Lets make fun of Obama while he is still relevant.

[Bob Butler 54]

(12-05-2016, 11:29 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: Ah, Bob, back to ignoring the information you yourself provided that challenges your previous world view, I see.  Good job on denying reality.

I'm not one to play the blame game at the level you are going after.  I'd need to delve quite a bit more into economic history and academic theory.  I'm vaguely hoping Mikebert and others with a greater interest in economics will step back in to cover that.

I am more interested in the values and political aspect.  When the Republicans have the White House, regardless of the academic merits of what the Republicans may or may not be trying to do, political realities trump the academic theories.  We get disasters.  When the Democrats have the White House, the Republicans can't mess them up as badly, not that they don't try.  We get anemic inadequate recoveries.  The academic theories on what might be done in a non-partisan environment seem pretty irrelevant.  The question is what policies can survive in the real world.