“But now that things are better… the republicans don’t get any credit for all their obstructionism? Silly.”
You’re saying that because things are improving, Republicans should be credited for their obstructionism, and that if anyone in this thread works under any other assumption, it’s “silly”. Yet you haven’t provided any evidence or any argument at all that the republican obstructionism was actually a contributing factor to any positive results. And it goes against common sense, so the burden is on you to make your case, not just smugly dismiss everyone in this thread.
Well allow me to make what I was trying to say more clear. It’s silly to credit or blame republicans or democrats for rising or falling unemployment. That’s all I meant. Not that republican obstructionism is to credit for a falling unemployment number. I think it’s silly to play these partisan political games. That’s all. My sincerest apologies for not making myself more clear before.
[QUOTE=John Boehner]
Any job creation is positive news, but the fact is unemployment in America is still way above the levels the Obama White House projected when the trillion-dollar stimulus spending bill was enacted, and the federal government’s ongoing spending binge has resulted in a debt that exceeds the size of our entire economy.
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Paraphrased: “Good news is good news, but Obama is still a bad president because he still hasn’t fixed everything we fucked up.”
Reminds me of my hardcore Tea-Partying niece, who said last year that God was teaching her good lessons via her unemployment, then voted for Romney because she just knew he would create jobs, then posted that everyone should take care and be vigilant because you-know-who got re-elected, then got a job and thanked her team of prayer warriors for it.
This gave me a flashback to '04 when Republicans were calling the Dems unpatriotic because they were hoping for America to fail so Kerry could win. These things go in cycles.
Certainly you’re right, but this time the cycle has gone deeper into crazy territory. I certainly recall the Republicans accusing the Dems of being unpatriotic in '04, but I don’t recall the Dems actively screwing the economy by refusing to pay for a budget they had already approved of, leading to the first downgrade of the credit rating of the U.S. federal government.
I mean, in 2011, the Republicans actively and deliberately screwed up the credit rating of the US. They didn’t just “hope” for America’s economy to fail. They took steps to move it along the path to failure.
So yes, these things go in cycles. The Republicans have taken the cycles to new extremes.
Yup. And the Republicans will say with one breath that Obama not giving in and thus causing the sequester is costing jobs, while with the next breath will say that government spending never created any jobs.
Stimulus works, “austerity” is a buzzword for constipated Calvinists.
We got a metric buttload of shit to fix: bridges, roads, buildings (esp. schools!). We’re gonna have to fix them sooner or later. We got millions of people we could put to work. We will never be able to borrow the money as cheaply as we can now, and the price of the materials will go up as the economy improves.
Poverty does not build character, it destroys character, it makes people sicker, sadder, and sucks the joy right out of their lives. Bad enough when there is nothing can be done, but when something can be done, its obscene.