Why are conservatives blaming Obama for a problem that is largely caused?

Conservatives blame Obama for every perceived negative thing on the planet. It's because they offer no proposals to make things better.

Ain't it ironic? The republicans consistently blame Clinton, the democrats or Obama. I mean, some blame Clinton for the dangerous economic climate given that Bush never did anything unsuitable during his presidency however if it is Clinton's fault then why did not he do something to fix it in eight years? Then some blame the democrats on the grounds that they had control the last 2 years and says the congress is responsible. Well they don't even have an understanding of that once they say the mess got here from Clinton they wholly forget that the republicans had manipulate. And the rest blame Obama although the recession started beneath Bush and Obama was just a senator. How can a easy senator damage the United States's and the arena's economy? How can a simple senator have more power than the President that was making the choices? The more serious is that they say that democrats and Obama only blame others and that the republicans are all righteous and can do no fallacious. That's hypocrisy at it's satisfactory.

That's a valid point. The old way of filling these jobs, through apprenticeship programs for the technical ones, no longer works. A good apprenticeship program can take 2 to 4 years to complete. This is not something that is adaptable to a college or junior college program. I have a BS in Natural sciences/Math and am a journeyman meter-man. They were equally difficult. Apprenticeship though is very much an in the field hands on training. My formal schooling could have been done in three months. The rest was experience, learning to look for the traps and the problems with different types of equipment that has been used down through the years, as well as learning the ways people can convince themselves a bad idea is a good one and how to deal with that. What I'm saying is apprenticeship programs are a long term investment by the business, yet businesses no longer make long term strategic commitments, because so many of them have gone bad or shown themselves to be unprofitable.

As far as oilfield work goes, that is nasty brutally hard and dangerous work. Few people stay in it for more than 5 years. Its gotten a little bit better in the last 20 years, I can no longer tell how long a person has been in the oil patch by counting the number of fingers he is missing. Still oilfield work, as well as power-plant and refinery work are all fields I warned my children to stay out of. So filling these jobs will always be a problem.

And then there are lineman. Our company always runs an apprenticeship program. Yet, we routinely washout or have withdraw roughly 80 people for every one that completes the training. Most of the withdrawals come in the first week, when the first thing they must do is climb a pole and then perform various tasks, such as tossing a medicine ball back and forth while up the pole. I never even put in for that apprenticeship, as I learned as a child that when the blizzards come the linemen have to get up and go to work all night long. A lot of people are not capable of doing that. Even with the new gear available, most linemen wind up broken down and crippled by the time they reach retirement.

In this I agree with you, one thing we really need is some good old fashioned trust busting and prosecutions for some of the business practices that were the fad in the last couple of decades that actually violated the law, especially the prudent man rule in banking. That's actually the problem, our entire culture took a little stroll down the speculative path and now we've got to backtrack and relearn the old rules of investing and getting ahead.

2008 housing collapse was the worst economic collapse since 1929 - in my opinion it's long term effects could be worse. Any president that was holding the reins was going to look bad. There's no way in 4 yrs it could have been fixed and jobs were going to be lost for the simple fact people lost their homes, the construction industry jobs were disintegrated, after people lose everything they don't go out and support the economy by buying consumer goods.

It really will take decades before there's a real recovery. Many don't understand that the government was facing a complete shut down and debt had to be increased just to keep it going. If any Republican was in power they would have done the same. People boast how good Bush's jobs numbers were are refuting the fact he was holding the reins when the housing market was at a peak and everything looked rosy during much of his office. If he had a 3rd term do you think he could keep the jobless rate so low? No unless he put people in forced labor camps which is probably not past him.

The economic numbers Republicans don't want to see:

http://zfacts.com/p/318.html

There is one minor fact that has been consistently ignored whenever "the blame Bush crowd" speaks. Every thing that liberals say Bush did to hurt this country, was supported by at least 2 Democrat United States Senators. One was from Delaware. His name is Joe Biden. The other was the Junior Senator from Illinois. His name was Barack Obama.

These two helped create the problem, yet have spent the last 4 years blaming Bush, saying they did not know how bad the problem was when Obama became President. Liberals have been lying to The American People for years. These two are no different. Liberal have no concept of Intellectual Honesty.

Obama made campaign promises he CHOSE to do nothing about. He had 2 years with a Democrat run Congress and CHOSE to push thru a Healthcare bill the majority of the country didn't want instead of working on regulation & tax reforms which would have helped Americans get jobs.

Obama made his bed and now he needs to be fired.

**ADD: Really? There isn't one thing that I said that isn't factual and you know it. Problem is - your head is so far up Dear Leader's butt you can't see reality. Funny how taxes and jobs were not a problem for Obama until election year. Even Dear Leader's buddy Biden has said "The Middle Class has suffered over the past 4 years"!

Obama plays a large part in influencing the environment that the private sector operates in.

So it's really a chicken and egg situation.

Or better yet why don't people realize that with the a mass availability of technology. Companies are automated more and more which make jobs less necessary. Mark my words. There will be less jobs. No matter who takes office

WTF

"Do they want him to resort to socialism to force the private sector to fix its own problems?"

does not compute

The private sector has always been in survival mode. The government has always gotten in the way. Socialism takes accountability away from the private sector, and puts it squarely on the government, which has historically proven itself untrustworthy throughout human history.

I blame him for being the most business unfriendly president in history