The GOP is really soft on this issue and Democrats running for office ought to be hammering away on the subject. The Bush economic boom wasn't a boom outside of the boardrooms, or at least a good kind of boom. It has been more of a collapse and this all comes directly back to the end result of GOP policies. Call them out, early and often.
"We are not standing on the brink of recession due to forces beyond our control," Obama said in excerpts of a speech at a General Motors plant in Janesville, Wis. "The fallout from the housing crisis that's cost jobs and wiped out savings was not an inevitable part of the business cycle. It was a failure of leadership and imagination in Washington."
"It's a Washington where politicians like John McCain and Hillary Clinton voted for a war in Iraq that should've never been authorized and never been waged — a war that is costing us thousands of precious lives and billions of dollars a week" that could be used on infrastructure, job training and health care.
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