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Do Americans realize how much of a hole we're in?

Did you know the Fed pumped more money into the system in one year than what the Federal government collects in taxes in a year and we're still just plodding along.

Do Americans realize that the baby boom boom has gone bust?

Demographics, deleveraging and deflation will keep us depressed for a long time.

Asked By: Margaret Sullivan - 9/28/2012
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•First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
•First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States, and he's done it twice
•First President to violate the War Powers Act. ((http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/us/pol…
•First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico .
•First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
•First President to spend a trillion dollars on 'shovel-ready' jobs when there was no such thing as 'shovel-ready' jobs.
•First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
•First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
•First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of i****************s across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
•First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
•First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.
•First President to terminate America 's ability to put a man in space.
•First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.
•First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
•First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
•First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases.
•First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
•First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
•First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
•First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
•First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-Corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
•First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
•First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
•First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 102 to date.
•First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.
•First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
•First President to go on multiple global "apology tours" and concurrent "insult our friends" tours.
•First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayer.
•First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
•First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
•First President to repeat the Holy Quran & tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
•First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they "volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences".
•First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion.
•First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states ( Mexico vs. Arizona ).
•First President to decline meeting with Isreal's prime minister to appear on the David Letterman show and go to his own fundraiser with Beyonce and Jay-Z.
•First President to blame a terrorist attack on a youtube video, and then spend $70,000 of taxpayer money to apologize to the murderers for hurting their feelings.
•First President to refer to the murders of a U.S. ambassador and navy seals as "a bump in the road."
Answered By: David - 9/28/2012
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Do you NOT remember the mess we were in 4 years ago?

Would you have preferred to be in a depression?

Just how stupid ARE you?
Answered By: SupaStar - 9/28/2012
Yes, that's why they all cheered Leno's latest jab at 0bozo:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/09/28/leno-we-wasted-four-years-waiting-obama-do-something-about-economy#ixzz27mFlQpHQ

Dumbertime thinks 44 straight months of +8?nemployment, a new record, 'isn't that bad'.
Answered By: Jobs is 4 letters, dumbass - 9/28/2012
Youre a pessimist. Its not that bad.
Answered By: Summertime - 9/28/2012
Deflation? Deflation was a concern about 2 years ago. Now there greater focus on reducing unemployment and a little inflation might be a issue in the years to come. We have some issues we need to work through, but they are all manageable. We will likely have slow growth for the next five years, but considering how bad things could have been after 2008, we are doing alright.
Answered By: James - 9/28/2012
Yup, our children and grandchildren will remember this generation as a generation of dumba$$ politicians who ruined this country.
Answered By: Dude - 9/28/2012
Our debt to GDP was considerably worse after WWII and we don't even remember a recession during that period. That's because Truman was out front with well targeted stimulus for both the US and Europe.
Answered By: Pragmatism Please - 9/28/2012
It has little, if anything, to do with boomers. Boomers became educated, got jobs and worked hard. The generations after them have become entitlement babies. That is ruining our economy.
Answered By: Stogieman - 9/28/2012
If the repubs would just stop digging we just might get out of that hole they dug for us.
Answered By: the optimist - 9/28/2012
If America goes down it will be to the benefit of the wealthiest, with the complacency of the masses.
Answered By: Dairy's Scary - 9/28/2012
I realize we are in a BIG hole. I mean it's a bad economy with Obama as president and it will reflect the rich if Romney is elected. The federal government is messed up too with all the laws they make now a days. Along with a bad economy on they're end as well.
Answered By: Fear Master Jonny - 9/28/2012
Don't blame me, you people won't listen. Capitalism has failed, you just don't realize it yet. We've managed to hurt the planet more in the last 100 years than we did in the previous 1000000 years.
Answered By: Seabiscuit - 9/28/2012
I do.
Here is a picture of our National debt in ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR BILLS.
The pallets are stacked 22 high for a total of 77 feet and cover an area the size of 2 football fields placed end to end.
(please note that this drawing was composed in 2009 when our National debt was a mere $11 trillion.
It has since grown by almost another football field under the Obama Administration.)

http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/usdebt.html
Answered By: YB Logical - 9/28/2012
They see no hole

No because we've raised a generation of babies raised on Barney ie .. giving them presents instead of spending time with them.
We allowed the ''village'' to raise our children instead of parents and look what we have! A bunch of young adults who childishly think they are entitled to whatever they want regardless if there is money for it or not .. regardless that they didn't work for it or earn it...

Basically they are lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God
Answered By: e - 9/28/2012
Always think the worst, that'll help huh? I am thinking that what this country needs more than anything is a good dose of positive thinking, I am serious. All this negativity is truly a bummer! Everything is portrayed as the "end of the world" scenario. Well, it's not, this country and its people will survive to see better days ahead. Buck up! This nation has resilience and I truly believe that there are better days ahead. No, I am not Polly Anna, but I am getting really tired of "gloom and doom", drama. If we work together we will be stronger than ever. There are solutions.
Answered By: Katz22 - 9/28/2012
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They've admitted the data is not true, yet they continue to post it. Why are they continuing to claim they've saved or created jobs in districts that don't even exist after it's been proven and they've admitted it's a lie? http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jobs-saved-created-congressional-districts-exist/story?id=9097853 Dastardly, presenting information known to be false as true is lying, does this really need to be explained to you?
8 answers - Asked By: libs, almost as smart as lint - 11/24/2009
Http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jobs-saved-created-congressional-districts-exist/story?id=9097853 I understand the desire to show that your policies are working-but outright lying isn't the way. Is this the "transparency" and "change we can believe in?" Cookie--Nice-I forgot about that.
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Is there any sites that has all politics records? Like the bills Senators voted for or vetoed. All politics accomplishments. job lost and gained percentage from the Governors. Please do not give me that one sided crap. I'm open minded, so I want to here both positive and negative from the Republican and Democrat parties.
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