In Campaign 2010 Democrats Should Hammer GOP on the Economy

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The economic collapse of America was a long process - the acute phase took place in the last year of the Bush Administration.

The reasons for our economic troubles are;

1. Business and industry is tied down by thousands of Lilliputian strings of government regulation and fees. California is a good example - employers continue to flee the Eco-Socialist state.

2. Corporate greed and rewarding failure in the private sector.

3. Outsourcing and downsizing driven by "profit margins" and a hostile business environment.

4. Unrealistic expectations. The Dot Com and real estate bubbles, and the credit frenzy they promoted was the acute factor that caused the collapse.

5. The progressive notion that we no longer need manufacturing jobs and heavy industry.

6. Millions of illegal aliens who are a costly burden to society.

7. Environmentalist theology hamstringing energy production and raising the cost of energy to homes and businesses - offering only the chimera of "Green Jobs" in return.

8. Selfish and unrealistic demands by unions and their members, and the subsequent legacy costs.

9. Executives who put short term profits above long term economic stability in thier quest for larger bonuses.

10. Schools that belittle labor as an unfulfilling or dead end vocation in our "new economy". "No nation can prosper unless it realizes that there is as much honor in tilling a field as in writing a poem."

Bush didn't start this economic hurricane- He simply didn't recognize its approach (like most everyone else) and happened to be on shore when it hit.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 1:06PM September 02, 2010

The good citizens of this country need to vote out the old "sitting around the pickle barrel" dems in November, followed by the ultimate ousting of Obama in 2012.

That's for sure and for certain!!!

Harry of ME 12:30PM September 02, 2010

Democrats please follow this plan. Try to sell us on the concept that it is better to do something, even if its wrong than to leave it well enough alone. Continue to blame Bush, tell us bail-outs are good policy, and that tax increases help the economy. Tell us the first two years of Obamanomics have helped us; we are better off with higher unemployment and debt, tax cuts only help the rich...and don't pay any attention to that man behind the curtain.

Follow the yellow brick road, follow the yellow brick road...

B Ritchie of PA 12:18PM September 02, 2010

Bush did leave us in a bad recession. However this Administration with Pelosi, and Read have expanded the debt to higher levels than could have been imagined. In 18 months they have added more debt thinking spending would get you out of debt. The only job market that has grown is govt. Without a clear path to gaining job growth in the private sector which is the tax base it will double dip. The govt now recieves less than it puts out and continues to add entitlements health care was a lie and cost overruns will continue to add to the debt.

With 50% of people not paying taxes someone needs to explain why tax increases on anyone is fair. The small buisnesses are mostly run by people in the tax brackets that would raise. Its evident this person is far left has never been in buisness having run a buisnees I can state that you live in a dark space starting out. At times you empty your own bank account to make payroll. How is it just for a man who has done this to be taxed higher.

Imigration costs sore due to taxpayers and insurance companies getting stuck with thier medical bills the system has become unjust.

Bailing out the unions when the GM bankruptsy took place changed bankrupsies into a lose situation for investors giving investors 5 cents on the dolllar And saving the Union retirement plans. It has become a completely unfair system not allowing hard working small buisnesses to grow.

This journalist needs to leave the ivory towers wheir he was raised and went to school get in the real world where a person has to suffer at first to get ahead but when hes thier deserves to be allowed to enjoy the fruits of his labor.

The imigration problem though its stated less are coming in

jerry of NY 11:48AM September 02, 2010

Brad Bannon ... You are Stuck on Stupid.

DVD of PA 11:32AM September 02, 2010

These 2 clowns Paul and Tom represent all the GOP and teaparty have to offer us: misrepresentation and fear-mongering. One has only propaganda-addled incorrect facts to offer about health care reform and the other is trying to pass off the ludicrous and laughable notion that Obama's mild, pragmatic, centrist politics are somehow "socialism" or worse. People (at least the vast majority outside the GOP's 24 percent perpetual minority) are not stupid, are not receptive to the lies and scare tactics, and won't be falling for this stuff in November...

Rich of CT 11:31AM September 02, 2010

When Americans find out about all the garbage and new taxes that's in ObamaCare bill, they truly will freak out. Obama IS raising our taxes, and some of these taxes won't take affect until AFTER Obama gets re-elected.

There's a new tax if you sell your house, for example. Its a Big Chunk of money that people will have to take to the closing table when they sell their house.

Democrats used "healthcare reform" to STICK IT it to the taxpayers, big time!

paul of OH 11:21AM September 02, 2010

(As in Comnunist Leader Chairman Mao Tse Tung in case anybody does'nt get the reference)

TomW of WA 11:07AM September 02, 2010

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