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I think Obama has done a mediocre to poor job, but I hope he is reelected in a land slide. That should force the GOP to abandon their current far right posture and move back to the middle. In the late 90's the GOP and Clinton compromised and brought us 4-5 years of growth, increased revenue, and brought us to a deficit neutral budget with projections of being able to actually pay down the dept. The Bush tax cuts were supposed to be deficit neutral, but instead have added greatly to the deficit and didn't product the growth that they claimed they would. Tax cuts for the uberwealthy just don't create growth or jobs, it's demand that creates jobs. Until the middle class can hold their heads above water, jobs aren't going to increase a the same rate as we've seen after other recessions, but rather similar to the depression where you saw the same kinds of income disparity. 1% of the population can't create enough demand for goods and services, it has to be the middle class driving demand.
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