Can’t see where stopping throwing money by the ton at Iraq and Afghanistan would hurt anything.

1). FEDERAL SPENDING: since 1960 Republicans increased Federal Spending by 71% more than have Democrats

2). FEDERAL DEBT: since 1960 Republicans have increased the National debt by 100% more per year than have Democrats.

3). GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT: since 1921, adjusted for inflation,  Democrats outproduce Republicans by 43% .  Starting in 1940 the Democratic advantage is 23% better.

4). REAL PER CAPITA INCOME: since 1960 Democrats have outperformed Republicans by 30%.  (This is perhaps the most important economic statistic of all)

5). INFLATION: since 1960,  Democrats outperform Republicans 3.13% to 3.89%

6). UNEMPLOYMENT: since 1960 it decreases in an average Democratic year by 0.3% to 5.33%, and increases in average Republican year by 1.1% to 6.38%.

7). JOB CREATION: from 1945 to 2003, Democrats produced 174,200 jobs per month, Republicans have only produced 60,600 per month. Every time a Democrat succeeds a Republican, job creation soars.  Every time a Republican succeeds a Democrat job creation plummets.  NO EXCEPTIONS!
 
8). DOW JONES AVERAGE: since 1921 the DOW has increased by 52% more under Democratic administrations

9). THE BOND MARKET: since 1940 the value of 10 year Treasury bonds rose 1.2% under Democrats and fell 0.5% under Republicans

SOURCES-Bureau of Labor Statistics,  Economic Policy Institute, Christian Science Monitor, AThe Los Angles Times -Michael Kingsley-

by mike kohr   3/7/2006

The New World order Neo-cons almost pulled this epic power shift off (we are not out of the woods yet) As with any long term project (50 years?) the timing has a way to screw things up. Our 2 party system has failed and it has merged into one giant monster full of low IQ greed. True Americans need to reclaim our birthright and say NO to corporations and get back to the basics. The stimulus will only work if We INVEST in America’s future. Infrastructure only services the corruption that got us into this mess to begin with. TRUE INVESTMENT involves SMALL business, Quality Education and Healthcare. We need a solid base to support the Rampant Inflation that our future surely will bring. Credit was pushed on an unsuspecting public by the World Banking Industry and partnered with the “Seven Deadly Sins” of the Human condition, Easy Pickings!! A 20% prime lending rate will make these times look like a cake walk. Obama can stand up to the power and he WILL get reelected or he can cave in and become a foot note.

Maybe Mitch McConnell has actually seen The Script, and so is simply staying “in-character.”  Joe Conason, on the other hand, may or may not be genuinely as naive as he here appears to be.

Maybe the “project” to destroy the american middle class, having been run pretty much full-throttle over the last 40 years, and red-lining like a worn-out hot-rod the last eight, will seem to have some brakes put on it by the NEW New Dealers.  Those “looks” will be deceiving, however.

Take what we heard this morning from Barack Obama, for instance.  If that was a true reflection of his “vision” for america, it will be the better part of wisdom for attentive people to prepare for the worst.  Nothing the soon-to-be U.S. president said gave any indication at all that he understands or has a way to address the very deep disfunction in the allamerican ethos and character driving all of the essentially superficial (and only symptomatic anyhow) “problems” he talked about.  What he proposes, beneath the sonorous rhetoric and technocrat jargon, amounts to nothing more therapeutic than “putting lipstick on a pig”....and an already terminally-ill pig, at-that. 

It is only fair to acknowledge what this old Indian saw and heard today as a small note of unusual uncertainity in Barack Obama’s accustomed almost-preternaturally composed demeanor and delivery.  It was as if he sensed instinctively he was suggesting only more-and-more-of-the-same-old CONspicuous CONsumerism, to be charged-off of course against “future generations” whom he was condemning cavalierly to even more degrading degrees of wage/debt slavery than they are already subject-to.  No wonder he uncharacterstically stumbled and hesitated a little, as he offered such a dead-end solution to what he likely knows by-now to be an exponentially metasticizing predicament.

Again this old Savage urges Barack Obama to actually DO the Living Ceremony us surviving Turtle Island Natives’ve done for at least ten thousand generations….to come-honestly-by a genuine Vision of what is needed to benefit ALL of our Living Arrangement.  Further attempts to CONtrive and compel things intended to be advantageous only to the already more comfort-and-CONvenience-addled among the domesticated peoples, are absolutely certain to come much sooner than later to unimagineable hardship and grief.

Childish self-indulgence is NOT a viable Way for Humanity, though it has long been and still is the very essence of theamericanway….proud “presidential” assertions of american “exceptionalism” to-the-contrary notwithstanding.  If ongoing embarassments of clownish ineptitude in Congress don’t clue theamericanpeople in to what they’d better get used to in-the-way-of institutional idiocy, maybe what P.E. Obama warned-of, “eventual” arrival at a point where “recovery” is effectively “out-of-reach,” has already been passed.

Meantime, our Mother Earth needs from us Two-leggeds a grown-up response to the worsening “manmade” condition of Her Living Arrangement.  The self-centered (and self-cancelling) carryings-on of six-and-three-quarters billion organically irresponsible perpetually adolescent “individuals” of the sub-species homo domesticus simply aren’t helping.

Better wise-up and shape-up, tame Sisters and Brothers, before all your roads and bridges go nowhere….FAST!

HokaHey!

P.S.  Someone awhile back, commenting on Barack Obama’s invitation to Pastor Rick Warren to give an “invocation” at the up-coming inauguration, kindly suggested this old Man as an alterNATIVE.  While pressing Personal responsibilities prevent that, it sure couldn’t hurt to have some free wild Indian there to offer a Pipe.

HokaHey!

McConnell knows that the Dem’s are weak and will openly allow the hard right to propagandize the public successfully.  McConnell is joyful at the prospect.  Nothing has changed!

Even FDR faced unenlightened opposition in his battle against depression. In fact, their opposition probably kept us from recovery until WWII’s massive spending (he was pressured into balancing the budget in 1937 and 1938).

Why not use investment spending for infrastructure, education, and health care coverage (a single-payer system) to invigorate our people and our economy?

But we need about $1 trillion per year. The Republican hypocrites in Congress supported a massively wasteful Medicare prescription drug program that forbade bargaining with drug companies. They gave billionaires massive tax breaks and fought a fruitless war.

Now they and some ignorant Democrats want to stop recovery for all Americans?

Isn’t that criminal?

Great article, Joe.

It’s no secret that the neocons are hypocrites. Hell, it’s what they do best. They use Christianity as a shield for everything from launching an illegal war to raping the environment to fleecing the public. The list goes on.

The most effective use of their reknowned hypocracy is as obstructionists. Whenever the Dems gain power and attempt to fix the noecon F-ups, they suddenly metaporphosize into idological puritans charged with safeguarding the moral fabric and fiscal wellbeing of our country from the evil socialistic liberals!

Obama may not need them, but he is wise not to intentionally push their buttons. You don’t go poking a rabid dog… even a one-eyed Chihauhau.

I agree the last person you want to trust is somebody who looks like he was corn beefed by Bubba while sucking on a lemon!  And if you don’t believe me Google his photo.

all previous (elected) presidents combined. The propaganda of the GOP will be in full swing while the Democrats once again put America back together from the disasters of GOP GREED!!!