Obama and the economy: you didn’t break it…
…but by now you own it.
At least in part.
Although Obama didn’t break the economy, it’s now three and a half years since he took office, and the American people appear to think he should have put more of the pieces together by this time:
The poll, conducted for The Hill by Pulse Opinion Research, found 53 percent of voters say Obama has taken the wrong actions and has slowed the economy down. Forty-two percent said he has taken the right actions to revive the economy, while six percent said they were not sure.
But wait a minute Republicans; don’t get too happy:
While 64 percent of voters consider this downturn to be “much more severe” than previous contractions, barely one quarter (26 percent) say the agonizingly slow pace of the recovery was unavoidable.
While voters feel Obama carries a greater portion of the blame than others, the poll found almost 6-in-10 are unhappy with the actions of Republicans in Congress who have challenged the president on an array of policy initiatives.
The voters seem to feel there’s plenty of blame to go around.
“The voters seem to feel there’s plenty of blame to go around.”
Yeah, and it begins and ends with the voters themselves.
vanderleun: funny thing; that wasn’t one of the choices.
Did you see the latest Scott Brown add? He has a lot of normal business folks saying, “I built it.” I think hearing plumbers and small shop owners challenging the president may get through to people who don’t connect with Bain and banks. It underpins the feeling that Obama is in over his head, nomatter who caused the problems in the first place.
Well, if we JUST totally eliminate all regulatory agencies, go to a flat tax of 3 percent ( or, at least, cut more taxes for those poor overtaxed rich folk), cut or eliminated social security and/or medicaid, eliminated all the other entitlement programs, drill, baby, drill! on all those useless federal lands and protected waterways, we would be well on our way to a Golden age, I tell you, a golden age!
Seriously, why can’t Obama or the Mittster see this ? It’s what every libertarian or fan of Austrian economics knows!
But alas, even if they were right -which I doubt – the fools fail to see the allure of crony capitalism to our current political and economic bigshots and thus their many prescriptions fail to be implemented. Too bad, so sad.
Brad, you forgot to include the importance of envy and voting for free stuff.
Politicians have been claiming they can fix the economy and provide jobs and whatnot for so long that the populace has come to believe it.
So they’d better produce.
About the only positive thing a politician can do is undo the work of the guy who thought he could “do” something.
Richard Aubrey:
Your point is well-taken. It’s true that voting envy, racial prejudice, and entitlements.
Add that to another part of our failed political system.
Still, this isn’t a nation of self-sufficient small farmers anymore and you can’t run a modern economy using only the precepts of laissez-faire capitalism, esp when you are competing against illegal aliens, increased use of automation, and chinese slave labor.
And given our current stupid, dishonest, and self-interested political class, we are all forked.
Ack! Somehow part of my second sentence got cut off: It should be “It’s true that voting envy, racial predjudice, and entitlements are something all too many voters are guilty of these days”.
I wonder what portion of the voting public knows that we’ve gone over three years without a budget being passed, and the two that Obama attempted were so laughably ridiculous that not a single Democrat wanted to be associated with it. It seems like a big deal to me. But then again, with the MSM being the one and only reason Obama got to where he is, we’ll be suffering from his ineptitude and outright criminality for years to come; only learning about them bit by bit, from sources outside the MSM bubble. I sincerely hope that the big media players that foisted this clown upon an admittedly ignorant and disinterested public will be left in tattered ruins. Bankrupt and scorned.
he needs and wants it broken
that way, the welfare and others he is buying can be bought
Obama Waives Work Requirements to Expand Welfare Rolls
Obama: Under Me ‘People Have A New Attitude Toward America’…
‘We tried our plan — and it worked!’
Obama Reminds Supporters: ‘I’m Term-Limited After This’…
“Because we’re leading around the world, people have a new attitude toward America. There’s more confidence in our leadership. We see it everywhere we go,” President Obama said at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Reno.
“Four years ago, I stood before you at a time of great challenge for our nation. We were engaged in two wars. Al Qaeda was entrenched in their safe havens in Pakistan. Many of our alliances were frayed. Our standing in the world had suffered. We were in the worst recession of our lifetimes. Around the world, some questioned whether the United States still had the capacity to lead,” Obama said earlier in his speech.
“So, four years ago, I made you a promise. I pledged to take the fight to our enemies, and renew our leadership in the world. As President, that’s what I’ve done. And as you reflect on recent years, as we look ahead to the challenges we face as a nation and the leadership that’s required, you don’t just have my words, you have my deeds. You have my track record. You have the promises I’ve made and the promises that I’ve kept,” he said.
in summary, i did it all, i gave it all to you, and now, you have twice as much nothing as you had before!!!! all hail… (guess what that sounds like when translated to German?)
Zusammenfassend ich alles getan, ich gab dir alles, und nun haben Sie doppelt so viel
Wie nichts, bevor Sie hatten!!
notice that Google wont translate all hail…
This approach indicates that the position of weapons in invariably preceding a revolution in military affairs has now been shaken, and now tactics come first and weapons follow, or the two encourage one another, with advancement in a push-pull manner becoming the new relationship between them. At the same time, weapons themselves have produced changes with epoch-making significance, and their development no longer looks only to improvements in the performance of individual weapons, but rather to whether or not the weapons have good characteristics for linking and matching them with other weapons.
Today’s wars will affect the price of gasoline in pipelines, the price of food in supermarkets, and the price of securities on the stock exchange. They will also disrupt the ecological balance, and push their way into every one of our homes by way of the television screen. –Alvin Toffler
It is under such new ideas that abortion is understood to be eugenics and since its PC desires and points are derived from the external soviet union in the past.. its a form of warfare, not a social consciousness raising thing… (even if it was when it started, its not when they are finished)
we all forget that before Obama was elected, Putin predicted and clued us in in speeches (which last for hours and so wont be read by westerners who cant take more than a paragraph or two – go ahead prove me wrong).
from education, to media, to udulterated products, to international collusion, and so on..
we been in a COLDER War than the cold war