Ok point by point.
1.) Mostly because of people who dropped out of labor force.
Are you aware of what kind of people dropped out of the labor force? what is the retirement rate vs graduate rate? how many became disabled, how many went back to school to take advantage of the retraining programs? Of the 86 million age eligible for work americans fully 81 million are either retired, disabled, students, prisoners, institutionalize, military or stay at home parents.
2.) Great so people are putting their money in stocks because the interest rate is so low they have no incentive to save - that means less capital investment and production.
If the stock market is strong, that means that capital is being raised. The stock market does not often go up or down because of the small investor, it is the institutional investors actions that usually affect indicies. In addition, corporations have enjoyed record profits for four years in a row, and have tons of capital to invest, except it isn't in their best interest to do so.
3.) Which isn't enough to recover the jobs lost, not to mention population growth.
Jb growth has recovered the jobs lost in the first 18 months of the Obama administration. Yes it isn't as fast as anyone would like, but there was a pile of legislation that got blocked by senate filabusters and a recalcitrant congress, that would have created more. when policy is not able to be enacted, you cant expect the bennies (if any)
4.) It's growing slower today than in 2011, which was less than 2010. If inflation is higher than government estimates, we are actually in a recession.
No, gdp growth may not be spectacular, but its still growth. No recession.
5. - 6.) These points go together, because the government is inflating another bubble in the housing market and financial sector. We haven't created real wealth.
Of course its as real as paper wealth can be.
7.) "We're all Osama, Obama." Al Qaeda is alive and GM isn't in great shape.
AQ is decimated and but all those AQ affiliates are not in direct operational contact with each other. GM "only" made 2.1 ebita adjusted in the second quarter, Chevy has had 8 straight quarters of record sales, Chinese sales are at a record. the only "downer" about GM is the stock price, which if they keep up their preformance will look after itself.
8.) "Millions are able to buy private healthcare" - sorry but did we do anything to lower costs? If not how are people who couldn't afford it before going to afford it now. Sorry it is only good for insurance companies not for patients.
All kinds of initiatives in the AHCA, and mechanisms to monitor costs and develop actionable strategies. Insurance companies are now mandated to provide certain coverages as well as maximum markups on services which will also lower costs as that and increased competition come into play. There's a ton of other initiatives that are designed to increase efficiency, improve care, and manage costs.
9.) Except Obama/Bernanke repeated the policies of Bush/Greenspan/Bernanke so we aren't digging our way out we are repeating the same mistakes.
Given history, you can hardly call the application of keynsian economic theory a mistake.
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0.) Talking point, like Obama Bush inherited a recession when the stock market bubble burst in 2001 and he used economic stimulus in the form of tax cuts to "stimulate" economic growth. Bernanke and Obama did the same thing but on steroids over the last 4 years. So the exact same policies. You also said above that you think housing prices going up is good which means you don't understand how the economic crisis occurred in the first place (hint: it was precipitated by a huge bubble in the housing market). If you think housing prices artificially rising, people then taking out the equity, and spending the money on crap made in China is good for the economy then vote for Obama because that's what the plan is.
Bush used stimulus as tax cuts while at the same time dramatically increased spending on the credit card. You know two wars are a tremendous economic stimulator as well. Meanwhile tax cuts were represented only 1/3 of Obama's stimulus bill.
Housing prices going up is a good thing. Its called market adjustment and the days of NINJA junk mortgages are in the past, likewise (if Dodd/franks actually gets implemented) derivatives and credit default swaps will be regulated, bank liquidity ratios will increase, and organized liquidation of the supposedly "too big to fail" institutions has been spelled out and "bailouts" have been expressly forbidden.