OBAMA ATTACKS REAGONOMICS–
Barack Obama, America’s first community organizer president, told a group of supporters in Texas Kansas yesterday that Republican economic theory “doesn’t work.”
The Washington Post reported:
President Obama, in one of his most expansive speeches to date, declared on Tuesday that supply-side economics is a failure and called “gaping inequality” across the country a moral shortcoming that is distorting American democracy.
Obama’s speech in Kansas was not just another attack on Congress, or a plea to pass his jobs bill. He did not roll out a new, snappy slogan – such as telling the audience that “we can’t wait” to enact new laws.
Instead, Obama delivered a searing indictment of Republican economic theory, setting the stage for the coming presidential campaign. Summoning the image of a populist Theodore Roosevelt — in the same town (Osawatomie) where Roosevelt delivered a famous speech on economic fairness in 1910 — Obama deployed the language of right and wrong, fairness and unfairness, in a lengthy address that aides said he largely wrote himself.
The theory of “trickle down economics,” which holds that greater wealth at the top generates jobs and income for the masses below, drew some of Obama’s harshest criticism.“It’s a simple theory — one that speaks to our rugged individualism and healthy skepticism of too much government. It fits well on a bumper sticker. Here’s the problem: It doesn’t work,” Obama said of supply-side economics, drawing extended applause. “It’s never worked.”
For the record…
Obama tripled the US deficit.
The Obama deficit this past year reached $1.2 trillion. (The Captain’s Comments)
Obama is the worst jobs president since the Great Depression.
Federal non-defense spending soared under Obama.
Super Economy Blog and Greg Mankiw
Obama set records in the long-term unemployment rate.
(EOAD)
Then there’s this by John E. at Ace of Spades:
Oh, and the economy was downgraded for the first time in a century.
And Obama has the gall to attack Reagan and say that Republican economic theory does not work.
Unbelievable.
