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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
If you truly believe that the economic policies of political administrations have little or no effect on the health of the economy and one of it's key measures, the value of the equity of publicly owned companies, then there's not much purpose in continuing much debate here on subjects having to do with economic decisions made in Washington.
If a POTUS has little or no effect on the good things that happen economically, then it seems appropriate that he not be blamed for the bad things that happen either.
If we want to write off any effect that the policies of the Obama administration have had on economic recovery, that's OK with me. I don't agree, but for the purpose of this forum, it might help frame the discussion.
That being the case, why don't we quit blaming Obama for the high unemployment rate, for the decline in tax revenues needed to fund the government, for the skyrocketing imbalance of payments, and for other economic things that a POTUS often gets tagged with.
All that's OK with me. Don't give the POTUS any credit for good things that happen. But don't blame him for things that don't go so well economically either. That surely will simplify this forum.
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I have never ever blamed a president for the market nor lauded one for success. We have 8% unemployment and of course you and most will blame Bush for that UNTIL it lowers....we have 50% of people who pay NO taxes, we have no US budget for three years.....you can laud him all the way...I know you blame all those bad Republicans for all of that, and they certainly need to shoulder a lot of the blame but you even make light of the healthcare bill while saying it was a mess but poor Obama just didnt know...well, he is president...he is supposed to know...and now poor Obama tried but even thought he lied, and cheated to get the bill passed all those poor folks who will suffer if it is overturned should never get angry at him.....no, lets give him yet another pass and off he goes.
Sorry.....while I have tried to be fair with him, these love affairs for him are going to come back to bite all of us. He can get a pass from you, but the direction he wants to take this country and the method he uses to get there is something that I do not and cannot condone. He is not honest...not at all and I suppose we just have to pay the circumstances in the future.
I sure do not envy those who will need to live with what he is doing.