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Originally Posted by Future240
^^^^Devils advocate. Obama had 8 years to grow the economy. Trump has had 3. I am not going to argue the economy of who did better. Just pointing out it is honestly kind of hard to get a true apples to apples comparison. Also Obama got handed a down economy. It is possible the economy good behave like people losing weight. A fat person would lose more weight than a skinny person as they have more to lose. IE a bad economy (fat) could increase faster than an already good (skinny) economy.
As a centrist he seems lefty to me. Not saying being a lefty is a bad thing. Just seems to be where he falls.
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https://www.amazon.com/New-Deal-Raw-.../dp/1416592377
Good read. Strong post mortom of how FDR's "New Deal" basically made a depression into a "Great Depression" and prolonged it's recovery. He did it to maintain power and control over the DNC.
Much of Obamas administration can be critiqued in the same was. We wasted trillions on feel good spending that only hampered recovery. Hell, much of the 2008 Crisis could be blamed on bad policies enacted over the previous 20 years, which included Bill Clinton and several DNC controlled Senate's.
No one is blameless, but there is something to say about positive energy and optimism. Obama was a rerun of Jimmy Carter and his "better mileage" plan. "Americans need to learn to live with less, inflation is the new normal, we shouldn't expect to be #1 forever."
He got his teeth kicked in by the boombastic Movie star that was "Die you Commie Bastards, America, Fuck Yeah!!" and we saw an economic explosion that pretty much lasted till 2008...(with some corrections).