Posted on 08/07/2011 1:58:55 PM PDT by Clairity
With the U.S. recovery slowed to a crawl and Europe mired in a new debt crisis, a rebound is far from certain.
The central question facing Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign is this: Can the president persuade voters to let him keep his job when so many of them have lost theirs?
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$4 gas
10% unemployment (17% real)
house price decline
food price inflation
recurring $1.5 trillion deficits
If we can’t beat Baraq based on that, we deserve him.
This may sound arrogant but, IMHO, you can’t “fundamentally transform” America and expect the global economy to continue chugging along as though nothing has happened. Sorry ‘RATS. It just doesn’t work that way. It never has.
Putting Obama and the Democrats in charge of job creation is like hiring Hell’s Angels to keep order at a rock concert.
Who ever said that he can legally qualify?
Part of the cause of high energy prices is our insane fiscal policies which weaken the dollar but also by the “green” energy dogmas the Obama Democrats have foisted on us the last 3 years.
High Energy prices have an radically negative effect on the economy. High energy prices destroy US Consumer Confidence and they eat up US Consumer’s discretionary spending dollars.
US Consumer spending is the engine that drives the World Economy. Without it any economic recovery will be anemic at best.
US Consumer have seen, in just the last year 40% inflation in the cost of energy. High energy prices effect not only the price of gasoline, but also the price of every good and service the consumer buys. It also drives up the price of the energy the consumer buys to power their homes. It drives up the costs for producers to produce the goods US Consumers buy.
Until the cost of energy is addressed the US, and the world, economic recovery is going to be stagnant at best.
Zer0’s biggest challenge is to finish taking individual Liberty away.
If Obama and MSM can convince The People that the jobs were lost because of the TEA Party, yes, he can win.
After all he ran against Bush and won, when Bush wasn’t even eligible.
Jobs would help. Generating a recovery through wealth transfer has been a disaster. And housing would welcome a job recovery too!
http://confoundedinterest.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/csunemploy.png
Methinks that the biggest “jobs” problem O has is finding jobs for all his czars after 1/20/13. But then, there’s always room under the bus.
Not sure how he will succeed; the Tea party became a force in Congress only last year; most of the jobs were lost before that.
Helping create jobs should not be a President’s biggest challenge.
1. Build up the confidence of the employers. Do and say what it takes, as the Bully Pulpit of the country, to get them to BELIEVE better, wealthier days are ahead for them.
2. Insist on slashing federal spending and explain to the American people why: because they can’t afford these things. Remind them that government has no money they are not confiscating from all of us. Show pride in austerity and admonish all 50 states to follow suit.
3. Talk about lowering taxes on EVERYONE. Tell Americans they are not going to be hired by a poor person. Insist that the “wealthy” doing better means more $ in the economy and more jobs for everyone. Talk about the Constitution and what it meant to the colonists who were overtaxed. Talk about the freedom of being able to earn your own money without too much government regulation. Fight to remove insane taxes that are taxing the same dollar twice or more, like estate taxes and capital gains taxes.
Easy. You just have to WANT TO DO IT.
Obama is anti-business, pro-regulation, pro-tax, pro-union, and has had virtually no personal experience having a real job. Why he hasn’t managed to create millions of jobs is a great mystery. It must be a conspiracy by the Tea Party to make him look bad.
Response: This statement should read- Obama's biggest challenge: Reading.
Energy cost? No wonder Walz hides behind Veteran’s issues.
http://mankatofreepress.com/local/x535472508/Economy-health-care-among-topics-for-Walz-visit
Walz...said efforts by the Democratic Congress to boost renewable energy and expand off-shore oil drilling will stabilize energy prices by making America less dependent on foreign oil.
Still needed, he said, is passage of a five-year transportation bill...
This is a joke, right? With the debt ceiling screw-up, the chances of more jobs coming is pretty thin.
NO......Obamas biggest problem is that he is STUPID....and only God(whom he doesn’t believe in) can fix this.
The President’s main problem is escaping the punishment to come.
The fact that we import 71% of our oil when we have enough of our own to last more than several generations is a large part of the problem. Democrats are always spewing about a comprehensive energy policy while taking bribe money from foreign oil producers.
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