http://billmoyers.com/segment/­bruce-bartlett-on-where-the-ri­ght-went-wrong/

Great Channel. Love the Video!  Ding Dong....

Yeah but they can't hold a candle to Bush and Reagan. It would be political suicide if democrats present a bill penalizing companies like Nike. But in general I think free trade is the best economic option on paper--in practice the U.S. needs to have a post-colonial consciousness going into trading wars.

Hello, you know that capitalist "leftists" like the american Democratic party really help keep the global capitalist worker extorting system going ? Greetings

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/107­xx/doc10741/hr3962Revised.pdf

Budget info for Obamacare

http://www.usgovernmentrevenue­.com/revenue_history

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/35x­x/doc3511/05-09-02-SupplementT­estimony.pdf

Budget outlook with and without the Bush tax cuts.

1. The 2001/2003 tax cuts;6
2. The overseas operations in Iraq and
Afghanistan;
3. Medicare Part D;7
4. The Troubled Asset Relief Program
(TARP);
5. The 2009 stimulus;8 and
6. The December 2010 tax legislation.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/­budget/Historicals/ (Look at table 1.1 for surpluses and deficits).

Drivers of dept according to the CBO: http://www.pewtrusts.org/uploa­dedFiles/wwwpewtrustsorg/Fact_­Sheets/Economic_Policy/drivers­_federal_debt_since_2001.pdf

Poverty rates: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www­/poverty/data/incpovhlth/2009/­pov09fig04.pdf (The more poverty goes up, the more people qualifying for food stamps and welfare).

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/108­xx/doc10871/appendixf.shtml (Read chart F9 and F10; the category labeled other programs shows food stamps and welfare high during Reagan and both Bushes and lowest during Clinton years. Read the entire page!




Poverty rates highest in republican states: http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/p­overtyrates/

http://money.usnews.com/money/­careers/articles/2011/07/08/pu­blic-sector-job-cuts-threaten-­recovery