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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
I never said Obama was horrible or evil but I am getting frustrated over his flip floppy policies. He pushes one issue to spur jobs, then turns around and pushes another issue that can potentially kill jobs. Clinton and Bush were able to stonewall this provision yet Obama seemed somewhat eager to get the ball rolling on it.
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I was purposefully engaging in hyperbole. But Bush didn't stonewall the provision -- he tried to find way to implement it, or at least begin implementing it, so that Mexico wouldn't impose tariffs on US goods. Obama signed legislation effectively reinstating the moratorium on Mexian trucks, resulting in Mexican tariffs. The Department of Agriculture estimates that these tariffs cost US agriculture $2 billion. Like it or not, what the Obama administration is doing now is in response to pressure from the industries/interests hurt by those tariffs.
Here's the thing: When that history is ignored, when something that happens three years into the current administration is described as "eager to get the ball rolling" even when the same administration stopped the ball once, when this is couched as "Obama [trying] to destroy yet another industry," and particularly when this is called "a policy that never went into effect until this year, courtesy of you know who," I read that as "Bad Obama at it again."
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