>>3191066sure, not a problem
1. obama was largely constrained in the recovery by his belief that america was like a household instead of a government. that is, he was really afraid of deficits, when he should've have been. he believed that lawmakers had to "tighten their belts" and he repeatedly framed china as "america's credit card" because it held lots of us treasuries. not only was a deficit not a problem (insofar as inflation caused by it was a problem), and that america could issue as many treasuries as it wanted (it just so happened that china decided to use its dollars to buy our debt), but his "recovery" still left infrastructure in shambles, and it took many years for private savings to rebound (and they still haven't fully done so!). obama should have spent much more money into the economy, as inflation would not be such a problem (because so many people and so much capital were unemployed).
2. america still suffers from a broken healthcare system, even with obama's reforms. half of americans do not feel financially safe if a health emergency were to happen, and a fourth skip medications because they still can't afford them. having deductibles for emergencies is also ridiculous because many lower class americans still can't afford it (medical costs send millions into poverty and is the number 1 reason why people withdraw from retirement accounts btw). obama promised to fix healthcare, but it largely wasn't such a success
3. is self explanatory, didn't do enough with the climate, didn't try to fix the trade deficit (which was only bad solely because he didn't try to restore private savings enough geg), and failed to reduce the partisan divide
i guess you can blame a lot of this on the republican party o algo but whatever>>3191066