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Not just now, but ever. Let's take a look at a few indicators, if you please.
First, the national debt. Fairly constant from the beginning measurement period (1940) for the next 36 years. It goes up a touch under Carter, and then really begins to take off under Reagan. You see the slope begin to stabilize by the end of the Clinton administration (where it rounds off as if it wanted to go flat again), and then ZOOMS TO THE MOON under Bush.
If you do some broad estimates at that chart, it appears that Democrats were in office for less than $2.5 Trillion of our overall debt (approaching $9.4 Trillion at this point, and projected to eclipse $10 trillion by the end of 2009).
Y'know what? I'm busy today. Take a look at the charts put together on this excellent webpage, and you'll see just how amazingly inept supply-side economic policy is based on the combined 20 years of Reagan, Bush, and Bush - and that you should be skeptical of anyone suggesting that cutting corporate taxes helps the economy. Because it isn't.
So let's not think it overly simplistic ways that make us think "Republicans want to cut taxes, so they're fiscally responsible, and Democrats want to raise them, so they're terrible, horrible people who want to take our money." Because I see, and have seen, no evidence whatsoever that Republican fiscal policy is a sound thing to ever rely on. The national debt is an indictment of conservative fiscal policy, the widening gap between the wealthy and middle class/poor in America is an indictment of conservative fiscal policy, the price of commodities is an indictment of conservative fiscal policy, the "jobless recovery" is the first Bush recession is an indictment of conservative fiscal policy, and the recession we're currently in is an indictment of conservative fiscal policy.
So let's ask a real question here: Why would you EVER trust a Republican to handle the economy?
First, the national debt. Fairly constant from the beginning measurement period (1940) for the next 36 years. It goes up a touch under Carter, and then really begins to take off under Reagan. You see the slope begin to stabilize by the end of the Clinton administration (where it rounds off as if it wanted to go flat again), and then ZOOMS TO THE MOON under Bush.
If you do some broad estimates at that chart, it appears that Democrats were in office for less than $2.5 Trillion of our overall debt (approaching $9.4 Trillion at this point, and projected to eclipse $10 trillion by the end of 2009).
Y'know what? I'm busy today. Take a look at the charts put together on this excellent webpage, and you'll see just how amazingly inept supply-side economic policy is based on the combined 20 years of Reagan, Bush, and Bush - and that you should be skeptical of anyone suggesting that cutting corporate taxes helps the economy. Because it isn't.
So let's not think it overly simplistic ways that make us think "Republicans want to cut taxes, so they're fiscally responsible, and Democrats want to raise them, so they're terrible, horrible people who want to take our money." Because I see, and have seen, no evidence whatsoever that Republican fiscal policy is a sound thing to ever rely on. The national debt is an indictment of conservative fiscal policy, the widening gap between the wealthy and middle class/poor in America is an indictment of conservative fiscal policy, the price of commodities is an indictment of conservative fiscal policy, the "jobless recovery" is the first Bush recession is an indictment of conservative fiscal policy, and the recession we're currently in is an indictment of conservative fiscal policy.
So let's ask a real question here: Why would you EVER trust a Republican to handle the economy?