According to most polls, we are about one week away from disaster. Disaster? Yes, this is what will happen if voters turn Congress back over to the radcons simply because they are voting on emotion. Yes, I understand that things have been much worse than hoped under Obama. But here is the thing; Overwhelmingly conservative economic policies that have controlled our economy for 30 years are the main cause of the financial crises! I will say it again - 30 years! So now, just because the dems can’t undo the mess the radcons made in 1 ½ years we want to turn our country back over to the radcons who got us in it? Are you serious?! Republicans are at least 70%, and probably 80-90%, responsible for the crash. You do not have to look very hard to see this. The lack of regulation in our financial system, as championed by conservatives, allowed the banks to create these toxic mortgages that then poisoned the whole economy. Yes, the details of what happened are complicated but how can you argue that this is in effect what happened? Yet republicans still try..They go on about how it was lack of personal responsibility and people spending beyond their means and too much government that put us in this mess and then that 1 ½ years of Obama are what deepened the crises. Yes, personal responsibility is a factor and that is why I stopped short of saying that all the blame lay with conservatives. But ask yourself this, if it WASN’T conservative policies that got us in this mess, then why is it that countries who DID NOT have these policies (like Canada) managed to fair much better? I would love for a conservative to explain this to me.
Regarding what Obama has done, people are simply failing to see that things (job losses, etc) were in free fall when he took office. It was like you had a mac truck sliding down an icy mountain! You simply can not turn that kind of momentum around quickly! And given the 30 years we spent getting in this mess, 1 ½ - 2 years is unrealistic to expect a turn around. If Obama is guilty of anything, it is not going far enough with progressive policies; see: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/opinion/25krugman.html?_r=2&src=me&ref=general
Regarding what Obama has done, people are simply failing to see that things (job losses, etc) were in free fall when he took office. It was like you had a mac truck sliding down an icy mountain! You simply can not turn that kind of momentum around quickly! And given the 30 years we spent getting in this mess, 1 ½ - 2 years is unrealistic to expect a turn around. If Obama is guilty of anything, it is not going far enough with progressive policies; see: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/opinion/25krugman.html?_r=2&src=me&ref=general