You must have a short memory. It was under the Bush administration ie. Republican that the economy went of the rail and we came within a whisker of a total monetary collapse of the whole economy. What did all those companies like General motors and all the big financial institution do with all that deregulation and freedom. with their greed they run the system into the ground. It took years of printing insane amount of money to keep the economy afloat and finally it start to shows some sign of momentum. I profess not to know if this was the right thing to do or not. But I certainly did not see what else they, the Obama administration, could have done. But maybe you knew of of a better solution then .