Why do conservatives only whine about the economy when a democrat is in office?

**The Rhode Island harders?** · 06-13-2009, 10:11 AM

conservatives only support the government if it is ran by them, remember they wanted Obama to fail back when he was just the president elect

**question212** · 06-13-2009, 10:14 AM

We had 2 years with the Democrats in Congress before him!

**Hnst1** · 06-13-2009, 10:15 AM

Nope, I and allot of others complained about republican presidents when they were in office too. I still remember the failed Reagan trickle down economic plan. The rich didn`t follow through and hoarded their windfall instead of using it to stimulate the economy. They didn`t upgrade their companies and didn`t create more jobs. Just a very few did, but not enough to make it work.

**Fox News Viewer** · 06-13-2009, 10:31 AM

Because they stick their heads in the sand when their party is causing the mess.

**beachgirl** · 06-13-2009, 10:33 AM

oh stop, everything under the sun is not Bush's fault. And with Obama's stimulus that passed and all that he promised it would do, sorry, but it is all Obama now. It is now Obama's economy.

**Joe in texas** · 06-13-2009, 11:11 AM

Before Obama was elected he promised his policies would create 4 million new jobs. Soon the number dropped to creating 3.5 million new jobs.

Here is how that math works:
You count the number of people working and add 3.5 million to it and that's how many people who are working. OR you count the number of people unemployed before Obama's bailout and after wards there are 3.5 million fewer unemployed.

Now it's been switched aroung. The bailouts have failed to stop the increase in unemployment and unemployment is actuall getting worse. So you twist it around and say "even though 5 million people lost their jobs their would have been 3.5 million more people unemployed but I "saved" their jobs.