JamesRL: Think before you post,
because, in every one of your statements, you make the mistake of painting everything as simple black and white.
When Bush was at the end of his term, that's when the economic crisis reared its ugly head, and that crisis was a long time in the making, taking decades before it crashed the economy.
Now, Bush, realizing that he wasn't going to be leading the economy in the near future, had to delegate a lot of decisions to those that would still be around, and some of those were McCain and Obama, and thus Obama and McCain became part of the architect team to make decisions to try to rescue the economy. Bush made some very bad moves in trusting a RINO and a progressive and the liberal congress to create policies for the economy. Nothing good ever comes from liberal economic policies, and we're experiencing the results right now.
Bush might have signed the paperwork for the loans to GM and Chrysler, but he actually have very little to do with the making of that policy.
Bailing out AIG and the banks was also something that Bush delegated to congress and to Obama and McCain. Again, a very bad decision, and we're not out of the woods yet on the repercussions from those decisions. The aftershocks are still being felt, and there will be many failures still to come from the bad policies. And YES, it was Obama as one of the chief architects of the bailouts, along with congress, that gave us the bad policies.
The stimulus is not something that anybody can just simply dismiss as being inconsequential. Nobody should ever think that spending close to a trillion dollars, and having most of it going down the drain, is inconsequential. That money could have best been used by corporations to create real long lasting jobs, and we'd have created real growth in the economy. A trillion dollars can go a long way in the hands of the right people,and government is absolutely the wrong kind of people for managing money.
Bush is not without fault, but Bush was also at the end of his term, and he was mostly delegating to those that would be overseeing policy after he left.
You, like the democrats, would have put blame on Bush, no matter which way the economy and policies turned.
