Comments on: Would Obama take the Democrats backwords in economic policy?

By: Lynne B

Lynne B — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:31:22 +0000

No, I have faith in his ability to make decisions. I have faith in the people he surrounds himself with despite the negative things people who are afraid of him say he has some very successful, intelligent & caring people in his world. He will consult with them. He is a person that believes in win-win which means he will not do something cause he wants to do it but because we will also.I voted for Hillary because I didn’t know enought about Obama but now I can see he is going to be even better than Bill & Bill was the best at that time. He had so much to clean up & he did that. Obama has so much more but he is a person that understands how to be successful. I study that & can see he will be successful & so we will. I don’t know what will happen to the crooks Bush, McCain, Cheney, Rove but I also think they will be stopped.

By: willbmusic

willbmusic — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:09:46 +0000

not just the democrats, he will take us all.
thats the problem with our current 2 party BS, these people are supposed to represent us all ,not just the voters who elected them to office. we all share equally in both the good and bad decisions they make.

By: Jacob W

Jacob W — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:53:05 +0000

I don’t know if I would say he would lead us backwards. From what I have seen of him so far, I would think it would be around in circles.

By: GARYGARY

GARYGARY — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:27:00 +0000

As things are now in USA…no matter what OB AMA will do …the results will be a lot better… on living conditions what we have now in USA.

By: ohbrother

ohbrother — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:59:42 +0000

Actually, if you check Congressional Budget Office on Clinton’s budgets he did not really balance the budget. He took over 158 billion dollars from Social Security that gave the appearance of a balanced budget. It in fact put us farther into debt. The policies of Obama we have seen before with McGovern and Carter. They are not new and have failed when tried before.

Additional:
Here. This is from the Congressional Budget Office from March 1999. How Clinton reduced the debt and increased it at the same time. Wait a second you can’t reduce it and increase it at the same time. Right. He increased at the expense of Social Security.

Yesterday the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its preliminary re estimate of the White House budget. This follows the Joint Committee on Taxation’s (JCT) re estimate of the Clinton White House’s tax provisions last week. Together, CBO and JCT are Congress’ official estimators — nonpartisan entities that Clinton himself promised to use when he first took office back in 1993.

President Clinton has promised to protect Social Security, to reduce the debt to the maximum extent possible, to control spending, and reduce taxes. But, Congress’ official estimators show that on all four counts, the President’s budget fails. Instead, Clinton’s budget raids the Social Security trust fund for $158 billion in five years, it artificially erases the surplus, it lowers the public debt less than doing nothing would, it increases spending, and it raises taxes by $89.7 billion over the 1999-2009 period.

Clinton Raids Social Security: According to CBO, Clinton spends $40 billion of the Social Security surplus in his budget’s first year (2000) and $158 billion over the first five years (2000-2004).

This is the same Social Security surplus that he has promised to save in its entirety.

By: dataind

dataind — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:04:30 +0000

I am scared **** as Obama spent his childhood years in an Indonesian madarssa. Indonesia is one of the most militant muslim nations in the world. Indian businessmen get arrested in that country if they do not have their tax receipts with them. Obama can do anything to the US if he is elected.

By: fdm215

fdm215 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:08:27 +0000

No, I don’t think he will. The market has changed a lot since Clinton’s era. Clearly our economy has suffered under the Bush administration and will require policy changes.

By: laughing_sprite_99

laughing_sprite_99 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:12:08 +0000

Yes straight back to gas lines, high taxation, and double digit inflation. His economic policies are the same as those proposed and enacted during the Carter administration. We all know just how well that worked out don’t we?

By: libsticker

libsticker — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:01:29 +0000

He wants taxes on Windfall Profits, he wants to increase taxes and increase spending. He also is pandering to the Unions and with labor expenses so high this too will send us back a generation. So we can agree he is going backwards, the why is a little harder to answer. I think it’s because people want change, so he is giving them change, not necessarily good change, but change nonetheless.

By: You're Kidding Right?

You're Kidding Right? — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:06:33 +0000

The democrats have been going backwards for over 40 years, but yes, Obama would have them stomp wrecklessly on the accelerator.