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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
My hate is over the growing size of the government and regulations and the decline of the private sector
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The Gov has been growing for a 100 years... it has grown under every President in your life. And yet, your life is far better than your parents was. What about a larger Gov has actually hurt you or your freedoms?
What regulations have been put in that are bad? It's pretty clear that a lack of regulations has caused many various problems throughout history, let alone in recent economic times. While I would love every market to be open and unregulated, it simply isn't possible.
You don't think it would be a larger decline in the private sector if he didn't step in? So no company is better than a company owned by the citizens of the Country that still produces wealth?
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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
And yet the unemployment rate stays around 9.5% while the size of the government grows by 25%.
The only reason the unemployment rate has dropped is because it's made up of people getting unemployment, not the true numbers of people that aren't working
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Yes the unemployment rate have been skewing like this for many years now. Other Presidents have extended benefits before as well, it's not anything new. It didn't kill our Country when Republicans did it, it won't kill it now.
And yes, many people aren't working... However, new jobs are being created. Not gov jobs, actual private sector jobs. And jobs are the 'very last' thing to improve. No reason to expect a real turn around in jobs for at least another year.
.... point is still, shit is going pretty damn good right now. It's not perfect, nobody should expect it to be.