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XPost: alt.politics.obama, alt.politics.miserable-failure

"Barack Obama is a confident guy. Yesterday in Greece, he told the
world that he did a heck of a job as president, saying this: The
policies that we put forward were the right ones ... the country is indisputably better off.' Mr. Obama really believes what he says,
and he has backup: The latest Gallup poll has the president's job
approval rating at 57%, a very strong number. Some of his support is
surely based on personal likability, but he does deserve credit for
stabilizing the economy after the mortgage-backed securities fraud.
Also, for helping Americans with severe health problems and for
conducting himself with class in the White House. But there are some
very important things President Obama did not do in eight years,
things I hope President-elect Trump will consider. First, targeted
tax cuts for businesses while at the same time phasing out
deductions that drain tax receipts to the government. Mr. Trump is
an expert at this and he understands that in order to rebuild the
military and roads and bridges you need cash. Also, persuading
corporations to bring the profits they are hoarding overseas back to
invest in America would be a huge economic stimulator that would
expand the economy and create well-paying jobs. To be polite,
President Obama does not understand macro-economics and generally
sees private business as an opponent of social justice. On the
individual tax front, surely a fair percentage can be worked out
with the goal being to allow consumers to have more money in their
pockets, another major economic stimulator. Barack Obama's
philosophy is to give folks stuff rather than setting up a robust
private marketplace so they could earn their stuff. Overseas, the
Obama doctrine of containment through diplomacy has not worked and
the pain has been immense. Millions of refugees have flooded into
Europe, some of them terrorists. The suffering of poor people in
Syria and Iraq is cruel, all because Mr. Obama does not act
aggressively against the jihad. Talking Points has put forth a
solution - NATO should formally declare war on Islamic terrorists,
set up safe zones for refugees in the Middle East, and punish ISIS
any way it can. Barack Obama would never even think of doing that
because it is way too confrontational. Mr. Trump should learn from
Mr. Obama's mistakes. Most Americans want a robust economy and a
vibrant national defense, including border protection. If he can
make those two things happen, he will succeed in the toughest job in
the world."

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