No...not "way" before Obama. Bush fucked about the 2-3 months before the end of his term. Like I said before, instead of stopping the bleeding he made it a 100000000x's worse.
Yes, way waaaaaay...We've been on this slide long before...ya'll mofos just enjoyed being in the playground and couldn't see that recess had ended. The signs were constantly on wall. The big thee auto makers kept producing crap while Japan study the market and made quality economical cars, yrs later, GM and FORD was still trying to keep up, but they had been producing good stuff over seas. Now, a bail out for them, and now they finally bring that good shit over here.
Japan became a electronics king, Walkman,Discman, TVs, etc, while American firms and corps floundered, nobody said shit. Now most of drive foreign cars and most of us have foreign electronics and goods in our houses...nobody said shit about why America firms and corps weren't producin, nor trying to help, you guys drop the damn ball...don't give bullets to someone's gun, then complain that the person shot you...Aeerica is a reactionary country, not a proactive country. And the one's in charge counted on people like you to continue on the bullshit path of hedonism and Me, Me, Me, and now ya'll mofs get upset.
It's kinda like a disobedient child, you don't wait till he is 11 to start disciplining him, it's too late, you do it when they are younger...So, when the problems had started surfacing, you note it and curb it, the generation before X and Y didn't do that...