The economy hasn't been doing really well since the 70's. From Carter to Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and now Obama, the economy has become worse during each Presidency. Whether Democrat or Republican, the one consisitent issue is that things have simply become worse.
Carter increast the deficit by .3 trillion, the smallest amount in the last 40 years Reagan raised the deficit 1.8 trillion Bush Sr. raised our deficit 1.4 trillion Clinton raised it another 1.4 trillion Bush Jr. increased it almost 4.5 trillion Obama increased it almost 4.5 trillion I don't see how anyone can really pin this on a specific family or political party. I don't believe if Bob Dole were elected in 1996, Al Gore were elected in 2000 and John McCain in 2008 that anything would be drastically different (other than McCain and Gore never would've gone into Iraq, which would've saved about a couple trillion, not to mention quite a few lives). American business, government, and citizens will have to change as a whole to turn this around. Also, I don't think the Republican party is running a bunch of 'jokes' with the intention to lose. What we're seeing is literally the best they've got, with the exception of perhaps one or two others who are popular. The fact that you would accuse them of that implies that they are actually thinking that deeply and that far ahead, which I personally doubt. Personally, if I were a politician, I wouldn't want to be in office right now at all. seekliberation --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > It's the result of the previous 8 years of the Bush Crime Family and a > program of the destruction of the US that began with Ronny Raygun. > That's why the Republicons ran jokes for 2008 and will do so again in > 2012. They don't want the collapse on their watch. How's that workin' > for ya, Bubba? >
