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Originally Posted by smc
...No honest answer can be given by anyone without first acknowledging that presidents, on their own, cannot direct the economy to the degree necessary to halt a recession. The U.S. system is not set up for presidents to rule by fiat. So, how Obama has done has to be answered in terms of what he has proposed to do, not what he has necessarily been able to bring to pass.
This would be the same for ANY president, of any party, unless the United States fundamentally changed how law and policy is enacted...
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And yet after having watched several elections in the US (as an interested bystander) each person running for the US presidency has said that he is the one that will fix the economy.