hazlnut;1058947745]Why? Why was 3T added to the debt in less than 2 years. What were the policies and events that lead to that... I seem to remember something about some tax cuts for the rich and super-righ that were going to fix everything... That's right, flood an unregulated derivatives and mortgage back securities market with billions, and what could go wrong.
Oh, I don't know, maybe the buyout of GM/Chrysler, 862 billion stimulus and anti business attitude that led to record unemployment had some affect. As for the TARP money, hasn't most of that been paid back?
EVERY report/study/expert says the damage was done by 2005. It was a ticking time-bomb goose egg laid by W.
Back your statement up with actual data, not your opinion which we are now seeing what that is worth.
The bailout, the auto-bailout... what were the alternatives?? We were screwed but Cheney/Bush policies. Put a million people out of work in the detroit area? Even conservative economists know you can't do that. Let AIG fail? I think even you know that wasn't an option.
Yep, that is and was the only option, throwing money at the problem is all liberals do. TARP has been paid back but didn't go to repay the debt, that is what liberals always do and you apparently support. Again show me the numbers and stop with the opinions.
W. handed President Obama a mess, 2 wars unpaid for, an economy in shambles, no matter how much your masters at Fox News try to rewrite history, can't change what's already on the books.
Spoken like a true liberal, show me the numbers and stop with the opinions. None of those have anything to do with the deficit which apparently you don't understand. Obama could stop the war any time he wanted to but hasn't, Deficits are yearly and not cumulative, that would be the debt.
And what I know for Goddamned sure, Beck's fear-mongering and race-baiting, getting the Teabrains rock-hard about gettin' Blackie out of office isn't the solution. Tomorrow is a exercise in ginning up the GOP Obama-hating base.
You are great at explosive rhetoric that is backed by nothing other than hot air. Facts matter, get them and you would have more credibility. BEA.gov, BLS.gov, and the U.S. Treasury are all non partisan and have data, educate yourself for a change.
The solution is pragmatic cool heads, Reps and Dems working together. But the fringe-right won't have it. Can't stand the new color in the White House.
Yep, anytime the results don't match the rhetoric resort to race baiting. No one is ever going to work with this narcissist, spoiled man child or Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.
The Teabrains, Beck, and Palin make me sick. Un-American, un-patriotic morons appealing to the lowest common denominator, fear.
LOL, I will tell them the next time I see them. I am sure they will lose sleep over your feelings. I know that I sure will. I would worry about the uneducated base that supports Obama and is dependent on the taxpayers for their own existence. 47% of workers in this country pay no income taxes and thus don't seem to care what others pay. These are the people that form today's Democrat base and are the ignorant ones that blame everything on someone else as they buy the rhetoric of our empty suit President.
Call 'em like I see 'em.
Economists look at 10 year, 20 year policies and results. Idiot pundits grade Presidents day-to-day. Which one are you?
I can see that, problem is people who cannot see shouldn't be calling anything.