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Originally Posted by Danzig
yes, i read that yesterday. but, i dont understand why there is still a lot of 'obama is doing a good job'comments when in fact no headway has been made in our top issues. defenswe spending is still skyhigh, afganistan being ratcheted up is taking whatever savings would have been realized with removing combat troops from iraq...and we are still in iraq btw, which means that is still costing us. afganistan is a huge folly~we need out of there. spening billions on a country worth a few millioms.
obama said years ago that our economy was his number one priority. he has a funny way of showing it. tax revenue, ss revenue down~job growth is what is needed, but his one big effort was on health care~which only helped a fraction of the people compared to un and under employed. i am frustarted with our govt because i see no urgency on their part. nothing has happened economy~wise since the huge stimulus.
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Well, I disagree with "no" headway made in our top issues
We are out of Iraq in two months (essentially), Afghanistan is being drawn down, and Libya was put off on NATO rather than us (and there were plenty of calls by the more hawkish in Congress for us to take control and lead boots on the ground in Libya)
Obama addressed health care as it's expense - private insurance companies, hospitals, the healthcare industry - is 16% of our national economy (more than any other first world nation). He wanted it addressed immediately not as a social, but as an economic issue. He did prolong Medicare by 12 years, cut billions in wasteful spending in that program, and will get 30 million people off freeloading off everyone else and increasing our insurance premiums by getting them their own health care. And the program pays for itself, no tax increases.
Do you think the current House (who originates budget measures) would approve any type of spending (stimulus) whatsoever right now? We are in a very tenuous recovery, and yet they are actively trying to
restrict spending and implement revenue stream
decreases! (tax cuts)
The people currently in control of our financial future in the House have zero incentive to initiate a strong financial recovery. In fact they've publicly stated they don't even have that as their number one goal, and to do so would work against themselves - their primary goal is to prevent Obama's reelection.
They have proven that by going immediately off on social control tangents (abortion, planned parenthood, defund NPR, etc) and completely ignoring jobs, stimulus, recovery. The Republicans just came out with their "jobs" plan - which is cut taxes for corporations. That's it. Well, Reaganomics and trickle-down was disproven as a viable financial policy a few decades ago. But that is all they are offering.
So I do share your frustration.