5 Stats That Show Obama Isn't Focused On the Economy

04/30/2013

President Obama has spent 3.6% of his total work time in economic meetings or briefings of any kind (assuming a 6-day, 10-hour work week) throughout his entire presidency.

(IJReview)  - President Obama has focused on many, many things, but it seems like the economy is not his top priority. What leads me to believe this?

   4-years into his presidency, the civilian workforce participation rate hit its lowest level since the fall of 1978 …when Jimmy Carter was president.

   After promising taxes on the middle class would not go up, the middle class was hit with a 2% hike in the payroll tax.

   The White House acknowledges that their budget proposal doesn’t balance the budget …ever.

   Do I really need to discuss the $6 trillion in new debt added under Obama after he promised to cut deficits in half?


For the Liberals out there reading this, I’ll save you some time commenting: Bush wasn’t good for the economy either. But this is not about Bush vs. Obama or Republicans vs. Democrats; this is about the solvency of a nation. Continuing to neglect our debt will have consequences. Sure, we might not see those consequences today or tomorrow, but they are definitively there, and continuing to scoff at our debt situation will prove to weigh down our economic growth, and subsequently our power.


We’ve seen a lot of attention paid to health care, gun control, and immigration, but the economy is still the most important issue to Americans …by a long shot.

Below you will find 5 statistics about Obama’s presidency that will make you wish he was more focused on the economy.

President Obama has spent a total of 474.4 hours in economic meetings or briefings of any kind. That’s equivalent to 47.4 10-hour workweeks.

In 2013, President Obama has spent 6 total hours in economic meetings of any kind.

Throughout 2009, President Obama had 140 days with economic meetings. By 2012, the number of days with a scheduled economic meeting decreased to 29.

Throughout his time in office, President Obama has played 115 total rounds of golf and spent 86 days on vacation, for an estimated combined total of 976 hours. (Assumes 4-hours for round of golf, 6-hours of leisure time each day of vacation.)

[Source: Government Accountability Institute's Presidential Calendar: A Time-Based Analysis]