Loved the novel, so the question remains, yes its effected you, but how in the hell is any of this Obama's fault???
So you're saying that Obama's fiscal policies and budget (or lack there of) during the recovery after the recession isn't "his fault"? I'm afraid I disagree.
While I'm not 'overly' upset about the situation or even Obama in particular because it didn't totally wreck my life, (just blew some stock savings that I wasn't really relying on,) I do think that Obama could have, should have, done /more/ than he did on the fiscal side of things, especially on recovery after the recession. I mean not having a budget on the books is a big fucking deal to business folks because it impacts the global outlook on American business and thus impacts the projected stock costs (aka I had to take more risks than I'm usually comfortable with to recover the lost savings - and if I /was/ relying on that savings for say retirement or something, I'd have been more upset and stressed about it.) He offered like nothing for the resolution on the housing market crash what-so-ever, not even a consolation prize; pretty much just said "not my fault!!" (If I'd lost my house, or even if I was invested in like apartments or something, I'd be more upset about that.) He didn't really stimulate the economy like he'd said he was going to do when he ran either, not that I know for sure how he could have; but letting businesses know that he wasn't planning to rape them for taxes like the public was screaming probably would have helped. He sure as hell didn't tighten government purse strings while we were crashing, in fact he rolled out a bunch more spending (while I guess we could take that asa a "we're getting past this recession don't you worry!" confidence boost, it wasn't played that way by Obama, it was played as a "we need to spend more, so you folks can make more" which no one was really buying... He could have at least wrung his hands a bit for those in the country who got fucked.
If we want to look at it, he treated it pretty much exactly like I did "shrug oh well moving on with my shit" - thing is he's not me, he's the president of the country, he /should/ have done a lot more than I did for his people, but the truth from what I've seen is that he really didn't even do as much as I did and I did almost nothing...