Posted on 09/06/2010 1:22:30 PM PDT by SmartInsight
That's what's been at the heart of all our efforts: building our economy on a new foundation so that our middle class doesn't just survive this crisis – but thrives once we emerge.
That's why we passed health insurance reform that will make coverage affordable; reform that ends the indignity of insurance companies jacking up your premiums at will or denying you coverage just because you get sick; reform that shifts control from them to you.
But there are some folks in Washington who see things differently. When it comes to just about everything we've done to strengthen the middle class and rebuild our economy, almost every Republican in Congress said no. Even where we usually agree, they say no. They think it's better to score political points before an election than actually solve problems. So they said no to help for small businesses. No to middle-class tax cuts. No to unemployment insurance. No to clean energy jobs. No to making college affordable. No to reforming Wall Street. Even as we speak, these guys are saying no to cutting more taxes for small business owners. I mean, come on! Remember when our campaign slogan was “Yes We Can?†These guys are running on “No, We Can't,†and proud of it. Really inspiring, huh?
To steal a line from our old friend, Ted Kennedy: what is it about working men and women that they find so offensive?
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Telling the union people what they want to hear. The truth is irrelevant. Just tell them what THEY want to hear.
While we are discussing another stimulus, take a look at this:
FDR’s policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409.aspx
August 10, 2004
Two UCLA economists say they have figured out why the Great Depression dragged on for almost 15 years, and they blame a suspect previously thought to be beyond reproach: President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
After scrutinizing Roosevelt’s record for four years, Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian conclude in a new study that New Deal policies signed into law 71 years ago thwarted economic recovery for seven long years.
“Why the Great Depression lasted so long has always been a great mystery, and because we never really knew the reason, we have always worried whether we would have another 10- to 15-year economic slump,” said Ohanian, vice chair of UCLA’s Department of Economics. “We found that a relapse isn’t likely unless lawmakers gum up a recovery with ill-conceived stimulus policies.”
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The fact that the Depression dragged on for years convinced generations of economists and policy-makers that capitalism could not be trusted to recover from depressions and that significant government intervention was required to achieve good outcomes,” Cole said. “Ironically, our work shows that the recovery would have been very rapid had the government not intervened.”
Pathetic.
Did Bush (or Reagan, or even Clinton, for that matter) engage in this kind of partisan attack directly on his opposition?
Clinton did it a bit, but I don't remember it raised to this level.
I don't remember Bush or Reagan doing it at all.
Telling the union people what they want to hear. The truth is irrelevant. Just tell them what THEY want to hear.
I don’t think the millions of unemployed and under employed are going to fall for this bull. This evil bastard is toast and he’s going to burn down the house (the United States) before he surrenders it. What an evil bastard.
welcome to the party pal.
And that’s the point of the phony 50 billion dollar “stimulus” Hussein is pushing. He simply wants to paint republicans as standing in the way of job creation. But it ain’t gonna WORK, Hussein.
The “media” is now calling it the “lame duck Congress”. It used to be called “scorched earth policy”. If they can’t have their communist America, they will destroy the whole thing before they are thrown out.
Bush and Reagan had class and were genuine statesmen — they did not try to blame things on others, even when there was good reason to do so.
Bush inherited a recession from Clinton, yet, instead of blame, he focused on restarting the economy, with taxcuts, and he was successful, despite the terrorist attacks, which also significantly negatively impacted the US economy.
Pure Bolshevistic class-warfare BS!
LIES, lYING, LIAR.
LLS
If they can’t have their communist America, they will destroy the whole thing before they are thrown out.
Exactly!
As someone said on FoxNews, how come the Democrats claim to stand for the workers, but hate those who provide them jobs, the employers.
“These are the folks whose policies helped devastate our middle class and drive our economy into a ditch. And now they’re asking you for the keys back.” President Obama 2010
No, Mr. President. Only dimocrats drive into ditches. Young ladies die in the process. Ever ask dear friend Ted Kennedy about that?
Why couldn’t the union booger-eaters dress up a little? If I was going to go see the president (and be seen on TV), I’d wear something better than a tee shirt and ball cap.
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