Is Obama's inheritance of the worst economy since the Great Depression a myth?

Your links are right. One says on Jan 2, 2009, that the economy will improve in 2009 because of the impending stimulus. Another says that the recession ended in June 2009 because of the current stimulus. Stimulus works!

The economy started to tank in 2007 when the artificial housing bubble began to deflate. This was caused by:

1.) Deregulating the banks (Clinton)

2.) Sub-Prime Mortgages (Bush-era mortgage and private equity firms)

3.) The practice by these firms of knowingly creating bad products, mortgage derivatives, and then insuring them against loss. (Bush-era)

3.) Lack of oversight on Fannie May/Freddy Mac (Barney Frank)

Going back nearly 20 years, every president shares some responsibility for the mess we're in. I do not feel that Obama has done a very good job, but blaming him alone for the mess we are in is naive.

When Bush left office the economy was losing jobs at a rate of 600,000 per month.

Today it is just about even which is crappy but better than Bush.

or maybe obama did the right things from the start

i cant believe this, republicans are now saying that the economy wasn't that bad after all

what the he-l is their message the economy as bad, the economy wasn't that bad

we want ore jobs, we want less debt

they need to get a strait message

so what now, are you republican in favor of bailouts? because that is essentially what kept us ok

i guess that depends whether your employed now are not.everyones misery is relative to there own conditions.