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The only thing Reaganomics did to the middle class was provide as a vehicle for upward mobility. Why would someone want to be middle class when they could have a President who implements policy that provides them the opportunity to become upper class?


Liberal logic.

His own VP declared it Voodoo economics, so stupid was it. Nothing trickled down, and the middle class has been weakened by his "Voodoo economics"
 
His own VP declared it Voodoo economics, so stupid was it. Nothing trickled down, and the middle class has been weakened by his "Voodoo economics"

Exactly, that is why the GDP doubled and 17 million jobs were created. Apparently you have a different definition of trickle down that the majority in this country. Guess we need a massive central govt. to provide equal outcome vs. opportunity. Yep, that is liberalism, insanity
 
What?

Millions specifically lost their health insurance. It is irrelevant if those that lost theirs later got different plans and different doctors they did not want.

Right. I get it. Just because most got better plans and millions of the uninsured got plans too, all that matters is the talking point.
 
Right. I get it. Just because they got better plans and millions of the uninsured got plans too, all that matters is the talking point.

You believe what you are told and based upon history you have zero credibility. How do you know people got better plans? You continue to buy the leftwing rhetoric and ignore the leftwing results. Why is that?
 
Just because most got better plans and millions of the uninsured got plans too, all that matters is the talking point.

Better to you or them?
 
Exactly, that is why the GDP doubled and 17 million jobs were created. Apparently you have a different definition of trickle down that the majority in this country. Guess we need a massive central govt. to provide equal outcome vs. opportunity. Yep, that is liberalism, insanity

BS.

Reaganomics’ Failure

But this debt crisis did not originate with George W. Bush. It can be traced back primarily to President Reagan, who arrived in the White House in 1981 with fanciful notions about restoring America’s economic vitality through massive tax cuts for the wealthy, a strategy called “supply-side” by its admirers and “trickle-down” by its critics.

Reagan’s tax cuts brought a rapid ballooning of the federal debt, which was $934 billion in January 1981 when Reagan took office. When he departed in January 1989, the debt had jumped to $2.7 trillion, a three-fold increase. And the consequences of Reagan’s reckless tax-cutting continued to build under his successor, George H.W. Bush, who left office in January 1993 with a national debt of $4.2 trillion, more than a four-fold increase since the arrival of Republican-dominated governance in 1981.

https://consortiumnews.com/2013/10/17/the-abject-failure-of-reaganomics/
 
Right. I get it. Just because most got better plans and millions of the uninsured got plans too, all that matters is the talking point.

Today is the July 4, a Celebration of our Independence where we declared our independence from British rule. People died to give us the right of choice and that includes the right to make the wrong one. Liberals want everyone to believe as they do and thus tries to legislate personal responsibility issues. When are you going to learn that doesn't work?
 
Today is the July 4, a Celebration of our Independence where we declared our independence from British rule. People died to give us the right of choice and that includes the right to make the wrong one. Liberals want everyone to believe as they do and thus tries to legislate personal responsibility issues. When are you going to learn that doesn't work?

They died for the right to go bankrupt if you get sick? I don't think so and your saying that is disrespectful.
 
Oh really? Explain the 2006 midterm then, liar.


Oooo, touchy. Exactly what kind of "educating" do you do (don't bother)? Here's what happened in 2006: the country was sick of the Bush/Cheney Catastrophe of lies and crimes (and the worst was yet to come). Then the additional dem blowout of 2008 happened and teabaggers got their racism ginned up to get white supremacists out to the polls in droves in 2010. Redistricting in red states after the 2010 census then made it pretty much impossible for anyone but a republican to get elected in those states controlled by republican governors and legislatures. Educate that.
 
BS.

Reaganomics’ Failure

But this debt crisis did not originate with George W. Bush. It can be traced back primarily to President Reagan, who arrived in the White House in 1981 with fanciful notions about restoring America’s economic vitality through massive tax cuts for the wealthy, a strategy called “supply-side” by its admirers and “trickle-down” by its critics.

Reagan’s tax cuts brought a rapid ballooning of the federal debt, which was $934 billion in January 1981 when Reagan took office. When he departed in January 1989, the debt had jumped to $2.7 trillion, a three-fold increase. And the consequences of Reagan’s reckless tax-cutting continued to build under his successor, George H.W. Bush, who left office in January 1993 with a national debt of $4.2 trillion, more than a four-fold increase since the arrival of Republican-dominated governance in 1981.

https://consortiumnews.com/2013/10/17/the-abject-failure-of-reaganomics/

Tell me exactly do you think it is the role of the Federal Govt. to create a profit? Do you understand that creating a 1.7 trillion dollar debt that doubled the U.S. economy and created 17 million jobs wasn't a manageable debt? You really don't understand that 1.7 trillion dollars to create a 2.8 trillion dollar increase in economic growth is better than creating a 7.6 trillion dollar debt and growing the economy 2.5 trillion dollars. In other worlds please explain the difference between a 2.6 trillion dollar debt(Debt Reagan left the Country with) on a 5.6 trillion dollar economy vs a 18.2 trillion dollar debt(Debt today) on a 17.5 trillion dollar economy?

