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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 2567462" data-attributes="member: 2189">There is much about Obama not to like.&nbsp; There is much about Obama&#039;s economic policies not to like.&nbsp; And we also tend to blame the person in charge of the store at the time rather than consider the problem not from a purely micro POV but from its macro POV.2nd paragraph in the linked article in the quoted post above states the following:&quot;The final jobs report of the Obama presidency, released Friday, shows that the number of Americans not in the labor force has increased by 14,573,000 (18.09 percent) since January 2009, when Obama took office, continuing a long-term trend that began well before Obama was sworn in.&quot;The economy even before Obama was changing and one problem could be that the work force itself wasn&#039;t prepared for said change.&nbsp; Not to mention that the real estate meltdown deflated a major portion of the economy along with all those jobs with it and those jobs never and most likely won&#039;t come back.&nbsp; From another POV, the fact those jobs didn&#039;t come back means that at least Obama didn&#039;t try and re-inflate that specific false, unsustainable economic bubble which I&#039;ll give him credit for.&nbsp; This isn&#039;t suggesting all his other choices were good ones either but I&#039;ll give him some credit for choosing to not take the easy way out when that would likely have been the choice made by most other politicians on both sides of the isle.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 2567462, member: 2189"] There is much about Obama not to like. There is much about Obama's economic policies not to like. And we also tend to blame the person in charge of the store at the time rather than consider the problem not from a purely micro POV but from its macro POV. 2nd paragraph in the linked article in the quoted post above states the following: [I]"The final jobs report of the Obama presidency, released Friday, shows that the number of Americans not in the labor force has increased by 14,573,000 (18.09 percent) since January 2009, when Obama took office, [B] continuing a long-term trend that began well before Obama was sworn in.[/B]" [/I] The economy even before Obama was changing and one problem could be that the work force itself wasn't prepared for said change. Not to mention that the real estate meltdown deflated a major portion of the economy along with all those jobs with it and those jobs never and most likely won't come back. From another POV, the fact those jobs didn't come back means that at least Obama didn't try and re-inflate that specific false, unsustainable economic bubble which I'll give him credit for. This isn't suggesting all his other choices were good ones either but I'll give him some credit for choosing to not take the easy way out when that would likely have been the choice made by most other politicians on both sides of the isle. [/QUOTE]

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