In 2007 when democrats took majorities in both houses unemployment was 4.6%. When Obama was elected unemployment was 6.8%; today it is 8.6% … and there are 6 million fewer work seekers than 2007. If you add those lost workers back to the mix unemployment is 17%. Regular gasoline per gallon cost $1.68 in January 2009. Today, it’s $3.39 — that’s a 102% increase in just three years. Electricity bills have also skyrocketed up some $400 a year. Since December 2008, under democrat majorities in both houses, food-stamp use has increased 46%. Nearly 20% of males age 25 to 34 now live with their parents. The budget has jumped to $3.8 trillion under democrats and yet revenue is only $2.1 trillion. America’s total public debt stands at $15.63 trillion

See the Community Re-Investment Act. Liberal facists are completely responsible for the bad loans.

Chrysler is now owned by Fiat. GM would have survived a normal bankruptcy. Obama only intervened to rob the secured lenders and give GM to his Union goon buddies.

Actually, the Democrats created the Community Re-Investment Act which allowed them to blackmail banks into giving loans to deadbeats by threatening to take away their FDIC status. When the amount of bad debt was beginnning to crush the economy democrats created Freddie and Fannie to disguise the damage and cushion the blow. Many times republicans like Bush and McCain pushed for reform of these policies yetr democrats Frank and Dodd defended them. Now the democrat policies have created this depression we are in. Thank the democrats going back to Carter.

I have no doubt that you are another totalitarian facist leftist masqerading as 'a doctor'. I have a suspicion that a real doctor kows how to spell bureaucracy and some other hi-falutin words too. A real doctor would know that we need tort reforms to lower insurance costs across the board. Adding tens of thousands of Obamacare bureaucrats that all must be paid is not going to lower costs.

Medicare already does not cover a physicians costs to see a patient. Doctors must make enough off of other patients to cover the costs of their Medicare patients. Obamacare does not reduce costs. It raises costs. We have to set limits on what lawyers can collect. No more 100 million dollar settlements. Cap accidental death at a couple of million. See to it that patients get the bulk of the settlement not the lawyers. Allow insurance to bo sold across state lines. Those two things will drive the cost of insurance way down. But democrats are beholden to lawyers so they will never limit awards which simply means a doctors insurance costs will continue to rise which means it will cost you more to see one. Democrats are totalitarian facists.

Dowd is mendacious. Why anyone would care what she says it baffling.

Then people in your 'world' need a dictionary. And 'National Origin'? really? What nation do all Muslims come from? Islam is not a race or a 'national origin'; it is a political movement shrouded in religion.

They were 'secured lenders' and Obama robbed them. What is so hard to understand about that? You say 'unsecured' like you know what it means. The unsecured debt was owned by the unions while the secured debt was owned by people with actual money who were financing the company. The people with secured debt were robbed.

Leftist totalitarians want to outlaw energy. But if they cannot do that then they will be almost as happy if they can make it too expensive for you to drive a car or cool your home in the summer.