A Trump supporter said:
“We suffered under Obama for 8 years. Now it’s your turn.”
Reply:
Over the last 8 years, I was wondering: Why have you suffered so?
Gays and lesbians can now marry and enjoy the benefits of which they had been deprived. Has this caused your suffering?
When Obama took office, the Dow was 6,626. Now it is 19,875. Has this caused your suffering?
We have 82 straight months of private sector job growth - the longest streak in the history of the United States. Has this caused your suffering?
Especially considering where the economy was when he took over, an amazing 11.3 million new jobs were created under President Obama (far more than President Bush). Has this caused your suffering?
Obama has taken unemployment from 10% down to 4.7%. Has this caused your suffering?
Homelessness among US Veterans has dropped by half. Has this caused your suffering?
Obama shut down the US secret overseas prisons. Has this caused your suffering?
President Obama has created a policy for the families of fallen soldiers to have their travel paid for to be there when remains are flown home. Has this caused your suffering?
We landed a rover on Mars. Has this caused your suffering?
He passed the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Has this caused your suffering?
Uninsured adults had decreased to below 10%: 90% of adults are insured - an increase of 20 million adults. Has this caused your suffering?
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People are now covered for pre-existing conditions. Has this caused your suffering?
Insurance premiums increased an average of $4,677 from 2002-2008 an increase of 58% under Bush. The growth of these insurance premiums has gone up $4,145 under Obama – a slower rate of increase. Has this caused your suffering?
Obama added billions of dollars to mental health care for our veterans. Has this caused your suffering?
Consumer confidence has gone from 37.7 to 98.1 during Obama’s tenure. Has this caused your suffering?
He passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Has this caused your suffering?
His bi-annual Nuclear Summit convinced 16 countries to give up and destroy all their loose nuclear material so it could not be stolen. Has this caused your suffering?
He saved the US auto industry. American cars sold at the beginning of his term was 10.4M and upon his exit 17.5M. Has this caused your suffering?
The deficit as a percentage of the GDP has gone from 9.8% to 3.2%. Has this caused your suffering?
The deficit itself was cut by $800 billion dollars. Has this caused your suffering?
Obama preserved the middle-class tax cuts. Has this caused your suffering?
Obama banned solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prisons. Has this caused your suffering?
He signed credit card reform so that rates could not be raised without you being notified. Has this caused your suffering?
He outlawed government contractors from discriminating against LGBT persons. Has this caused your suffering?
He doubled Pell Grants. Has this caused your suffering?
Abortion is down. Has this caused your suffering?
Violent crime is down. Has this caused your suffering?
He overturned the scientific ban on stem cell research. Has this caused your suffering?
He protected Net Neutrality. Has this caused your suffering?
Obamacare has extended the life of the
Medicare insurance trust fund (will be solvent until 2030). Has this caused your suffering?
Prescient Obama repealed Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Has this caused your suffering?
He banned torture. Has this caused your suffering?
He negotiated with Syria to give up its chemical weapons and they were destroyed. Has this caused your suffering?
Solar and wind power are at an all-time high. Has this caused your suffering?
High School Graduation rates hit 83% - an all-time high. Has this caused your suffering?
Corporate profits are up by 144%. Has this caused your suffering?
He normalized relationships with Cuba. Has this caused your suffering?
Reliance on foreign oil is at a 40-year low. Has this caused your suffering?
US Exports are up 28%. Has this caused your suffering?
He appointed the most diverse cabinet ever. Has this caused your suffering?
He reduced the number of troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Has this caused your suffering?
Yes, he killed Osama Bin Laden and retrieved all the documents in his possession for analysis. Perhaps THIS caused your suffering?
From an objective standpoint, it would appear that the last 8 years have seen some great progress and we were saved from a financial collapse.
Things are not perfect.
Things can always be better.
We are on much better footing now than we were in 2008.
I look forward to understanding what caused you to suffer so much under Obama these last 8 years.
That’s good. thumps up
That’s good. thumps up Ditto.
