8.3% unemployment..... WOW! Obama is turning things around!......

[TYLERTECHSAS]

Here are the guys turning unemployment around for the good!

REPORT: UNEMPLOYMENT RATE DROPPED IN EVERY STATE THAT ELECTED GOP GOV. IN 2010...

[saltydawg]

Salty, if we haven't gone off the deep end, that means that BHO can take us even deeper. That is really scary. Also, don't forget that our previous president had to go to war at the same time that he inherited a housing market that was severely overiflated due to the fact that anyone with a pulse could qualify for a loan (due to the wonderful dem pres before W) and prices could go through the roof because you can charge what you want when anyone can buy. Also, the price of building materials and doing business increased tremendously after 911 and Katrina. Every president has their issues. W had his issues handed to him by the previous administration, God, and another country's assault on us. We could only prevent 1 of those, but a stupid majority put Clinton in office. BHO has had every opportunity to restore order when W couldn't and he has made it worse. WHAT NOW!!!!

I'm constantly amazed by your coment that GWB "inherited a housing market that was severely overinflated". Absolutely not true since the housing bubble didn't really start until 2004 when GW Bush started his NO MONEY DOWN TO BUY HOUSES FOR ANYBODY WHO COULD FOG A MIRROR program. Now that is what I call liberal.

Another misconception is that we had to invade Iraq. We didn't. It was a phony war, as phony as a 3 dollar bill. It based on lies and intentional misrepresentations.

I can't believe that you stated that GW Bush started his first term under adverse conditions to the mess that Slick Willie left him. Now that is FUNNY!!

I do believe it is possible for the country to go off the "deep end" if Herbert Hoover, Jr is elected POTUS.

[dawg80]

Klinton's tenure was pretty good, economically. Of course, he had the benefit of the Gingrich Revolution that put this nation on the right track in 1995 and Klinton rode that to the end of his term(s). He was politically savvy enough (and he is a great politician) to see the writing on the wall, move to the right, and allow this great nation to thrive. There was the Dot.com bust which started in 1999, I think...and really hit hard in 2000. That wasn't Klinton's fault, and it did adversely affect the economy. GWB did inherit a slightly down economy due to the Dot.com bust and some of fallout that resulted from that. It was nobody's fault ('cept the morons who invested in worthless Dot.coms) really. Certainly wasn't Klinton's fault, those things happen independent of what POTUS can do.

Then in January, 2001 the "Bush tax cuts" went into effect and the economy responded. Then nine months later, this nation suffered a horrible tragedy that wrecked the airline industry (it has NEVER recovered back to pre 9/11 levels), and affected the whole tourism industry (Louisiana's #1 industry). Then in 2003 this nation entered into two foreign wars. This shifted resources and had an adverse affect on the economy, except for short term positives for the defense industry which saw boosts.

But....through it all, the economy was fine. It was VERY, VERY good in 2006, especially when you compare it to the last 4 years. Unemployment in 2006 was 5.9% and the national deficit was $160 billion, high by the standards up to that point, but nowhere near what it is today.

In 2002 Maxine Waters, Barney Frank (congrats on his recent marriage to his dude friend ), Chris Dodd, Chuck Schumer, and other democraps led a congressional effort to make buying houses possible for everyone, and I mean EVERYone! Bush gave a speech where he paid lip service to the plan. But it didn't get legs until 2004 when that same bunch, now joined by Senator barry obummer, made threats against banks and ordered fannie and freddie to support banks as they made sub-prime loans. Senator John McCain gave a speech on the floor of the Senate warning congress, and now the banks, were building a house of cards. McCain repeated that speech in 2005 when he again, now citing data showing defaults were occurring across the country, warned against this practice. McCain was called a racist.

In summary, obummer blames Bush, specifically his tax cuts (2001) and the wars (2003) for today's economic woes. Yet we see the economy was fine, even great all the way through 2006 and really 07 and early 08 weren't too bad either. Must not have been tax cuts or the wars. Must have been the democrapic plan that led to the housing bust, and must be the worst presidency in history, that has "got us where we are."

The worst unemployment rate under Bush rose to 7.9% in 2008. obummer's best has been 8.2%, or really 10.9% when you use the real numbers.

Just the facts.

[T1]

Klinton's tenure was pretty good, economically. Of course, he had the benefit of the Gingrich Revolution that put this nation on the right track in 1995 and Klinton rode that to the end of his term(s). He was politically savvy enough (and he is a great politician) to see the writing on the wall, move to the right, and allow this great nation to thrive. There was the Dot.com bust which started in 1999, I think...and really hit hard in 2000. That wasn't Klinton's fault, and it did adversely affect the economy. GWB did inherit a slightly down economy due to the Dot.com bust and some of fallout that resulted from that. It was nobody's fault ('cept the morons who invested in worthless Dot.coms) really. Certainly wasn't Klinton's fault, those things happen independent of what POTUS can do.

Then in January, 2001 the "Bush tax cuts" went into effect and the economy responded. Then nine months later, this nation suffered a horrible tragedy that wrecked the airline industry (it has NEVER recovered back to pre 9/11 levels), and affected the whole tourism industry (Louisiana's #1 industry). Then in 2003 this nation entered into two foreign wars. This shifted resources and had an adverse affect on the economy, except for short term positives for the defense industry which saw boosts.

But....through it all, the economy was fine. It was VERY, VERY good in 2006, especially when you compare it to the last 4 years. Unemployment in 2006 was 5.9% and the national deficit was $160 billion, high by the standards up to that point, but nowhere near what it is today.

In 2002 Maxine Waters, Barney Frank (congrats on his recent marriage to his dude friend ), Chris Dodd, Chuck Schumer, and other democraps led a congressional effort to make buying houses possible for everyone, and I mean EVERYone! Bush gave a speech where he paid lip service to the plan. But it didn't get legs until 2004 when that same bunch, now joined by Senator barry obummer, made threats against banks and ordered fannie and freddie to support banks as they made sub-prime loans. Senator John McCain gave a speech on the floor of the Senate warning congress, and now the banks, were building a house of cards. McCain repeated that speech in 2005 when he again, now citing data showing defaults were occurring across the country, warned against this practice. McCain was called a racist.

In summary, obummer blames Bush, specifically his tax cuts (2001) and the wars (2003) for today's economic woes. Yet we see the economy was fine, even great all the way through 2006 and really 07 and early 08 weren't too bad either. Must not have been tax cuts or the wars. Must have been the democrapic plan that led to the housing bust, and must be the worst presidency in history, that has "got us where we are."

The worst unemployment rate under Bush rose to 7.9% in 2008. obummer's best has been 8.2%, or really 10.9% when you use the real numbers.

Just the facts.

If he "really" believed that, wouldn't he quit extending the Bush tax cuts?

[JuBru]

If he "really" believed that, wouldn't he quit extending the Bush tax cuts?

No, because he is pushing class warfare. He agrees with the Bush tax cuts for those making less than $250,000 per year. That's fine and dandy to him. But you make $250,000.01+, your the enemy. He has had to keep extending them to push his class warfare narrative.

[T1]

I read somewhere that the taxes on 250K+ would cover 8 days of government expenses.

[dawg80]

If he "really" believed that, wouldn't he quit extending the Bush tax cuts?

obummer plays the blame game. Unfortunately, too many voters buy into his lies. Just pointing out another obummer falsehood.