if you put aside the financial crisis when bush left, its probably worse off. not saying obama is much better than bush, but its a pick your poison situation. im guessing wages are down, more jobs have been outsourced, the environment is more polluted, obama has been worse on civil liberties, the supreme court passed citizens united, etc. you have fascist elements now. is your democracy better or worse than it was during bush's years? what about inequality?
of course your decaying long term, the country is not getting better, and many people here understand that and theyre starting to figure out that voting for a clinton, or a bush, or a cruz isnt going to fix it.
btw you have a massive stock bubble right now. the banks will collapse soon again.
i dont think it really matters if hillary gets elected, the country will cough up blood.
Wages are DOWN, because we went into such a deep recession, we were close to a DEPRESSION. What did you think was going to happen to wages in a near collapse of the United States? Did you think the harm BUSH caused to the nation ended the day he left office??
The damage done by BUSH and the republican leadership in congress will last for at least two decades before its put back onto a track where the country is considered "FIXED".
That is of course, unless the republicans take control again, and we will see a repeat of HOOVER, REAGAN, BUSH, BUSH and the country will finally collapse under massive DEBT and DEFICIT SPENDING.
Throw in a couple of more wars and this country will see a depression that will make 1929 look like a holiday.
Jobs have been outsourced since REAGAN started it in 1982. Republican leadership and efforts to help the stock holders is to blame, and surely you dont really BELIEVE that Obama is responsible for job outsourcing?
Over 55,000 factories closed in the USA under the BUSH administration and moved overseas, and this AFTER they got the largest tax cut since reagan cut and collapsed the nation. The idea that cutting corporate taxes will keep jobs in America is the biggest joke the republicans have played on people like you RickyB.
Citizens United had nothing to do with OBAMA and everything to do with Republican Oligarchs trying to regain power in the USA. The conservatives on the bench voted 5 to 4 to pass Citizens United and today, you people cry like little babies about the money Hillary is raising. Get over that one already. You caused it.
The environment is polluted because for DECADES the republicans in congress have written laws allowing it, and then eliminating reponsibility for it and exempting them from lawsuits.
Democracy is WAAAY better off today than under BUSH.
Same sex marriage is legal, equal rights for women is now something in reality, discrimination in the workplace has been reduced, and demographics are changing in every state with exception of the rednecked states that refuse to accept change, they try to stay white and stupid.
Every stock market day is a bubble bro. Its all a shell game. Build it up, break it down, build it back up, break it down and take profits. Over and over, this economic casino gets rich on suckers dumb enough to play along.
The suggestion that we could see 5% GDP growth in todays times is a laughable idea. We make nothing. As a service industry nation, the dynamics or metrics for that kind of growth are a thing of the past.
We will be lucky if we can see 3% consistent growth in todays times.
Throw in GUEST WORKERS, and that number will continue to shrink along with wages.
As long as we import workers willing to work for low wages, what did you think was going to happen to the average wage in this country??
Did you believe it would go up??
Trump only offers one thing. Larger deficits, cutting taxes for the rich and raising the cost of living for the middle clases.
But the buffoons that will vote for him, will do so at their own perile. Like they did for Reagan, Bush and Bush.
Nothing has changed.
Give our president credit for keeping us out of a major collapse of this nation the day he walked into office.
Obama is black. GET OVER IT.
TOS.
