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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
OK, just a few things
People hated Bush because of the wars
Obama said he was going to send more troops to Afghanistan, but you still voted for him,
it's also been said that the pull out date is not realistic at this point
People hated Bush because of the Patriot Act
Obama Extended it
People hated Bush because he spent so much money in 8 years
Obama spent more in 18 months, new budget is 40 cents of every dollar is borrowed, 1.47 trillion dollars
People hated Bush because of the growing unemployment rate
Under Obama, it got worse and the only sector hiring is government, by over 25% in growth, who pays for that? Taxpayers? Not if they aren't working
And in Arizona, the voters voted for a bill to do something that's the responsibility of the US government, security, but Obama sides with Mexico on that
But we did get Obama care, this is suppose to keep prices from going up, everyone I talk to is paying more since it passed. My buddy that works for Coca Cola is now paying $80 a month more, he doesn't make very much working for them
We got bank reform, they're going to hire 800 new people to police it and the two biggest fails, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are exempt, but hey, 2300 pages of regulation?
Obamanomics, or Keynesian economics has failed in the UK and they voted Brown out for a rational economic plan to cut government spending by 25%
And the best most liberals can say is it's Bush's fault, are they that fucking blind?
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Very interesting really.
We hated Bush because of the wars, but Obama extended it. It doesn't matter if we want to be there or not, we need to follow through and stay until the job is done. If that's the next fifty years, so be it. We are still in Germany, still in Japan, and still in South Korea.
As for the Patriot Act, it was needed. At least some form of it. Does anyone know anyone who was ever arrested or had their civil liberties violated by the Patriot Act? No. Of course not.
When it comes to how much money Bush and Obama spent... Bush spent money because he wanted to. They do it all the time - spend spend spend and then pass the buck onto the next guy. But what the last guy - Bush - failed to factor in was that we left the country in the worst possible shape ever. And the only way to get the ship moving again is for our government to spend money. Right now we have a massive construction project near our house, paid for by your tax dollars (well, if you live in California anyhow). I wonder how many hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent on this fourteen mile freeway by-pass - and how many jobs it created. I'm sure it's got hundreds of construction workers, but let's think about the engineering firms, architects, truck drivers, suppliers, concrete companies, etc....
Who's fault is it? It's Bush's fault. It's pretty simple. If I am the CEO of a company for eight years and I run it into the ground, after the new guy is in office for a year do we really expect him to have everything fixed? Of course not. It's going to take us a lot longer to unfuck this.