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Republicans Are Bad for the Economy
"...the only basic issue...is whether our government will fall in a conservative rut and die there, or whether we will move ahead in the liberal spirit of daring..." [John F. Kennedy, New York, 1960] "Do Republicans Cause Economic Depression?" "The Republicans controlled the Presidency and Congress 80% and 100% of the decade prior to 1929. For comparison, in the decade prior to the current crisis Republican control has been 60% and 100%. Indeed, there has been a long period of Republican dominance in the legislative and executive branches, with control over Congress from 1995-2007 and the Presidency since 2001, not unlike the long period of Republican dominance leading up to the 1929 Depression. We are under very similar party governance conditions as the 1929 Great Depression." nebulium.wordpress.com "They deregulated finance, now they want to deregulate health care!" Jason Rosenbaum,. The Huffington Post, September 18, 2008 http://www.huffingtonpost.com "Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Lehman Brothers, and now AIG have fallen, forcing taxpayers to pick up the tab. They fell because they were allowed to buy and sell mortgages that should have never been created in the first place. They fell because banks that created these mortgages were allowed to lend vast amounts of money to people who couldn #39;t pay them back. Most importantly, they fell because the government implicitly acted as a safety net for risk, a role made explicit with the trillion dollar bailouts that have occurred over ...From:NRUN65Views:1 0ratingsTime:11:16More inEducation

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