Sammy L. For President

I think Obama's done a much better job than Bush.

The unemployment rate stands as a testiment to why you are wrong.

Only if you're a liar. Unemployment has decreased under Obama and exploded under Bush.

I'm not sure where this quote creeped out of but simple statitics show Sammy L was likely to vote Democrat regardless of if he was black or not. All minorities do.

The recession ended June 2009, it is Febuary 2012 and what is the unemployment rate? Even a full year after the recession was considered over the unployment rate was still creeping up. You can see that here.

Even the jobs created can be more attributed to federal hirings and the vacuum created by the finanical crisis. His stimulus to this day still hasn't been completely spent and what has been spent hasn't done anything that can only be seen as very sluggish recovery.

So according to you the recession ended five months after Obama took office. While technically true hardly anybody treats that as a fact but right there you should stop. You just proved the economy improved under Obama. Lets move onto your next point however since it's an important one.

Obama has shrunk the size of government by record numbers. So it's not federal hirings that are changing things. Private hirings are up.. The stimilus may never be entirely spent seeing how a third of it was tax cuts and only spending in the make Obama look bad sort of way who knows how much of that will simply sit around until hell freezes over? Was it a perfect plan. Fuck no. Better than doing nothing though.

Yeah it's been a sluggish recovery. No small part of our problem is we didn't throw enough money at it. But meh. Riddle me this. What got us out of the Great Depression?

If Obama did absolutely nothing we would have the same numbers because the economy was at bottom and had no where else to go.

And you can honestly and with a straight face say the stimulus did anything to stimulate the economy?

Just under 250 billion when to tax credits and the rest went where? Food stamps? ATF project gunrunner? Violence against woman programs? Energy efficiency programs? How do these things stimulate economic growth?

Plus the GDP seemed to dip right when the stimulus should be taking effect. It is almost as if Obama policies have made the country worse.

The Great Depression was ended by World War II, it wasn't ended by spending us into oblivion. And how the hell does Obamacare shrink the size of government?

Re-read your last paragraph and think about it.

The New Deal was a failure, FDR got into office in 1933 and the Depression started in 1929. He increased spending something like 83% and it completely failed.

"The Great Depression was ended by World War II"

By spending for WW II

"And you can honestly and with a straight face say the stimulus did anything to stimulate the economy?"

Yes, we'd be much worse off right now. For example, if we'd let the auto companies fail we'd have much worse unemployment.

The American people didn't think the New Deal was a failure. They elected the man to a record four terms. So clearly the average person thought they were doing better under FDR than before him. Besides once you strip away the heroic ra ras WWII was just the government stepping in and employing everybody. If you claim that WWII is what ended the Great Depression then you're accepting the premise that government spending ended the Great Depression. Unprescendented fuck the cost just solve the problem government spending. It put us into debt (almost identical to the debt we're in now) and you know what we did? We raised taxes on the rich through the fucking ceiling (which oddly enough didn't stop them from getting rich or discourage them from investing) and we were pretty much out from under the debt in roughly forty years. None of this "debt our children and grandchildren will have to pay" because our Grandparents actually manned up and paid for what they had spent. Problem solved. We won't solve it that way again not because we can't. Not even because we shouldn't but because we'd (or you) would rather have the problem than solve it.

This post was ment to be satire, you guys crack me up, sheesh lighten up. I will do a post on the New Deal.

Don't bother. Do a post on how World War II didn't end the depression.