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Why on earth would we ever want to return to the failed GOP policies that gave us the Great Bush Depression? Trusting a Republican with the American economy or --god forbid--foreign policy, is like trusting Michael Jackson to babysit your kids.
Obama four more years!
Pelosi and Reid and their Democrat led Congress voted for every single thing that led to your "Great Bush Depression". Funny how liberal partisan hacks love to blame the obstructionist Republicans since 2010, but completely ignore that both houses of Congress were majority Democrat every step of the way into the recession.
Romney is a true 1%'er, but Obama is trying his best to catch up.
"What Obama has been doing is spearheading an intensified assault on the working class. He has escalated the attack on working class living standards that has been underway for more than three decades, focusing on a drastic and permanent reduction in wages and benefits.
Obama’s forced restructuring of General Motors and Chrysler in 2009 ushered in a wave of wage- and benefit-cutting throughout the private sector. The bailout of the auto giants was predicated on the agreement of the United Auto Workers union to impose a 50 percent wage cut and the gutting of pensions and benefits for all newly hired workers. This set a new benchmark of $12-$15 an hour for US auto workers, previously among the highest paid manufacturing workers in the world, reducing wages to near-poverty levels.
US manufacturing labor costs per unit of output in 2010 were 13 percent lower than a decade earlier.
If a portion of the manufacturing jobs that were previously moved to China and other low-wage havens are being brought back to the US, it is because the wages they pay have plummeted so far and the differential has so dramatically narrowed that the corporations can make higher profits by exploiting their “own” workers than by going overseas. As the CEO of GE Consumer & Industrial, James Campbell, told the New York Times last month, “making things in America is as viable as making things any place” because domestic labor costs are now “significantly less, with the competitive wages” now accepted by American workers.
The overall result of the Obama recovery, besides the impoverishment of ever wider layers of the working class, is a further staggering growth of social inequality. One stark metric of the decline in the social position of the American working class is the fact that in the third quarter of 2011, the share of the US gross domestic product going to corporate profits was at its highest (10.3 percent) since the 1960s, and the share going to wages was at its lowest (45.3 percent) on record.
The 1934 rebound saw strong income gains for the bottom 90 percent of earners and a decline for the super-rich (the top 0.01 percent). The year 2010, saw the opposite. The income of the super-rich ($23.8 million on average) rose by 21.5 percent over the previous year, while that of the bottom 90 percent fell by 0.4 percent.
National income rose overall in 2010, but all of the gains went to the top 10 percent. Just 15,600 super-rich households pocketed an astonishing 37 percent of the entire national gain.
The fact of the matter is you Republicans rather have America suffer as a whole just to spite Obama and anyone that disagrees with you which is PATHETIC and shouldn't qualify you has a human being.
The economy is on the upswing, companies are doing better, companies are hiring, the stock market is doing well and there is expansion. Instead of welcoming good news for America its ignored or twisted just b/c you hate Obama. What kind of American does that?
The fact of the matter is you Republicans rather have America suffer as a whole just to spite Obama and anyone that disagrees with you which is PATHETIC and shouldn't qualify you has a human being.
The economy is on the upswing, companies are doing better, companies are hiring, the stock market is doing well and there is expansion. Instead of welcoming good news for America its ignored or twisted just b/c you hate Obama. What kind of American does that?
Closing your eyes and calling anyone who disagrees with Obama 'sub human' isn't a rational human discourse. Time for your meds.
While i think we are recovering and its at different rate region to region;I do not think obama's policy have really helped. Basically mos hae been a flop and onyl increased deficit. that is one thing we wioll be facing soon in payig for the spendingthreu cuts like few of us have ever experienced.
I'm doing very well. Have a great career, great benefits, work for a great company, zero debt.
Why on earth would we ever want to return to the failed GOP policies that gave us the Great Bush Depression? Trusting a Republican with the American economy or --god forbid--foreign policy, is like trusting Michael Jackson to babysit your kids.
Obama four more years!
Well, then give your wealth to those who are not doing well. Most people where doing much better under Bush. You are the few that is still doing well under Obama. Share the wealth, like Obama tells you to.
Four more years of him isn't good for the majority of the country. I bet you were doing just fine under Bush as well. Your success, in this case has to do with you, and not who is president.
The fact of the matter is you Republicans rather have America suffer as a whole just to spite Obama and anyone that disagrees with you which is PATHETIC and shouldn't qualify you has a human being.
The economy is on the upswing, companies are doing better, companies are hiring, the stock market is doing well and there is expansion. Instead of welcoming good news for America its ignored or twisted just b/c you hate Obama. What kind of American does that?
Wow, you are really falling for that BS, aren't you. That Republicans would rather see this country fail than have Obama succeed. Funny. Because Obama succeeding, is what is making this country fail.
Well, let's see..... Kudlow, Brinker, Cavuto, and Sullivan disagree with you. The recovery, weak as it is, is still a recovery by definition, that is, two consecutive quarters of positive GDP growth.
Regards
A slight uptick from negative growth does not equate to a recovery. That is all we have; a one small point in the positive. It's like claiming Ron Paul is winning the primary because he has a few positive votes. Paul is not winning the election anymore then we have an economic recovery.
Maybe we will have another Joe Biden "Recovery Summer".
The GOP theory of no regulation and keeping taxes so low during 2 wars has shown that it was a failure. Mr. Steal your pension and load you with debt Romney has shown that his ideas whould have taken down the rest of the economy. The Pres. ideas are closer to what will work. Remember we will all have to pay for 8 years of Bush's con. eco. theory. The Repub. ideas are just bad. And just so you all know, at one time in my life I voted for Nixon and Reagen.The current GOP is not thinking about America and its people
Wow, you are really falling for that BS, aren't you. That Republicans would rather see this country fail than have Obama succeed. Funny. Because Obama succeeding, is what is making this country fail.
Obama had two full years of a huge majority in both houses, there was nothing Republicans could have done to stop his agenda, and he has nothing to show for it.
Obama has spent us into a $16 trillion debt, and we have nothing to show for it. Obama spends over $1.2 trillion in deficit spending each and every year, and we have nothing to show for it.
Obama succeeding. He has succeeded in crippling this country economically, and succeeded at killing coal power plants, and if more of his policies are not halted quickly enough, he will succeed in creating two lost generations.
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