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Originally Posted by golfhobo
Well, you wouldn't be the FIRST to try to hide your affiliation after what Dubya did to this country.... but, it is possible that you have no party affiliation whatsoever. But, I doubt it.
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And, "
EXPERIENCE IS A DEAR SCHOOL, BUT A FOOL WILL LEARN IN NO OTHER". (Give yourself a few more years, and you'll be a whole lot smarter.) Bush had the very same problem Obama is having. It's like trying to keep water flowing in the Mississippi by dumping truckloads of water into it. But, the small creeks and streams get nothing. His problem is that he's using the same caliber of "ECONOMIC ADVISORS" as everybody else before him. And, because of that, he's not going to do any better than either of the Bush's.
We're getting another version of the "TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMY" and it's already been proven to be a "FAIRY TALE". The water from the Mississippi does not "trickle" back to the small creeks and streams and neither does the cash in the economy. What brought the economy to this point is...
$102 a year for car insurance in 1985
$27,000 wages in 1985
$2004 a year for car insurance in 2009
$530,550 income in 2009
Increase in car insurance premiums over the last 25 years is
1965%
To keep up with the percentage increase over the last 25 years in car insurance... Are you making more than half a million dollars a year??? I don't think so. Now, look at the percentage of increase in property tax, health insurance, rent, utilities, fuel, and food. Has your income kept up with any one of them? It's the same with most Americans. Expenses have gone up, but the income has not kept up with them.
In the 1950s,
The man was the "breadwinner", the woman was a housewife.
In the 1970s, Both had to work to make ends meet.
In 2000s, it takes the man and TWO WIVES working to make ends meet.
By the year 2015, he'll have to have THREE WIVES working to make ends meet.
Across the country, people do not have the money to spend like they once did. For decades now, the income has been narrowed down to essentials, rather than the extras in life. Over the last ten years, it's been kept, almost exclusively, to essentials and even at that, it's reached the breaking point. It doesn't stretch anymore. And, that is not the fault of either the Bushes, and that's why the current administration will have no more luck than the previous. Until they ALL realize that the cash MUST flow from the bottom to the top, nothing is going to turn around. And, to do that, it's going to take far more than a Presidential Administration. It's going to take a dose of reality at the corporate executive levels across the country. And, by the time that happens, someone else is going to own us. Just too bad it's going to take the balance of this four year for you to gain that experience and learn from it.
