Obama reversed economic slide

Thank you, President Barack Obama, for saving American capitalism. When President Obama took office in January, 2009, the U.S. economy was on the brink of disaster. Under President George W. Bush, we were losing 700,000 jobs a month. Within a year, President Obama reversed this trend, and since 2010, the private sector has created several million jobs. The president's stimulus bill should get some credit. I am always amazed that Republicans in Congress, all of whom voted against the stimulus bill, were back home in their districts taking credit for the federal money that they had brought home. Even Gov. Rick Perry of Texas accepted $3 billion in stimulus money to balance the Texas state budget while blasting the stimulus bill and the big spending Democrats.

June 19, 2012