OK, I was going to stay away from this thread, but now I have to respond, and then I'm done.
The economy took a dive from rules mandated by a democratic congress that people who cannot afford a mortgage were allowed to get one. The prevailing theory was that when the balloon payments came due, they could flip the house for a profit and then use the profit to get a new home. It totally ignored the fact the real estate speculation had reached ridiculous proportions and the bubble was overdue to burst. Both Bush and mccain treid to get Congress to wake up about it, but a certain Senator - "Sandwich" Dodd and a certain representative, Barney "hide the" Frank repeatedly said there was no problem and anyone who said there was is just a racist.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/edito ... al_fiasco/
Oil prices have stabilized because the worldwide demand has fallen off the cliff due to the recession. When the economy picks back up prices are going to skyrocket even worse than i 2007 because of the long term contracts the Chinese have sewn up. And on those decreasing job losses, nothing the government did slowed those down. Most companies have already layed off as many as they could and still be a functional entity. The government action by the current admin and Congress has made it worse by delaying the recovery.
When the Democrats re-took Congress in 2006, the first thing Pelosi and company did was insist on a revival of the discredited Keynesian economics. Bush went along with the incredible increase in deficit spending and as usual with Keynsian "stimulus", nothing but more debt happened. 0bama's administration took this notion to even more ridiculous heights by tripling the national debt with an even more massive stimulus, which still has not worked (anyone remember what they predicted about unemployment? No more than 8%?), a more massive bank bailout, nationalizing two car companies, and a badly run cash for clunkers program. Much of the so-called stimulus was political payback to political backers. How on earth is $8 billion to ACORN going to stimulate the economy? How is giving $3 billion to the Brazilian government oil monopoly Petrobas for exploration going to stimulate our economy? (BTW, his backer George Soros just bought a huge stake in Petrobas just before that.)
Where his people promptly took the bad rules of engagement that the Bush admin had promulgated and made them even worse, making our troops more vulnerable and preventing them from taking on the Taliban when they took refuge behind civilians.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/24/news/ec ... /index.htm
I'll also mention the infamous cap and Trade bill pending that he whole heartedly supports. It will burden this nation with new restrictions on our freedom to choose the energy we want in vain pursuit of a scientifically challenged climate change theory. It will destroy the domestic oil industry and ironically make us even more dependent on imports. it will increase your electricity bills by a factor of 3 to 4.
Numerous people he has appointed to high positions have publically stated that Freedom of Speech is anti-democratic, and we need to follow Hugo Chavez's example in restricting it to protect our new democracy. Not just Van Jones either. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28906 http://www.infowars.com/obama-official- ... -internet/
You really think our enemies don't watch the Castro News Network? They play up to it
6manfan4life":1wf7bn9m said:unfortunately the bush did it claim is very valid... becus, he did. he screwed up the budget, wasted money on an unecessary war, gave away money, and caused the value of the dollar to drop dramatically.
obama has inherited a country in bad shape, and is doing what he can to fix it. the economy is on the upturn in some ways. the job loss in the country is getting lower and lower, gas prices have stablized, and house prices r stablizing. so he is improving the economy.
The economy took a dive from rules mandated by a democratic congress that people who cannot afford a mortgage were allowed to get one. The prevailing theory was that when the balloon payments came due, they could flip the house for a profit and then use the profit to get a new home. It totally ignored the fact the real estate speculation had reached ridiculous proportions and the bubble was overdue to burst. Both Bush and mccain treid to get Congress to wake up about it, but a certain Senator - "Sandwich" Dodd and a certain representative, Barney "hide the" Frank repeatedly said there was no problem and anyone who said there was is just a racist.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/edito ... al_fiasco/
Oil prices have stabilized because the worldwide demand has fallen off the cliff due to the recession. When the economy picks back up prices are going to skyrocket even worse than i 2007 because of the long term contracts the Chinese have sewn up. And on those decreasing job losses, nothing the government did slowed those down. Most companies have already layed off as many as they could and still be a functional entity. The government action by the current admin and Congress has made it worse by delaying the recovery.
When the Democrats re-took Congress in 2006, the first thing Pelosi and company did was insist on a revival of the discredited Keynesian economics. Bush went along with the incredible increase in deficit spending and as usual with Keynsian "stimulus", nothing but more debt happened. 0bama's administration took this notion to even more ridiculous heights by tripling the national debt with an even more massive stimulus, which still has not worked (anyone remember what they predicted about unemployment? No more than 8%?), a more massive bank bailout, nationalizing two car companies, and a badly run cash for clunkers program. Much of the so-called stimulus was political payback to political backers. How on earth is $8 billion to ACORN going to stimulate the economy? How is giving $3 billion to the Brazilian government oil monopoly Petrobas for exploration going to stimulate our economy? (BTW, his backer George Soros just bought a huge stake in Petrobas just before that.)
bush caused a war for no reason, when most told him not to, chenney himself even said it would be a bad idea to occupy iraq in an interview when he worked for elder bush. obama is getting our troops out quickly as possible, and sending more to afghanistan (where they should have been the whole time).
Where his people promptly took the bad rules of engagement that the Bush admin had promulgated and made them even worse, making our troops more vulnerable and preventing them from taking on the Taliban when they took refuge behind civilians.
This is from CNN itself (surprisingly)obama is not trying to take away ur freedoms, please provide REAL EVIDENCE if u have FACTS, but we'll see...
finally, how could cnn give the enemies info about our troops? i doubt they would sit in their cave/house/hut, watching cnn to get their info on troop locations. and i doubt cnn gave away info on troops that would put them in danger, but if im wrong please provide with evidence from actual broadcasts.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/24/news/ec ... /index.htm
I'll also mention the infamous cap and Trade bill pending that he whole heartedly supports. It will burden this nation with new restrictions on our freedom to choose the energy we want in vain pursuit of a scientifically challenged climate change theory. It will destroy the domestic oil industry and ironically make us even more dependent on imports. it will increase your electricity bills by a factor of 3 to 4.
Numerous people he has appointed to high positions have publically stated that Freedom of Speech is anti-democratic, and we need to follow Hugo Chavez's example in restricting it to protect our new democracy. Not just Van Jones either. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28906 http://www.infowars.com/obama-official- ... -internet/
You really think our enemies don't watch the Castro News Network? They play up to it
unlike bush, im not afraid tp admit when im wrong. something our current president isnt afraid to admit either.
most the people on here r gonna hate obama regardless, so ill try to stop posting... still looking for the answer to my original post. anyone got proof of the brainwashing?