auditor0007
Gold Member
In case you haven't looked, they stopped the bleeding in the first two years. When Obama took office, the economy was shedding nearly 800,000 jobs per month. Only a whack job would think that could be turned around overnight.
I give him credit for avoiding a catastrophe and stopping the loss of jobs. But I also blame him for the lack of a full recovery too, we're still not doing well after more than 3 years since the recession was over (June 2009). Our job creation is less this year than last, and so is our economic growth as measured in GDP. Despite all the spending, his programs have not worked well enough to suit me and many others. That's why I'm voting him out.
What is it that you think Obama did to stop the loss of jobs?
The stimulus did help; it wasn't a complete answer, and it was not the best way of allocating money. They should have used all of it for infrastructure spending rather than tax cuts and stupid grants to insignificant programs. Even with that though, it put money into the economy that was needed to help turn the tide. The rest of it was just a matter of the runaway train losing steam. Some of it was just part of the natural business cycle. Sometimes, no matter what government does, business will slow or pick up steam for reasons completely outside the scope of anything the government does.