Category Archives: Daily Q&A

The defense spending has decreased.

Barack Obama. Obamacare. George W. Bush. Pick 2.

The economy shrank due to poor leadership on the government's part - too much regulation and too much welfare, to name a couple of causes. I don't understand why the leadership is not learning from mistakes and continuing to do the same thing over and over and fail .. . insanity, I think?!!!

I think that the closer we got to the full implementation of Obamacare businesses tightened their belts. It is the unknown that makes us stop moving forward.

We need to recognize that there was broad based growth in the private sector and, as reported in the Washington Post, " for the entire year, GDP grew at a ... faster pace than in 2011."  While cuts in federal spending are being targeted as the reason for the   economy's drop, we have been…

The economy shrank probably due to government cutbacks, especially in the military.

The economy shrank because people didn't spend at the expected levels.  When folks are unemployed or underemployed, they think hard about how much to put out for the holidays.  When the 4th quarter is that quarter that puts some businesses in the black for the first time all year, we are in trouble.  We are…

There is so much uncertainly that businesses are not producing and hiring at rates they used to.  Obama can blame Bush all he wants, but this is HIS economy and there is no Budget or plan to face our economy today.  Their only answer is to let the Feds keep on printing money.

The shrinking economy is largely due to two major federal regulations.  The government intrusions into the private sector with the misguided Dodd-Frank banking bill, and the "Affordable Care Act" are shrinking business, jobs, and opportunity.