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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 01:57 AM
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Is there any dearly held "Conservative" repuke economic policy that is not a disaster?
not just a failure, but an utter disaster?


supply-side theories--DISASTER!

tax cuts for the wealthy and for corporations--DISASTER!

deregulation (air lines, financial markets, telcos...)--DISASTER!

privatization--DISASTER!

the political manipulation of financial markets by the repuke fed--DISASTER!

using permanent phony war to artificially boost the economy--DISASTER!

"free"-trade policies--DISASTER!

outsourcing and encouragement of corporate corruption--DISASTER!


How do the talking heads get away with continuing to tout these faith-based policies as though they weren't -- DISASTERS!
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 02:01 AM
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1. No. There isn't. For us.
The CEOs and their ilk who support them, however (the haves and have mores), are doing fine on golden parachutes, extortionate salaries and bonuses, and trust funds.
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nightrider767 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 02:40 AM
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2. I can't think of any....
What a bunch of lame brains...

Oh my favorite. The family values thing. How stupid can Americans be. How can the government assist a family with values? If the government really wanted to help family values they're lay an economic policy that would produce good paying jobs in this country, so that one spouce could support the family on one job and the other could tend to the children and not have a nation of latch-key kids.
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NastyRiffraff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 02:51 AM
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3. No. Unless you're in the upper 10%, or a corporation.
Then it's all good.
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 07:40 AM
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4. The fact is..
... some of those thing, in the right measure, were and are good.

The problem is that any idea can be taken well beyond its usefulness and that is exactly what Republicans have done.

Tax cuts good? More tax cuts better! Deregulation good? More deregulation better!

Now the pendulum can swing too far the other way :)
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flashl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 07:57 AM
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5. It all was Orwellian speak. n/t
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enid602 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 09:06 AM
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6. another one
Gun boat diplomacy (instead of prudent fical management) to try to prop up the dollar.
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screembloodymurder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 09:13 AM
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7. My Republican friend told me it's been great for speculators
and insiders. Insiders being those "in the know" because of their political connections. I wanted to knock his arrogant block off. I no longer have any Republican friends. Fuck every last one of them.
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 11:37 AM
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8. Carter deregulated the air lines
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 01:10 PM
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9. whoever was president
deregulation is a key point of repuke dogma
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 04:42 PM
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10. Carter was a democrat
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 08:01 PM
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11. really?
:eyes:

just because a Democrat was President when air line deregulation started does not alter the fact that deregulation is a top-tier tenet of repuke ideology.
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