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Originally Posted by dyna mo
you don't think obama has added to the situation & made some things worse? in all honesty, i'm tending to believe he has. i could be entirely wrong, the world is a complicated place and i'm not the sort to assume i understand it but of the things you mentioned-
just brainstorming:::;
housing- not better
banking- not better, it's worse (business as usual, loaded with cash)
jobs- well, it's my understanding that the stim package has saved jobs, perhaps not created them but many believe ~3+ million jobs have been saved. so perhaps there is something he has helped. but there's no consensus on this being fact.
stock market- the true test will be this 2nd 1/2 of 2010 + 2011, imo, so...
this is just my feelings on the matter, the oil disaster really changed my views on the guy. i never had a boner for the obama but i did give him 1.5 years...and now with MMS and the gulf, i feel like giving up onhim, i really do.
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Policy wise, I don't agree with everything Obama has done, however policy wise he hasn't really done anything that has damaged us.
To me it isn't so much about if things have improved, its that he stopped the crazy fast downfall that was happening. I don't expect our Country to turn around until we set the standard for another new technology, like we did in the 90's.
If our Country would truly move green, we already do wonders in solar energy... we just need to explode this Industry, set the standard across the world, own the technology, etc. And we will be back on our feet.
As for banking, they dig their own graves - bad business is bad business. Local credit unions aren't having any of the problems the national banks are.
Stock market wise, it's a total fake, speculation, trash... I hope it crash and burns.
Why the boner on Obama with the gulf? Only so much he can actually do... and they have said the solution is a relief well, everything else is for show. It's our entire Gov's fault that we don't have a national plan of attack on shit like this... but then again we don't have them for any major natural disasters. Probably because our people go shit over more taxes, for sure anything that could help others.