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Yeah, right wingers getting in the way of spending trillions and trillions more, is making things worse.. haha..
If republicans hadn't spent trillions and trillions, leading to the financial debacle, and actually worked on having job growth keep pace with growth in civilian labor force, we wouldn't have to worry about spending trillions to get the economy moving.
Well, only if the mess left behind by right wingers weren't that nasty, much less their desire to get in the way and make things worse, not better.
The congress and senate were controlled by the dems for four of the past five years, and Clinton set the stage with his repeals of decades old financial legislation.
The congress and senate were controlled by the dems for four of the past five years, and Clinton set the stage with his repeals of decades old financial legislation.
Lets look at six years before that then, Jan 2001 - Jan 2007:
Growth in Civilian Labor Force: 9.3 million
Growth in Private Sector Jobs: 3.36 million (The economy added only 46K jobs per month on average over those SIX years).
And that was a year before the economy started losing jobs, and would lose 8.8 million jobs. Hence "the mess".
I certainly understand the task at hand for this administration was enormous when they took office. They started out in a HUGE HOLE. no doubt. Obama has desperatley been trying to get us out of this hole for 3 years now and it hasn't worked. For better or worse, we are spinning our tires. If we stopped with the encesant blame from both sides and worked together perhaps we could find ourselves a way out of this mess but no, its far easier to blame than to resolve.. far easier!
Why work on a resolution when you can simply blame the other side...
If republicans hadn't spent trillions and trillions, leading to the financial debacle, and actually worked on having job growth keep pace with growth in civilian labor force, we wouldn't have to worry about spending trillions to get the economy moving.
You are just pissy because 0bama has only turned a bad situation into a horrible, disastrous mess. 0bama has spent about $5 trillion in deficits, and printed a trillion in new QE money, and we have diddly squat to show for it; he only made things worse.
Lets look at six years before that then, Jan 2001 - Jan 2007:
Growth in Civilian Labor Force: 9.3 million
Growth in Private Sector Jobs: 3.36 million (The economy added only 46K jobs per month on average over those SIX years).
And that was a year before the economy started losing jobs, and would lose 8.8 million jobs. Hence "the mess".
All of that and we're still down 2 million jobs since Obama took the oath of office.
Want to explain why tax cuts worked under both Clint ond Bush, and you expect the same reaction by taking the opposite steps under Obama?
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