Quote Originally Posted by Judge Magistrate View Post
I believe Ivalice is south of Hawaii.

See I can play the sarcasm game to. Just because you took a chart probably made by Obama doesn't make you right. I think the looking at the situation we Americans are in now is my proof.

We are out of jobs, we have Obamacare, we have a president who spends more time beating around the bush than answering real questions about real problems.

Congressional Budget Office does NOT even remotely = Obama. They aren't even the same branch of government.

There's a good reason that our deficit has skyrocketed since Obama was elected: We actually started adding the funds for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the budget instead of using the bush tactic of shady bookkeeping to keep it off. There was also the bailout that was, by the way, voted on at the end of Bushes term. The Stimulus has already been shown by the CBO to have been a great help in keeping things from already getting worse.

Government doesn't create jobs, unless they are government jobs, but somehow i suppose we're supposed to massively cut spending to kill the deficit, but when those government employees get laid off, they're just as unemployed as the next guy who PRIVATE enterprises laid off or won't hire. You can't force a private business who doesn't want to spend money to invest said money into hiring. Frankly to encourage job growth we need to up the tax rates on capital gains as well as other taxes on the top wealthy. This encourages investment rather than simply hoarding money as the rich are currently doing with near record profits with no new hiring.

Also, again, Obama does not write the budget, Congress does, and it is a power granted solely to the legislative branch. How do you propose to encourage job growth, besides browbeating a politician? Do you have ANY concrete plans and thoughts inside that head of yours that you can back up with Facts? Or are you going to continue to espouse how bad things are without anything else of note?

And as far as Obamacare: I'm employed in a job that leaves me with just enough money to keep myself afloat, as I live mostly paycheck to paycheck. Thanks to Obamacare when I was sick as hell two weeks ago to the point that I couldn't swallow because my throat was swollen, I was able to actually afford to see a doctor. And i know this was at minimum an indirect result of Obamacare because my copays and premiums were twice as high last year for the exact same coverage.

Then again, I wasn't happy with the HCR because I didn't think it went far enough. I still hope we can get a single payer system in the future.

Again, I want facts. I want to know what YOU think should be done about the economy, about Obamacare, and about spending.