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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow the obama economy overcame Republican sabotage
How the obama economy overcame Republican sabotageby Jon Perr at the Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/24/1472698/-How-the-Obama-economy-overcame-Republican-sabotage
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In response, conservatives can only resort to doing what they always do: Give credit to someone else and declare that Ronald Reagan would have done better. New House Speaker Paul Ryan comically "argued that the Federal Reserve's policies pushed the recovery," despite having opposed them at every turn. Meanwhile, Powerline's John Hinderaker, previously best known for his 2005 assertion that President Bush was "a man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius," like "a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time," protested:
So don't let anyone fool you about the economy of the last seven years. Barack Obama was set up for success, as he took office on the heels of a sharp economic downturn that had a limited, specific cause. The economy should have come roaring back as it did under Ronald Reagan, only if anything even more so, since the government errors that gave rise to the 2008 financial collapse were relatively easy to correct. Instead, the Democrats' left-wing policies inhibited economic growth and produced the worst recovery of modern times.
Ryan and Hinderaker aren't merely wrong about the worst economic cataclysm to befall the United States since the Great Depression, but on the tools that were available to recover from it. Reagan massively increased federal spending even as state and local governments did the same. Meanwhile, Paul Volcker's Fed slashed interest rates to jumpstart the economy. Even as GDP was contracting by almost 10 percent as he was inaugurated, President Obama could avail himself of neither: Interest rates were already near zero and draconian spending cuts by states and localities created a drag that exceeded the size of his $800 billion stimulus.
Oh, and one other thing. From literally the night he was sworn in, Obama's Republican opponents engaged in an unprecedented campaign of sabotage designed to derail the economic recovery and his presidency. They didn't just oppose the stimulus (more than 40 percent of which was comprised of tax cuts), but the Fed's quantitative easing program and the White House's auto bailout which saved Detroitand millions of jobsas well. Not content to rest there, Republican leaders threatened to trigger a default by the United States by refusing to raise the debt ceiling, something they had routinely done 17 times for Reagan and seven more for George W. Bush.
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How the obama economy overcame Republican sabotage (Original Post)
applegrove
Jan 2016
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applegrove
(118,631 posts)1. Paul Ryan is a con man.
Stardust
(3,894 posts)2. K&R
brush
(53,771 posts)3. The repugs put their racism over the country's well being
Many of them should be tried, found guilty of sedition and jailed especially that entire gang that met on inaugural day in 2009 and vow to vote against everything the president of their own country tried to do to save the economy.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)4. We'll never know what could have been due to those a-hole
repukelicans. They really stole something from our country by sabotaging Obama at every turn. Luckily he somewhat single handedly beat the crap out of them but there were compromises that didn't have to happen and a huge loss of potential. Makes me madddd!