Romney Booed At NAACP Event

[Brittain33]

14.4% unemployment amongst blacks under Obama, yet they remain blindly loyal to the Democrats, who take them for granted.

Obama put forth a job plan that would decrease unemployment. His stimulus plan provided funding to state and local governments, which would prevent layoffs of public employees, which includes disproportionately more African Americans.

Republicans blocked these plans and others, leading to higher unemployment.

Romney proposes to continue these policies, which would make things worse.

It takes real chutzpah to block Obama's plans to lower unemployment and then blame him for unemployment.

Combining that with racist generalizations and tone-deaf appeals that you really know better what's best for a community you're not part of is what makes it offensive.

[Brittain33]

Obama takes over executive branch in Jan. 2009.
Unemployment rate:  7.8%

GOP takes control of House in Jan. 2011.  
Unemployment rate:  9.1%

Unemployment rises to 9.4% in May 2009 within four months of his taking office. The economy hemorrhaged several hundred thousand jobs a month before anything he could do could take effect. He inherited an economy in complete free-fall and taking the oath of office on Jan. 20 does not magically stop that.

The stimulus and the auto bailout stopped the economy from getting drastically worse through layoffs of hundreds of thousands of auto workers and government employees--although for many goverment employees, it only delayed the layoff.

Economics statistics showing a bad contraction in late '08 or early '09 (I forget) that informed the stimulus projections were later revised, a year later, to show a massive contraction, much worse than anyone knew.

Anyone who cites the Jan. '09 number as the date when Obama's policies were driving the economy is being dishonest or economically illiterate.