist economic policy analysis, you'd know that "Ronald Reagan" is at the heart of their discussions which ask "What happened to the economic engine of the United States that it is now derailed?"
"Reagan inflated the national debt!!! Clinton left office with a surplus"are their key talking points. (In addition to them targeting Reagan for "union busting" w/ the PATCO strike and his visit to Philadelphia MS to send a message to Black people).
It is quite odd, then, to hear progressives of today point to Reagan's debt spending - not in the pretext of spitting upon him but instead to gain cover on behalf of Commander In Chief Obama so that he too can put through blog buster debt spending.
Seriously people - how do you do these things? How do you logically promote something that you had previously denounced YET receive comfort that it is your ADVERSARY who is the hypocrite because he now opposed what he once supported? In the consciousness of 'Keep Your Enemy On Trial" - you are not prone to see your own shift in viewpoint as well. Are ye not less of a hypocrite?
The bottom line of the graph below is that Mr Henderson of The Grio-Root is using a slight of hand in which he has no respect for TIME (terms in office).
We have presidents that have served two terms (8 years) upon which their debt is attached to and we have few that have a few that only served one term in office. Commander In Chief Obama has only been in office since January 2009 - this is about 2.5 years out of his 4 years of a presidential term.
Mr Henderson main agenda is to ask "Where is the outrage" over these others. He uses the virtual qualifiers of "!" and then "Even" to give away his hand. (Side note: There are still some propagandists who are going around saying that Clinton cleared the US debt, with some of these people claiming that he had a $5.4T SURPLUS that Bush squandered. Some people do not understand the difference between a debt and a deficit)
The fact is, Mr Henderson - there were two Debt Ceiling Increases under Obama already -
- $290B in late 2009
- $1,900B in 2010
Henderson appears content to enumerate the tale of the tape with these other presidents, hitting Bush II in particular. He appears loathed to talk about Commander In Chief Obama's TRAJECTORY which has him on pace to exceed Bush's deficit spending.
Fear not though people. If the Obama Fist Bump Black Press is allowed to edit the messages - we will be told that Obama spent the money because he had to first clean up after Bush II and then he had a Republican House that did everything possible to wreck the Black President's credit report. (Oh - excuse me. They are already reporting that message)
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