Quote from Gabfly1:
You mean as Obama tries to work out of the Bush excesses of low taxes and little to no financial regulation without sinking the boat? Are you implying that you want to continue the course that got your economy into such turbulence to begin with? You know that clever little definition of insanity, right? The one about doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome?
You and Barney Frank would make a great couple.
Itâs Time to Admit It: Obamanomics Are a Complete Disaster
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, August 9, 2010, 1:07 PM
Obamaâs trillion dollar stimulus package failed.
Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi tripled the national deficit last year by nearly a trillion dollars â something unheard of in our nationâs history.
After an unheard of record deficit last year of $1.4 Trillion the economy is on track to experience a $1.3 Trillion deficit this year.
The democratic-media complex wants you to believe that this was Bushâs fault.
Itâs a lie.
THE TRUTH â TAX CUTS GROW THE ECONOMY.
During the Bush years, despite the 2000 Recession, the attacks on 9-11, the stock market scandals, Hurricane Katrina, and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush Administration was able to reduce the budget deficit from 412 billion dollars in 2004 to 162 billion dollars in 2007, a sixty percent drop. In 2004 the federal budget deficit was 412 billion dollars. In 2005 it dropped to 318 billion dollars. In 2006 the deficit dipped to 248 billion dollars. And, in 2007 it fell below 200 billion to 162 billion dollars. During the Bush years the average unemployment rate was 5.2 percent, the economy saw the strongest productivity growth in four decades and there was robust GDP growth.
Not only were more jobs lost after the 9-11 attacks in 2001 than in the 2008 market crash, but more jobs were created by President Bushâs pro-business policies and tax cuts than by the Obama-Pelosi âspend your way to hellâ Keynesian failure.
Itâs time to admit Obamanomics are a complete disaster.
The Washington Examiner reported:
Itâs no coincidence that Christina Romer, chairwoman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, announced her retirement the day before Fridayâs brutal unemployment report. With 131,000 more jobs lost in July, and downward revisions of 97,000 for the previous two months, itâs easy to see why she would start looking for the exits.
Romer is best known for drafting the February 2009 report âThe Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan,â which the White House used as an ammunition belt in the fight to gain passage of its $862 billion economic stimulus bill (the actual cost of which exceeds $1 trillion when interest is included). Romer predicted that following passage of the stimulus bill, unemployment would plateau below 8 percent last fall and by this month register at 7 percent. Thatâs not close enough for government work, as unemployment stands at 9.5 percent today. It would be higher except that hundreds of thousands of frustrated job seekers have given up looking for new jobs and dropped out of the labor force.
Predictably, the stimulus bill has proven to be an extraordinary waste of borrowed money that has failed to create jobs, generate economic growth or do much of anything other than line the pockets of White House political allies. That and give $308 million in subsidies to BP before the Gulf oil spill disaster, and subsidize a study on what happens when monkeys snort coke.
As Romer fades back to her teaching post at Berkeley, Obama is adding to the economic misery by creating an environment of regulatory uncertainty. The Wall Street reform law Obama recently signed potentially requires 533 new regulations, 60 studies and 93 reports, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Obamaâs Environmental Protection Agency has 29 active rulemakings, and there are 100 new rules on the Labor Departmentâs agenda and 26 at the Transportation Department.
Add Obamaâs determination to raise everybodyâs taxes by allowing the Bush cuts from 2001 and 2003 to expire Jan. 1, 2011, and itâs easy to why banks, businesses and consumers are hoarding trillions of dollars that could otherwise spur economic growth.
Thereâs more at The Washington Examiner.