And yes would should continue to blame Bush. If people are going to start freaking out about the debt and deficit they should at least put the blame where it deserves to go. You cannot blame Obama for either the debt or the deficit. It was a long time in the making and was put there well before Obama came into office. Obama is just trying to fix the debt and deficit mess that Bush left behind.

It is funny all you people like to now complain about the debt and deficit, but where was your complaining when Bush was running up the debt from about $4-5 trillion to $8-10 trillion? Seems like a double standard. I never read one story on this website from either Larry Doyle (although he was not on this site so he may have been doing it somewhere else) or Larry Johnson complaining about the huge debt and deficits that Bush was running up when he was in power? Why all of a sudden during a huge economic downturn when some government spending makes sense all the complaining about fiscal responsiblity? Seems like a double standard and seems like all politics to me.

Now you can complain that you do not think that the government should spend any money either in the form of tax cuts or fiscal spending to try and get the economy out of the hole. That is a valid conservative, actually very conservative, opinion. One in which most economists would not agree.

But, a question for you Arabella: how would you propose to reduce the deficit and debt? Cut spending? Where would you cut spending? And would that be wise to do during a economic downturn?

Would you favor raising taxes to reduced the deficit and debt? What that be wise to do during a downturn?

What about raising taxes and/or cutting spending to get ride of the deficit when we are out of this economic downturn?

Maybe you would take a conservative supply-side solution of cutting taxes? Would that not increase the deficit? If you cut taxes what spending would you cut to offset the less tax revenue?

is there any way to get total amount paid out in unemployment benefits each month and compare it to previous months?

i agree with earlier poster, i would like to see the number of people on government assistance and number of new applicants for these programs. they will help shed light on state of economy as seen from perspective of average american.

i don’t understand why these numbers don’t get reported. the networks keep saying the unemployment number doesn’t capture true employment problem, but never cite other data to give us a better picture

I look forward to reading your future posts, as the economy improves and how you try and spin it to make the adminstration look bad or downplay it. Should be entertaining, just like how your tried to suggest the the Fed is not working because things in 2010 do not cost as much as they did in the 1920s. That was a great one. Must be awesome being on NQ with all these economic geniuses who stroke your ego.

Just as I thought. You got nothing when challenged and take the easy way out and make up an excuse instead of defending yourself. You almost always do this when I have challenged you in the past. It is only your opinion that I do not know what I am talking about. I give you plenty of facts, direct quotes from the CBO and other sources to support my thinking and analysis. 
 
I will ask you two simple question Mister NQ economics guru. 
 
Do you think Obama is responsible for the 2009 U.S. government deficit? 
 
Do you think the economy is in better or worse shape then it was a year ago?

I will ask you two simple question Mister NQ economics guru.

Do you think Obama is responsible for the 2009 U.S. government deficit?

Do you think the economy is in better or worse shape then it was a year ago?

Actually I missed the fact that the manner in which the average hourly workweek was calculated was changed. Under the previous method the workweek would have bumped merely from 33.2 to 33.3 hours. Not a big deal and in line with expectations. 

Your comments here reveal how little you truly know and understand as to what is going on and given the fact that you care to take an ad hominem personal shot, you can rest assured I am not going to waste my time explaining it to you

“after 8 years of Bush were he gave us zero job growth, no real economic growth and huge deficits and debts”
Since you brought this up please provide specific facts to support your charges.

“the public debt, although never great, is still manageable”
What would you consider to be too much debt? And how do you see it as “manageable?”

“20 points Snyder points out were there and created before Obama”
Do you mean that you knew that unemployment was going to go as high as 10.0%? Then why didn’t you call the White House and tell them so that they would not have promised nothing more than 8.5%.

Your facts are directly from the Obama smoke-and-mirrors playbook used by the media to create a false reality that Obama did anything successul in the past year.

The fact is that Obama and Democrats have wrecked this economy and are blatantly lying about the so-called progress they created. Unfortunately for Obama Americans are not as stpuid as he expected them to be because a majority of them don’t trust him when it comes to the economy. According to the latest NBC/WSJ poll 65% have either little or no confidence in Obama’s economic policy. And according to Rasmussen only 21% of Americans believe Obama has cut taxes, only 35% believe his assertion that the economy is growing, and only 27% believe his assertion that he put 2 million people back to work.

Basically you are trying to support the unsupportable and you are clearly in the minority.

It is the height of good manners to avoid “wearing out your welcome” when visiting. Perhaps you have absorbed this lesson and have moved on to other places.

Just as a point of interest, what do you do for a living?

Adults don’t blame others for their own shotcomings and weaknesses. What exactly are Obama’s plans to help the economy? Aside from the usual nonsense about green jobs, green sprouts, etc? Cash for clunkers, now that was a great idea. What other ideas is Obama holding back from us?

And by the way, what do you do for a living, guest?

What do you do for a living, guest?