Question to tea party people, do you want the economy to improve, even if it means Obama winning in 2012? (Congress, activist)

[Sid2001]

Would you want the economy to improve even if it means Obama will take credit and probably be reelected? Would you rather have a bad economy and Obama lose, or a good economy and Obama wins. What is worse, a bad economy or Obama being reelected?

[rbohm]

i would prefer the economy improve. if that means four more years of obama as president, so be it, as long as he has to deal with a republican congress. however i think that obama will fight a republican congress tooth and nail to get his platform through, and we will have government shut downs, and the democrats will try to blame the republicans, and obama will lose in 2012, much like carter did in 1980.

[Redshadowz]

This is really the fundamental problem with American politics. Far too much emphasis is being placed on the economy. There have been people speculating for years about how to make the economy better. Something might work one time, but the same thing might not work the next. Tampering with the economy is rarely ever necessary or good. And the person in charge is always blamed or rewarded for whatever the market is doing.


Anytime there is a perception of success of one policy or another, it opens the door for more and more legislation to be enacted to follow-up on this seeming success. But the truth is there is no guarantee that the policy had any effect on the economy at all. And even if a policy was passed and the economy got better, theres no guarantee that the economy wouldn't be even better off without it.

Lets take a look at the Clinton boom. Clinton didn't create the tech boom. He was just in the right place at the right time. A stuffed animal as president would have had budget surpluses in the late 90's. And there is no reason to believe that the higher taxes in the 90's were good for the economy. Most likely, they actually had a detrimental effect on the economy.


The typical American voter is just too ignorant to make good decisions outside of his own pocketbook. And the truth is, the liberalism, increased deficit, and massive expansion of government is dangerous to all of us.


The best course of action is to strip Washington DC of as much power as possible. To prevent these political games from damaging our entire country. And to prevent a corrupt federal system, that has absolutely no checks to its power, outside of unelected life-termed activist judges, from controlling all of our lives.


If someone has an idea of how to accomplish that in a rational way, please share.

[Huckleberry3911948]

obama is a skilled politician he is covering all his bases.
he will however not get reelected. the country is going into a death rattle.