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Originally posted by xuenchen
Well let's see here.
If Obama had a full Democrat Congress his first two years, that must have been when "He" stabilized the economy.
Unless of course the bad Republicans in the House began to stop the "progress" in 2011. Maybe that helped?
Originally posted by seaside sky
reply to post by MrWendal
And maybe when he's finished leaping tall buildings in a single bound he can explain to me why NO financial criminals (including the ones in his own administration) have been prosecuted, the gap between the rich and poor has gotten worse, more jobs have been shipped overseas, more money spent on imperialistic wars, and our Constitutional rights have been shredded.
Originally posted by xuenchen
Originally posted by syrinx high priest
people hate the slow recovery
it could have been catastrophic.
what baffles me is how john boehner stalling the recovery has no traction
yay two party system
How is john boehner "stalling the recovery" ?
You realize he has Democrats holding things up because they fear the reprisals.
All the Dems have to do is wake up and smell the coffee.
Originally posted by DAVID64
Yes, I'll give him this. He's stabilized the economy. It continues to get worse at a steady rate.
“That’s important,” Obama said about enacting good policy. “But the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times.”
Originally posted by ads789
“That’s important,” Obama said about enacting good policy. “But the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times.”
Well, one thing he sure is good at, and that is telling a story to the American people.
Originally posted by Indigo5
reply to post by xuenchen
Spending had nothing to do with it. It caused a crisis in confidence and a fear that the USA was going to actually default. As it stands we suffered a downgrade for the first time in history.
Businesses do not hire or invest in that climate.
Lowering the nation’s rating to one notch below AAA, the credit rating company said “political brinkmanship” in the debate over the debt had made the U.S. government’s ability to manage its finances “less stable, less effective and less predictable.” It said the bipartisan agreement reached this week to find at least $2.1 trillion in budget savings “fell short” of what was necessary to tame the nation’s debt over time and predicted that leaders would not be likely to achieve more savings in the future......
“A judgment flawed by a $2 trillion error speaks for itself,” a Treasury spokesman said Friday night.
The ranks of America’s poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s amid a weak economy and fraying government safety net.
Read more: www.politico.com...