Big Fitz
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To claim we're getting back on track IS delusional. I do agree.Still trying to sell that used beater of a car, are we?George W. Bush inherited a strong economy, a budget surplus, and a nation at peace.
Eight years later he left Obama with a shattered economy, a trillion dollar deficit, and two useless wars.
Obama saved the country from a Great Depression, all the TARP money was paid back, GM was rebuilt and is making a profit, healthcare was reformed, Wall Street was reformed, the economy is recovering, we have had 13 straight months of job growth, and Bin Laden is dead.
It helps to have a smart president, my friends.
Are there untruths there? You may not like how he went about it, and I don't like some parts either, but to deny that were finally getting back on track is delusional.
Frankly, my biggest fear today is Mother Nature's wrath, which is causing record devastation across the country, including entire towns and crops and the federal government will need to spend exhorbitant amounts of money to prop up the economy again because of it.
As for the untruths? The whole post.
The Dot Com bubble popped in 2000. So the economy was not booming.
The nation was not 'at peace', for we still were in engagements in Kosovo among other places.
The surplus was a paper surplus, not actual and based on defunding, mostly the military and creative accounting.
Obama did not save us from a depression, we're still in it but it's being lied about very effectively by his useful idiots in the mainstream media.
GM is not profiting, it's still hemorraging money. TARP cannot be shown to be repaid because that money went overseas to foreign banks to pay off our foreign lenders.
13 months of job growth? Really? then why the 9% unemployment which is really around 20% when you include all factors.
Do you not see the untruths? No of course you don't... otherwise you'd not have asked where they are.
And obviously you don't remember the flood of 1993. Or the winters of 1996-1998. We've had super outbreaks of tornadoes many times in the past, and will have them again.
Fornicate the penguin, Maggie! There is nothing new about any of this. There is nothing unprecedented this year as compared to any other, save our ability to panic quicker over nothing!