Is this how the Democratic party is going to save our country? By ruining the economy?
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They will try and say the economy is already sinking like a rock and that is why they won the election, just like Clinton tried to prevent 9/11. The election sweep was because of Bush's refusal to deal with illegal immigration, and of course all the whining about every soldier who was killed being counted nightly on the evening news. I'm not discounting their sacrifice but it only encourages the enemy to kill more, and if they gave the same media attention to the people killed here at home by drunk driving EVERY DAY, would it keep the Kennedy clan sober behind the wheel? Back to your question, no one has ever taxed and spent their way to a better economy, it's just a short term gain. Look at how the myth of FDR's "New Deal" has taken hold, people think those programs pulled the country out of the "Great Depression", but all it did was boost morale a little. The developing world war and demand for raw materials and armanents is what slowly picked up the U.S economy by late 1936, if you go back and examine contemporary economic data and financial journals. But democrats control the history textbooks, and much of what is taught today is irrelevant crap and it's easy to see how the younger generation is disillusioned with a country whose heritage they learn little about, just the "pc" stuff. That is why we are doomed to repeat past mistakes, and after democrats really foul things up, there will be another "1994" and maybe this time the republicans will get "term limits" into law, so they won't get too complacent and voted out enmasse? If we aren't being dictated to by Russia and China by then, odds 50/50 in my book.
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If war was ever a worthwhile venture it would be different. But this is not war, it's a battle ground for control of a region and it's resources.  Unfortunately it's still out of control with no real solution in sight.  The Bush wealth wagon loaded with oil realizes that the loss of control means loss of wealth and the demise of an industry full of greedy corporate fat cats sucking blood from hard working commoners dependent on fuel to eke out a living.  Democrats somehow always seem to botch something and lose their governmental footage leaving the people without a prayer and under the feet of the Corporate based mentality of the Republicans. Hopefully this will change and maybe the Democrats can keep their zippers up. Unfortunately the surplus was squandered by Bush and replaced with a national debt that will trickle down to your great grandchildren.
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Well now hear this from one old man lmao. \nAt one time the Democrats were for the working people, and the working people knew it.\nBut somewhere along the line they drifted off in a direction that leads them to not helping working class anymore but helping with the programs that only few can get.\nJust look at all there programs out there that the Democrats have make in all the past years and please tell me one that a working man or woman can get on.\nYes we need to help the poor but we do not need to have them lead us.\n\nSo I say the silent majority will win again, cause most of us are now Republicans.
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Is GW looking out for anyone who isn't in the upper classes best interest? \n\nHe has done exactly what any Republican would do, make it easier on the rich and harder on the poor. Their theory is that the money will 'trickle down' to us, eventually helping the economy more than if it were controlled by the government. \n\nIt's great in theory, but unfortunately most of it will sit in offshore accounts, earning ungodly amounts of interest. Those at the top have a habit of keeping hold of their money, not trickling it downward our way.
936913
This could be true.  And also if something goes horribly wrong it will now be blamed on the Democrats.
792473
HELL YES!!!  \n\nWhat planet are these people living on who claim that Bush has improved the economy?  The economy began taking a turn for the worse with Bush's first tax cuts for the wealthy.  We've been on a downward spiral ever since.  The economy was booming while Clinton was in office.\n\nThen again, maybe I'm mistaken and the moon really has turned to cheese.
323119
NO! I think he is a greedy man.  He looks like the devil on t.v. Get him out of office,but He needs to finish the mess he started though. Democrat all the way!
832079
First of all ..We were not really whining!!! We just saw our country being drove off a cliff...We could not help but scream as we were driven off a cliff!\n I love the democrats being in charge of both houses...but i have alot of expectations....\n I am glad you are happy with your governor...\n I promose the first thing Democrats do will be helpful...\nThey will start with increasing the minimum wage...Now is that so bad...
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It's even worse than that. The whole Democratic Party seems to be imploding. Pelosi is traipsing down the crooked path of extreme liberalism and the moderates are knocking her head off; they'd pass over a realist like Jane Harmon to hand the Intelligence Chair to an impeached embezzler; some want to make one of the ABSCAM crooks majority leader. Their true colors are showing all right.
