Bush didn't inherit a recession from Clinton, he inherited a HUGE budget surplus, which he quickly depleted by giving it back to his rich friends in big business and the oil industry. He also gave a small bit of back to the common folks so morons like you would believe they benefitted from it too.
Give me a break. The vast majority of taxes coming in were from capital gains taxes from folks selling off dot com stocks at ridiculous highs. How did these stocks get this high? Simple, a new wave of entrepreneurs started internet based companies. They saw that the sitting president of the US could lie to the American public and get nothing more than a slap on the hand. If the president himself could lie in a court of law, then cooking the books of a company isn't _that_ bad. Eventually that house of cards collapsed, and government ended up with much less capital gains taxes.
Please also note that GWB was warned by Clinton that the terrorists were determined to strike here. He was ignored by King George.
Yea. Clinton obviously knew so much, is that why he launched like fifty or so missiles from ships miles away?
Throughout my adult life, I have noticed that every time a Republican takes office after the boom times led by a democrat, the economy tanks. And it usually blamed on the democrat's "unsound financial poicies?" Why is that?
Democrats do not have the same "moral compass" as Republicans. When Democrats are running the show, there is a sense that hedonism and debauchery is OK. This is exactly why folks running these tech companies had no moral problem with lying about their accounting. The most powerful person in the world, at least this nation, lies under oath and half the country doesn't even bat an eye. Of course with magical accounting figures and soaring stock prices, government tax income is obviously going to go up, just a numbers thing. However, when Republicans get in, the people really do view older Republicans as their straight and narrow father with conservative and moral values.
You've got at least 4 years of what I hope will finally be a good leader. I know that makes you sick because he's a dirty liberal. It would seem to me that by the landslide win Obama is enjoying that the people of the USA have woken up and decided conservatism sucks. George taught that lesson well, and hopefully we've seen the last of that ideology.
Suck it up and STFU.
Now we can't verbally attack your messiah? How hypocritical of liberals, which is actually very typical of liberals. Dissidence will not be tolerated under The Obamanation Reich. Why are you here? If you have conservatism, you hating the entire idea of preparedness. Individual preparedness is about being conservative in your life, it is about not living to excess. It is about not wanting to have to rely on government to bail you out. It is also about letting the fools who didn't prepare meet whatever fate awaits them.
Something tells me that if we had a massive economic collapse, a few of the liberals here would turn into rats in a heartbeat. They would be down on their knees at The One's feet, telling them how they know of people who are not sharing the wealth.
Well, this is now _your_ country citybear. Since anyone is free to squat, that is exactly what I plan on doing. I plan on partaking in some of the sharing of your wealth. I plan on changing my % of consumer vs. producer and pushing it towards 100% consumerism as much as I possibly can. I plan on demanding massive taxation on household incomes of $80K or more, because I will never see that much money. Now I have come to the understanding that anyone who makes this kind of money is wealthy and they deserve to pay their fair share. Time to demand income tax hikes of at least 10% or more, so that I can live the good life on my measly salary of $65K/year. Oh, 53% isn't a landslide. Half the people of this country are going to stop being as good as producers as they are. Time for the Blue State folks to start paying their fair share and letting us sit around and next to nothing. We all understand that being highly productive is for fools. Let idiots work their asses off only to have more of their fruits taken from them. I will gladly take their fruits, that is the Obamination way, so there is no moral wrong in that.
We are having the last laugh. I imagine millions of charity dollars and volunteer work hours will now vanish. Our side now agrees with your side, these things are for the government, not private individuals. I just hope that when government now needs to step up, they don't have to constantly raise taxes to provide these new services. By the way, when is the government recycling truck going to stop by to pick up my bags of plastic? No way in hell I am spending the 25 cents in gas it costs me to drop them off at the center. When is the government truck going to stop by to pick up my gently used clothing? No way in hell I am dropping a dime in gas to run these things to Goodwill or the homeless shelter. If the truck doesn't arrive soon, I will just have to toss all this into the trash.
