Obama's promise was overtaken by events. Nobody could have predicted how hard it would be to stem the downward spiral of job losses and gdp decline, or how much money it would cost.
You really mean how stupid was Obama, to think by election day in 08 Obama promises to cut the deficit in half, but instead he doubled it. Now just how much is Obama out of touch. What do you expect from a community organizer and a guy that never ran a lemonade stand.
The truth of the matter is that America is enormously wealthy. By far the wealthiest country that has ever existed. It has a gigantic unmatched cash flow (look up the definition). All its going to take to bring the debt undercontrol is some common sense compromise on the nations priorities moving forward.
Do you not know we have a "negative" cash flow problem, Obama spends $11 for every $7 he receives, I see you have no understanding of economics.
So what do you say about Romney's budget that will increase the deficit to $20 trillion by 2020?
Lets see we're over 16 trillion now and under Obama adding 6 trillion in 4 yrs that brings to a total under Obama by 2020 to 22 trillion. I like Romney's numbers by 2 trillion reasons.
this has been the same story with every election that I have followed for 40 years. Like I said before, its only going to take some consensus spending priorities and the debt can be dealt with. You need to do is agree on how any future surplus will be used - in Canada, we paid down a huge chunk of our debt in the 90 by sensibly agreeing to its priorty.
And I do agree that this generation has to sacrifice more for their excesses, hence raising taxes is a must at some point.
Obama has no intention of reducing our debt with any surplus, he as already said any savings from wars will go to spending not debt reduction.
No, I it is not a burning issue at this point, because there are other priorities and I do not suggest ignoring it. First priorities are spending /revenue/deficit. Those take precedence - if a balanced approach is taken then the debt can be tackled in a far more stable economic climate. Sensible solutions is whats needed, not out of control partisanship fueled by big business and big businessmen.
Balanced approach, Obama talking point. What you never speak to is growing our economy, of which Obama has no clue. We send 500 billion a yr and all the jobs that go with it to oil lords. Bring that money back home and all the jobs that go with it and this country will boom. But it will never happen under Obama. Build Keystone, never happen under Obama. Take the job and industry killing EPA and shut them down, never happen under Obama. Kill Dodd / Frank. Stop with the billions going down a rat hole with all this green that can't compete with natural gas and coal. I could go and on. But liberals don't care about jobs, never have never will.
Wrong again. from a source I know you will trust. Sorry, but Obama has taken a number of republican ideas and incorporated that into proposed legislation - only to be rejected by the republicans.
Name one. And don't go giving me a Romney idea, I'm looking for a Republican idea that they proposed to Obama that was incorporated into Obamacare.
In case you haven't noticed, in the last four years, the centerist right no longer controls the republican agenda and now reject many ideas they formallly held.
You talking about the 2010 election landslide shellacking Obama, you mean the will of the people stating we don't like Obama's failed policies.
Yes romney promises to kill a program that is almost identical to the one he implemented in Mass.
The key word, "almost" is not good enough.
It was good enough for the people of Mass but not for the rest of the country. The guy went from adopting "romneycare" to totally rejecting "obamacare". Just another flip, because centerist republicans don't have much traction or differentiation. Its what comes when the emphasis is on extreme partisanship.
The 2010 election was a strong voice against Obamacare and his failed policies. I know you want to ignore all this 2010 stuff.
If you look at the first two years of Obama's term, you'll notice that republicans used the senate filibuster/cloture/anonymous hold tactics to block a lot of legislation - sometimes successfully forcing the dems to modify or trade off, but more often not as it should be in a democracy.
As I said, the Dem's controlled all three houses of government, key world "controlled" they could pass any legislation they wanted anytime they wanted.
I guess you don't believe the severity of the global economic crisis. Okay not much can be said if you don't recognize the scope of the problem and the consequences of failure over those first couple of years.
And I guess you don't understand what caused the collapse of some of Europe's countries. Debt, socialism, unions, pensions, entitlements, giveaways, etc.
Obamacare was loved so much that 30 republican states sued, oh, but unsuccessfully
Thanks to the Supreme Court making a penalty a tax.
a co-ordinated effort, just like the co-ordinated union busting
You mean like Walker did, and the union spent millions trying to oust Walker that got elected a second time. You don't like elections, where the people liked what Walker did and elected him again for doing so.
Are you saying you are OK with voter fraud?
it was concerned politicians trying to solve real problems.
Like Walker, Chris Christie, Mitch Daniels, John Kasich and the like
Interesting you don't by Obama's talking points, but tell me, why are you buying romney's? Its not like he's been consistent in the last two years on his positions and even in the last couple of months he's "pivoted" which is another way of saying "changed my mind because I can't get elected with that policy".
Give me a break, Obama told you everything you want to hear and you sucked him up hook line and sinker. "I'll cut the deficit in half" just for starters.