President Obama "Its not my fault - Bush did it"

He had two years with total control and he was more concerned that he get the Stimulus and Health Care passed both of which appear to be total failures. Even he admitted that there were not shovel ready jobs and we now learn that most of the moeny went to hire or keep public jobs that should have been cut. We are now learning that money to help homeowners who are underwater but the states are using the money to balance their budgets, just like the stimulus did not go to create new jobs but to keep jobs the state and local governments could not afford. Increased government spending has never worked to get out of a recession. What little improvement I have seen came from the actions of our Governor, Gov Walker. My retirement savings have gone down and my pension has been reduced. No I am worse off now that when President Bush was president.

I guess people are just going to believe what ever they want on the stimulus. That is a perfect example of not fixing the whole problem. He put to many tax cuts in the stimulus which if we have learned by now only helps small businesses to a certain degree, other than that does not stimulate anything. I would hate to see what are economy would like with out it. I guess teachers, police officers and firemen aren't real jobs. I really do not know how much you can blame Obama for not using the money the way it was supposed to be used for. He is not in charge of those states. It sounds about right though the middle class always takes the brunt of the fall when the majority of them have nothing to do with the mess we are in. Sorry about your pension and retirement but that is what happens when Wall Street gambles with other peoples money. That all happened before Obama took office. Somebody has to pay for it. You know it is not going those greedy b@stards or our politicians for putting in bad policies in place.

I have to agree with Bob. I work in state government and we have not had a raise in four years now. Our retirement is now on the table--the state wants to cut their contribution. That means less money in my account when I retire. Is that fair? No, not really. The economy is worse off than it was when Obama took office. Look at all the trillions of dollars he needed to raise the budget. More money for him to spend and squander. What a waste! If the American people re-elect him, I will be looking for somewhere else to move to retire.

President Obama spent $800,000,000,000, to jump start the economy and keep the unemployment below 8%. The unemployment rate has not been below 8% since he took office. We now learn that much of the stimulus went to support public employees (union members) who were facing layoff due to budget cuts. The stimulus money was borrowed money so we will be paying for it and so will our children and grand children and get nothing for it. He spent the money and has nothing to show for it except failed companies, cities going bankrupt and more debt at every level of government.

We were losing nearly 800,000 jobs per month at the end of Bush's term and for the first couple months of Obama's and now we've been steadily adding jobs for over two years. I realize it could be - and should be and WOULD be - better but the Republicans have filibustered every attempt at helping small businesses create jobs, etc. There's also the fact that the recession was much, MUCH deeper than first thought, which explains the original goal of keeping unemployment below 8% not being met. Too much of the stimulus went for more tax cuts but that was the only way they could get it passed. There should have been more infrastructure spending. Europe has proven austerity doesn't work in times of recession. Romney and Ryan's plans of more tax cuts and screwing the old, the poor and the sick will only make matters much worse. It's not the wealthiest one percent who are the "job creators", it's the middle class because without the demand for the goods and services provided by the rich business owners they have no business. Public employees including union members are people too (unlike corporations!) and their paychecks help stimulate the economy the same as those that come from private enterprise. Annie

How true!