Posted on 08/15/2011 4:40:47 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
At a town hall meeting on his campaign-style tour of the Midwest, President Obama claimed that his economic program "reversed the recession" until recovery was frustrated by events overseas. And then, Obama said, with the economy in an increasingly precarious position, the recovery suffered another blow when Republicans pressed the White House for federal spending cuts in exchange for an increase in the national debt limit, resulting in a deal Obama called a "debacle."
"We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, gotten the economy moving again," Obama told a crowd in Decorah, Iowa. "But over the last six months we've had a run of bad luck." Obama listed three events overseas -- the Arab Spring uprisings, the tsunami in Japan, and the European debt crises -- which set the economy back.
"All those things have been headwinds for our economy," Obama said. "Now, those are things that we can't completely control. The question is, how do we manage these challenging times and do the right things when it comes to those things that we can control?"
"The problem," Obama continued, "is that we've got the kind of partisan brinksmanship that is willing to put party ahead of country, that is more interested in seeing their political opponents lose than seeing the country win. Nowhere was that more evident than in this recent debt ceiling debacle."
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Oh yeah E kept the county safe from all attacks , how many have we had since the f hole took office , 4 or 5
Oh yeah E kept the county safe from all attacks , how many have we had since the f hole took office , 4 or 5
The Arab Spring didn't do anything to the U.S. economy. Our problems with the middle east are no bigger or smaller than the word OPEC. Some rioting college kids aren't to be blamed for U.S. economic woes. NEXT.
The tsumami in Japan? Ehh, slowed Japan down a bit. Nothing that would really be crippling the U.S., though. They'll bounce back, but our problems aren't overly tied to it. NEXT.
The European debt crisis is a major problem, because it's systemic, not transient. Obama is right, in that this is a major problem he did not create.
That said, he didn't create it, but in abject ideological stupidity, he's emulating it. It's easy to say, 'My property values are dropping because my deadbeat neighbor is a junkie.'. I'd be sympathetic to that argument with any person who made it, unless they had a needle dangling out of their own arm. You can't shoot up on entitlements and then expect to blame someone else.
Obama can try, but Obama is a junkie. The fact that the junkies next door hit rock bottom first ain't nothing to be considered. He's leading us down the very same path. So, of all his points, this is the only valid one, and it's damming beyond belief.
- Robert A. Heinlein.
how big was this crowd I wonder
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