GOP falling into hole it dug for Obama

Before Obama, this country was in the worst financial collapse since the Great Depression, the worst record of job creation since Herbert Hoover, a complete collapse of the stock market and a budget surplus turned into a trillion dollar deficit.

The economy was in free-fall losing over 700,000 jobs per month.

Instead of supporting the president, on the day of his inauguration the GOP met and decided to destroy him by obstructing, denying and preventing him from succeeding in anything he tried to accomplish with hundreds of filibusters - more than any other president in history - and not a single meeting to work with him to discuss plans to move the country forward.

So on his own, Obama passed the largest economic stimulus bill in American history, stopped a depression, saved the auto industry, and much more. Now unemployment is down from over 10 percent to under 5.9 percent and 11 million new jobs have been added during his tenure. We have had economic and private sector job growth, the budget deficit has been reduced by two-thirds and the stock market has doubled.

He thwarted the attempt to partially privatize Social Security and helped to strengthen Medicare. He created the Affordable Care Act giving millions access to health care which the GOP has been viciously attacking for six years saying when they are in power they will repeal and replace it even though they have nothing to replace it with.

For eight years the GOP has been digging a hole for Obama and now they have fallen into it - the Bible is right, Psalms 7:15-16

Cecile Powell

Huntley