Mr. Ricker (The Inbox, June 17) is correct that to judge anything one needs a benchmark. Since the Great Depression there have been multiple recessions. If one compares the recoveries from these recessions, the (recovery) from the 2007-2009 Recession has been the slowest. It has lasted longer and has produced fewer jobs than any recovery since the Great Depression. One can quibble over statistics, but the fact remains that the Obama Administration’s handling of the (Bush) recession has been inept, frequently counterproductive and wasteful of taxpayer money. To give Mr. Obama four more years to continue his policies that have given us the slowest recovery in 70 years would be foolish and dangerous.
I was pleased to see that Mr. Ricker is looking across the Atlantic. It’s that old saw: experience is learning from your own mistakes, while wisdom is learning from the mistakes of others. Instructively, there are examples of financial crisis occurring in Europe that we should not ignore. It is critical that this country not follow the same policies of unrestrained deficit spending, all encompassing welfare benefits, over taxation and over regulation that has many European Union countries on an unsustainable economic path. We are not immune from the economic forces that are currently affecting the EU.
William Zipperer
Mesa
Leon Ceniceros posted at 7:25 am on Tue, Jun 26, 2012.
The Liberals....the Progressives...the Socialists...the Democrats...who voted Barack Hussein O-Blame-a into the White House would have the voters beleive that with another 4 years and another 10 TRILLION DOLLARS....that O-Blame-a can bring America back. What he will do is to turn American into another Greece with a touch of Venenzuela and Cuba thrown in for good measure....O-Blame-a wins in November = HELLO 3RD WORLD !!!!!
This letter writer was far, far more erudite (and grammatically, punctuation wise and spelling wise too.........lol) than I could ever be. Kudoes to him
Arizona Willie posted at 7:39 am on Tue, Jun 26, 2012.
Of course Obama hasn't fixed the Bush recession. Bush started two unfunded wars and the unfunded Medicare prescription benefit.
One of those wars is still going on and so is the unfunded prescription benefit.
Republicans have voted NO on everything Obama tried to do.
So how helpful have Republicans been?
How can Obama swim with Republican concrete shoes on his feet?
Republicans CAUSED the problem.
Republicans RESISTED all efforts to fix the problem they caused.
The current Republican candidate for Presidents only economic plan to fix the recession the Republicans caused, and prevented Obama from doing much about, is to do more of what the Republicans did to cause the problem in the first place.
Republicans claim tax cuts for the wealthy create jobs.
Oh yeah?
We have been cutting taxes on the wealthy since Reagan and American jobs have been going down down down.
There is MUCH truth to the Republican claim that tax cuts create jobs though.
The problem is -- the jobs are in CHINA.
truth posted at 7:52 am on Tue, Jun 26, 2012.
Fact check, there has be two major recessions since the great depression, one was under Ronald Reagan, Reagan recession started 16 months into his first term that would place it around 1982 this recession was still effecting the housing market after 1991, 1982-1991, the second recession was under George W. Bush starting in 2007 and we are still under this recession.Two failed wars and a housing collapse. The Republican Party, according to Jeb Bush, is more interested in defeating Obama than fixing unemployment, healthcare, ect. and the Republicans are willing to destroy this country to defeat Obama, this is a quote from a article by Jeb Bush. Talk is cheep, facts and the truth which the Republicans have forgotten. Rep. Darrell , R-Calif has stated the White House didn't withhold information on fast and furious so you Republicans have to return to the birther plot.
Accuracy posted at 8:30 am on Tue, Jun 26, 2012.
truth posted "Rep. Darrell , R-Calif has stated the White House didn't withhold information on fast and furious so you Republicans have to return to the birther plot."
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But according to House Republican aides, the House is scheduled to vote this Thursday on a resolution to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for not handing over documents related to the Operation “Fast and Furious” probe.
Despite the fact that President Obama invoked executive privilege to bar (from release) documents related to Operation “Fast and Furious”. . . which was an admission the White House officials were involved in the decision that misled the Congress and covered up the truth.
truth posted at 8:54 am on Tue, Jun 26, 2012.
Accuracy, this may be hard for you to understand, the Republicans are looking for a fishing trip to distract from the Republicans failures, like Obama's birth certificate no matter what they will claim it is false.
