No matter whose fault it is my health care costs went through the effing roof during his 8 years and that is absolute fact. You can put perfume on the pig all you want but he was an abysmal disaster to the average American when it comes to health care and he precipitated the worst recession of our time bordering on a Depression. This country is stuck in the mud and it did not happen in the last 1 1/2 years no matter how much the GOP propaganda station Fox News wants you to believe that it did.
"he precipitated the worst recession of our time bordering on a Depression." What recession? In case you haven't heard it ended over a year ago. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/21/business/la-fi-recession-over-20100921 Apparently what we have is a terrible non recession economy resulting from complete incompetent leadership from Washington. The "brain trust" of the White House is beginning to abandon ship like the rats that they are. They don't want to be part of an administration that no longer has free rein to piss away money by the hundreds of billions. They are through riding herd on a justice department that enforces voting rights only for African Americans. They'll no longer be able to time and again stick it to Republicans, their oil companies, their insurance companies, their rich taxpayers. Obama is surging in Afghanastan and going to church. He's clinging to his guns and religion.[/quote]
The numbers show that when the Democrats took over the Congress after the 2006 election, the unemployment rate was 4.6%... The "Great Recession" and poor economy begins with them...
Ok...and what legislation did they ram past Bush in a year that fueled the fire for the recession? None I'll bet. No...the seeds for the Lehman Bros. collapse and other Wall Street fiascos and the housing bubble bursting were firmly in place by the time the Dems won those seats in Congress.
Congress went home, unwilling to address the looming expiration of the Bush tax cuts before the election. To me, that signals two more months of the same old. Hesitant customers, super slow sales, no hiring by me, no purchase of a much needed delivery vehicle by me, perhaps another layoff of an undeserving employee. There's a taste of real world . Now ya'll can resume the name calling.
So, let's raise taxes Mr. President....that'll fix things! :shock: "That guy" needs to direct his venom and electoral anger at this administration and the party controlling both houses of congress. Their leadership and actions have been an abject failure in renewing this economy and expanding employment....they have gone from efforting to be part of the solution with Harry and Nancy's great pork party to now being firmly part of the problem.....and it seems that the majority of the country have finally come to that conclusion. The voters have moved on and are now focusing on the track record of this administration in the last two years in bringing this economy back on track and putting workers back on the job.....and what they're seeing and hearing is not a good thing.....
Dave, That guy worries about himself and his family only. I worry about him and his family, all of his coworkers and their families and of course... my family! Sometimes I think that you think that all we small business owners do is sit around all day barking out orders and counting money which we take home and stuff in our mattresses. I AM that guy.... x 15.
I appreciate that you are concerned as a human being for your employee's welfare. That is admirable and I know it drags you down. But when "that guy" gets the slip it's panic mode time in this moribund employment market and try being "that guy" in Dec. of 2008 in Detroit when all the talk was of worsening employment and GM and Chrysler bankruptcies. It wasn't a pleasant experience.