AMERICAN CONSERVATISM IN 2008 AND BEYOND

The verdict just came down on Congressman William Jefferson - D - LA - guilty on multiple counts of bribery. No word on what the sentence will be yet, but it could be severe. Possibly well over 200 years.

A president does not succeed by signing bills or initiating executive orders. He succeeds by solving problems, and not by making existing problems worse or creating new problems.

If you start counting the victims of a specific government only after their current founding documents were written, then the Federal Republic of Germany, the Russian Federation or the Kingdom of Cambodia are responsible for killing far less human beings than the United States of America.

If you're saying that it's immaterial when the current founding documents of these contemporary nations were written because incredible crimes have been committed on the soil of those countries earlier, then excluding the victims of slavery on the North American continent doesn't make any sense.

Obama's policies have not decreased the nation's GSP and they have not increased unemployment - the mess made by the Republicans over the last several years, with their insistence that the markets and corporations can 'self-regulate,' is responsible for that.

Because it is "cracked," the sound that emanates becomes more irritating every time it's played.

Cycloptichorn wrote:

Obama's policies have not decreased the nation's GSP and they have not increased unemployment - the mess made by the Republicans over the last several years, with their insistence that the markets and corporations can 'self-regulate,' is responsible for that.

I claim the mess made by the Democrats in defending and protecting the irresponsible loaning by Fannie and Freddy against Bush's repeated efforts to curtail that loaning is primarily responsible for the recession/depression that began in 2008. The worsening of that recession/depression is a greater mess being made by Obama.

Obama not only emulated Bush's deficit spending he increased it. Obama not only emulated Fannie and Freddy loaning, he increased it. Obama did not emulate Bush's increase in GDP, he decreased it.

What Obama should have done was decrease spending, decrease taxes, and most assuredly decrease Fannie and Freddy loaning. Deficits would not have increased as much as they have. Unemployment would not have increased as much as it has, and GPD would not decreased as much as it has.

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/lf/aat1.txt
Unemployed Table 1942 to 2008
1976 ------------ 7.7
1977 ------------ 7.1 CARTER
1978 ------------ 6.1
1979 ------------ 5.8
1980 ------------ 7.1
1981 ------------ 7.6 REAGAN
1982 ------------ 9.7
1983 ------------ 9.6
1984 ------------ 7.5
1985 ------------ 7.2
1986 ------------ 7.0
1987 ------------ 6.2
1988 ------------ 5.5
1989 ------------ 5.3 BUSH 41
1990 ------------ 5.6
1991 ------------ 6.8
1992 ------------ 7.5
1993 ------------ 6.9 CLINTON
1994 ------------ 6.1
1995 ------------ 5.6
1996 ------------ 5.4
1997 ------------ 4.9
1998 ------------ 4.5
1999 ------------ 4.2
2000 ------------ 4.0
2001 ------------ 4.7 BUSH 43
2002 ------------ 5.8
2003 ------------ 6.0
2004 ------------ 5.5
2005 ------------ 5.1
2006 ------------ 4.6
2007 ------------ 4.6
2008
January -------- 4.9
February ------- 4.8
March ---------- 5.1
April ---------- 5.0
May ------------ 5.5
June ----------- 5.5
July ----------- 5.7
August --------- 6.1
September ------ 6.1
October -------- 6.5
November ------- 6.7
December ------- 7.2
2009
January ------------ 7.6

He passed the stim bill, the budget, and the Lilly Ledbetter pay act. He re-authorized 4 million kids into SCHIP. He changed a bunch of stuff that can be changed by Exec. order.

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