Six Months Later and What Do You Get?

Six Months After President Obama and the Democratic Congress passed the stimulus package, what do you get?

2.1 Million Lost Jobs and a $1.8 Trillion Budget Deficit.

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[LiberalViewer]

I find it risible that the GOP should attack Pres. Obama on the economy less than a year after he's taken office when the last GOP President, GW Bush, had the distinction of presiding over TWO BUSH RECESSIONS, one starting in March 2001, AFTER HE TOOK OFFICE, and the other beginning in December 2007. See

tinyurl(.)com/NBERDates

Having lived thru GOP recessions before, I know employment is a LAGGING indicator of recovery which you will see as Obama cleans up your GOP mess

Thx 4 the video :-)

[LiberalViewer]

Raycheetah wrote "can't use Bush as your strawman, anymore"

I'm not sure you understand what a "strawman" is b/c I didn't use Bush as a "strawman"

Raycheetah wrote "to blame any president as the cause of such a complex problem is very simplistic"

Tell the makers of this video

Raycheetah wrote "Obama chose the steps he took to correct it, and failed. even to reverse it"

Your contradicting your previous quote and failing to address employment being a lagging indicator

Thx for the reply :-)

[peter4redstar]

No need for the name calling! People of other nations where laughing when we called Bush Hitler too. We need to leave the Natzi references to the Natzi. No need to call any American president a Natzi. Its just a disgrace coming from Americans from the right of left.

[ShootnTimez]

You are just fucking stupid, BUSH WAS PORTRAYED MORE AS HITLER THAN OBAMA HAS BEEN. But hey you are a biased, uninformed fuckwad who just thinks he can throw any peice of info out there and it is automatically right. Look up "Bush as Hitler" in google images.

[supahliberal]

Look, I agree that immediately was an exaggeration, but if you look at July te job losses clearly slowed down. And what was the alternative going to be? I can think of 3 things:

1) Do nothing, because you are a sad person. You're economy tanks. You move to sweden.

2) More tax cuts for the rich! Because you love rubbing salt in your wounds. Solution: move to Sweden.

3) Move to Sweden before anything can happen because you're scared some wingnut will f*** it up.

[supahliberal]

1) how would the tea parties be assembled if not for free speech?

2) the department of justice's report on angry southern violence was dead on

3) We dont hate white males, but we try to make it fair for the minorities.

4) question authority, dont fight it on instict until youve checked it out.

5) War is never the first response, but can sometimes be necessary.

6) move on if it is one or two things. bush had over 20 scandals or mess-ups. it's comparing a mountain to a speed bump.

[bfirepllc]

The GOP has become a party of uninformed idiots. Their critical thinking skills vanished as soon as they started catering to the Christian Coalition. Now the Jesus crowd is running the party and they know only what their Bible tells them. They have the mindset of the ignorant 1st. century desert dwellers who wrote "the word" of their god. These were people for whom a YoYo would have appeared as an inexplicable instrument of magic and their scribbling is now the "guiding light" of the GOP.

[peter4redstar]

The rest of the industralized world is laughing at us... We have become the biggest joke in the world because of these conservatives and people comparing the Presidant to the Natzis.. WTF! So what are you fighting for? Yours saying that its the Presidants job to help employ all americans in less the six months and not give every one good health care!? I did not here the right wing screaming when Bush was growing the government.

[4u2b1ib12]

JordanLeDoux,

Yes there was, but the conflicts were the focus of the media. All recent presidents have to produce a plan for Congress. It is the Law.

The stimulus package pays for shovel ready projects. e.g. road construction. The money offered to each state helped their economy. Look it up in your state, it is there.

To whom have you complained? Your elected officials or me, and others. I, now, e-mail my office holders, repeatedly. I call them all out.

You?

[JordanLeDoux]

Hahaha...

There was no plan when Bush was in office. You think I'm trying to say Bush is better? Obama has been exactly the same as Bush in every important way, and it's fucked up.

1.5% of ever person over 20 isn't huge? You're living in a fantasy land.

The unemployment is over 16%...

Real time jobs were created? Prove it.

The media hasn't scared me, I've been complaining about this stuff for years. Check the videos in my favorites.

[DigitalAquarius]

Hey! Where is that second great depression?

*looks around*

I don't see it anywhere. I wonder...what happened in the last 8 months that might have....prevented it?!

WHOA. No way, dude.

[4u2b1ib12]

JordanLeDoux,

The Bush plan was only thirty-billion, (30,000,000,000.00) short of what Pres. Obama has proposed. I am not partisan. The 1.5% is a comparatively small number, compared to the job losses, without the stimulus package. Real time jobs were created. The media has you scared.

Pres. Obama inherited the problem that had been developing, and you want it solved overnight. That is unlikely, due to the politicians arguing for power, and control.

What is the question.

You?