Bush and the Republicans gave the financial markets room to cheat, spent trillions of un-budgeted funds on two wars, gave nearly a trillion in tax breaks to the richest... and led our country into a catastrophic financial crash requiring TARP Bail out to avoid total collapse.
Obama is trying to pull us out of the ditch. Trying to pull a heavily damaged financial vehicle out of a very very deep ditch.
And now....the Republicans are about to win the mid terms by blaming Obama (the tow truck driver) for the cost and difficulty in pulling the damaged vehicle out of the ditch. WTF
There is enormous anger over our country's financial mess...this is the right response. But it is mis-directed...and our future depends on getting this huge misunderstanding cleared up...and cleared up now.
Tea Party sign: "Are you better off now than you were 4 trillion dollars ago?" The sign is meant to be anti Democrat/ anti Obama. But this is only because "Dems/Obama/media/us" have been unable to convey Truth to the people and have allowed "Fox News/Beck/McConnel/Palin/Limbaugh" to succeed in misinforming America.
The 4 trillion dollars in that Tea Party sign was spent, or forced to be spent, by Bush and the Republicans.
We MUST get this story straight. The Tea Partiers...and many disgruntled anti Dem voters... include many "regular" Americans...who are upset about the financial situation we are in. That is understandable...
The problem is that they have been convinced that it is Obama/Dems that caused the financial problems and mis-spent our country's now limited financial resources.
Why can't we get this across to the rest of our brother/sister Americans?:
Bush Wars: 2 trillion?
Bush "Cheat all you want Wall Street program": 2-4 trillion? (pick a number)
Bush Take from the Poor give to Rich Tax Program: 1 Trillion
Bush Bail Out Banks TARP Program: 700 Billion - 2 Trillion?
The above is why we are in financial hell and unemployment is at 9.5%
All done by Bush... with Obama left with the clean up job... and now blamed for the mess.
Can't we get this understood by the People. Can't we force the media to tell the truth?