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First and foremost, the economy was pretty good as FDR led you to win a war with Germany and some other nations, combination of Keynes and war won it and really made the US economy work. And that was following an economic disaster that were, perhaps, even greater than the current and recent.Well if we are going to blame past presidents the economy was pretty bad when George Washington was in office too.
Let?s face some facts Obama ran for president during a bad economy and made all those people believe that he could fix it. Fact while folks were losing jobs him and the rest of Democrats were hard at work on their pet peeve Health Care. Meanwhile the economy has gotten worse and worse and the unemployment rate is 2 points lower than when he started. 10trillion dollars spent on his not so shovel ready projects (by his own words). He took on the job knowing there was a bad economy and has failed.
EVERY presidential candidate during a recession will say to some extent, that they will fix the economy. They will even say they can stop abortion, or heavily hint at it, as most republicans have done for a decade or two.
Onto health care. Before you elected him and before he started his attempt at health care reform, you had the BLOODY MOST expensive health care in the known universe. Heck, you spent more per capita on health, the whole nation taken into account, than us. Norway. With UNIVERSAL health care. And NO real difference in quality, at least aside obvious differences between a big and small health care market.
Fixing that isn't a pet peave, it's crucial, it was bloody important. Sadly there were a lot of very thick people in congress who thought tort reform would make much difference. That is a pet peave to the other side. And it might do something, but it won't be enough, it won't make great changes to the system itself, and that's what's really broken.
Still annoys me they just couldn't get a public option. Would have made health care cheaper fast as fuck. And made private health care just a little more expensive.
And I realize why Obama has failed, I remember that when Bush got elected in 2000, he didn't say "I'll fix the economy". So he can't be blamed for running it to the ground, can he? Come to think of it. There was a deficit during Clinton's first four years. Perhaps it had been wiser to just let another republican take back the white house, and change course?
Wait..
Indeed it is. HCR will make an impact for sure, but what, I don't think anyone really know. Not really.And I hope you realize how much of a burden our current health system is on the economy.