I never knew this part of the board existed, so i am going to put my .02 cents worth of thought.
The economy is improving, whether Mitt Romney or Obama is president, it is going to improve. It is called the economic cycle, we have recessions so the economy can reallign itself again and we have troughs and periods of economic growth. What government does is ensure that these are less painful to the ones on the receiving end, which is why there is welfare programs which ramp up during a recession to prevent a country from going into depression coz that is bad. Obama was losing 700k jobs a month when he came into office, his plans were for a country losing 200k. So the stimulus should have been bigger. In my opinion, republicans ensured he did not succeed by curtailing all his plans. Even the republican leader said at all costs, they will make him a one time president. They have blocked almost all his nominees, blocked all bills in the senate and have to be dragged into signing any bills. Even something like a bill to keep the government running is hard to sign just because it is Obama and by refusing to sign it, they ensure a slower recovery so they can win the election and then now start a faster recovery.
If you ask me, American republicans today are the dummest bunch of people i have ever seen. And yeah, the country is divided mostly because we have a black president,. Underlying all the support whites have given to republicans, is the idea that this president fights tooth and nail for the poor and middle class, who are mostly minorities in the poor and is a very diverse group, compared to republicans who think maintaining tax cuts will create jobs. The tax cuts have been here for more than 10years, so where are the jobs? do we need another 4 years of tax cuts to see them? As if 10 more were not enough.
Originally Posted by iquit
The top ten percent of income earners pay seventy percent of the income taxes. Is that enough or do you think they should pay all the taxes? The lower fifty percent of the income earners pay two percent of the income taxes. Is that too much? Do you think they should pay nothing?
When George W. Bush took the oath of office, the country was in a recession. He cut taxes, and the economy boomed for most of his administration. The average unemployment rate during Bush's eight years in office was 5.3%. Economists consider five percent to be effectively full employment.
The economic collapse in 2008, was caused by liberal Democrats, who used the Community Reinvestment Act to force mortgage companies to lend to unqualified buyers in order to meet racial quotas.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/mzucke...dream-is-a-job