Nothing wrong with maintaining the status quo. I just hope that enough seats flip in Congress to prevent Republicans from obstructing Hillary for the next eight years the same way they obstructed Obama for the last eight years.
How did republicans obstruct Obama for 8 years? Democrats had full control of congress for some of that and the president doesn't legislate anyways. He is the commander in chief and does suggest a budget, but if he doesn't sign laws, he is the one obstructing.
Not even the fact he considers failure (i.e bankruptcy) his first option rather than the last will dissuade those who are pissed a black guy is in office, the stock market is at its highest levels ever, all the jobs lost by the last president have been recovered and then some and gas prices are low. All they want to hear are platitudes and bloviating from a white guy who is on his third marriage.
Smooth Wombat,This was fine until the last paragraph. Obama is only half black and I'm sure many are bothered by the race of our president, but it's only speculative. If it was John Kerry doing and saying the same things, I doubt the approval rating would change at a noticeable amount.
Very recently I've seen a few people touting how great everything is now thanks to Obama, but I would disagree. There are countless aspects to consider and books could be written about these topics. How many trillions of debt have we piled on under Obama that we will never recover from? All of that debt is propping up our image on the short term, but hosing us and our children in the long term. Given how careless I've seen many people are with money, I'm not surprised we elect fiscal irresponsible people to represent us. Just tax the rich more? In 2012?, you could tax the rich at 100% and it wouldn't have covered the deficit. Given our recent record tax revenue and continued deficit, we obviously have a spending problem. The stock market is a complex world with many factors influencing it. To give credit to one man is a bit exaggerated, especially given Congress has changed power during that time. Dow Jones was around 12600 when Dems took control of Congress in January 2007. It down to about 8000 when Obama came in. It dropped as low as 7000 in the following weeks. When republicans took over the House side of Congress it was at about 11800. It's at 17800 now. Based on the numbers, you can't really draw any conclusions. In 2008 the numbers would point to the democrats being the problem, but that alone would be a naive conclusion. The market is influenced by many things, such as the value of the dollar, investing in foreign markets, bonds, taking money out of real estate, corporate profits, etc. For example, because interest rates are so low, someone in retirement might switch from a traditional, safer, but abnormally low return to a riskier investment like the stock market because they are seeing less money coming in. The low interest rates are another example of a feeling of false wealth. They haven't gone up since Obama came into office. Gas prices are low now, but if you compare the average between Bush and Obama, it was actually lower on average under Bush. Last, but not least, you hear that unemployment is down. That can be a good thing, but the labor participation rate has actually decreased. http://data.bls.gov/timeseries... I am not a Trump or Bush supporter.
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Nothing wrong with maintaining the status quo. I just hope that enough seats flip in Congress to prevent Republicans from obstructing Hillary for the next eight years the same way they obstructed Obama for the last eight years.
How did republicans obstruct Obama for 8 years? Democrats had full control of congress for some of that and the president doesn't legislate anyways. He is the commander in chief and does suggest a budget, but if he doesn't sign laws, he is the one obstructing.
Not even the fact he considers failure (i.e bankruptcy) his first option rather than the last will dissuade those who are pissed a black guy is in office, the stock market is at its highest levels ever, all the jobs lost by the last president have been recovered and then some and gas prices are low. All they want to hear are platitudes and bloviating from a white guy who is on his third marriage.
Smooth Wombat,This was fine until the last paragraph. Obama is only half black and I'm sure many are bothered by the race of our president, but it's only speculative. If it was John Kerry doing and saying the same things, I doubt the approval rating would change at a noticeable amount. Very recently I've seen a few people touting how great everything is now thanks to Obama, but I would disagree. There are countless aspects to consider and books could be written about these topics. How many trillions of debt have we piled on under Obama that we will never recover from? All of that debt is propping up our image on the short term, but hosing us and our children in the long term. Given how careless I've seen many people are with money, I'm not surprised we elect fiscal irresponsible people to represent us. Just tax the rich more? In 2012?, you could tax the rich at 100% and it wouldn't have covered the deficit. Given our recent record tax revenue and continued deficit, we obviously have a spending problem. The stock market is a complex world with many factors influencing it. To give credit to one man is a bit exaggerated, especially given Congress has changed power during that time. Dow Jones was around 12600 when Dems took control of Congress in January 2007. It down to about 8000 when Obama came in. It dropped as low as 7000 in the following weeks. When republicans took over the House side of Congress it was at about 11800. It's at 17800 now. Based on the numbers, you can't really draw any conclusions. In 2008 the numbers would point to the democrats being the problem, but that alone would be a naive conclusion. The market is influenced by many things, such as the value of the dollar, investing in foreign markets, bonds, taking money out of real estate, corporate profits, etc. For example, because interest rates are so low, someone in retirement might switch from a traditional, safer, but abnormally low return to a riskier investment like the stock market because they are seeing less money coming in. The low interest rates are another example of a feeling of false wealth. They haven't gone up since Obama came into office. Gas prices are low now, but if you compare the average between Bush and Obama, it was actually lower on average under Bush. Last, but not least, you hear that unemployment is down. That can be a good thing, but the labor participation rate has actually decreased. http://data.bls.gov/timeseries... I am not a Trump or Bush supporter.