Here's what Obama still doesn't get

[Chris]

Could be said of other Presidents but he's in office now...

Here's what Obama still doesn't get (http://www.cnbc.com/id/101923790)


In a revealing interview with The Economist, President Obama recently discussed his administration's economic policies. Perhaps the president's most disturbing statement was that he thinks his administration has "managed the economy pretty well ..." It's certainly revealing that a president, whose critics often accuse him of trying to "turn us into Europe," actually believes the federal government is supposed to manage the economy.

What the president fundamentally fails to grasp is that politicians in Washington don't create jobs or economic growth. America's businesses and hard-working taxpayers are the key to rebuilding a healthy economy. Our free market economy has produced more wealth and distributed it more broadly than any economy that's ever existed. That happened without government management.

In fact, centrally planned economies have historically led to inefficiency and economic stagnation. The Obama economy is no exception. Think of the stimulus bill, the Obamacare rollout, the "cash for clunkers" program, and Solyndra. Nonetheless, in defense of his claim to have "managed the economy pretty well," the president further stated that "there's almost no economic metric by which you couldn't say that the U.S. economy is better off ... None."

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LOL, read on to see some of the measures.

[Common Sense]

...and yet he is blamed for the sluggish economy.

[The Xl]

...and yet he is blamed for the sluggish economy.

Didn't say he couldn't hurt, just that he hasn't and can't help.

[Chris]

Didn't say he couldn't hurt, just that he hasn't and can't help.

That's true, government meddling, picking winners and losers, handing out favors, social and corporate welfare, the list goes on--distorts the market.

[Chris]

...and yet he is blamed for the sluggish economy.

More precisely, the long, slow recovery. Bush is blamed for getting us into the Great Recession. Same as Hoover, with FDR prolonging it. I tried to clarify in the OP is could be any President. The President is not the point.

[midcan5]

And another meaningless thread on the same BS.... You guys must like losing, does pain make you feel real?

I think the people who don't get it are the fools who keep wasting text criticizing Obama. Our President has already proved the economy is better and the stimulus was a large part of that success. You guys are like ostriches, you miss reality as your head is somewhere but where only your corporate teleprompter knows.

Proof below. And we just drove past lots of that stimulus work. Get out sometime.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/getting-lucky-why-the-economy-has-grown-faster-under-democratic-presidents/

http://thepoliticalforums.com/threads/30124-How-Hillary-Will-Fail-Liberals?p=723667&viewfull=1#post723667

[Chris]

And another meaningless thread on the same BS.... You guys must like losing, does pain make you feel real?

I think the people who don't get it are the fools who keep wasting text criticizing Obama. Our President has already proved the economy is better and the stimulus was a large part of that success. You guys are like ostriches, you miss reality as your head is somewhere but where only your corporate teleprompter knows.

Proof below. And we just drove past lots of that stimulus work. Get out sometime.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/getting-lucky-why-the-economy-has-grown-faster-under-democratic-presidents/

http://thepoliticalforums.com/threads/30124-How-Hillary-Will-Fail-Liberals?p=723667&viewfull=1#post723667


You sound like the President.

And you're right, we are losing. No proof needed, thank you.

[Peter1469]

And another meaningless thread on the same BS.... You guys must like losing, does pain make you feel real?

I think the people who don't get it are the fools who keep wasting text criticizing Obama. Our President has already proved the economy is better and the stimulus was a large part of that success. You guys are like ostriches, you miss reality as your head is somewhere but where only your corporate teleprompter knows.

Proof below. And we just drove past lots of that stimulus work. Get out sometime.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/getting-lucky-why-the-economy-has-grown-faster-under-democratic-presidents/

http://thepoliticalforums.com/threads/30124-How-Hillary-Will-Fail-Liberals?p=723667&viewfull=1#post723667

Wow. The GOP needs to learn how to make lemmings.

[donttread]

Could be said of other Presidents but he's in office now...

Here's what Obama still doesn't get (http://www.cnbc.com/id/101923790)

Good call Chris. Most people don't get that his assertion that he is managing the economy or is even supposed to is far scarier than the lousy job of it he is doing. Which is what the minions quivel about



LOL, read on to see some of the measures.

[Ransom]

...and yet he is blamed for the sluggish economy.

The President claimed himself early in his first term that if the economy didn't improve, he wouldn't be in office . At least hold the man to his own standards, CS, even if you have none for him.

[Ransom]

...and yet he is blamed for the sluggish economy.

Who did you blame prior to his election and another oopsy for CS. Two fer one.

[Ransom]

And another meaningless thread on the same BS.... You guys must like losing, does pain make you feel real?

I think the people who don't get it are the fools who keep wasting text criticizing Obama. Our President has already proved the economy is better and the stimulus was a large part of that success. You guys are like ostriches, you miss reality as your head is somewhere but where only your corporate teleprompter knows.

Proof below. And we just drove past lots of that stimulus work. Get out sometime.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/getting-lucky-why-the-economy-has-grown-faster-under-democratic-presidents/

http://thepoliticalforums.com/threads/30124-How-Hillary-Will-Fail-Liberals?p=723667&viewfull=1#post723667

Your two links there show us that Obama's stimulus.....worked? I can go buy a house. I am not a bad farmer, I can move furniture in, paint, fence, get a few good dogs, find me a great woman even when that suggestion brings scorn from the great woman I already have, I can homestead you up a crib with a pool if you'd like. And say see....prosperity, jobs created, community organization, but something heinous and ugly always comes to rain on the liberal sermon of hand holding paradise. The f'n bill collector. Take a good f'n hard look at this link.........your two end up on a site picturing Clinton and Carter.........why not try www.usdebtclock.org (http://www.usdebtclock.org) there, Skippy. And show me all the great economic news.

[del]

Wow. The GOP needs to learn how to make lemmings.

they seem to be doing fine in that regard

[Peter1469]

they seem to be doing fine in that regard

Not to the standard of the Dems.

[Chris]

Neither to this standard...


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