You don't fix in a year what took decades to mess up.

NEWSFLASH!
Reports show modest but steady economic recovery


Reports on manufacturing, construction, income and spending show modest but steady recovery.
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To all Tea Party Fans and Republicans of every stripe.
It's like this. The current administration has managed to dodge a bullet that could have resulted in 25% unemployment for a decade. Stupid people and frustrated people and powerful people who wish to manipulate the stupid people and frustrated people seem to think there was some magic way to fix the enonomy over a long weekend and Obama didn't do it. All I can say, as someone who knows more about this stuff than the average guy on the street,  is this: You should be damn glad Obama was on the job when we needed someone smart and rational or you'd be waaaaay worse off today than you currently are and your future prospects would be unpretty. 

Here's food for thought. To all the Republicans and Tea Party folks who want to just stop government spending....do you even begin to comprehend how much a part of our economy the government represents nowdays?  I agree 100% that government spending is way out of line,  but if you stop it all at once you will throw the entire globe into recession and probably into depression. At least that would put an end to all the blustering and tea parties - you'd all be too busy trying to grow a garden so you could eat - you wouldn't have time to mess with any of that political crap.
 
I recommend everyone in the USA rent the movie "Idiocity" ...there's your future.