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ORIGINAL: Fellow
At first make a contribution to create a problem, then pretend you can solve it. He should perhaps ask somebody else for support. Anything Obama has done so far has prevented job creation.

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Really?

The numbers paint a much different picture. That jobs are being created (against those loss per month), but are at a nail's pace. Got to give the guy credit, as 32% of the nation will say ANTYHING, if it makes him look bad. From Fox New's daily misinformation machine down to the commonly uncultured, intolerant, ignorant member of the Tea Party.

Some industries have recovered, and others won't for a while (that is the nature of a recession). The whole point of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2008 was to keep America from plunging in to a depression. Since we are not in one, and jobs were saved (according to the CBO), I would have to gather Mr. Obama has been doing a pretty good job. But why let FACTS and INFORMATION get in the way of conservatives, eh? They are the ones that sold America on the Iraq War. How much DID that war cost our country, again?

Now, as the first action of the GOP led House, was to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and NOT, help American's get jobs; I would still have to say, Mr. Obama is keeping focus on the problem, but Republicans are not. The ACA has created jobs in the health care industry, and projected to create more in the near future.

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ORIGINAL: ElSabio

well, well, dear leader o'bama could just like man he could pay people's mortgage and car payments. He be sittin' on all the money now. He could just like you know ban Republicans from all that hate speech. That be botherin' me. He could like man he could just hire us all to help him and the people... and give us one of them nice brown shirts. we'd be lookin' fine walkin down da street.

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ORIGINAL: Fellow

Anything Obama has done so far has prevented job creation.

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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven
A communist country could control the above.  But in a free market economy, options are limited.

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven
A communist country could control the above.  But in a free market economy, options are limited.

Steven, just as a point of info, is the phrase 'mixed economy' used your side of the pond and, if so, is it generally seen as an uncontentious term?

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

FR

Interesting.  'Mixed economy' became pretty much a household, as well as a relatively uncontroversial, term over here during what's come to be called the 'post war consensus' (that consensus amongst both Left and Right after WW2 in support of a mixture of free market and government ownership).  I don't think it's generally - even now, after Thatcher - popularly seen as a 'dirty term'. 

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I did not know we even made any cars anymore. 

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ORIGINAL: DomKen
Mixed Economy in the british sense of a mixture of socialism and capitalism is pretty much unknown on this side of the pond. Even baby steps in that direction during an economic collapse, The government buying stock in the auto companies to keep them afloat, was condemned like it was the announcement of a 5 year plan and the collectivization of family farms.