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Obama is less competent than George Bush, say a plurality of Americans
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2014 Jun 5, 5:13am 34,332 views 97 comments
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Bellingham Bill
2014 Jun 10, 3:17pm
I'm sorry, exactly how does obama's 4 trillion increased debt, increased money supply, and direct government spending differ from bush's 4 trillion increased debt, increased money supply and direct government spending?
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http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=D6p
shows our borrowing binge came 100% on Bush's watch
Bush also drove up DOD spending monstrously, while Obama has managed to get it cut:
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=D6s
Like Clinton, Obama only enjoyed "control" of Congress for the first two years.
Clinton's Congress made the mistake of raising taxes on everyone; Obama's Congress made the mistake of doing ObamaCare the first two years instead of really putting the balls to the wall wrt jobs.
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=D6w
shows we're still ~10M jobs short of peak employment reached in the 1990s.
with mfg:
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/MANEMP
responsible for most of that.
indigenous
2014 Jun 10, 3:48pm
I was talking about QE. I notice that the borrowing did not slow down under O
shows we're still ~10M jobs short of peak employment reached in the 1990s.
with mfg:
That is cherry picking numbers as much of manufacturing has been automated as well as off shored. That number is also worse because the population has grown in 4 years.
Not that Bush is anything to brag about but the single greatest killer of the economy is bailing out the banks through continued QE, Bush started it and O has continued it.
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http://theweek.com/speedreads/index/262706/speedreads-obama-is-less-competent-than-george-bush-say-a-plurality-of-americans
With President Obama's approval rating still deep underwater, a new survey from Fox News finds that Americans generally think George W. Bush ran a more "competent" administration. In the survey, a 48 percent plurality said Bush's White House was more competent, while 42 percent picked Obama's.
At the same time, fully two-thirds of Americans said Bill Clinton's administration was more competent than Obama's, versus only 18 percent who liked Obama's better.
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