Are these rhetorical questions? “Who led us into this economy and was in control of Congress for the last 3 years? Who is responsible for the housing/banking collapse?”
Who led us into this economy? That is easily answered. The economic spiral began during Bush’s presidency. Since he was the leader when this began, the answer to your question is in fact George W. Bush.
Who was in control of congress for the last three years? Not a valid question. For the last nine months, Democrats have had the majority. That doesn’t mean they are in charge but surely have more power than Republicans. During the last two years that Bush was president, neither party had control. And even if the Democrats were able to push some things forward, they had ZERO power in overturning a Bush Veto. And let’s remember the facts; Bush vetoed one bill in the first six years when Republicans had the majority of congress (a Democratically sponsored bill on stem cell research), and he vetoed eleven bills in his last two years when Republicans did not have the majority.
Who is responsible for the housing/banking collapse? Easy - George W. Bush. Now I know all you conservatives like Pro Vic love sitting in your wheelchairs and drawing government money each month and blaming the collapse on Clinton and even Carter, but it’s a ridiculous claim. It happened under Bush and he was warned many years in advance. The fact is, even if it was caused by anything that began under Clinton or Carter, Bush had the absolute power, especially with a Republican majority congress for the first six years, to change things.
There are so many differences in conservatives and liberals, the most noticeable is of course intelligence. But the most important are probably character, maturity and responsibility. It’s sad to watch these guys continually blame every single thing that happened under George W. Bush on a Democrat. No matter how far they have to stretch it, nothing was his fault.
And what did happen under Bush’s watch?
1. 9/11 happened while he sat and did nothing. Maybe that 2nd grade book was too interesting to him.
2. Patriot Act which took liberties guaranteed by the constitution away from American citizens.
3. Invasion of Iraq, a country proven to have had nothing to do with 9/11 and proven not to have WMDs even before we went in.
4. Tax breaks on the wealthiest which costs us 90 billion a year.
5. The housing bubble burst.
6. The stock market collapsed.
7. Banks went under. Something that hadn’t happened since the Great Depression.
8. Record bankruptcies and foreclosures.
9. More businesses went out of business than any other time in history.
10. More businesses relocated overseas than any other time in history.
11. Unemployment went out of control, doubling in his last six months as president.
Now conservatives love to point out that unemployment is around 10% right now. But they fail to acknowledge that this number represents a huge victory in that area. At the rate the unemployment was falling under Bush, had he been president for one more year, the unemployment rate would now be 19.7%.
But idiots like Pro Vic can’t understand that, maybe because there’s math involved. LOL
But the really pathetic thing is this immature compulsiveness to blame everything that happened under Bush on someone else.
Let’s take a hypothetical. Let’s say that Pro Vic was hired as a manager of a furniture store. (Ok, you have to use your imagination since we all know Pro Vic acknowledged on here that he draws disability.) Let’s say this store had a good financial record for the last eight years. But during eight years with Vic as manager, everything went to hell. Here’s what he would say:
“It wasn’t my fault.”
“The manager before me started this crazy sales program.”
“The delivery guys are following some crazy schedule set forth by the manager 20 years ago.”
“For the last two years, we’ve gotten a lot of new sales people and I’ve had no control over them."
You get the point.
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