Your "analysis" is suspect. Correlation does not equate to causation. How utterly vapid for you to say because of the people in the White House or in Congress at the time of the GLOBAL financial meltdown has anything to do with the gigantic crater we've been crawling our way out of.
I attended a regional economic conference back in 2009 where an economist predicted a wide U-shaped recovery based on the economic structure and the fact that there was no regionality to this giant recession. He was right. We've been slowly pulling out of the hell hole that started downward at the end of 2007 after the DOW hit a then record high in October. You fail to see progress. Not my fault. It's yours.
Another thing to do is compare U.S. economic performance to other industrialized nations during the same period (UK, France, Germany, Japan). All nations have had it rough, but the U.S. and those nations not engaged in wholesale austerity have fared the best.
I don't believe that I made an "analysis" so I don't see how it can be suspect. So tell me which numbers are wrong or that you disagree with.
1-Unemployment is worse now than under President Bush and Republican controlled congress.
(Is this not a fact? It doesn't matter whether things were better under anyone else's control as it is speaking strictly today and to the time the Bush was in office with a Republican controlled congress.)2-The American people are hurting.
(Is this not a fact? Or is all the homeless, unemployed, and underemployed just mirages?)3-We like to blame this on the Republicans and call them obstructionists;
(Is this not a fact? Does your bunch at DU, in political office, and in the press not do this every day?)4-however, the fact remains that for the last few years of the Bush administration and for the first few years of the Obama administration the Democrats controlled both houses of congress.
(Is this not a fact? If not, which party controlled congress in the last few years of the B administration and the first few years of the 0 administration?)5-Since there was no great improvement during these periods of congressional control,
(Is this not a fact? Or are you telling me that there began a great improvement when the Democrats took control of congress at the end of Bush's term?)6-I have to assume that to some degree at least some of the Democrats that we have elected are part of the problem.
(Is this not a fact? Or do you think that placing a (D) behind someone's name make them impeccable and unable to be at fault?)7-As a result, I’ve decided that from this point on, when I vote in an election, I will vote for candidates based solely on their ability to help the country as a whole and will disregard their political affiliation.
(Is this not an intelligent thing to do? Or is it more intelligent to vote for someone who will destroy everything just because he has your party affiliation attached to his name?)8-This means that if I feel a particular candidate will be beneficial to the country I will vote for said candidate even if he or she is a Tea Party Republican.
(Would this not be an intelligent thing to do? Or is being spiteful and letting the country more intelligent?)9-This does NOT mean that I am turning away from the Democratic Party. I intend to remain a Democrat and a member of the Democratic Party.
(Isn't it possible to be a member of a party and not walk in lockstep with it? Or do the Dems, like DU, kick you out for not walking in lockstep?)10-It just means that I've decided to put the well-being of the country above the well-being of the party.
(Do you not wish for the well-being of the country and its citizens? Or are you so intolerant that you'd vote for party over all else?)11-I have made this decision because I love the United States of America.
(Do you not love the USA? Or are you one that these days seems to fit the liberal stereotype?)12-I feel the USA is a great country with even greater potential.
(Do not feel the USA is great and has great potential? If not, why are you still here?)
