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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
Republicans deserve to be unpopular. They've earned it. The problem in all this is that Republicans have became the smoke and mirrors and scape goats and the "obstructionists" in this new era of "hope and change" and people went from being extremely critical of one president and his administration and everything that happened to being totally accepting of anything tossed their way. "just give him some time..." But massive decisions that will affect the economy for the next 10 years or more aren't even being scrutinized by the same people who couldn't wait to blame their split ends on Bush.
While everyone was bitching about AIG... something happened that didn't even make the news. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...&type=business
People don't even have the slightest interest anymore of asking a question. Our President proposed a 3 trillion dollar budget that the CBO says will be well over 4 trillion. We are spending trillions on bailouts/stimulus packages and he has shown no signs of backing down from social programs and that agenda all while telling people he's going to cut the deficit in 1/2 in 2 years.
I never imagined this level of insanity would come from all this. I never really thought people would get together and say "well... lets just print trillions and trillions of dollars to fix everything" as if there are no direct and obvious consequences to printing money like that... and at the same time, keep making promises about lowering taxes etc etc etc etc and everyone just saying "yep... sounds good"
Nancy Pelosi just gave a speech calling the arresting and deportation of ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS "un american" - wow. |
I guess I am a little confused by this thread then. It seems you started it off with the point being that Obama isn't as popular or that he doesn't have as high of approval ratings as the media (or his administration) would like us to believe.
Now it seems to have morphed into "Obama is destroying the world."
In response to this post I will say this: I have always thought that most people don't vote for president based on economic reasons and once the president is in office they don't worry to much about economic policy. The reason is most people feel no matter which party it is they are going to get screwed. I think a like of people look around at their lives and if they have a decent job and a decent house and a decent car and they have a decent outlook on the future they don't give a damn what our leaders do as far as the economy is concerned. This is why things like guns and abortion are such big issues. People vote on issues they feel will directly impact them.
Most people don't understand exactly how the economy works (myself and 99% of GFY included) so they tend to not try and not worry about it as much as possible until it effects them. And now it has. A lot of regular people got their 401K statements and saw how much they lost over the last couple of years and they are pissed and they want Obama to take action. They don't know what the correct action is, they just want it.
If McCain had won and took a completely different action there is a decent chance there would be reasonable support for it. Most people have no idea exactly what is happening or how to fix it so when they see the leadership taking steps to fix it they feel better.
Maybe the steps will work. Maybe they won't. We can make all the predictions in the world and until the time passes and things play out we won't see if we were right or wrong.