The Worst Five Years

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American Thinker:

As the mainstream media unabashedly cheered, Barack Obama was inaugurated for a second time as President of the United States. He and the American left, in alliance with the media, have it made clear that, in a second term, their primary agenda items are to permanently embed so-called "social justice" into the fabric of the nation and to destroy an enemy worse than radical Islam: the American conservative movement -- the fate of the country or the people be damned. They have already traveled a considerable distance in making life far worse for the average American as they follow in the failed footsteps of their ideological forefathers.

A key feature of the old Soviet Union, and virtually all other unsuccessful socialist/communist states, was viewing the economy in five-year increments. Out of that came the much ballyhooed five-year economic plan as a staple of centralized or statist planning. Unfortunately, these plans always fell woefully short and often times the people of these countries were much worse off at the end of the five years than before.

As of the end of 2012, the United States has experienced the worst five-year period -- which includes, as the final four years, Obama's first full term -- since 1928-1932 and the start of the Great Depression. From 2009 through 2012 the Obama cabal, and their allegiance to statist policies, has been in charge for four years. The global financial crisis took place in the previous year, 2008, and based on the historical pattern of American economic recovery since the depression years, the United States should have been experiencing broad and significant economic and job growth by year three at the latest.