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David Stockman bombshell: How my Republican Party destroyed the American economy.

What do you think of this quote

  • Stockman is a moron

    Votes: 5 27.8%
  • Stockman is correct

    Votes: 10 55.6%
  • Stockman is a Republican traitor and a moron

    Votes: 1 5.6%
  • The Democrats are the root oause of deficits

    Votes: 5 27.8%
  • The Republicans are the root cause of deficits

    Votes: 4 22.2%
  • We need more honest politicians like Stockman

    Votes: 7 38.9%

  • Total voters
    18
  • Poll closed .
Clinton left Bush a budget surplus, high employment and no wars. Bush left Obama, the largest budget deficit in history, the biggest recession since the great depression, and two wars that are nearing the cost of World War II, and inadequate revenues to pay for them thanks to the Bush tax cuts.

So, Obama fixes it by making laws we can't afford and involving us in another conflict?
 
So, Obama fixes it by making laws we can't afford and involving us in another conflict?

What new laws we can't afford? While I oppose our joining Nato in their effort in Libya, it is not our war. I would have thought the GOP would have come out against it, but they have not made a single vote to end it.
 
What new laws we can't afford? While I oppose our joining Nato in their effort in Libya, it is not our war. I would have thought the GOP would have come out against it, but they have not made a single vote to end it.

Something you and I agree on.
 
HAHAHAHAHAHA. Another one of these guys. How long is it gonna be Bush's fault to you people.

You know what? I think Bush spent his 8 years trying to clean up Clinton's crap.

Perhaps, but Bush began with a functionally balanced (very, very small deficits) budget and ended with annual budget deficits of more than $1T. The budget problem was pretty much CREATED during the Bush II administration (Is this what Republicans mean by being a "creationist"?). In addition to creating huge annual deficits, he turned over an economy that was in a death spiral.

Obama's "crime" is not in creating an economic mess. That was pretty much given to him by Bush. His crime is failing to fix it.
 
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Perhaps, but Bush began with a functionally balanced (very, very small deficits) budget and ended with annual budget deficits of more than $1T. The budget problem was pretty much CREATED during the Bush II administration (Is this what Republicans mean by being a "creationist"?). In addition to creating huge annual deficits, he turned over an economy that was in a death spiral.

Obama's "crime" is not in creating an economic mess. That was pretty much given to him by Bush. His crime is failing to fix it.
The time necessary to "fix" the economy may be 5 to 10 years,IMO.
And you think that President Obama, who probably knows zero about economics, can "fix" this in two ??
The "crime" was the American peoples greed.
This may take forever to fix.....
Bush really cannot be "credited" was messing up the economy....It was the Islamic attack and our response....Billions of dollars spent on tracking him down... That money is forever gone...
Lets just hope that all this is over and that we have learned something.
The something boils down to "respect".
 
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