VofReason posted at 12:52 pm on Tue, Jun 26, 2012.
Oh good. Thank you Truth and slick Willie for clarrifying that Obama has done everything right and only becuase the Republicans exist has none of it worked out. The Obama Administration should recruit both of you to the campaign- certainly a winning strategy. I think Willie was able to capture each of the shopworn Democrate talking points in his rant. Hmmm, Democrates had the House, Senate and Presidency for first two President Obama years and due to obvious failure the US citizenry corrected 1/3 of the problem. And "Truth" ironic as that is, yes I remember everyone saying how dark the 80s were and mired in recession. Or maybe that was just that the lights were off in the Liberal secret headquarters.
Arizona Willie posted at 2:13 pm on Tue, Jun 26, 2012.
VofReason, the Dems only had a " technical " majority in the beginning.
There were a bunch of " blue dog " Democrats who are actually Republicans who run as Democrats because of long standing political traditions in their district.
Those " Democrats " voted with the Republicans to prevent Obama's attempts to do anything from being passed.
Claiming the Democrats had the majority and failed to do anything is ... shall we say ... lacking the ' rest of the story '.
In fact, if you count the blue dog Democrats with the Republicans ( which is how they voted ) the Republicans had the majority.
THAT would be a realistic statement which has the benefit of being the TRUTH.
onerebel posted at 7:03 pm on Tue, Jun 26, 2012.
Anyone want to bet that even if every single member of congress had been a Democrat for the last ten years, they would still blame Republican's for every thing like they do now? Liberalism. 101; Demonize the other side, and blame them for your mistakes ! [wink]
mrconservative posted at 10:36 pm on Tue, Jun 26, 2012.
Arizona Willie, Obama got everything he wanted passed before a year went by. He had a majority in both houses of Congress. He's still blaming Bush to this day. They changed the rules to pass Obamacare, which, with any luck, will be overturned on Thursday. Tell that blamer-in-chief that he's making a big mistake in ignoring our laws.
mrconservative posted at 10:43 pm on Tue, Jun 26, 2012.
Tax cuts for EVERYONE do create jobs.
I've had enough of liberals' claims that Bush's tax cuts were only for the very wealthy. This could not be further from the truth. My family isn't even close to being rich, and yet I know we benifited from Bush's tax cuts. Just TRY to counter that one, Willie.
Sure, Republicans resisted, because Obama's spendulous bill was far from successful, as the Republicans knew it would be. The same thing applies to his so-callled "health" care bill.
Obama got everything he wanted passed. It still failed. Time to kick the three Stooges out of office: Blinky (Pelosi), Hairy (Reid), and Bo (Obama).
Okay, so Reid can't be removed from his Senate seat this year, but he can be removed from Senate Majoirty leadership if the Republicans take back the Senate.
Arizona Willie posted at 9:03 am on Wed, Jun 27, 2012.
mrconservative -- you " know " you benefited from Bush's tax cuts but you aren't wealthy.
PROVE IT
chatmandu002 posted at 10:58 am on Thu, Jun 28, 2012.
Obama and the democrats did pass the largest TAX increase in American history.
mrconservative posted at 11:45 am on Thu, Jun 28, 2012.
Prove it? How? Nothing I say will convince you. My parents were able to pay off their house this year. It never would have happened with the tax cuts. Also, over several years, my dad got several raises at work. They weren't huge raises, but they benifited us in a big way.
VofReason posted at 1:32 pm on Thu, Jun 28, 2012.
Don't worry, Obama fixed those Bush tax cuts. He just called it the Affordable HealthCare Act. See, no more low taxes for anyone. He really is a magic man- so dreamy. Short term win, but wait until he has to splain the tax definition between now and November. That is going to be good.
mrconservative posted at 12:48 pm on Mon, Jul 2, 2012.
It never would have happened without the tax cuts.Excuse the minor error.
mrconservative posted at 10:53 pm on Mon, Jul 2, 2012.
And my poor punctuation.
mrconservative posted at 8:15 am on Thu, Jul 5, 2012.
"the second recession was under George W. Bush starting in 2007 "
Guess who was in charge of Congress at the time? He could hardly get anything done with them blocking everything, or not passing it. Raising taxes during a recession never helped anyone.