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viguy007

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2. Obama focused too much on trying to be bipartisan

Reply to MannyGoldstein (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 25, 2012, 11:29 AM

Oct 2012

Like FDR he should have rammed his program through congress in those first 100 days, and let the chips fall where they might. The only program where he took this approach was using TARP for the saving o the auto industry, which was never authorized by congress.

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Unemployment dropped by 40% in FDR's first term MannyGoldstein Oct 2012 #1

Obama focused too much on trying to be bipartisan viguy007 Oct 2012 #2