DieselPete wrote:
Trump claims he "inherited a mess." That's obviously a load. Obama, on the hand, inherited the very definition of a mess. The turn around we saw, as evidenced by almost every measurable we can consider, was nearly miraculous. A president can't take all the credit for what happens over eight years, obviously, but he has to get a lot and I would put him in the upper third.The heavy lifting to save the economy was passed by Bush before Obama even took office. The controversial TARP was done under Bush's admin, which was key in getting credit flowing again. Bush also passed the initial Detroit bailout, which Obama later expanded. The only thing that Obama really did for the economy was the stimulus package, which was a good idea, but was terribly executed. Obama let liberal democrats hijack the original purpose of the stimulus by injecting cash into liberal pet projects, so that what was sold to the American public ("shovel ready projects") turned out to be a very small percentage of the overall $800B stimulus package (it was less than $100B of the total, IIRC). I would give Obama very little credit for the recovery from the 2008 crisis.
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