It’s Bush’s Fault
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Geoff Cutler, in his Sept. 11 column, said President Obama is responsible for the poor condition of our economy.
He then gave some numbers such as: federal spending highest since World War II, budget deficit highest since World War II, federal debt highest since World War II, employment lowest since 1985, home ownership rate lowest since 1965 and other nonsense.
I am not sure what World War II has to do with today. In any case, it doesn’t matter because all of these numbers are directly tied to former President George Bush and not to Obama.
The collapse of our economy was caused by Bush and is the result of the enormous unfunded cost of the Iraq invasion, the unfunded and huge tax cuts for the wealthy, the unfunded Medicare part D, the collapse of the mortgage market because of poor regulations — and then the near collapse of our financial system, the very backbone of our nation.
All of these drove up our debt, which is now an enormous overhang on our economy and a drag on efforts to revive it. Only Bush is to blame for our problems, and that needs to be said over and over again. Bush was a disaster for our nation. Actually, the name “Bush” is toxic even in the Republican Party. Any influences Obama policies have had on Geoff Cutler’s numbers are directly related to trying to reverse the recession.
Incidentally, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said that the much-maligned so-called stimuluss plan created (or saved) more than 3 million jobs and prevented our nation from going into a full-scale depression. Unfortunately it didn’t create more jobs to completely reverse the economy.
Nonetheless, that doesn’t sound like a failed policy.
Patrick J. Nevins
Pinehurst
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skylinefirepest 1 year, 7 months ago
Apparently Mr. Nevins was sleeping or on vacation for the first two years of the Obama fiasco when he and his cronies spent three TRILLION of our money on his FAILED policies. Saved jobs?? Please, Mr.Nev ins, explain what a "saved" job is other than Democratic spin!! Bush has been gone for three years now...get over it and realize that Obama is the spender in chief now. Besides being an incompetent liar who gets off on giving our money to the unions and his other friends he has gone to foreign countries and made disparaging remarks about this, the greatest country on the face of the earth. He has failed ( as Bush did also ) to close the borders and his administration refuses to let the American people say that extreme Islamic terrorism is anything other than a man caused situation or some such rot!!
lhines48 1 year, 7 months ago
What Mr. skylinefirepest forgot to mention was that the cost of the was not included in the budget under the Bush administration. Mr. Obama was the first recent president to include the cost of any war in the US budget. We are currently involved in three wars which was started under the Bush administration with a declining tax base and no way to pay for them. This declining tax base was and still is due a lack of jobs. The lack of jobs is also do to the Bush administration lack of management. So get real Sky, how can you be so blind and narrow minded.
You are blaming Mr. Obama for our current problem, but deep down inside you know that this problem existed under the Bush administration. Yes it is Mr. Obama's problem now because he is the president and it will be the new president problem in 2012 if he loose the election.
pacer 1 year, 7 months ago
It's my opinion/hope/prayer that Mr. Obama will have another four years to right the ship. Given the shape of things when he started, it seems only fair.
fugitiveguy 1 year, 7 months ago
If Obama were to get re-elected I wonder if in the year 2015 his supporters will still be citing Bush admin policies for the malaise of the econony.
RadioNC 1 year, 7 months ago
Well we now know where Obama’s missing Teleprompters went to. I didn’t believe a word of it when Obama said it either.
OldSpook 1 year, 7 months ago
Wow, and Mr. Bush created a Health Care scam that you must pass before you can read. I guess Mr. Bush also sent troops to Africa recently. And I know it is Mr. Bush's fault that Mr. Obama can't get unemployment below 9 percent. (Didn't he say he would be a one (1) term president if he couldn't get unemployment below 9 percent?) Why not just quit playing the blame game, admit he is just another stinking Politian and move along? Obama is a figurehead controlled by a congress and a senate that are controlled by big business and banks. Obama is no different than Bush in their indifferance to the people.
JER 1 year, 7 months ago
And the beat goes on.
skylinefirepest 1 year, 7 months ago
Well, I would have answered the comments praising the Liar of the White House...but others have done an admirable job so I can only add that after the '12 elections the economy will improve literally overnight. Reason? Because no one running a business would dare to spend any money on improvements, hiring, etc. while this totally anti-business administration is still in office. Geez, and we thought Jimmy Carter was bad!! Actually Mr. Hines, we were attacked as a nation on 9-11 ( which a lot of liberals seem to forget ) so didn't it meet with your approval to go after the Taliban and Al Queda?? Would you rather we go after them where they live? Or would you rather we wait until there are other attacks here and then try to catch them and try them in one of our courts?? Pacer--another four years of this incompetent, union loving, socialist would just about totally ruin the United States. I certainly don't have any idea what you think Obama could do in ANOTHER four years to improve things, when he seems to try something that fails...only to turn around and try it again with even more of our money! Or wasn't three trillion of our money enough? Wasn't the downgrade to our credit rating enough? I'll tell you the same thing I told Mr. Heim...you cannot spend yourself into prosperity.
justmyopinion 1 year, 7 months ago
I wonder if its Bush's fault we have so many ignorant, amateur economists writing in. Its blatantly obvious that Nevins knows nothing about what started the economic downturn.
geoffcutler 1 year, 7 months ago
When The Pilot didn't print this letter right away, Mr. Nevins sent the unedited version directly to me. I can assure you the original is not what you're reading here, and confirms your comment, JMO.
