From NYT Community:
It is becoming clearer by the month that it was a grave misjudgment to expend huge energy, money and political capital on Obamacare when the real problem all along has been the economy.
Max
Until Obama stops his war on wealth, capitalism and Wall Street there won't be real job growth in America. In a free enterprise system, business is the real engine of growth, and until it is embraced and celebrated we'll just stumble along. Clearly, the progressive game plan is not working, time to change course.
Kevin S.
Do you people in the ivory towers of liberalism see a pattern yet? Everything the Obama administration does to try to help the economy fails. If you do the wrong things, you get the wrong results.
Over-regulation of business, constant talk of higher taxes, overly pro-union policies, huge deficits, a major new entitlement program, advisors and cabinet officers who know nothing about business...all work together to halt economic recovery in its tracks and destroy recovery.
How much do Americans have to suffer under this incompetence?
The 2012 elections offer a chance for a different direction. Americans are a pragmatic people. They won't vote for failure again.
Micoz
Kevin. Max Micoz. Guess what.
You are to blame for this economy being where it is. You are to blame for your utter, mind-blowing, infuriating stupidity when it comes to economics and the difference between what helps and what doesn't.
Your feelings about this President and the democrats are opinions, not facts. And uninformed opinions at that. Your empowerment of people who want nothing more than to destroy the community, middle-class security and your future are essentially home-grown terrorism.
That's right. You are terrorists. You don't carry a gun or an explosive in any concrete way, but your stupidity is the fuel that has helped give the republican party the power to pull back every measure that has been needed over the past four years to get us back where we need to be.
As Bill Maher stated for you the other day: The reason we are in a deficit with government spending is because the rich have not paid proper taxes for 12 FUCKING YEARS. Remember the Clinton years? What did he do? He RAISED TAXES on the rich, paid into infrastructure and the economy began to recover. The rich aren't going to take their ball and go home. They are going to develop more business opportunities so they can replace the taxes they would soon owe.
But you don't understand any of this. All you understand is what your fellow stupid-asses tell you the world is like. Just to be clear: You will NEVER be the same as the rich because you are too economically stupid. You have to REALLY understand what's going on in the world to benefit from it - and have a benefactor to do so -
and you people are sorely lacking.
Fuck you. All of you. You are not Americans or people of value. If you were, you'd value education, of which most of you have very little, or willfully wish you did. You are the terrorists of today who are pushing this country into the abyss. And you're stupidly cheering as it happens.