Anyone Listening to Senator McCain over the past few weeks has heard him promise to rid Wall Street of greed, while deregulating the economy so that America can get back to work.
But Greed Is One of the Key Reasons that regulation is needed. And regulation is what the Republican Party has spent the last eight years getting rid of.
Senator McCain, Like Most People, wants to provide necessary government services, while lowering the taxes necessary to pay for them.
The Way Conservatives Explain It, when tax rates are lowered, tax revenues go up. If that’s the case, doesn't it make better sense to get rid of tax rates entirely, and let tax revenues rise through the roof?
Another Way of Saying This Is “You Get What You Pay For.” Republicans don't want to pay for anything. These years of the twenty-first century in America so far are the result.
“Voodoo Economics,” is what George H.W. Bush called it. And current circumstances make it look like he had something.
The Past Seven Years Provided an Unprecedented Opportunity for Conservative Americans and the Republican Party to put their free-market ideas to the test. Controlling all three branches of the Federal Government for six of those years is about as good as it gets. And yet almost 90% of Americans say that the economy now is about as bad as it gets.
The Free-Market Ideology Does Not Work. Not back in the 1920s. Not in the twenty-first century. It makes no sense. It is illogical. It is “voodoo economics.”
Yeah, But What Really Went Wrong? Maybe the following quote from David Brooks’s column, “Revolt of the Nihilists,” in The New York Times, 09/30/2008 (italics by Channeling Barack Obama) may shed some more light on a key Conservative ideological flaw:
“What We Need in this Situation Is Authority. Not heavy-handed government regulation, but the steady and powerful hand of some public institutions that can guard against the corrupting influences of sloppy money and then prevent destructive contagions when the credit dries up.”
What Public Instititutions Is David Brooks Talking About? The Carnegie Library? The American Red Cross? The Daughter of the American Revolution?
The Key to the Republican Disaster is this cluelessness about government. Republicans don’t know what government is. They don’t know how it works. They finally seem tired of running it.
Here’s Hoping that on November 4, 2008, They Finally Give America Some Government Back.
My Name Is Not Barack Obama, and Barack Obama does not even know that this exists.
But Greed Is One of the Key Reasons that regulation is needed. And regulation is what the Republican Party has spent the last eight years getting rid of.
Senator McCain, Like Most People, wants to provide necessary government services, while lowering the taxes necessary to pay for them.
The Way Conservatives Explain It, when tax rates are lowered, tax revenues go up. If that’s the case, doesn't it make better sense to get rid of tax rates entirely, and let tax revenues rise through the roof?
Another Way of Saying This Is “You Get What You Pay For.” Republicans don't want to pay for anything. These years of the twenty-first century in America so far are the result.
“Voodoo Economics,” is what George H.W. Bush called it. And current circumstances make it look like he had something.
The Past Seven Years Provided an Unprecedented Opportunity for Conservative Americans and the Republican Party to put their free-market ideas to the test. Controlling all three branches of the Federal Government for six of those years is about as good as it gets. And yet almost 90% of Americans say that the economy now is about as bad as it gets.
The Free-Market Ideology Does Not Work. Not back in the 1920s. Not in the twenty-first century. It makes no sense. It is illogical. It is “voodoo economics.”
Yeah, But What Really Went Wrong? Maybe the following quote from David Brooks’s column, “Revolt of the Nihilists,” in The New York Times, 09/30/2008 (italics by Channeling Barack Obama) may shed some more light on a key Conservative ideological flaw:
“What We Need in this Situation Is Authority. Not heavy-handed government regulation, but the steady and powerful hand of some public institutions that can guard against the corrupting influences of sloppy money and then prevent destructive contagions when the credit dries up.”
What Public Instititutions Is David Brooks Talking About? The Carnegie Library? The American Red Cross? The Daughter of the American Revolution?
The Key to the Republican Disaster is this cluelessness about government. Republicans don’t know what government is. They don’t know how it works. They finally seem tired of running it.
Here’s Hoping that on November 4, 2008, They Finally Give America Some Government Back.
My Name Is Not Barack Obama, and Barack Obama does not even know that this exists.
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