Plan for Success?

[mattp]

So let’s see: The solution to large-scale abuses of the financial system, a breakdown of the private sector, extreme economic inequality and the failure of companies and individuals to invest and create jobs is -- well, to give even more money and power to very wealthy people, to disable government and to trust those who got us into the mess to get us out of it.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/10/13/the_rise_of_the_reverse_houdinis_111666.html

[j_b]

Yep. It's perfectly logical that science deniers would believe that 40 years of deregulation, privatizations, and drowning of the state in the proverbial bathtub sanctioned by economic depression should be followed by more tax cuts, deregulation, privatizations, etc.

 

 

[mattp]

I do find it amazing.

 

But some of our good friends around here argue that the starve-the-beast and deregulate-so-"they"-can-create-jobs arguments actually have merit. They may disagree but I think JayB and PeterP, and some of our less "civil" brethren have taken these positions. I think Mr. Dionne hit the nail on the head with this little paragraph I quoted above.

 

And what about "debt?" Reagan, BushI and Bush II were WAY ahead of Carter and Clinton when it comes to racking up debt. Our friend "Barry" (as Mr. KK likes to refer to him) may equal Bush but I don't know. Certainly Mr. Obama has not started two wars while cutting taxes.

 

Seriously: I think the Democrats are a bunch of losers but would we be "better off" with more of the Republicans in charge -- Really? Their stated plan is to continue the practices that have led to economic disaster.