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Originally Posted by DTK
you don't get out of a near-depression situation in a few years. it takes a long damn time.
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But...Reagan did it. For whatever reasons...the stars aligned and Reagan did it in a couple of years.
And also we have Obama's own words...that if he couldn't fix things in 3 years that his Presidency was going to be a "one term proposition"
My thought since the beginning of Obama's presidency was that he shouldn't have spent the first two years the way he did.
He had both houses of Congress and all they did was argue and do nothing. Obama seemed disconnected to me during that time and seemed to hand the ball over to Congress.
The result was a health insurance bill.
It should have been a focus on getting the economy straightened out.
I voted for Obama...and like a lot of people who did, I am very disappointed.
Everybody forgets that the Bush years were ROARING. We all made tons of money for 6 1/2 years of the 8.
When Obama came in...it was bad. But not nearly as bad as it got by his second and third years.
The economy had just started really faltering at the end of Bush's term.
It wasn't the worst in our lifetimes yet. Hell, it wasn't even CLOSE to what Reagan inherited from the Carter years.
But within a year of Obama being in office...and the Senate and House not doing anything even though it was all Democratically controlled...we found ourselves in the worst economy of my lifetime.
Hell...there hasn't even been ONE budget passed in almost 4 years. It's really a mess.