F250 1 year, 7 months ago
I can't add anything to the wond but salt. So, that being said all conservitatives must hire bus drivers and their coach to carry voters to the polls. Thats how the progressives did it in 2008. If you can't beat them, use it against them.
Beware, four more years of this George Soros president will have me on welfare also.
(PS) Please Wrap yourself up tight in the Red, White & Blue before you burn it!
Maxxine
Toda 1 year, 7 months ago
SLFP => "I would have answered the comments praising the Liar of the White House..."
justmyopinion 1 year, 7 months ago
How "out of touch" does one have to be to have to prove any politician lies especially this one??
http://boards.askmen.com/showthread.php?121007-TOP-50-Obama-lies-So-far!!
http://obamalies.net/list-of-lies
skylinefirepest 1 year, 7 months ago
Hey Tommy, I guess you could start with the "open discussion" of the bills and the "posting online" of the bills...but that would be just a bare start. The lies are extremely well documented and, as I have said before, I won't do your research for you. The reason for this is that I know it's easy to do but between fire and photography and my other interests, there's just not enough time to document known material. ( incidentally, I did download a piece from Homeland Security that pretty much admits that our government screwed the pooch on the weapons going into Mexico. And some are being modified apparently, but most are obtained in full auto form from other sources. ) This administration is wrought with lies and the incompetence from foreign affairs to business regulations is born out by the lack of leadership of a President who has never so much as run a hot dog stand, never served in the military, never held a position of leadership, and demonstrates his ineptness almost every day. But hey, there are others who don't like him as much as I do. I at least give him credit for trying to be a good husband and father!
walter68 1 year, 7 months ago
lets not forget that the GOP and house rep has said , that they will do what ever than can to see Obama fail as president.bush lovers uh!!
geoffcutler 1 year, 7 months ago
Walter...uh...key the edit tab and try again!
pacer 1 year, 7 months ago
Thank you Walter68! Nice to know I wasn't the only one that heard that.
skylinefirepest 1 year, 7 months ago
Guys, Obama was a failure on his own terms without any help from anybody except the greedy Democrats. Remember the health care program, pushed through a totally in control Dem. House and Senate, without even being read!! Remember the bowing to the Muslim leaders, remember the failure to salute the flag, remember the failure to visit the wounded soldiers, remember the "you get to sit in the back of the bus" comment, remember the downgrading of our financial system due to over-spending and failure to have in place any kind of cost cutting, etc. Some of this could have been overlooked if he had come out hitting as a strong leader, with programs to match but he came out as a petulant, spineless, "got to take care of the Muslims" , "got to take care of my union buddies", etc. This man has been a failure because he came into office, not with the intent to take care of problems and make the country stronger, but with a socialist agenda that has even lost him the support of otherwise ardent Democrats. I can't wait for '12 to make this man a one-termer.
BigE 1 year, 7 months ago
There is so much inane stuff here, where does one start? So... skylinefirepest would you change your mind about President Obama if you found out that everything you wrote above was false?
Here's a couple of links you will not like, but hey, it took me a whole three minutes to find just these. When you don't care about the facts and you hate someone (I know it ain't cause he's half black!) it is easier to propagate lies:
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/o/obama-pin.htm
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jon-stewart-recaps-sit-in-back-furor-via-michael-steeles-own-back-of-the-bus-comment/
http://mediamatters.org/research/200807300011
I've got better things to do then to spend my afternoon rebuking your garbage so do a little reading yourself from the impartial sites and learn something in advance of writing silliness on a public forum.
skylinefirepest 1 year, 7 months ago
Big E--I already did the research and everything I said was true!! Can't help it if you don't understand the truth about this incompetent liar of a so called leader.
geoffcutler 1 year, 7 months ago
Really, Skyline, I mean...come on! We've got much better things to do with our time than come on public forums like this one sounding like righteous lettist pedants. Why we even stoop to converse with you conservative cavemen...I'll never know. You, you stupidheads.:)
skylinefirepest 1 year, 7 months ago
Big E--Incidentally I don't give a hoot in hell whether Obama is half black, all black, or all white...Remember, I didn't like Jimmy Carter worth a "d" either and he was, I presume, all white! So don't even intimate that my profound dislike of Obama and his entire administration has anything at all to do with race. The race card has been played by all you Obama lovers when you can't defend your man otherwise for his policies!!
skylinefirepest 1 year, 7 months ago
Hey Geoff, yeah, I don't know why they waste their time calling us liars when a simple check will tell them the facts...as they know it! When I went to the sites he recommended they backed up what I said...imagine that...he wasted his time rebuking me for nothing!!
Roorke 1 year, 7 months ago
Who can forget this lie. July 12, 2011 6:43 PM Obama: No guarantee for Social Security checks ByScott Pelley . http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/07/12/eveningnews/main20078928.shtml
TOYTIME 1 year, 7 months ago
In re: to BigEs' citations... Media Matters and Jon Stewart are hardly "impartial sites". Lets be fair here.