This thing was created by both sides of the aisle with an almost even hand and, I doubt on purpose. It is much deeper than narrow-minded partisan bickering will ever allow anyone to see. To simply blame it on dems or repubs is to be ignorant of the fact that the economy is not a simple animal. Hell yeah the Republicans hold some of the responsibility for being to weak to stick to their principles but they were the only ones trying to stop the run away freight train, and now they receive all the blame while the democrats are using the crisis to ram their pet projects down our collective throats.



Funny, if you replace some of these words with the word Religion, this paragraph makes even more sense to me. Pardon the digression
And what does this have to do with anything?
I'd like to see a source for this, I have a friend this would interest greatly!
You might speak with wildtim for starters as his wife deals with just this issue in Michigan.

. If he could talk and make the economy worse or talk and make it better which do you think he would actually do? Indeed, if talking made the economy work I dare say that your activity in this forum alone would be sustaining the nations economic power. The fact remains that the economy is not understood wholly by anyone. It can't be empirically tested and we are now in the most uncharted of waters. To simplify this subject, or indeed any, is to willingly give up control of your own ability to think.
Don't be silly. I haven't the power of the President!
The presidents words have a psychological effect on us all, especially a steady drum beat doom and gloom.
economics is economics. there was a Samurai who once wrote that if you can fight one man succesfully then you can fight 2 and then 4 and 8 and so on and that is because the priciples remain the same!
we were facing worse times statistically when JFK and Reagan started their terms, they both cut the tax rates and brought about an economic prosperity. when the current bunch in the senate rewrote the stimulus to bring the cost from some 800 billion to the current price of some 700 billion the took cut our tax breaks but none of their pet projects!