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Originally Posted by slapass
He will probably win as the economy has rebounded and we are growing again. He has one more year to just sit back and do nothing. Employment etc will all get better and he will get the credit.
My understanding is that the raid on Osama was his call in the end. And it was pretty risky as we did not have perfect intel. He also bombed that Al Queida american guy. Not sure i support that but it was also gutsy. He just needs to use some of that on US internal issues. He caves to the party line to easily. The Republicans are so fucked up that it is hard to get deals done which doesn;t help.
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If you listen to his speech, he used the word "I" a lot, sorry, a good leader what ever his involvement should have stepped back and gave the spotlight to the troops that risked their lives and not let it be about political gain
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Originally Posted by Bryan G
Idiot,
Recessions don't happen over night. He was handed one of the worst economys and expected it fix it in 4 years, will not and won't happen. I'm not saying Obama is perfect or good by any means but putting the sole blame on him is stupidity.
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Yes he was handed a bad economy, I wasn't putting the blame of the start of the recession on him and never have. I think the stimulus could have worked if done right, instead it grew the government ranks.
Instead of focusing on jobs, he focused on his agenda and the stimulus which was job one to create jobs , wasn't ran very well, "five programs accounted for more than 80% of the outlays from ARRA in 2009: Medicaid, unemployment compensation, Social Security... grants to state and local governments... and student aid."
In other words, what was labeled a "stimulus" bill was actually a stimulus to government transfer payments not creating jobs, getting people working and adding to the tax base would have greatly improved the US's economy by now
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Carbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants
think about that