As far as blaming Bush... all the shit we're dealing with now is his fault. He started the 2 wars that are bleeding our economy dry. He went into office with a surplus and came out 1.3 trillion in debt. The bank bailouts and acquisition of toxic assets were HIS policies. His tax cuts benefited the wealthy much, much more than they benefited the average citizen and stripped the gov't of funding it needs for things like fighting wars.

My main gripe with Obama is that he's too much like Bush. Obama has had ample time to shut down the wars. He blew the opportunity to do away with "no child left behind"... "Race to the Top" is just the same bullshit. It is doubtful he will let the Bush tax cuts expire. Most of his fiscal policies favor corporations over individuals. None of this is a surprise really, I knew from the start that Obama was a centrist. But things are definitely better than they would have been under McCheese. At least we're not at war with Russia and Iran, and at least we don't have Bible Barbie presiding over the senate.
Sometimes i think you purposefully say this stuff just to see what our reaction is haha.

I was watching the Rachel Maddow show last night and i about fell out of my chair how unbelievable clueless the left is. She was arguing that the Republicans are not for cutting the deficit because they arent for raising taxes.

She honestly said that what the economy needs right now is "MORE STIMULUS". She said that Paying unemployment benefits is far more stimulative to the economy than cutting taxes. "We are paying money to people without a job who need money because they have to spend it on their bills, so its directly injected into the economy. Cutting taxes only favors the rich or people making over $200,000".

I was completely dumbfounded at that statement. That statment shows the huge difference in opinions right now. She wants a welfare state where people are DEPENDENT upon unemployment GOVT HANDOUTS for life to pay their bills. Forget that fact of ever finding them jobs, which is what a tax cut would do, lets get them hooked on free money, and lets base our entire economic growth off paying unemployment benefits ($300-350 per week max) to more than 10 million people who are unemployed.

SERIOUSLY??? Maybe the current economic system whose fault has reared its ugly head in the last 2 years isnt the greatest but its better than depending on the unemployed to collect govt handouts.

I put blame at 30% BUSH, 30% Clinton, 10% Carter, 30% Obama.......for now. It is not all BUSHs fault no matter how much you guys want it to be. This is OBAMAs presidency, a presidency where he will be remembered for slow to zero economic growth, stagnate double digit real unemployment, 4 times the amount of debt Bush brought us, 2 wars still unsolved.

So EVERYTHING BUSH left us with, Obama will leave us with, EVEN WORSE.

Again look at Bushs presidency.

Katrina wasnt such a fuck up after all after this BP Oil disaster huh? At least Bush was a leader, Obama tries to win the daily news cycle like a guy running for high school office.

Bush had HISTORICAL low unemployment.

Disagree with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Well Iraq was bush ill give you that, Afghanistan is ALL OBAMA and the Democrats. Guantanomo, all Obama he promised to close it and he wont.

Right now people want JOBS, and the only way to create jobs is to give people the Left HATE (even though most of the left is JUST AS RICH as the people they hate) Corporations and small businesses, INCENTIVE TO HIRE. How do you do that? You lower their expenditures, taxes, cost of operating so they can expand and hire more people.

If you think for one second jacking tax rates (by letting the bush tax cuts expire) is going to spur economic growth, go take Econ 101 again. Thats like asking someone that is living poay check to pay check to take on $200 more a month in bills for the hell of it.

Thats all this shit is about, CURB spending , lower taxes. The Left wants to spend MORE and raise taxes on the few remaining rich people in this country and destroy all wealth so the people become dependent on the people with the power to give them more handouts.