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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
Reagan didn't have a problem working with the other side unlike Obama, he worked with Tip O'neill. Maybe if Obama did what he said about reaching across the isle instead of going back on his word so he could blame the gop for his fuck ups, things would be better?
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f Obama is kicking ass? why is unemployment average for Obama about 9.5% and 4 million people are underemployed?
12 million more added to food stamps, gas prices have gone up 80% since he took office, or are you just referring to the 140,000 new government jobs to handle the
45,696 pages of new regulatory rules were added to the Federal Register?
You know that 7 members of his economic team have resigned?
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Entering office at the start of the biggest recession since the Great Depression might have something to do with it.
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Maybe you are talking about his foreign policy where China owns 1.17trillion of our debt, or maybe going into more countries with out congress with troops and drones.
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The majority of that borrowed money went to fighting two, decade long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Criticize Obama on the economy all you want, but you really cannot knock the way he's been handling the war on terror.
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OK, lets see, what are you going to say he's done? well there's the new bank regulations
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Wall Street firms — independent companies and the securities-trading arms of banks — are doing even better. They earned more in the first 2 1/2 years of the Obama administration than they did during the eight years of the George W. Bush administration, industry data show. [...]
The largest banks, including Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo, earned $34 billion in profit in the first half of the year, nearly matching what they earned in the same period in 2007 and more than in the same period of any other year.
Securities firms — the trading arms of big banks and hundreds of other independent firms — have fared even better. They’ve generated at least $83 billion in profit during the past 2 1/2 years, compared with $77 billion during the entire Bush administration, according to data from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.
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http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov...t-becomes-law/
I don't know why they didn't just reinstate Glass-Steagall, but you can't say he did nothing as far as regulation.