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Yeah, I mean people love playing political games with this stuff. But the actual crime was what happened between 2009-2012. Trump is just a symptom. Yes, he's a
by sfblah 2y ago
Yeah, I mean people love playing political games with this stuff. But the actual crime was what happened between 2009-2012. Trump is just a symptom. Yes, he's a bad guy, but what do you expect people to do?
- paulryanrogers 2y agoI expect people to not vote for obviously bad guys. Obama too had to clean up a mortgage crisis from his predecessor's careless deregulation. Not an excuse for his own crimes, like say drone striking US citizens. But Trump is just openly corrupt, inept, praising autocrats and aspiring to be one.
- sfblah 2y agoClean up the crisis, yes. Destroy the future of the US economy by endorsing ZIRP and massive government spending for more than a decade? No. People give Obama a pass when they shouldn't. This stuff didn't start with Trump. The problem goes back much further.
- paulryanrogers 2y agoWe should hold Obama to account. But at this point I'd settle for enforcing the Constitution. No need for false equivalence.
- drumdance 2y agoObama didn't endorse ZIRP. He wanted to do more stimulus but Congress wouldn't let him. In that environment ZIRP was the only solution. Ben Bernanke (a Bush appointee, re-appointed by Obama) devoted his academic career to how the Fed could have prevented the Great Recession. He was right.