"That's the problem. You can't resist making this into a partisan issue."
Except for the fact I a not, you have a point.
"Both Republicans and Democrats were instrumental in making this happen."
Yeah. I remember all the Democrats trumpeting tax cuts as the way to boost the economy...
Help me out here. Their names escape me at the moment.
Borrow and spend is why we got here. Now who was behind those policies again?
"Keynesian economics fell out of favor in the 1970's when stagflation occurred."
Depends on how you define "fell out of favor". I will grant you that Chicago School was ascendent until they managed to crash the economy by following its policies. And it wasn't just here, it happened every place it was made policy.
If any school deserves to be discredited, it is Chicago School. It has failed every time it was tried. And by failed I don't mean it just fell short of some goals. It has led to disaster. Every time.
"Even the world banks now want to move away from the dollar as the world's reserve currency."
They have been discussing that for decades. But they keep coming back to the dollar. Why is that? It is still the safest. And that will be the case unless the Republicans don't stop holding the economy hostage to fix their political woes.
"to give credibility to their tax-n-spend nonsense"
Why is borrow and spend so much better? Despite lip service, that is still Republican policy. Did you notice how the spending will actually be a few billion higher than it would have been before they made the "cuts"?
You accuse me of playing partisan games? When it was the Republicans who blocked all attempts to fix the economy starting in 2009 and then campaigned on jobs and protecting Medicare from the mean old Democrats? And what happened? Not even proposals to do something about jobs. But an all out push on a social agenda with attempts to shut down Planned Parenthood, NPR and other social goals. Budget cuts and increasing funding for the military that exceed the cuts. Then the attempt to convert Medicare to CouponCare. When that blew up in their face, now they want to trade deep cuts in Medicare before they will raise the debt limit. Thus holding the economy hostage so the Democrats can't use CouponCare as an issue in the 2012 election.
"And all they can do in response is blame Bush."
They have done more than that. Still, if people don't understand how we got to this God-awful place, we run the risk of doing it all over again. Flushing everything down the memory hole just means the Republicans will just do it all over again. First they need to change tactics. Instead of just trying to repackage the same old crap under a different name.
Why should your guys get a pass? They aren't remorseful for screwing the country and almost the world. They haven't changed their approach. They, in fact, show no sign that they learned from the experience. They have blustered, lied, obfuscated, tried to shift the blame and, when given another bite of the apple, did exactly the same things that led to the disaster. All the while refusing to compromise on anything. They either get their way or they shut down the process.
The Republicans aren't serious about anything but lining up huge piles of money so they can get elected and making sure the Democrats can't do the same. So it is all about power. They just use veterans and the middle class as props to make that happen, they don't actually do anything for either group except cut their benefits so they can shift it to the Americans who really count. Granted, the Democrats aren't a lot better, but at least every once in a while they do actually do things for others who aren't already wealthy. The Republicans never do. |
