Critics should look at numbers

To the editor:
It is said that the optimist sees the glass half full, the pessimist sees it half empty. With that colloquialism I offer a couple of observations.
In 2008 the nation swore in our newly elected president. That same year disaster struck. The president then, and in the ensuing years, was tasked with reviving an economy awash and overwhelmed by an economic tsunami of almost biblical proportion (due basically to a financial feeding frenzy of avarice).
The newly-elected president took action to combat this tsunami. In those years there was an endless litany of pessimism, disrespect and mendacity. Some went so far as to hope that the president failed.
I read in the paper today that the unemployment rate was 5.1 percent. It’s 2015 folks.
I’ll excuse those of you who need to wipe the egg off your face or I’ll offer my salt shaker to the folks who now must eat crow.
Now this is of course, just my opinion, but I didn’t make this up in support of any agenda. The facts speak for themselves.
Michael S. Kinser
Portland