Three years after the end of a recession:
GDP Growth...................Unemployment rate..............Consumer spending
1948-1949 25.4%.......... 2.8%...................................13.5%
1953-1954 12.4%...........4.3%.............................. ....13.9%
1960-1961 18.4%...........5.4%.............................. ....15.3%
1969-1970 16.4%...........4.9%.............................. ....15.2%
1973-1975 14.1%...........6.1%.............................. ....15.1%
1981-1982 18.5%...........7.0%.............................. ....16.5%
1990-1991 9.8%.............6.4%............................. .....10.7%
2000..........9.0%............5.4%................ ...................8.9%
2007-2009..6.4%............8.3%........................ ...........6.5%
you're right... they didn't keep a budget from being passed in order to try to kill planned parenthood.
and they didn't refuse to pass a pro forma debt ceiling resolution which forced us to lose our AAA rating... nah.. never happened.
and the tea people weren't elected to congress for the sole purpose of being obstructionist or anything.
again... bush's policies cost us approximately 750,00 jobs a month. there is nothing in romney's policies or the GOP policies that wouldn't return us to that nightmare.
you guys cut our revenue...
then cut money to the states
which in turn cut firemen, teachers, police, etc...
which in turn raised the unemployment rate
which in turn reduced our revenue...
the fact that we're doing as well as we are in the face of the teaparty invasion and the political extremism of the right is a miracle.
How can this country keep spending money we don't have? It's going to hurt to get us back on track, Jillian. Obama created a committee to look into how to resolve the issues, and then ignored their finding, Jillian. Now we are on the road to across the board cuts at the first of the year.
In fact, he proposed deeper cuts than they even recommended, and got shut down because he also proposed tax increases - something they also recommended and something "thats going to hurt to get us back on track," so why pretend that he never proposed said deep cuts, as though it never happened?
That's not reality, it's fantasy partisan world where everything happens for a reason.