You have to wonder if tea partiers like Tom Hackett, a Georgia retailer who's now out of business because of sagging consumer demand, is familiar with any economic theories beyond those of the Cleveland administration.
"I’m going to go hide for two years,” he said, until “he”--President Obama--is on his way out. “It’s sad. People are hurting. There’s no reason for it to be happening, other than what he’s doing.”
Hackett, 58, called Obama’s entire agenda anti-business: “It’s like, ‘What can we do to kill the economy?'"
Tom, it's like, several things: insist on oodles of tax cuts in place of direct spending in a stimulus bill; deny the economy follow-up stimulus in the form of even a modest jobs bill; cut federal assistance to state and local governments, which further costs communities vital employment; gut discretionary spending across the board; exacerbate shaky consumer confidence by riveting the nation with unnecessary doubts; shut down the government for a few weeks; and threaten financial self-destruction.
But I shouldn't have to tell you, Tom. At its most fundamental level, you're the reason behind all of it.