Republican employement plan questions.

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I can turn on the radio and listen to Rush if I wanted to listen to talking points.
Where are the job losses because of the health care bill ?
"slavish devotion" sounds like an emotional response rather than anything factual. I'm not disagree 100% with you, it's just the right is all slogan and no fact. There are job losses on the issues you mentioned but exaggeration is rampant in your post.
I think Obama acted reasonably in the temporary oil gulf drilling ban. Think of it as insurance against a black swan event, two disasters happening at the same time. No accidents happened so he didn't need to do it, but if one would of the consequences would of been a much higher cost.
The right has turned their hatred of Obama into a religion and like most all religion it is based in fear, prefudice and extremism. - I know, I know now I'm using emotion and not facts.

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Who knows what mcCain would have done, but it's clear that obama has done plenty to kill jobs. Of course, obamacare was the big one, but there are dozens if not hundreds of actions taken by agencies that chill jobs. The EPA is probably the worst, holding up various projects for obscure reasons and making it nearly impossible to build coal-fired generating plants. Their outrageous attempt to impose carbon controls and thus control energy useage has the whole economy held hostage. Who in their right mind would build a plant here?

The NLRB and obama's slavish devotion to the union agenda are obvious job killers. The NLRB most notorious action is to try to punish Boeing for building a plant in SC instead of remaining hostge to Machinists Union extortion. Again, who would build a plant in the US now and face such a threat.

The Gulf drilling ban costs tens of thousands of jobs. Clearly there was a problem with deepwater safety and it is appropriate to address it, but their approach was clearly overly broad, not supported by law and motivated by hostility to the energy industry. If unionized auto workers had been affected, can anyone doubt his approach would have been far different?

As obama supporter jamie Dimond made clear last week, financial regulation has cost jobs by its uncertainty and overreach. The irony is it doesn't even address what caused the last financial crisis.

 

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Imo, if McCain would have won, I think the focus in the begining would have been on the financial crisis rather than healthcare as it was with Obama's first 18 months.

McCain sort of understands the finance world based on his "Keating 5" (yuk yuk) background. So, I think the economy would be on somewhat better footing.

Obama's health care plan added to economic uncertainty.

I think I agree with you, we would of been on somewhat better footing, but not significant.
I am for a national comprehensive health care plan but the timing was bad and Obama handled it wrong. If he was going to push it through he should of forced the Republicans hand and made them be a part of process of putting out a quality bill. Of course the Republicans should of worked had to make it a better bill on their own, but that doesn't happen in Washington.