Letter: Obama voters own our future

Congratulations to the Democrats and the young people of this country on the election, you now own it.

The next terrorist act? You own it.

Can’t get a job after graduation? You own it.

Skyrocketing prices because of Barack Obama shutting down drilling? You own it.

Another severe recession? You own it.

Higher health-care costs? You own it.

Having trouble gettting a loan for a home? You own it.

Is ther more dependency on food stamps? You own it.

Is there more than $5 trillion of added debt? You own it.

Having trouble finding good employment? You own it.

Is there ore than 8 percent unemployment? You own it.

Is there no border whatsoever and immigrants working for nothing? You own it.

Is tolerance of Islamic extremists growing? You own it.

Good luck and look in the mirror when it totally collapses.

Michael Ross

business owner

Baton Rouge

Comments

1) Comment by Manichaeus - 19/11/2012

IH8Mud Yup, Just like Jindal and the lack of any tangible improvement in Louisiana's lot. Sure has been good for the well off, though.

2) Comment by IH8Mud - 17/11/2012

This is such a crock. A person running for president knows what he is getting when he gets there. If you don't think so, you are either niave or stupid. When he takes office, it is now his to manage. After 4 years all we have kept hearing is "it is the previous guy". Well, when is it the current guy? When does he stop "passing the buck"? If he doesn't want to take ownership, he has no business being there in the first place. Get the frick out of the office if you can't handle it!

3) Comment by InPVille - 17/11/2012

@misterfalcon: I understand your reasoning. Bush's deficit spending was bad. But Obama's deficit spending at twice that rate is perfectly fine. Bush's claiming that Hussein was seeking weapons of mass destruction was bad. But the daily media coverage of statements made during the Clinton Administration by him and/or senators and house members of both parties, which created the background of the belief in this country and through out the rest of the western world was perfectly fine. Bush's "massively un-funded donut hole medicare/medicaid blunder" was bad but decades of failing to put Social Security on a sound financial footing is perfectly fine. Actually there never was a balanced budget during the Clinton Administration. The appearance of a balanced budget was created by including money borrowed from the Social Security Trust Fund and every other retirement system the federal government is responsible for. Money borrowed from yourself is still borrowed. etc., etc., etc.

4) Comment by misterfalcon - 17/11/2012

OOO, these are fun. For those who voted Bush, Thanks for the Bill! for TARP. For those who voted Bush, whose administration ignored intelligence before 9/11 up to and including having a report that detailed an airplane strike on sky-scrapers Thanks for the Bill! For those who wonder why deficit spending increased in the past 12 years after a balanced budget was finally hammered out in the 90s, Thanks for the Bill, Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy turned a surplus into a F@#$-us! For the 16K+ veterans wounded or killed in 1trillion dollar cowboy war that our previous administration got is into unilaterally after cooking the intelligence, Thanks for the Bill! For Bush's massively un-funded donut hole medicare/medicaid blunder (cost, who knows, ladidadida) Thanks for the Bill! For ENRON, BEAR STEARNS and a thousand other bailed out, blue-blood, legalized rip off machine whose shame public money paid to brick over once the curtain was pulled back, we'd all like to say, Thanks for the Bill! I never wanted to own a home anyway. It's with great pride that I send my money to D.C. to be disbursed for what is essentially welfare for Republicans. I feel downright patriotic knowing that the country can go to hell, as long as everybody feels nice voting against drugs and abortions and such.

5) Comment by Preppy6917 - 17/11/2012

Agagent: Do you also agree with Sowell in his comparison of President Obama and Adolf Hitler for establishing the BP relief fund?

6) Comment by NearBarbarian - 17/11/2012

Don't worry, Mr. Ross and your fellow travelers. We'll be responsible adults and own it. You get to own what's been left to us by Mr. Bush II and Mr. Jindal, whether or not you want claim it.

7) Comment by nimby? - 17/11/2012

Chucky , not all ....

8) Comment by Chucky - 17/11/2012

Some may own it, but all will pay for it.

9) Comment by agagent - 17/11/2012

I agree with economist Thomas Sowell: the ones most at fault in the recession (the Democrats) benefited from it (politically). The media was able to make Bush the only culprit while Obama and the Democrats escaped their share of the blame. So now they are free to create our next financial crisis . . . Student loans, fiscal cliff, $16 trillion in debt, unemployment, Middle East war, Benghazi cover up, green jobs cronyism and corruption, pay off to the unions???

10) Comment by agagent - 17/11/2012

“The huge losses of sub-prime lenders, some of whom have gone bankrupt, demonstrate again the consequences of letting politicians try to micromanage the economy. Yet with all the fingerpointing in the media and in government, seldom is a finger pointed at the politicians at local, state, and national levels who have played a key role in setting up the conditions that led to financial disasters for individual home buyers and for those who lent to them. While financial markets are painfully adjusting and both lenders and borrowers are becoming less likely to take on so much risky “creative” financing in the future, politicians show no sign of changing. Why should they, when they have largely escaped blame for the disasters that their policies fostered?”--Thomas Sowell The media allowed Obama and the Democrats to escape blame for their policies in causing the recession and in slowing the recovery.

11) Comment by spqr - 17/11/2012

@DMJ...do not tell Obama there is poo on the glaases. That is an additional tax.

12) Comment by nimby? - 16/11/2012

only time will tell , maybe sooner than some think .

