Who believes the current INFLATION RATE was the agenda of the conservative party?
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It is product of the conservative party's policy's, they have implimented supply side economics which is always wrong which leads to inflation and then depression, or recession. If you have a pile of boxes on the floor and you want to move them if you go over and pick up the top box all that you move is the top box. If you pick up the bottom box all the boxes move including the top. Repuglicans always choose to move just the top box.
738029
Conservatism is what it always used to be: don't go trying to change it.\nNo, I don't think Republicans are conservative, I think they are gullible.
118607
No.  There is no party that is truly conservative anymore.  We can't even protect our borders. We can't even win in Iraq.  Why?  Politics.  I am from the political standpoint of Winston Churchill.  He crushed his enemies with brute force.  He was considered on the fringe of the right in his time but if he was Prime Minister from the start rather than Neville Chamberlain, Hitler would have been stopped rather than appeased.  I urge anyone who considers themselves to be a republican to read Churchill's biography.  Find out how a true conservative thought.  He did nothing short of save this world.
182150
Coz the Chancellor in his "green" budget didn't want to antagonise the voting public by so obviously adding to the cost of living.  There might otherwise be a demo against petrol prices and he wouldn't want to be tarred for that - not with his aspiration to be the next PM
1004497
conservatives are made of the ignorant and the greedy. they have tricked poor people into paying for their wars and tax breaks.
1116855
I wouldn't go that far. I know several Republicans who are quite firm in their beliefs (most of them can't stand Bush, but that's another issue) I'd think of it more as theory vs. reality - it's easy to believe something until you see the effect it has on people. Like the old joke goes, a conservative is a liberla who's been mugged.
1149729
seems to be what the majority of conservatives think...
974673
the current rate need not be extended for your hypothesis to take effect\nthe damage is done, it is irreperable\ni predict that the country will financially crumble by 2012\nthere will probably be another party in power and they will take the fall for the ineptness of the republican party
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Steven Harper of the Conservative party.
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The Tories are a bunch of hypocrites, always blaming someone else for their problems.\n\nThe Canadians are well educated people. They should be able to see through the smokescreen of the Tories lies.
890835
Its about time someone started thinking along these lines. See my question in the government section also." Has capitalism failed the British public?" It has failed the Americans but I'm not so sure most of them are smart enough to know this. Trillions and Trillions of debt to live like Brittany Spears and the others. But when the book is looked at, you have sold your soul to a faceless fat cat who has hidden accounts off shore where he does not even pay taxes. They buy the politicians to oil the system. Bravo! I'm with you on this one.
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where to start? Margaret thatcher is a conservative. Conservatives are more often than not right wing which means they believe in authority. You may have noticed this in your upbringing,  You have learned by your fathers mistakes. You have not been allowed to make your own mistakes and learn from them.Your father believes that healthcare should be paid for this means if you can't pay for it then you do not get any healthcare. Your father believes that the right to buy was a great idea and probably bought your house during thatchers' reign. Your father probably also believes that the less fortunate deserve no better than they get (nothing)Margaret Thatcher was a HellBitchWhoreSlut.She made hundreds of thousands of peoples lives HELL and thats only the people who she made umemployed, then you've got their families. The thousands who where evicted through the Right to Buy scheme-Encouraged to spend spend spend. Although unfortunatly all or a large portion on credit-eg a mortgage, with the interest going sky high leaving hundreds of thousands unable to afford the repayments. Thatcher LOVES privatisation. She sold everything, The gas and electric companies that used to be publicly owned. The train companies- ever complained about th state of them? Yup she sold that. And many other things to. She was a nightmare for freedom. Margaret Thatcher was a cockmunchingbagofshite.The Lady is a Tramp.\n\nAlso I meant to say that the only way she is the second coming is if she is the second comeing of the Anti-Christ.
416429
Don't expect anything to happen, because it has already happened, with the forced inflation on America. That is what happens when a Republican Administration is in charge. It's always been this way, and why the people forget about it, I will never know.
514797
It's funny.  Actually, when I was in undergrad it was exactly the opposite.  I learned pure Keynesian theory in undergrad, and the few mentioned of anything classical was laughed off as foolishness.  (I'm a little older than you!)\n\nThen came the shift...suddenly everything Keynesian was cast aside and everything neo-classical (whatever that means) was adopted.  So, we went from one extreme to the other.\n\nFrankly, I think Keynes has a lot of holes in it too, as does mainstream neo-classical.  Even Austrian theory is imperfect in some areas, and Marxian theory leaves out whole sections of analysis.\n\nI doubt we're ever going to reach the point where one set of theories can be tossed aside completely, but I do believe we are approaching another major shift.  Still, I don't think it is quite going in the direction you imagine.\n\nKeynesianism as a whole lost a lot of steam in the days of Nixon-Ford.  However, I annoy my Keynesian friends by pointing out how George W. Bush is actually reverting to at least part of the Keynesian approach - with future dire consequences, I predict.  \n\nKeynesian and neo-Classical both utterly ignore (or at least thoroughly misunderstand) the role of the entrepreneur in markets.  Also, Keynesian monetary policy (or at least what was sold as Keynesian policy) was largely a disaster when applied. It boosted the economy for a while, but led to epidemic currency devaluations worldwide, including in the U.S.  I suspect most of us over 35 will object if too much of Keynes is revived.\n\nBut yes, the specific points you make are well taken.  The Laffer Curve is a joke if one doesn't consider where we are on the curve. And, the institutional barriers to free markets are the key to understanding how to improve the lot of the poor.\n\nYou will always find the top graduate schools questioning things around the edges.  However, once you get beyond the top 6 or 7 schools, the rest of the top 50 are still promoting the LAST great theory, because they don't want to rock the boat.  They're on a race to climb up the rankings, and they think they can only do that by being 'mainstream'.  The desire to hug the mainstream is so pronounced where I am, that it's a little scary. Neo-classical still rules at most of the top 50 Ph.D. programs, sad to say.
200158
Isn't cool and Conservative in the same sentence somehow wrong. Especially these days when they are down to 37%
367542
While I don't particularly care for conservative ideology, this is one of the mindless criticisms that simply does not hold water. It makes no sense if you look at things realistically.\n\nThis administration, especially when the US first invaded Iraq, was top-heavy with the same people who under President Reagan had convinced us that Saddam Hussein was our best friend in the Middle East. Second, just look at what has happened with Lybia, who was already in the process of settling the monetary claims from the families of the Lockerbee mass murder. Simply by SAYING that Lybia would no longer pursue nuclear weapons, President Khadaffi has been able to have all economic sanctions lifted and US investment is now recommended.\n\nIf the spin doctors of this administration can pretend that Khadaffi (who has murdered Americans while not at war) is a good guy, they could certainly have painted Hussein (who has not murdered Americans while not at war) as the new George Washington and Daniel Boone all rolled into one. The American people would have gladly accepted the idea that Hussein had mended his ways, and that we could stop our sanctions which were hurting everyone except the Baath Party. President Bush's oil friends would have been much happier simply buying discounted oil from Hussein (who would be desperate for cash and still mad at OPEC for stabbing him in the back in 1991) and selling it to the US consumer at full price.\n\nCriticize conservatives all you want, supply side economics is turning the US into a third world country, but try to be realistic about it!
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your economics is out of date mate\nsign up and take the consequences