Sorry for the text bomb, but I figure it's needed to combat the fail here.
Aw bull****, stop with the bleeding heart liberal and tell that to Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and all other self made millionaires who took risk and didn't need govt. to take care of them.
Your lack of understanding of the private sector is an indictment of our education system today. In a free enterprise society there are going to be people that cannot compete and are going to be left behind. That is their own fault and not the role of the govt. to raise them up beyond their ability to compete. Failure is not only an option with liberalism but an expectation so as to create dependent people
Time for a personal story that I've mentioned from time to time: growing up, my dad was raising 1 son full time, and 2 kids part time (custody arrangements and the like.) He worked as a small business owner running his own lawncare company. Well, around 2000 or so, the economy tanked- and people see hiring someone to care for your lawn as a luxury, so he lost a large chunk of his client. Since his entire industry was in the same boat (and to say nothing of the town's economy in the first place), he had to resort to government aid to get us through until business picked up or he could get hired somewhere else. Of course, after things picked back up, he was able to regain clients, and did great after that. So, my point is, government aid can help hard-working people through difficult times.
They are making money by doing more with less. Increase the demand and businesses will hire. Obama isn't doing that by improving incentive
You do realize that you've just summed up the essence of Keynsian economics, right?
Clean debt limit increase does nothing but raise the credit card limit and that is and was unacceptable. There are no spending cuts because the base budget used was the record 3.7 trillion plus normal increases.
Can you give me one other instance where there was this level of negotiation/hostage taking over the debt? What the GOP did was completely unprecedented.
This shows that the Bush administration generated very good results up until the Democrats took control of Congress and implemented their legislative control. Bush has been blamed for the recession and for the poor economy, just showing that it wasn't always poor. Then I posted the 2011 results which are also blamed on Bush, so explain that one to me.
Can you show me specific legislation or actions that the Dem controlled congress took that was responsible? A bill they passed or action they convinced Bush to do, perhaps?
most conservatives hate a 3.7 trillion dollar federal govt. and that being the baseline for cut consideration. Let me know when Obama has a net job gain in the private sector from when he took office. That freaking party of no is 1/3 of the govt. that is saying no to the Obama record. When will you join that party of no that generated the following results? I know how badly you want to ignore the first two years Obama had when the Republicans couldn't say no.
The thing about the deficit is that is isn't an immediate problem. It may cause problems down the line, but right now it's not the pressing issue, jobs and the economy are. The thing is, government spending is good for the economy because it keeps money circulating. If I take money and buy a gallon of milk with it, the grocer will take that money and use it to pay an employee; Cutting the deficit does nothing to help the economy.
Obama economic results in 2011, .4% GDP and 1% GDP growth in 2011, 25+ million unemployed or under employed Americans in 2011, 4 trillion added to the debt in less than 3 years, and a downgrade of the U.S. credit rating. Rising Misery index 7.83 to 12.67. First President in U.S. History to have our credit downgraded on his watch! 38-41% JAR and well over 50-55% disapproval ratings.
Interestingly enough, S&P blamed the downgrade on politicians playing chicken with the debt limit increase. Now, which party was it that was doing that, again? *cough* GOP *cough*
