jraeyre wrote:
Stalag, that may be a bit over the top.  No doubt Obama was handed his share of headaches.  I will agree, however, that his policies have done little to improve what was a tenable situation to start.

I value your opinion, but still believe everything I said to be true.  Not only have Obama's policies done little to improve things---they have made them measurably worse.

I will remind everyone that Bush Sr was handed an economy on the down and turned it just to hand it to Clinton in a downturn.  Clinton was handed that down economy, turned it and handed it off on a downturn.

Bush Sr. was elected during a period of economic expansion, and his recession didn't start until July of 1990.  Another powerful economic expansion began in March of 1991---well before Bill Clinton took over. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...ons_in_the_United_States  

Bush picked it up and carried the down economy for 8 years and handed it to Obama.  If Obama's policies had adapted he might have turned the economy by now.  It seems that his creativity is waning with his approval ratings and I don't see anything from his administration, in the past year, other than a continuance of the same failed policies.  He needs new advisors and I am glad to see the old ones leaving.

Obama's policies are a disaster---and he is doubling down on them.  His departed advisors left because they were frustrated with his inability to understand free enterprise and how to encourage job growth and economic activity.  Not many competent advisors would be willing to fly their flag on the sinking Obama ship.  Essentially, we have the most inexperienced and anti-business President in history operating in isolation from competent advice.  Unfortunately, his economic failings are only matched by inexpertise on International matters.  How ludicrous that Obama is the Nobel Prize winner distinguished by blowing away more innocent people with Predator drone missiles than any in history---and an American President who started his own third war in Libya without Congressional consultation or approval.  On the positive side---he throws great parties at the White House and does his best to popularize golf.


Jra