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Originally Posted by firstdown
Its sad we are two years into Obama's Pres. and everything he has done has much failed and still blaming Bush. Now he wants a new stimulus to stimulate the trillion he already stimulated. Sorry but I just don'r see Palin winning the GOP and I'm not sure she will even run.
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You are so very wrong that I don't even know where to begin. Define failure?
Find me one economist that didn't think the stimulus worked. Not a journo or politico, but an economist. Fine me just one. Unemployment would be in the mid-teens without it, easily. The second jobs bill for small businesses that you're referring to will use untapped TARP funds, so it won't add anything to the deficit.
President Obama has created more jobs in his first two years than George W. Bush did during both of his terms. Did you know that? The stimulus has created somewhere north of 3 million jobs. Is that a failure by your definition?
Nearly all the banks have repayed the bailout money profit to the U.S. taxpayer. Is that a failure?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/bu...1taxpayer.html
The auto industry is showing signs of growth and being profitable for the first time in years. Is that a failure?
See you and GMScud, for that matter, throw out these blanket statements; "Obama's a failure" or "Everything he's tried has failed". WTF? That's not telling me anything. And what the hell is everything??
He did what he said he was going to in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Is the economy where we want it to be - of course not. But surely you, of all people, don't believe that government can solve all problems.
As far as Palin, well, that's just my opinion of course. I think she'll run.