You can whine and complain all you want about Reaganomics but the actual results make you look foolish. Why else would liberal bloggers and the liberal elite spend so much time and energy demonizing it?
 
They died for the right to go bankrupt if you get sick? I don't think so and your saying that is disrespectful.

Yep, with personal choice comes responsibility something apparently you don't understand
 
You said that the only reason Republicans were in control of Congress is because of low voter turnout due to it being a midterm election.

Yes and this is true.

Well....weve had midterm elections that resulted in Democrats controlling Congress before as well....less than 10 years ago in fact.
Yes this is true as well.

So you are lying to people to fit your narrative. Whats new?

I also posted the following:

Turnout for Federal Elections:

National Voter Turnout in Federal Elections: 1960

You will notice that turnout for midterm elections is consistently lower than for presidential election years. Typically the incumbent president's party does poorly in midterms, particularly midterms in their second term. This is because the opposition party's voters are more motivated to come out and vote than the incumbent party's voters. This is also why midterm election results are not usually very predictive of the following presidential election year election when the electorate will be much larger and both sides are typically motivated to get out and vote.

All of which is true. Calling people liars for no reason, as you did, is douchebag thing to do. Do you do this in normal life? If so you probably should see a therapist. Otherwise you are going to have a lot of difficulty maintaining any sort of relationship with friends and spouses.
 
Then you don't understand payroll taxes, that funds their retirement account, SS, but big govt. liberals don't understand that.

That comment doesn't even begin to address the statement that it responded to. Just a standard, rightwing deflection.
 
In other worlds please explain the difference between a 2.6 trillion dollar debt(Debt Reagan left the Country with) on a 5.6 trillion dollar economy vs a 18.2 trillion dollar debt(Debt today) on a 17.5 trillion dollar economy?

The difference, you ask? It's called the Great Bush Recession and his tax cuts to the rich that we'll be paying for decades if not remedied. I love how selective the conservative view of history is. You know how much of that $18T debt belongs to dems since 1976? About 1/3. The rest is the result of the Reagan/Bush combined deficits and the compounding effects of interest costs they've generated. Conservative economics and fiscal policy have strangled this country over the past 30 years.
 
What this shows is that Gruber was right and you prove it with every post

I wondered when you would bring up Gruber; do you have a picture of Gruber on your mantle?
 
Given Carter's failed attempt to rescue the Iranian hostages it took balls to try to pull it off. If he failed ...

Right! and it cost the lives of 241 Marines...oh wait a minute, that was under Reagan, my bad!
 
Today is the July 4, a Celebration of our Independence where we declared our independence from British rule. People died to give us the right of choice and that includes the right to make the wrong one. Liberals want everyone to believe as they do and thus tries to legislate personal responsibility issues. When are you going to learn that doesn't work?

And conservatives don't prefer for liberals to think as themselves??
 
That would be you.:roll:

This is fun, isn't it? Don't get Conservative too upset, if I'm not mistaken he is nurse or some such thing. Wouldn't want to cause his patients any more harm than he already puts them in. Can you imagine walking into a doctor's office and running into someone like him? Wow, where's the door!
 
BS.

Reaganomics’ Failure

But this debt crisis did not originate with George W. Bush. It can be traced back primarily to President Reagan, who arrived in the White House in 1981 with fanciful notions about restoring America’s economic vitality through massive tax cuts for the wealthy, a strategy called “supply-side” by its admirers and “trickle-down” by its critics.

Reagan’s tax cuts brought a rapid ballooning of the federal debt, which was $934 billion in January 1981 when Reagan took office. When he departed in January 1989, the debt had jumped to $2.7 trillion, a three-fold increase. And the consequences of Reagan’s reckless tax-cutting continued to build under his successor, George H.W. Bush, who left office in January 1993 with a national debt of $4.2 trillion, more than a four-fold increase since the arrival of Republican-dominated governance in 1981.

https://consortiumnews.com/2013/10/17/the-abject-failure-of-reaganomics/
The difference, you ask? It's called the Great Bush Recession and his tax cuts to the rich that we'll be paying for decades if not remedied. I love how selective the conservative view of history is. You know how much of that $18T debt belongs to dems since 1976? About 1/3. The rest is the result of the Reagan/Bush combined deficits and the compounding effects of interest costs they've generated. Conservative economics and fiscal policy have strangled this country over the past 30 years.
Exactly right!

There's one unequivocal argument concerning supply side/trickle down that can't be disputed: It didn't work! :2wave:

If it did, after thirty years of it shouldn't we be awash in jobs and a stronger middle-class, with less poverty?
 
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