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We are in more trouble that I dared hope.  God help us all.  \n\nThe idiots have been elected by the idiots that voted for them and we are all along for the ride.  \n\nMaybe we sane should secede from the country and take our money with us and see how far you socialists get.  None of you work or pay taxes and without our taxes lets see you try to support yourselves without the handouts we used to provide.
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Idealogically, the Democratic Party of today is meant to put the people before profits. However, the name of this party has changed. For example, Republicans will brag that Lincoln was Republican, but what was Republican then is now the Democratic party. And I must disagree that Democrats go against anthing that Republicans try to do, it is just that the Democrats care more about the people of the United States than oil and money unlike our Republican leaders.
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yes. I'm so sick of Bush and the Republicans trying to "scare" us all the time with there bullshit. So what if our taxes may go up...life isn't about money its about...theres more to life then just money...and democrats will give us hope and hope is better then having a lying corrupt government.
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Democrats are the back bone of this country,with out them millions on welfare would starve! Isn't Milwaukee the brewing capitol of America?Have you ever heard of outsourcing ? Last one, when was the last time you bought something, and it said..MADE IN THE U.S.A.?
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Our annual trade deficit has ballooned to $726 billion and our federal budget deficit in fiscal 2006 is $423 billion -- an alarming 3.2 percent of gross domestic product, or national economic output. Workers' wages have been stagnant for 20 years and now they are actually declining. Employer-provided health care is shrinking and 46 million people -- most of them from working families -- have no health care coverage.\n\nOur nation is headed in the wrong direction, and now is the time to take steps to turn it around.\n\nInstead of giving more tax breaks to the wealthy and allowing multinational corporations to ship our best jobs offshore, we have to repeal the Bush tax cuts and insist that Congress repeal federal tax laws that reward corporations that send jobs offshore!$6.592 trillion: Federal debt on June 26, 2003, the day Josh Bolten became director of the Office of Management and Budget.\n\n$8.364 trillion: Federal debt today.\n\nIn the Bush administration, this is grounds for a promotion. On January 26, 2006, Bush said in one of his carefully crafted press conferences, "Our economy is growing, it is strong. This economy has created millions of new jobs, yet it's an economy that is changing rapidly." The jobs being created are a result of unconstitutional looting of the people's treasury by Congress for votes. These are government jobs which lure the people into more and more dependency upon mother government. With our major job sectors destroyed because of NAFTA and GATT, Americans are desperate for any sort of decent paying jobs. It will get worse now that Congress and Bush sold us out again with CAFTA. Sadly, Americans are taking jobs with the Nazi, draconian and worthless Department of Homeland Security. Once those pay checks start rolling in, they will not bite the hand that feeds them. This is how slaves are made. The late, great American, Ezra Taft Benson, wrote in his work, An Enemy Hath Done This, that America will be destroyed from within by Americans. His prediction so many decades ago is materializing right before our eyes.
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As long as this is a capitalist country. controlled mainly by big business, we will be seen as opportunist's.But the Democrats do a much better job of disguising this.and wont more for the people , So Yes things will improve.with the Republicans not having so much power.I pray for my country. God Bless The United States Of America. May we be a beacon of light for freedom and justice in the world.and please. no more killing of innocents.
741932
It still looks like we're going to take the House, and at the very least get a closer deficit in the Senate.\n\nIts about to get a lot harder for you Republicans to **** up the country like you have been doing.
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You're correct for the most part. In addtion, he has taken the right stance on some issues such as not being for gay marriage, ect. \n\nNow the liberals are really dumb, and now these democrats are setting our country on the way to a bad economy with that stupid, moronic minimum wage increase, when the minimum wage should be abolished, not increased. \n\nThis is just the beginning of a reign of tyranny, and I predict that we're going to be destroyed, sadly.\n\nThe terrorists are now inspired, and if we get attacked, the Democrats won't have a clue on how to respond. It's looking really bad.