13) Comment by DMJ - 16/11/2012

Notice how Mr. Ross didn't give us Obama supporters any credit for the good that's been done over the past 4 years. Of course, in his mind, very little good has happened and the good that has occurred is in spite of Obama and not because of him. How sad it must be to see the world through poo-colored glasses.

14) Comment by nimby? - 16/11/2012

shad-o , our president said " shared sacrifices , shared responsibility" , but I'm still not seeing it . it's like going to lunch with a group , if I had a salad and you had a steak I want separate checks , not going to just "pitch in" . creative math is a wonderful thing ...

15) Comment by InPVille - 16/11/2012

About: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/11/business-leaders-letter-congress-tax-rich- fiscal-cliff -[**]- Actually it was exactly what I thought it would be. But that is fine. It would be naive to think all business people come down of the same side of the political aisle. The future will show when and/or whether a stable economy and sound fiscal policy is in the cards for us.

16) Comment by chem - 16/11/2012

Here is an interesting article on taxes and business. Not what you might think: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/11/business-leaders-letter-congress-tax-rich- fiscal-cliff

17) Comment by shad-o - 16/11/2012

What's your answer? More guns, less abortion and birth control, tax cuts and the elimination of "entitlement spending"? News flash for you, Romney lost. Big time. A majority of the country rejected the republican platform and recognized it for what it truly is. A sham. It's what happens when a party becomes unhinged and starts to actually believe and embrace ideals and policies that are far from main stream or popular. I recommend moving to another country if you are so unhappy. Take your hate and small mindedness somewhere else.

18) Comment by Being_Stupid - 16/11/2012

This is a good letter.

19) Comment by spqr - 16/11/2012

@Tea Slayer...you are right. but do not forget welfare. That, alone, is killing us.

20) Comment by DMJ - 16/11/2012

Stupid letter. Another person whining because his guy lost the election. I know this would come as a shock to Mr. Ross, but old people voted for Obama as well. We didn't vote for Obama because he's hipper than Romney. We voted for him because he has better ideas. I'm guessing Michael voted for Bush... So.... the biggest terrorist attack in U.S. History: you own it. 2 unfunded wars: you own it. The biggest financial crash since the Great Depression: you own it. Turning a budget surplus into a trilliion dollar deficit: you own it. Erosion of America's image in the eyes of our allies all over the world: you own it. How do you like it, Ross?

21) Comment by chem - 16/11/2012

Exit polls and and polls after the election all show that the American people understand that the Great Recession was caused by Bush and his fellow Republicans' policies. Further, the GOP leaders in the Senate and House vowed to do everything possible to make Obama a one-term President. And they were quite successful. That group of liars and obstructionists blocked everything pertaining to the budget because they did not want their rich buddies to be taxed more than what they are. So yes, the American people know who is responsible for the mess of the last four years. And the big corporations were part of the make Obama a one-term President crusade. While making record profits, they continue to ship jobs overseas and lay-off workers in this country. A report out the other day showed that quite the opposite of what the Republicans claim, higher tax rates are correlated with higher economic growth. Go figure. The neo-cons are wrong again.

22) Comment by Tea_Slayer - 16/11/2012

spqr: Who owns the debt? "What caused the national debt? 6 culprits: 1. The Bush tax cuts 2. Health care entitlements 3. Medicare prescription drug benefit 4. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan 5. Obama's economic stimulus 6. The Great Recession" -- http://theweek.com/article/index/217524/what-caused-the-national-debt-6-culprits

23) Comment by spqr - 16/11/2012

I think you meant "wine, wine, wine." We'll all need a drink or five after watching our debt climb.

24) Comment by Maelstrom - 16/11/2012

Whine, whine, whine. I doubt you understand how childish this letter appears. Yet, you are complaining about young people.

25) Comment by Hello Baton Rouge - 16/11/2012

Ill agree with you, Bighug. Now lets take a look at the country with Obama is taking over from Obama. Deficit approaching 17 trillion from the 10.8 trillion it was at when he took over. Stock market bottoms out the day after he's elected, many corporations threatening to cut hours and employees thanks to the toll Obamacare will have on their business, record number of US citizens on welfare. Shall I go on or is it no longer fair to blame the guy in office for the previous 4 years?

26) Comment by Wallop - 16/11/2012

Right now, I'm envisioning a screaming baby angrily pounding a spoon on his high chair tray.

27) Comment by dday198 - 16/11/2012

as of this morning there are 1,858 unfilled offshore jobs just on the one website righands.com. get your twick card and go to work Mr. Ross.

28) Comment by postscript56 - 16/11/2012

potkcalb, Bighug, gary - good comments. I wonder if some morning back in the summer of 08 Michael woke up and said, "Well, I own it."

29) Comment by gary - 16/11/2012

Mr. Ross, I bet you signed it, didn't you?

30) Comment by Bighug - 16/11/2012

While I may agree with the writer about a few of his complaints, he comes across like a Tea Party member. Perhaps he should take a look at where the country was when Obama took over from Bush...at war in Iraq, DOW at around 8,500, high(er) unemployment, etc. Of course, we can blame Obama for many of those things, like starting the food-stamp program and all the illegals in the US. Is it just me, or have health care costs been climbing out of sight for decades?

31) Comment by potkcalb - 15/11/2012

The sky is falling, the sky is falling!