Americans ARE Better Off, Thanks to Obama

The chart below showing Pres. Obama to be anything but the big spender his critics would have voters believe him to be sparked quite a discussion on Facebook, including this comment from "Ronnie":

"prices of gas are higher food bills higher utilities higher and pay is less tell me how we are better"

I don't know about "Ronnie" but I sure had no problem coming up with several million Americans who are definitely better off thanks to Obama, such as:

Those who were hired to fill the nearly 5 million private sector jobs created in the past 3-1/2 years, the 43 million previously uninsured people who now have healthcare coverage, most middle-income Americans who realized significant tax savings (the tax policy center calculates an average of $3,600 per typical family -- my household's was more than $5,000), the millions of Americans who will no longer be barred from healthcare coverage because of 'pre-existing conditions' that had become as ridiculous as having been pregnant at sometime in their lives, women who now have the right to sue employers for pay discrimination, women who no longer pay higher insurance premiums than men, millions of Americans who invest in a stock market that has more than doubled since Obama took office, thousands of auto industry workers and thousands more in related industries who didn't lose their jobs because of Obama-approved loans to GM and Chrysler most of which have been paid back -- with interest -- and many more Americans who have and still are benefiting from Obama's policies. 

Speaking of gas prices, remember $4 and higher per gallon during GWBush's term? And he was one president who really could do something about gas prices, thanks to his in w/the Saudi royal family, but even he couldn't keep prices from going through the roof.

Some who are certainly better off than Mitt Romney would have them believe are Jeep workers whose jobs are NOT being sent to China -- contrary to what Romney told a crowd in Ohio, where a lot of Jeep employers live and work, gun owners whose rights have been EXPANDED under Obama (unlike what Romney did as governor of Massachusetts when he signed the most restrictive gun law in that state).

Some who might not be better off are former Delphi employees whose jobs Romney's Bain Capital shipped overseas, Sensata Technologies workers in Freeport, Ill., whose jobs Bain is shipping to China next week, and the millions of former manufacturing workers whose jobs have been shipped to other countries by corporations seeking ever-higher profits, some now making record high profits, yet still get federal subsidies that the GOP-controlled Congress refuse to end.