[citation][nom]geminireaper[/nom]Yeah blame this whole thing on Obama. He has been here 9 months...GW Bush has been putting this country in the toilet for 8 yrs and you expect President Obama to pull it out in 9 months. Your delusional and a total Republican Dbag to boot.[/citation]
It's astonishing to me how people can be so technically sophisticated, and so blissfully ignorant about everything that goes on in the world. Further, the capacity of people for self-delusion never ceases to amaze me.
Ok, first of all, I'm not blaming Obama for the fire (although he does share some culpability with those who decided it would be a good idea NOT to have oversight of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae). However, I am blaming Obama for throwing gasoline on the fire.
Now listen carefully, because I've said this before and you obviously didn't get it when you decided to classify me as a Republican shill...
The stimulus package of 2008 was a MISTAKE. TARP was a mistake. And yes, Bush owns those. So Obama gets into office and what does he do? He doubles-down on what was a bad bet to begin with! THAT is what I am blaming him for. $1,400,000,000,000 is Obama's contribution to our national debt TO DATE. That is all on him and includes nothing from the prior administration (it does, however, include the short term cost of debt servicing this portion of the debt).
The new stimulus package hasn't gone to shovel-ready projects, as was advertised. Most of it has gone to help states with their budget problems from their own lawmakers' irresponsible spending. We've lost 8 - 10 million jobs, and the stimulus package has created, maybe, 30,000. Sure even left-wingnuts must see the disparity in that.
The government, both state and federal, has grown far too big and cumbersome. It consumes money in quantities that are incomprehensible to most people. Government doesn't create wealth or prosperity, it confiscates it by fiat. Government has grown to the point where it intrude and injects itself into every facet of our lives. This is something that most people do not like, judging from the comments I've seen on other stories relating to nanny-state actions by the state and federal goverment. This is something that our current president aspires to, by his own admission. And yet, because he has a 'D' next to his name, this suddenly becomes acceptable to people who bitch about it otherwise.
It seems to me that the best thing that can happen in politics is for the president to be of one party affiliation, and the majority (but not veto-proof majority) in congress to be of the opposite affiliation. That way, they remain pretty much in gridlock and we can just live our lives without having to worry about radical changes in the government in either direction.