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The difficulty is making a causal connection between policy & results.I'll be honest, I haven't delved deep into it. Been focusing on school work last few months. But don't worry! I will form a strong, ill-informed opinion shortly.
Obama's "recovery" was the slowest of any post war president in US history. That is despite the fact he started out by writing a $700 billion plus check and the employment still didn't improve for years.
Can I get a source for that statistic, please?
Which one?
But worse is that the slowness is attributable to the administration's policies,
True but my statement still stands, money is where his heart is.
Presidents don't govern alone, & they cannot just make the economy perform tricks.
Of course there are more people involved than just the presidents. You can see a video of the republican senators warning congress about the housing bubble years before it burst and democrat after democrat saying that the republican were fear mongering and that the housing situation was just fine. Those same idiots turned around and tried to blame the same people that tried to warn us all when the bubble burst. Your right that it is more complex than two people but as they themselves said the buck stops with the president.
I say the buck is spread around, but the Prez has more influence than any other individual.
He ought to have he spent enough money to have cut quite a sizable check for an entire years salary to every family still out of work years after his round after round of spending money to bail out the entities that caused the problems to begin with. It's hard to spend trillions without improving the economy some but Obama came close to doing so but don't worry about it yourself it is your grand kids that will have to actually pay the money back.
No it wasn't, especially in the minorities sector. Our unemployment numbers are setting records right now that go back to Reagan and even much further.
Bush didn't create the housing bubble Carter and Clinton did. Obama did have to dig himself out of the whole that others created but it is hard to imagine a more feeble attempt at doing so. He was the first president to preside over a lowering of our credit rating. If you just took that first $700 billion stimulus that was completely wasted you could have paid a descent salary to every out of work family in America at the time. People have lost their fear of words like "trillions" these days. This is spending on a scale that is impossible to recover from (and I blame both sides for that). Did you know that there is not enough money on earth right now to pay off our debt? We got one last chance to get out of this monetary noose. We have enough untapped natural resources that if we used every dollar from them to pay off our debts we might stand a chance but mark my words, they will use that largely untapped source of revenue for new spending instead of paying of the mountain of debts we already have. There is a great trap to politics. You don't get elected promising to take away stuff so everyone promises the moon to get elected and so at least a few of all those programs gets implemented but none of them will ever be taken away until we collapse entirely.
Well, it is hard not to focus your resentment on the head honcho but I definitely place more guilt on the left side of the isle than the right. Have you ever seen that hearing years before the housing bubble burst where the conservatives are trying everything they can think of to warn the left and getting nothing but dismissal and scorn?
I haven't paid attention from that party perspective.