I don't know why I should be surprised by your total ignorance of American economic history, Joe...but I for some reason thought that even someone as clueless as yourself would grasp the fact that the US has had scores of recessions over the years and that we got out of MOST of them without "HUGE" influxes of government spending! To state that we've never gotten out of them without large amounts of government spending is simply incorrect.
Guy, I've got a degree in history. Thanks.
And, no, most recessions were answered with big influxes of government spending until this one. This is the one where everyone tried "austerity", with disasterous results.
The Great Depression was in fact the FIRST time that HUGE influxes of government spending were tried and if you'd taken any economics classes that looked at the Great Depression objectively you'd know that there is a large economic school of thought that believes that FDR's stimulus programs created the Great Depression out of a bad recession.
And before htey did that, Recessions were called "Panics" and they were generally devastating.
Because the Republicans were able to filibuster those things. Come on, guy, don't be dense because you can't make your point.
No, the stimulus was too small and too loaded down with giveaways for the rich. That's why it didn't produce as good of results as were needed.
Are we better off than we were 6 years ago? Well yes we are! The problem for Barry and his supporters is that we've done non-stop quantitative easing for those 6 years and spent trillions of dollars in government spending that has resulted in an economy that can best be described as "stagnant". We've got record numbers of people that have simply left the work force because they couldn't find work and record numbers of others who have been forced to take part time jobs because that was all that was available.
Yes, Bush really did **** everything up.
So tell me, Joey...what's Barack Obama's "plan" to get the economy going that the GOP has prevented from happening? That watered down repeat of the first stimulus that he couldn't even get Democrats to vote for? I've asked several times now if you even know who Obama's Chief Economic Adviser is at the moment! NOBODY knows who that is because Barry gave up on the economy years ago! All he does now is blame the Republicans for not "cooperating" with him.
I'm sorry, is "Chief Economic Adviser" something called for in the constitution?
Since Congress has no interest in passing a jobs bill, he's kind of got a point.