Agreed, that Obama had a much more success with the economy. The Republicans in contrast take massive risks with questionable policies. That’s why 2008 happened. They have a history of screwing up the financial well being of the country. IMHO the Dems are the ones that have to clean up the mess that republicans leave behind. And who on earth would trust a guy like Trump that has gone bankrupt 6 times despite being loaded up with cash from his Dad. I wouldn’t. He’s a total failure when it comes to business.
Heck he can’t even get a loan from ANY US bank . That’s why he has to rely on Russian Oligarchs. He’s been bought !
Originally Posted by BlisswithKriss
you and chungster always blaming the republicans for everything. the democrats always the saviors. what a narrow minded and false narrative. Obama jacked up the debt by 8 to 9 trillion depending on who's numbers you use. quite impressive! or are you going to dispute that? all that stimulus that failed. butt it was necessary right? had to fix mean old G Bushie's mess right?
the 2008 financial crisis has republican
and democrat fingerprints all over it. to only blame republicans is at best naive and at worst simply biased. it also has the Government's fingerprints all over it. there were many factors involved. repeal of Glass-Steagall was one factor although not really the primary factor. it's role was allowing the banking consolidations of the day and thus a small cabal of huge banks that were playing both sides again with both commercial and investment banking. the biggest factor was the subprime mortgage collapse. the fault there is HUD and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (who thinks up these stupid names??). HUD required Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (GSE's aka government sponsored enterprises) to purchase mortgages by low-income and minority borrowers as a means to encourage lenders (commercial banks) to give these loans. the borrowers were as much at fault as the banks as they knew they didn't qualify yet signed anyway. then the big investment banks like Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, and Goldman Sachs took these subprime crap loans, bought by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, written by commercial banks with knowingly poor criteria like using unemployment benefits as a "legit" source of income, and bundled them as investments known as derivatives to investors claiming they were "safe" because they were government backed (owned by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac).
so when all these loans started defaulting because the borrowers who knew they couldn't afford the mortgages in the first place couldn't make the payments the investment banks with their derivative investments backed by this crap crashed and burned.
it was HUD's mandate to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy subprimes, generated by commercial banks who took advantage to approve bad loans, signed by borrowers who knew they couldn't afford them and bundled as investments (derivatives) by the investment banks.
in reality the Government (HUD) was to blame regardless of either the republicans or democrats. so blaming it on the republicans alone (and G Bushie in particular) is bullshit.
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/ans...ial-crisis.asp