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The difference between Obama, and other democratic or republican Presidents in the past, is that he has been on tour like a rock star for the past 3 1/2 years, and has not been working out the problems of our country. Now hear this..When was the last time you saw people protesting and wanting "EVERYTHING GIVEN TO THEM AND TO ALL FOR FREE??" No one wants to work, especially when they are dangling a carrot in front of you giving you a free home, free food, free car, and free socialized medicine..You really think that all of this stuff is going to be FREE IN THE END?? Wait until you ALL GET THE REAL BILL, if you keep him in office. BTW, 17 Trillion Dollars went to the BANK, and to someone else?? Guess who went of vacation for the last 3 1/2 years?? The USA is now bankrupt. They want control, they have control!
In his Jan. 15 letter, D. Merrill Adams blames the current joblessness in the U.S. on the “ineffective policies of our socialist-minded political leadership,” namely President Obama. However, let’s look at the total picture. According to Politifact.com, “More private sector jobs have been created by Obama than under the eight years of the Bush administration.”
Furthermore, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that at the start of the Bush administration, 111,634,000 Americans were employed in the private sector, and eight years later in January 2009, that number had decreased to 110,981,000, a loss of 653,000 private sector jobs!
So much for the “big lie” of the Bush tax cuts creating jobs by giving the “job creators” these huge tax breaks, which of course, were not paid for. The “trickle down” theory didn’t work then, and it never will. Corporations are in the business of making profits, not in the altruistic business of creating jobs.
To be fair, both Bush and Obama began the first year of their respective terms with the country in a recession, although Obama’s was worse than Bush’s. Even so, if we leave out the first year’s figures for each, private sector job growth would be 2.4 million under Obama compared to 1.8 million under Bush.
I obtained these statistics from factcheck.org. I’m sure if one chooses to go to the many right-wing blogs on the Internet, one would find a different story -- which is why I choose to research on websites that don’t have a political agenda.
The sad thing is that the answer to our current jobs problem by the current crop of Republican candidates is to return to the failed policies of the past. So, don’t be fooled by the “big lie” when you vote in the next election. Our economy is in the process of slowly turning around.
Besides Unemployment, President Obama has had a succesful foreign policy... Ending a war in Iraq that was not needed............ Starting to transform health care in the USA which in it's present form is allowing thousands of Americans to die through no health care cover and is responsible for massive personal bankruptcy.
There are far too many things that Obama has done to get America moving forward.... another example....... saving America's auto industry... to write here as there are too many ways that Bush and the Republican party has nearly brought America to its knees.. to write here but to try to understand why the right are determined to get back into the Whitehouse at any cost to America and decry how our President is now turning the economy around, trying hard to negotiate with the right and getting our respect back from nations overseas is not too dificult to explain. Greed and Power dominates the Right and they just cannot take of their partisan goggles...... not even for the benefit of America.
As has been said before............ President Obama could find a cure for all cancers but the right will say that it was them that made it possible and Obama is a failure.......... Look at the mess you created Republicans and left to American hard working families and then tell me how it is Obama that is the failure....... The only people who should fear Obama's success are the me me me me greedy corrupt and elitist right wing nut jobs................ Obama is genuinly for the success of all Americans... the right only want success for the already successful................ Easy!
Since this great man has been inaugurated, Republicans have done nothing but be unreasonable in obstructing this President. What are they afraid of? Could his plans for the country be any worse than the disaster that Republicans represented for 8 horrific years of George Bush? Are they so afraid of the enormous SUCCESS that they know this man can bring, that being unreasonable, petty, trite obstructionists is the only way they can feel relevant?
If, in reality fear is involved it is the fear of this Communist president's "Fundamental Transformation."
We know that our Constitution *is* our Fundamental foundation and you darn tootin we fear living without these basic rights. He's incrementally subverting our Constitution.
I'm glad this thread was bumped. It's still a very valid question.
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