Must be really tough,

for Obama to respond to the train wreck of an economy we have now. If he admits how bad it is, it only gets worse, as people spend even less, hurting businesses more, and if he pretends it is good, he is called out of touch. I don't think most people realized how close we came to actually 'going under', in the last half of 2008, after 8 years of the Bushies. Normally, a new president would have a few bullets left in the gun, but Bush had already fired them all, by cutting taxes way down, (temporarily, HA). Had already moved the interest rates to virtually zero, which usually stimulates the economy. Had already written checks for hundreds of billions of dollars to financial institutions and corporations that had gone bust under his watch, AND, the biggest economic boon to an economy, WAR, had already been started by Bush, in 2 places, just not funded, and now the bills are coming due. I can just hear W, giggling, with his Texas accent, as he slithered out of town, saying, "Goood luuuck, yur gonna neeeed it, and in a strange 'coincidence', (snicker, snicker,) the price of oil (the family business of my VP and me), just happened to go UP, about ten-fold, ha ha ha". SO, here we are, with a new political season, and the Repubs love to say, 'This is Obama's economy, now', at the same time they fight much needed economic help, finally going for 'austerity', after spending like drunken sailors, for 8 years and turning an inherited surplus into the largest debt in our history. Gotta love them clowns. Can people really be SO stupid as to forget who got us here? Probably...