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"on average, Democratic administrations post better growth numbers, lower unemployment rates, lower federal deficits, higher stock growth*, and more equality. Conservatives make up all sorts of explanations to try and explain away these results, and fair enough, that's their prerogative. But the numbers still stand, and are robust over a pretty astonishing array of metrics."

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Vote for your enlightened economic self-interest - Vote Democratic.

wildwilly1111 3 years ago

Yes, because FDR had very low unemployment rates before the war, and that is after all the same policies we're looking at today. Of course, the economy did splendidly under Jimmy Carter too, didn't it. Just because you can tax more and cause more dependence on government for employment does not mean you have the makings of a successful long term economic plan. Indeed, we're seeing what the welfare state and government control of the market yields today. Thank you Democrats in the Congress.

BarrisJ 3 years ago

BarrisJ :

Stale thinking. No need to go back that far, just look at the past 30 years. The party of small government has produced the largest government spending, then removed controls and failed to run it correctly, then claimed its failure as proof that government is the problem - all the while enriching the wealthiest few at our expense. Time for new thinking. Hey, research even shows that blue is the new-thinking color.

We're leading now - time to follow or get out of the way.

wildwilly1111 3 years ago

Bad regulation is what caused this problem. Deregulation does not produce suicidal industries that need government backing.

If stale thinking is what you call the principles that have turned this nation from but a dream to a reality, then you're right, my thinking is pretty stale. This isn't a party issue, and Bush was no conservative.

Now is not the time to get out of your way. When tyranny is being forced down the throats of free people, it's time that free people must act as roadblocks.

BarrisJ 3 years ago

BarrisJ : "Bad regulation..."

If by "bad regulation" you mean "no regulation", you've got it just about right. Systematic dismantling of regulation, supplemented by totally inept leadership in what was left of the regulators, ground this country to a halt.

And make no mistake, this IS a party issue. The GOP want do exactly what has least effect on GDP and most advantage to the already-wealty - tax cuts. Dems want to do what is best for GDP - govt spending that benefits the low/mid class.

wildwilly1111 3 years ago

By bad regulation I mean things like mark-to-market. By bad regulation, I mean forcing banks to give high risk loans. By bad regulation, I mean government forcing business to do things that they know they should not.

Government spending is not a successful long term means for economic prosperity. Spending money on the middle class is demagoguery and nothing more. Government spending has only yielded meaningful economic growth in only one non-military case: the creation of the highway system.

BarrisJ 3 years ago

BarrisJ: "mark-to-market"

A common-sense rule manipulated by bad people for their own gain. The government didn't force Enron to lie. See aos DEregulation of the energy market.

"forcing banks to give high risk loans"

You mean CRA? Please point to a bank under CRA rules that claims CRA was the cause of their demise?

"government forcing business to do things that they know they should not."

Examples, please.

wildwilly1111 3 years ago

Probably because they inherit these numbers from Republican presidents.

Lovin1Country 2 years ago

Did you not look at the graphs, or did you not understand them? They cover entire administrations - the inheritance factor lasts for one year max.

(If you argue otherwise, you're going to have to blame any economic meltdown repercussions over the entire eight years of the Obama administration on the sins of GWB.)

wildwilly1111 2 years ago