While the crisis undeniably belongs to the Obama Administration now, it began during the George W. Bush tenure:
The latest unemployment numbers prove the policies of Ike Skelton and Nancy Pelosi have failed. Job losses continued to mount last month as the unemployment rate climbed to 9.6 percent.
"Thousands of families in west-central Missouri are paying a terrible price for the Ike Skelton-Nancy Pelosi policies that are taking this country down the path to financial ruin," said Skelton's opponent, 4th Congressional Republican candidate Vicky Hartzler. "The recovery we were promised has not materialized and Ike Skelton must defend his votes backing Obamanomics."
Today's figures bring to six million the number of jobs lost since Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the U.S. House - job losses aided by Skelton's 95 percent party-line voting record.
Ike Skelton, a career politician who has spent 17 terms in Congress, has had his vision clouded by too many years in Washington, D.C. He should appear with Vicky Hartzler in candidate forums to defend his harmful votes and to explain why he has voted against the interests of the citizens of the 4th Congressional District.
Our families deserve better. Our future demands better. Our children and grandchildren can no longer shoulder more debt heaped on them by a Skelton-backed, ever-growing federal government that thinks it knows what is best for us. Vicky Hartzler will partner with conservatives to bring fiscal responsibility to our Nation's Capitol and work to restore the millions of jobs that have been lost due to improper stewardship of our economy.
Is Vickie trying to take Cynthia Davis' place in the goofy bin?
ReplyDeleteThe bad times in the Bush admin started in 2006 when the Dems took over the House, i.e., when Ike got his chairmanship.
ReplyDeleteIke Skelton was in congress during the entirety of the Bush administration, when they repealed glass-steagall, as well as during Clinton's tenure when they passed the community-reinvestment act, two decisions that caused this recession by causing the housing market to be dominated by fannie, freddie, lehman brothers and goldman sachs.
Ike was also in office during Bush I's tenure...and during Reagan's two terms...in fact, he was elected along with Jimmy Carter. There is nothing at all going on on the federal level that Ike didn't have a hand in.
The system is broken. Time for new blood. Vote Vicky Hartzler.
@ alwaysadumbarse:) Are you a recent graduate of Beck U.?The trillion dollar Bush tax cut,the Iraq war,and all the unfunded mandates such as no child left behind, and the prescption drug plan put us in the depression we're in and you nose picking teatards who keep voting repuken are to blame,not the democratic party.
ReplyDeleteApparently "anonymous" is unfamiliar with the actual history of budget deficits. I invite him to take a closer look at my avatar photo.
ReplyDeleteGOP deficits during Bush'd presidency peaked in FY 2004 and the GOP was well on track to erasing them by 2007, which is the first year the Dems had control of the federal budget. As you can see, in the first year they tripled the deficit, and then quadrupled that deficit in the next year.
Presidents don't set budgets, Congress does. Ike is in Congress. Bush is a red herring. Ike and his majority party in Congress are to blame for the incredible fiscal hole we are now in.