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Posted by John Galt on July 15, 2008, 1:19 pm
> John Galt wrote:
>>
>>> comics@webtv.net wrote:
>>>
>>>> yes, it seems the democrat leadership want to seize control by causing
>>>> an economic depression....
>>>>
>>>> "Arrest the oil commodity speculators for conspiracy to commit "price
>>>> fixing" !
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Historically the economy and the market has performed better under the
>>> Democrats by a wide margin
>>> better stewardship of the economy by Republicans or the destruction of
>>> it under Democrats is a myth.
>>>
>>
>> The business cycle doesn't start and stop when a new president comes in.
>> Thus, there are sites on both partisan sides that "prove" that the
>> economy is better under "their guy."
>>
>> My preference is to totally ignore all of it. Liars use statistics, and
>> I've never seen more creative lying with statistics than by partisans
>> driven to prove their point, over the last few years.
>>
>> JG
>>
>>
>>
>
> What I've stated has been the case since 1927, and is a matter of record .
It's partisan stats. For every website that "proves" what you want it to,
there's another one on the other side that "proves" the opposite, and
they're all run by people with sigs that refer to their ability to tell the
truth. :-)
If you can't see that American is being manipulated into one box or there
other by politicos who have as their first priority not the American people
but their own political survival, there's not much hope for you.
What's better is to align yourself with a political and economic philosophy,
and let the political players move as they will. We, for example, had a
great economy in the 90's, I'm sure you'd agree; what you won't agree with,
I suspect, is another fact which can be easily shown by looking through the
policies supported and passed -- that on balance., Clinton was the most
economically conservative president since Eisenhower, for no other reason
that issue conservatives don't support imbalanced budgets (you may remember,
for example, that the Balanced Budget Amendment was a GOP-driven initiative
back when the GOP was conservative, and opposed by liberals; and now that
the Dems are more economically conservative than the GOP, its the Dems that
tend to support pay-go, which is the same effect of the BBA without the
legislative hassle.
JG
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