” and a stagnant stock market casino. “
The stock market was doing fine until the Democrats took over Congress. Their threats to raise taxes and waste money spooked investors and businesses and made the economy worse.
Yeah social justice through home mortgages..
Thanks Bawney Fwrank
Also, the Democrats did everything in their power to drive oil prices through the roof. Gas prices were $2.20 when they took office, and got up to over $4.00 this summer, which essentially put the breaks on our economy. Oil prices were as instrumental in destroying our economy as the mortgage crisis (also caused by Democrats).
In September, the Democrats were still trying to maintain a ban on offshore drilling, even going so far as to push a fake “offshore drilling” bill that banned drilling permanently in the first 50 miles where all the oil was, while opening up places farther than 100 miles where little oil was known to exist.
Instead, the Republicans were able to block them, and the ban was lifted because the Democrats couldn’t pass it again.
Since then, oil prices have come down by a huge amount, and gas prices today are around $2.70 in my area, still too high but much lower.
We have proven that we could have had $2.50-$2.70 gas throughout the last two years, if not for a Democrat congress. And that would have saved us from most of the early recession, and might have held up consumer confidence enough to prevent the real estate meltdown.
Democrats are now proven to have been directly to blame for high gas prices. Reversing democrat policies lowered the gas prices.