The economy was in free fall when Obama took over. It’s been improving slowly, and America still has an industrial sector thanks to him, but the huge anchor of GOP blocking any bills that might help is pretty hard to fight against.
This is the cost when you’re trying to avert a depression, The Emergency Stabilization Act of 2008.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilization_Act_of_2008
No, Howie. I haven’t been brainwashed by the Dems. I’ve been brainwashed by facts. Try googling “job losses under Bush and Obama.” Of course, I know that you’ll claim that any site that presents “facts” is biased, so it’s probably not worth looking at anything that doesn’t come from the Heritage Foundation…
Yes the Dems “controlled” Congress from ‘07-’08, the Iraq War started March 2003, Republicans held House and Senate majorities. The cost of the war in lives and fortune continues………“According to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report published in October 2007, the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could cost taxpayers a total of $2.4 trillion dollars by 2017 when counting the huge interest costs because combat is being financed with borrowed money. The CBO estimated that of the $2.4 trillion long-term price tag for the war, about $1.9 trillion of that would be spent on Iraq, or $6,300 per U.S. citizen.”………….Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, has stated the total costs of the Iraq War on the US economy will be three trillion dollars in a moderate scenario, and possibly more in the most recent published study, published in March 2008. Stiglitz has stated: “The figure we arrive at is more than $3 trillion. Our calculations are based on conservative assumptions…Needless to say, this number represents the cost only to the United States. It does not reflect the enormous cost to the rest of the world, or to Iraq.”-——————————————————————————http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War
Gray: don’t appreciate the 25 years of INFLATION, and outrageously soaring housing prices, and “wealth” built on credit, not “value”. Don’t care much for the multiple wars and soaring spending on “defense” wars and “contracted security” either.
BO is talking positive. He is keeping a ‘stiff upper lip’. He appears confident in public. He is avoiding the Carter image. The country would otherwise panic in the Second Great Depression and all would be worse.
It is time to Plow the Vacant Lots. Allow community Vegetable Gardens. Working Folk are NOW qualifying for Food Stamps. This is the Second Great Depression. Govt Employees at Full Salary Are NOT Working Together. Let’s Cut All Salarys so they can Feel Our Pain: 20% and cut the work-week to 4-days; UNTIL Budget is Balanced (2019). Now Everyone is motivated to use tax $ wisely.
feverjr Premium Member over 12 years ago
The economy was sunk by the Decider Bush and the Deceiver Cheney, this is Obama trying to refloat it.
Dtroutma over 12 years ago
Titanic debt run up by “Reaganomics”, and the Republicans still can’t see that all that RED ink is THEIR colors?
ARodney over 12 years ago
The economy was in free fall when Obama took over. It’s been improving slowly, and America still has an industrial sector thanks to him, but the huge anchor of GOP blocking any bills that might help is pretty hard to fight against.
feverjr Premium Member over 12 years ago
This is the cost when you’re trying to avert a depression, The Emergency Stabilization Act of 2008.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilization_Act_of_2008
aguirra3 over 12 years ago
That is good…can I borrow that Tm thing? So true…but Pelosi deserves some credit.
aguirra3 over 12 years ago
No, it isn’t the cartoonist’s fault the Dumbocrats try the same thing over and over and over and over and over….
ARodney over 12 years ago
No, Howie. I haven’t been brainwashed by the Dems. I’ve been brainwashed by facts. Try googling “job losses under Bush and Obama.” Of course, I know that you’ll claim that any site that presents “facts” is biased, so it’s probably not worth looking at anything that doesn’t come from the Heritage Foundation…
feverjr Premium Member over 12 years ago
Yes the Dems “controlled” Congress from ‘07-’08, the Iraq War started March 2003, Republicans held House and Senate majorities. The cost of the war in lives and fortune continues………“According to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report published in October 2007, the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could cost taxpayers a total of $2.4 trillion dollars by 2017 when counting the huge interest costs because combat is being financed with borrowed money. The CBO estimated that of the $2.4 trillion long-term price tag for the war, about $1.9 trillion of that would be spent on Iraq, or $6,300 per U.S. citizen.”………….Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, has stated the total costs of the Iraq War on the US economy will be three trillion dollars in a moderate scenario, and possibly more in the most recent published study, published in March 2008. Stiglitz has stated: “The figure we arrive at is more than $3 trillion. Our calculations are based on conservative assumptions…Needless to say, this number represents the cost only to the United States. It does not reflect the enormous cost to the rest of the world, or to Iraq.”-——————————————————————————http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War
Dtroutma over 12 years ago
Gray: don’t appreciate the 25 years of INFLATION, and outrageously soaring housing prices, and “wealth” built on credit, not “value”. Don’t care much for the multiple wars and soaring spending on “defense” wars and “contracted security” either.
jack Nunes Premium Member over 12 years ago
Hope his ship is going down for the last time.
Fuzzy Thinker Premium Member over 12 years ago
BO is talking positive. He is keeping a ‘stiff upper lip’. He appears confident in public. He is avoiding the Carter image. The country would otherwise panic in the Second Great Depression and all would be worse.
Fuzzy Thinker Premium Member over 12 years ago
It is time to Plow the Vacant Lots. Allow community Vegetable Gardens. Working Folk are NOW qualifying for Food Stamps. This is the Second Great Depression. Govt Employees at Full Salary Are NOT Working Together. Let’s Cut All Salarys so they can Feel Our Pain: 20% and cut the work-week to 4-days; UNTIL Budget is Balanced (2019). Now Everyone is motivated to use tax $ wisely.