yes clinton had many of the principles that Obama has and Obama has seen debt reduction, job creation improve from a trend of job loss, important industries saved like the auto-industry.
Clinton and Obama shouldn't even be used in the same sentence, when it comes to the economy. And lest you forget, Clinton tried some of the same stuff Obama did, until the Dems lost Congress in 1994. For six of Clinton's 8 years as president, he had the GOP running Congress.
Rich people incomes after taxes have tripled in the last twenty years, they have not been fleeced, it is the working class person getting fleeced. You supported Bush and let him run a booming economy to the ground and then some. You support a party who played obstructionist to a debt ceiling raise that was common under bush and caused a downgrade. The GOP got smacked this election and will continue to do so unless they change their tune and stop with the bullshit.
Where do you get your info? job creation has steadily increased from a job loss during bush's final years. You are lying.
When you lose more jobs than you create, that is a NET LOSS.
You don't get 8% unemployment for 44 of the last 46 months, with steadily increasing job creation. Even the press was reporting that the drop in unemployment was due (in no small measure) to people not looking for work. And it just so happens that the worst economic years of the Bush administration occurred when the DEMS ran Congress.
The downgrade happened ON OBAMA'S watch, not Bush's watch, and was the result of the Dems not cutting spending and the GOP not raising taxes. That is a fact.
We lowered our long-term rating on the U.S. because we believe that the
prolonged controversy over raising the statutory debt ceiling and the related
fiscal policy debate indicate that further near-term progress containing the
growth in public spending, especially on entitlements, or on reaching an
agreement on raising revenues is less likely than we previously assumed and
will remain a contentious and fitful process. We also believe that the fiscal
consolidation plan that Congress and the Administration agreed to this week
falls short of the amount that we believe is necessary to stabilize the
general government debt burden by the middle of the decade. http://www.standardandpoors.com/ratings/articles/en/us/?assetID=1245316529563The debt was 10 trillion when Obama took office; it's 16 trillion NOW (and counting).
Unemployment was 7.6% when Obama took office. It's "7.9%" now, higher than when he first took office (per Obama, it was never to exceed 8% and would be down to be around 5.5% now).
32 million on food stamps when Obama took office; 48 million on food stamps NOW.
Where do you get YOUR information?
Higher unemployment than when he took office; more people on food stamps now than when he took office; more debt now than when he took office;
And a second term of Obama is going to fix this because.........