Obama pulled the Bush bus out of the ditch, but now people are complaining he made them be late for dinner.
Don’t let the name Trump get too deep into your psyche, CC. You are even putting a “p” in “thumb”! 
:lol:
okay, good advice.
I was going to fix, but to hell with it.
(it’s a good thing you’ve never seen any of my first drafts) 
Nice one…
Oh sweet sweet naïve LoisL. It’s not that all those things were accomplished. It’s because they were accomplished by a black guy who’s ten times smarter than the average Republicon leader. That’s what they’re mad about. Just like when ugly as sin white guys couldn’t get the pretty white girls but smooth good looking “blackies” like Charlie Parker could. Pissed them off to no end.
I’m that getting cut and pasted quite a bit. Someone did a nice job.
It was written as a question to one of his facebook friends. I don’t expect to be seeing too many Trump supporters answering it.
The deficit itself was cut by $800 billion dollars. Has this caused your suffering?Please explain the “The deficit itself was cut by $800 billion dollars. Has this caused your suffering?" President Obama started in office with $10,626,877,048,913.00 of debt and ended with $19,947,304,555,212.00. Meaning the deficit was increased by $9,320,427,506,299.00. https://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/debt/current This means President Obama barrowed and spent over three billion dollars more than he was taking in tax revenue every day he was in office. How can you claim that he reduced the deficit by 800 billion dollars when the U.S. Treasury claims he increased the deficit by over nine trillion dollars? Which means that the working person’s share of the national debt increased by $29,266.80 during President Obama’s terms.
The deficit itself was cut by $800 billion dollars. Has this caused your suffering?Please explain the “The deficit itself was cut by $800 billion dollars. Has this caused your suffering?" President Obama started in office with $10,626,877,048,913.00 of debt and ended with $19,947,304,555,212.00. Meaning the deficit was increased by $9,320,427,506,299.00. https://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/debt/current This means President Obama barrowed and spent over three billion dollars more than he was taking in tax revenue every day he was in office. How can you claim that he reduced the deficit by 800 billion dollars when the U.S. Treasury claims he increased the deficit by over nine trillion dollars? Which means that the working person’s share of the national debt increased by $29,266.80 during President Obama’s terms. I believe that Lois meant the yearly reduction in deficit spending, not the National debt.
Deficit, noun, •an excess of expenditure or liabilities over income or assets in a given period; "an annual operating deficit" ·
Here is an objective view of Obama’s accomplishments, in spite of Republican obstructions.
and here is the current record of Trump (in progress)
I use Politifact’s Truth-O-Meter a lot. Here is the main page,
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/nov/01/principles-politifact-punditfact-and-truth-o-meter/
Place it in your favorites for easy access. I think we’re gonna need to check this on a daily basis, the way the first month is going for Trump.
A Trump supporter said: "We suffered under Obama for 8 years. Now it’s your turn."I hope he's enjoying the Indivisible Movement as much as we enjoyed the antics of the Tea Party movement. :)
The deficit itself was cut by $800 billion dollars. Has this caused your suffering?Please explain the “The deficit itself was cut by $800 billion dollars. Has this caused your suffering?" President Obama started in office with $10,626,877,048,913.00 of debt and ended with $19,947,304,555,212.00. Meaning the deficit was increased by $9,320,427,506,299.00. https://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/debt/current This means President Obama barrowed and spent over three billion dollars more than he was taking in tax revenue every day he was in office. How can you claim that he reduced the deficit by 800 billion dollars when the U.S. Treasury claims he increased the deficit by over nine trillion dollars? Which means that the working person’s share of the national debt increased by $29,266.80 during President Obama’s terms. I believe that Lois meant the yearly reduction in deficit spending, not the National debt.
Deficit, noun, •an excess of expenditure or liabilities over income or assets in a given period; "an annual operating deficit" ·Yes, thanks, Write4U, i didn't write the piece, which is all over the Internet, but that's probably what the author meant.