give him a grade on economic and foreign policy. on the economic side i would have to grid him as a failure. i d say he failed the exam, largely because of the results. unemployment still way through the roof. he took what i think was a recession that could have been over a year earlier and extended it an extra year with a disastrous stimulus program that just added to the debt and the deficit, with no discernible affects on the economy. don t tell me he saved jobs. i never got counted by the jobs i saved. i counted by the jobs i lost or created. i think his obamacare did tremendous damage to the economy. both immediately and speculatively into the future. finally, his tremendous delays on his tax approach, which left our economy in tremendous uncertainty, as late as december, probably hurt our recovery.
is said and done. so what i think we have demonstrated is we realize cuts need to be made. we re making those cuts, but we don t want to do it and expose the vulnerable in our society to more pain. we need to do this using the skal scapel rather than the meet ax approach the republicans seem to be doing, eliminating head start, getting rid of child nutrition programs. the kinds of programs that we need even veterans benefits are being cut. this kind of stuff should not be exposing the vulnerable in our society to more pain. but with that said and you point out there are tough decisions the president has said as well, tough decisions that will be made and perhaps some organizations or programs near and dear to you and to the administration will have to take a cut here. the bottom line is, you have the american people watching this
give him a grade on economic and foreign policy. on the economic side i would have to grid him as a failure. i d say he failed the exam, largely because of the results. unemployment still way through the roof. he took what i think was a recession that could have been over a year earlier and extended it an extra year with a disastrous stimulus program that just added to the debt and the deficit, with no discernible affects on the economy. don t tell me he saved jobs. i never got counted by the jobs i saved. i counted by the jobs i lost or created. i think his obamacare did tremendous damage to the economy. both immediately and speculatively into the future. finally, his tremendous delays on his tax approach, which left our economy in tremendous uncertainty, as late as december, probably hurt our recovery. i give him a failing mark on