09-26-2017, 05:14 PM
(09-26-2017, 12:30 PM)David Horn Wrote:(09-26-2017, 11:40 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: Thank you for posting a graph that proves exactly what I said and in fact highlights the lack of any real recovery after the 2008 recession.
I blame Obama for not pushing this immediately and much harder. After the whining and handwringing was over, the stimulus needed to restore the economy was turned into tax cuts ... as I noted. Tax cuts never create growth, they just sound good in TV ads.
I also notice that you deleted the data point I cited for the big spike in '83: a huge tax increase. At least Reagan understood that bad results need to be corrected.
Republicans wanted Obama to fail so that he would be a one-and-done President after which America would have vote in Republican majorities in both Houses of Congress, almost all State legislatures, and would vote in a Hard Right Republican President, after which America would be the sort of place in which the common man is promised pie-in-the-sky-when-you-die in return for suffering for the Master Classes -- forever.
It took eight years instead of four years. How long will it last? Corrupt, brutal, selfish leadership such as is the current norm in the America rarely yields power willingly.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.