Art of Manliness

What a contrast!

Oh, what a contrast this shows, between leaders.

Wow!

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Permalink Reply by Michael D. Denny on April 9, 2012 at 12:23pm

However, I'm going to be fair. Lest I be viewed as overly partisan, Obama also inherited a lousy economy (but not as bad as the one left by Carter) and it is turning around. Slowly, but decidedly turning around.

Well, no. Inflation (A little better than 2.6 at the moment) is still currently bigger than the rate of growth. Thus net/net, the economy is actually still moving in a downward direction.

Permalink Reply by ARK on April 9, 2012 at 7:06pm

Real GDP growth Q4 of 2011: 0.73%

I believe that is a positive number.

Permalink Reply by ARK on April 9, 2012 at 7:08pm

did do incredibly good things for the economy within his first term

I take serious issue with this. The economy was downright awful for the lion's share of Reagan's first term because of Volcker's bitter inflation medicine.

Permalink Reply by Titus Techera on April 10, 2012 at 12:11am

Yeah.

Permalink Reply by JonEdanger on April 10, 2012 at 5:30am

Medicine should be tasty.

Permalink Reply by ARK on April 10, 2012 at 4:04pm

Metaphorically speaking, an anti-inflationary monetary contraction is not the kind of medicine administered orally.

Permalink Reply by Titus Techera on April 9, 2012 at 11:32am

People are what they are & it is unreasonable to expect them to be otherwise. Reagan was elected because he knew that. All things considered, it is better for Americans to elect men like Reagan, but it's unreasonable they will do so because it is the reasonable thing to do...

Permalink Reply by Jacob Bauer on April 8, 2012 at 11:14pm