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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (127065)	4/15/2011 9:30:23 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

The point is not how the deficit got there, it is what is causing it to not improve. And why didn't these tax cuts cause the boom Republicrooks always claim they do, yet have never done so in history? I'll gladly take the 5% growth and 5% unemployment of the Bush years over the 1.4% projected growth and 9% (or 10% according to Gallup) unemployment of today. Seems to me economic growth was pretty good during the Bush years, despite the persistent attempts of the MSM to badmouth it ("growth was 5% this quarter, but economists expect a downturn soon" - as opposed to today's "new unemployment claims jumped unexpectedly today" - under Obama, bad news is always called "unexpected") What is causing it not to improve? No growth, simple as that. Compare this Great Recession to ANY other postwar recession. In all others, the bigger the bust, the bigger the boom of the ensuing recovery. Not this time! Come on, you trying to tell me the Obama Administration is putting out a climate favorable to hiring? He's destroying jobs left and right. No employer in America knows how much an employee will cost him in a year or two, thanks to to the 50,000 pages of yet unwritten Obamacare regs and Obama's kneejerk socialist class warfare.