Waffle. Waffle. Punt.
From the
National Journal:
Obama Team Punts Three Times on �Better Off Now� Questions
Speaking on ABC's This Week on Sunday, Senior Obama adviser David Plouffe had few answers for the age-old question, �Are you better off now than you were four years ago?� On three occasions, he declined to answer the question with a definitive yes or no.
�It took us a long time to get into that hole, it�s going to take us a long time to get out of it,� Plouffe said after the first time host George Stephanopoulos asked the question.
After the second variation of the question, he said, �We were this close to a Great Depression, and because of the leadership of this president we staved that off. We're beginning to recover.�
Stephanopoulos pressed a third time -- �You still can't say 'yes?'� -- and again Plouffe punted: �We've clearly improved from the depths of the recession.� He went on to list areas where he said matters had improved: manufacturing, lowering the unemployment rate, and in the auto industry.
And the funny thing is that these three areas: manufacturing, unemployment and the auto industry are much worse off than they were four years ago.
Manufacturing is all being shipped overseas, there have been new jobs created but these have failed to keep up with population growth leading to a net loss of jobs and the auto industry is still deep in debt and still owes the Federal Government billions. Chrysler and General Motors have lost significant market share while Ford is going like gangbusters and Imports are increasing their share.
Posted by DaveH at September 2, 2012 4:45 PM