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If the economy does not significantly improve by 2012, who will you blame? And why?
The last 50 years were Bush's fault, and the next 50 years will be Bush's fault.
Correct. But it DOES mean that saying that the recession is "Obama's fault" because he maxed out our credit cards is ridiculous, because A) he didn't, and B) that isn't even the economic problem we're currently facing.
Deficit spending is exactly what we should be doing during a recession; and the bigger the recession, the bigger the deficits should be. This is absolutely the correct path to stimulate aggregate demand and get the economy moving again.
Yeah, we kinda had a financial crisis a few months before he got elected. :roll:
Oh bull****. The Republicans have no plan for dealing with rising health care costs except shift them from the government to individuals. The Democrats are actually interested in slowing health care inflation by copying policies that have been successful in other countries that have adopted them. And they don't just have a plan, they have an actual law in the Affordable Care Act. Health care is the biggest component of the structural deficit. One party has absolutely no plan, and one party has a reasonably good law.
Let's move to taxes. Democrats have shown willingness to compromise on the issue, and have called for some spending cuts as well as higher taxes. Republicans, however, have flatly declared that raising taxes on the wealthy is off the table as a method to balance the budget.
Democrats have a much more sensible plan to deal with structural deficits, and in any case structural deficits aren't the cause of the current crisis (which is the subject of this thread). But good job repeating talking points from Glenn Beck. :roll:
If the economy does not significantly improve by 2012, who will you blame? And why?
Well clearly not Obama...because Obama did everything within his power to turn this country around. He led us, schooled us, embraced our concern with open arms not resorting to partisan posturing or class warefare or fear mongering or shady politics to pass bills. No he did not. What he did do was choose to lead us and even though we may not be ready as a nation to accept it due to ignorance and racism, we need to even though we are not worthy of this administration and great visionary. So let's stop the bickering and nitpicking and playing the blame game and look forward to what this great leader can do if only we are brave enough to accept change.
If the economy does not significantly improve by 2012, who will you blame? And why?
Given that the economic policies of Bush and Obama are pretty much the same at this point, it doesn't really make sense to blame one anymore than the other.
If the economy does not significantly improve by 2012, who will you blame? And why?
But what about the 50 years after that? Since I am immortal, I'd like to know who I am supposed to blame, then.
i notice you didn't mention Democrats having control of the House and a super Majority in the Senate.
That changed in 2010. Since the Republicans took control of the House, I haven't seen a major improvement.
Which means that if things don't improve, I'd blame Republicans and Democrats for playing politics instead of working together for the good of the country. It won't be Bush's fault, but since what I said wasn't an option in the poll...I picked 50/50
Who am I going to blame in 2012?
Well, I am going to wait till 2012, see what happens until then, and then figure that out who I will blame for whatever the main issue is at the time...
A good chunk of the Republican party and free market conservatives get the blame from me, but it takes two to tango. It's not like the Democrats are free of corporate sponsorship themselves. Many are actually fairly pro-wealthy themselves. Hell, pretty much all our congress and elected officials at the national level are of the rich elite and are going to look out for their own kind first.
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