Wednesday, January 24, 2024
The day after the Dow hit an all time high one of the morning talk shows was interviewing their business reporter. He was asked if it was true that Republicans always have a worse economy than Democrats, and he said yes. The figures are clear. Democrats outperform Republicans everytime. Now, why would that be? Even though Republicans are thought to be great business and economic geniuses, the truth is they are not.
In this century alone they have created and courted two huge economic disasters and then left the incoming Democrats holding the bag. But even with that the Democratic administrations have managed to turn the situation around. Remember Bill Clinton left W with a $265B surplus? It was enough to make Social Security solvent into the 2030s. What did C student Bush do? Gave the money away. He said it would stimulate the economy. It didn’t. When W left office there was a real estate bubble that was bursting and GM was on the verge of bankruptcy. Obama cleaned it up, handed off a great economy to Trump, which took him a year or two to ruin. Remember the cutting off. of grain shipments to China? Thus ruining the markets to our farmers. Or the tariffs on Chinese goods? That cost us the American public more. Trump doesn’t seem to understand that. I mean he keeps boasting about doing it in his speeches. I don’t think it’s a case of saying on thing in public and another in private. He believes he socked it to China, when in reality, he socked it to the citizens of this country. Then he ignored Covid. Did nothing and people were dying at a rate 250 times worse than South Korea. He left Biden with not only that mess, but he made sure to screw up Afganistan so there was nothing Joe could do. Trump is proud of that.
Then there’s the overturning of Roe and all the Republican states trying to get rid of a women’s right to be in charge of her health care. What 65% of the population wants is a woman to have the right to have an abortion. Year before last Texas had over 50,000 abortions. This past year it was 35. Wonder what will happen in 18-20 years when those kids come of age? We know from when Roe was enacted that eighteen years later the crime rate dropped. Rudy Guiliani and that Chief of Police in LA (the one having an affair that stole money from public funds to pay for his mistress’ apartment) took credit for whatever they did, but the bigger point seems to be that there weren’t as many unwanted, neglected, and unable to be cared for kids.
So if you want a bad economy, and freedom impinged and rights taken away and a crime wave in 18 years then by all means elect a Republican.
Nikki Haley did okay in New Hampshire. She’s staying in the race. Her main selling point is she’s younger than Trump or Biden. Don’t look too close. She has few ideas, and the ones she has aren’t good. She’s been described as being mushy and bad if and when you can pin her down. She’s real good at the bob and weave. She didn’t know that the Civil War was about slavery, and that is not her fault. She went to a school that purposely lied to their students. So is that the kind of person you want in charge? A person that was miseducated and has mushy bad ideas?
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