The bleeding stopped? We lost over 500K jobs per month for months after that, and GDP declined at an annualized 7% rate after.
I do not dis agree with your facts,
Your making my points for me
Nothing could be done to stop the job loss except to have had another sector for those people to fall back on
Like shale oil/crude oil
the "bleeding" was about to take the entire country down, there was no saving the housing market
Tarp prevented the housing bubble burst from taking down the entire financial sector with it
TARP was necessary to save the economy from collapse. Letting the banks fail was not the right thing to do and it would have led to a Great Depression. TARP and all of the other government efforts in the fall of 2008 did unfreeze the credit markets. Every single credit indicator (LIBOR, TED spread, A2/P2 spread, intra-bank lending, etc) shows that the markets have significantly unfrozen. The major banks have now passed their stress tests, and they are able to raise capital through the public markets. The American economy survived without a depression. There was no wholesale meltdown of the U.S. banking system. The big banks did not fail.
The taxpayers could still lose $12 to $20 billion on the money given to AIG. That is disappointing, but it is big improvement from a few months ago. AIG received $182 billion from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury.
Many thought the taxpayers were going to get stuck for over $100 billion, but AIG has been rapidly selling assets and the loss will be far less than what was once believed. The real outrage is that AIG lost $98 billion in 2008 but that did not stop them from paying large bonuses after they received the balout money.
President Obama went well beyond TARP with his $787 stimulus in February of 2009. The Stimulus bill includes tax cuts but they are not the type that spur the economy. The economic model of the stimulus bill assumes every $1 of government spending increases the economy by $1.60. By that logic, debt-ridden, big-government countries like Italy, France and Germany should be wealthier than America. Not one House Republican voted for the final stimulus package, which is remarkable.
The moderates did not support it because it was too big, too porky, and hardly stimulative at all. It also wiped out many of Bill Clintons excellent welfare reform laws. We did see deficit reduction and economic growth in the late 1990′s.
Bill Clinton and a Republican Congress worked together. They agreed to restore a lower tax rate on capital gains and virtually eliminate capital gains taxes on owner-occupied housing. The galloping economy then reduced the deficit by a record level.
The Bush Deficit, the Clinton Surplus and TARP by Gregory Hilton | The DC World Affairs Blog
Help me out here - and try explainging in your own words instead of copying a blog:
If payroll tax cuts and hiring tax cuts aren't the "type that spur the economy", what exactly would you suggest?
A payroll tax cut is probably the single most effective tax-cut for economic stimulus.
Clinton's tax rate was fine with me
but
GWB tax rate allowed me to put 3000.00-5000.00 more dollars a year in my pocket and i am by no means rich
Clinton and the GOP congress finished the start that Reagan began in the 80s to pump the free market up the moon
Glass Segall was one of these events
So was the De regulation of the electrical providers
De-regulation of the Electric Power Industry - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com
These events created opportunities, they created jobs
I can have a tax rate that will allow me to keep more of my bring home pay and we can create 20 million jobs as we did in the 80s
We as a country can add to that de regulation (within reason of course) and as with Clinton and Newt we can create another 20 million jobs
GWB did the right thing, My ability to work when I choose to, keep another 3-5000 a year so i could use that wealth with millions of other people and create even more jobs
Along came the election of 2000
9-11, and I mean 9-11 is the very reason we are here today
the fed lowering the amount it charges in conjunction with Glass segall created the perfect storm
Any-way we have as a country stopped the very thing we need to have jobs, opportunity
Look at what lower taxes along with smart de regulation did for us from 85-07
it got us thru 9-11 with the fed doing what they did and Ws tax rate kicking in in 03
one blip, a serious blip that has now turned into a mess
a mess that with other opportunities such as oil production/shale/nuke power/etc... it would have been a blip, thats all
again look at the UE rate of the states who have friendly laws and support those industries and look at Florida, Nevada, California, etc....
Obama in a matter of weeks transformed 30 years of work into a third world country that depends on the UN to feed it, well for about 10 million of us any-way
By the time he got his Obama care bill passed this country, its 30 year run of prosperity that Reagan, GWB-1 Clinton as well as GWB 2 had created was destroyed
and its gone
the reason he spent 5 trillion dollars we do not have is to raise taxes, to re-create a socitey that has to depend on the govt to feed it
the reason he shut down the oil in the gulf and will not even talk about what there doing in Canada ( we had voted in 08 to start doing) is, well you tell why he is doing it?
gas was 1.70 a gallon Jan 2009
its 4.00 now