The private sector is not "doing fine", Vast and Obama's boasting about adding 4.3 million jobs when they needed to add substantially more than that just to keep up with population growth is a joke. During his term of office they've added less than 4 million jobs when to keep up with population growth they needed to add 9 million jobs. The fact is...this Administration's "plan" for the economy is so all over the place that it's created a climate of economic gridlock. Yes, he's come out NOW with support for lowering corporate taxes after spending two years lambasting corporations for not paying their "fair share". Do you even know what Barack Obama's stance on ANYTHING to do with the economy is at this point? It seems to change depending on the latest unemployment and polling numbers. How does he expect businesses to make plans going forward with him as President?
How is it "boasting" when I said:
Now certainly, one can make the point that they don't think the private sector is adding enough jobs.
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And Obama's plans have been "all over the place", because no matter what tack he tries to take, the GOP blocks it.
When they didn't have a majority in the house, they either filibusterered, or threatened to filibuster, every single piece of legislation that was proposed.
Now that they have the house, they've simply decided to make sure nothing at all happens.
That's where your "climate of economic gridlock" comes from.
But it's easy to blame the president, even though he doesn't make legislation on economic matters...
What track has he tried? He passed a trillion dollar stimulus bill to fund shovel ready jobs. That was a failure. He has followed it up with 3 or 4 stimulus bills to fund shovel ready jobs, along with narrow targeted tax cuts that do nothing. He has tried the same thing over and over. Anyone would be a fool to vote for a failed policy. Even Dems haven't supported his later proposals.