Re: [OT] 8 years Bush $4 trillion, 4 years Obama $5 trillion

Author: lelandj

Posted: 2012-11-01 at 10:53:38

On 11/01/2012 10:43 AM, Pete Theisen wrote:

> On 11/01/2012 11:06 AM, lelandj wrote:

>> A lot of the Obama Deficit was due to a couple of Bush era events:

>>

>> 1) The tax policies enacted during the Bush years to lower taxes,

>> especially on the wealthiest 2% of Americans, who really didn't need the

>> gift: The tax cuts to the wealthiest 2% of Americans did little, if

>> anything, to stimulate the economy; because, the increased demand for

>> good and services in this group was much smaller proportionally, dollar

>> for dollar, than the demand created in the remaining 98% of working,

>> middle class and poor Americans.

>>

>> 2) The housing bubble created during the Bush years, which concealed

>> the true state of the USA economy: When the housing bubble burst,

>> trillions of dollars in wealth were vaporized into thin air. This

>> required President Obama, and his administration, to take immediate,

>> drastic measures, in the form of stimulus, to prevent a collapse of our

>> country, and to contain the contagion effect on the rest of the world.

>

> Hi Leland,

>

> I told you you needed drugs, and you just drank more Kool-aid.

>

> Obama's promise was specific - he said he would cut the deficit, and

> he hasn't. Not only that, the "stimulus" also went to people who

> didn't really need it - who invested in China when they didn't just

> put it in their foreign currency retirement funds, with a negative

> effect on jobs.

Yeah, and Mitt Romney's promising a chicken in every pot. How do you

think that will work out for you. LOL Politics.

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Tia Chi Time.

Regards,

LelandJ

>

>> On 11/01/2012 09:32 AM, Michael Oke wrote:

>>> Step away from the kool-aid Leland.

>

>>>>> Video of Obama promising to cut the Bush deficit in half in his

>>>>> first term. We know what he did instead.

>>>>>

>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=gsa4uLmTw0M

>>>>>

>>>>> More content in it as well.

>>>> 8 years of Bush resulted in the greatest USA economic calamity since

>>>> the Great Depression of the 1930s. 4 year of Obama has turned that

>>>> around, putting the USA on a path to steady recovery with prospects

>>>> of a booming economy right around the corner.

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