If the democrats win control of the House and the Senate...?

Question

what do you think will happen to our economy? Right now unemployment is low, interest rates are low, the stock market is high, gas prices are low, inflation rates are low......do you think they will screw it up?

Answer 1

It seems you left out the part of the National debt being at an all time high, the 56 different options for Medicare that the elderly (and most others) cannot understand,Social Security being in a crisis, and that we are losing our men and women's lives in a war that even when won will not mean anything in your life when its over.

Answer 2

Most politicians do not actually have that much control over a country. It is mostly the people that have actual tangilble control. Bad politicians do tend to deteriorate a country by luring people in poor directions.

None of those things you mentioned are true with possible exception of the stockmarket point. Why do you say unemployment is low? You are a typical stooge on this point. What does the amount of people that are qualifying for unemployment insurance have to do with actual number of those that need work or better work? That statistic is a sleight of hand that unintelligent people always fall for. Gas at 2 dollars plus is not low, it is just not ridiculously high any more. 6 years ago it was well under a dollar. Has inflation matched? The fact that interest rates are low affects saving as well as loans. People do not want to save and foreign investment is bypassing the US. Inflation rates are not low. The inflation index is not realistic. Housing, fuel and utilities have skyrocketed. It is low for the rich because of the prices of electronics, travel and luxuries but the poor are having more trouble than ever. Minimum wages have not gone up in record years.

Answer 3

i've got faith Democrats had precisely 60 votes interior the Senate so theoretically they should have been waiting to do regardless of they needed. This replaced into genuine until eventually Lieberman switched if I remember properly. Why did no longer they do greater with their majority, nicely because of the fact there have been precisely 60 they mandatory all 60 on board and a few took benefit and made loopy demands in exchange for his or her votes. After a number of those demands have been met there replaced into no longer something left yet a watered down invoice and a team of beef. i've got faith Congress is largely broken in lots of techniques. i might like to make certain a term decrease of a million term at each and every point. perhaps then somebody might get issues achieved particularly of basically waiting out the competition via doing no longer something that must be debatable.

Answer 4

By what measure is $2.15 for a gallon of gas "low"? Not that long ago, we considered that economy-destroying high.

Also, the average income of middle and lower class people has dropped, in some cases by thousands of dollars. Debt is also reaching record highs, as is the cost of health care. Millions of us risk bankruptcy by going without health insurance because we just can't afford it.

Taxes are too low for the rich. The feds don't have nearly enough money coming in to cover all of their programs, plus the cost of the Iraqi occupation. No Child Left Behind, for instance, is appallingly underfunded, and promised funds for states to pay for the emergency crews they are now federally mandated to have have not come through. Every year, my city talks about closing city pools and bus lines that people need to get to work. We don't get our streets plowed in the winters. That's because our state doesn't get the help we need from the government, because they don't have money. The state, in turn, raises taxes, but there's only so much they can do with that, because we're all already poor what with our wages going down and our debt loads going up.

Also, those unemployment figures only count the people actually looking for work. Lots of people have either given up or have accepted jobs way below their level. All the good jobs are being outsourced, so many people who were once comfortable are taking jobs below their skill level that pay thousands a year less.

The great myth is that Republicans are good with money and Democrats are not. Remember, guys, under Clinton we had eight years of prosperity and a budget surplus. It was with Bush that we got a record deficit and a poor economy.

Answer 5

Democrats might actually address the defict crisis. The man who is in effect the nation's accountant warned all those who would listen that our economy is living on borrowed time. We have become a creditor nation. Republicans have done nothing to prevent this. The defict actually went down when Clinton was president. Republican's aren't conservative when it comes to spending money and balancing the budget. We have a tax break that mostly benefits those who don't need it, and a war on terror that may well break the bank. We have spent over 300 billion in Iraq alone. My nephew died over there. It was a life that should not have been lost in a war that Bush didn't have to start. Iraq was not the problem. Osama was. That is why I hope Democrats win back the house and senate.

Answer 6

They won't win the Senate and they will win the House by 2-5 seats. Checks and balances is a good thing, the Republicans have been blinded by hubris, spending money like a drunken sailor, but a drunk only spends his OWN money. The Republicans are spending our kids money as well. Pelosi can't do squat without the Senate and Bush, so she can posture and she can pose, but she can't do any damage. She might get a decent minimum wage bill, say $6.50 an hour, and she might get some decent work done on hybrids or biofuels. She can't mess up tax breaks or death taxes or 'will issue' or supreme court justices or , maybe, prescription drug benefits, can she?

Answer 7

Gas prices are low???? Are you out of your mind? They are only low compared to the artificially inflated ones that the energy barons (ie. Dubya's cronies) set up at the beginning of the year. Unemployment is LOW??? Maybe because so many unemployed have used all their benefits and are no longer counted. Try living in Michigan and tell me how low they are!! (All of our jobs are being outsourced to China!) (Weren't they the "enemy" at one time? Before it became more advantageous to pick on the Middle East??)
The Democrats can only help the economy. And I may have to take three buses to get to my polling place, but I sure as heck will do it in order to put my faith in the Dems.

Answer 8

When the democrates regain conctrol of congress (and eventually the white house) They'll spend the next decade digging the country out of the pit the republicans have us in. It'll take years to get national debt back under control, decades of deplomacy to get 3/4 of the world to stop hateing us and the deal in iraq may never be finished. I'f bush wasnt such a moron he would have realized THIS HAS ALL BEEN DONE BEFORE and by people a whole lot smarter than bush.

Thank you GW, for proveing that absolutly ANYONE can grow up to be president.

Answer 9

Absolutely, the stock market should take a nose dive. If not immediately within the first month. Interest rates will go up and oil is only headed one way with Bush going out. Remember where he came from, where his buddies are? This may be a two year experiment to win it all back by the republicans in 2008 and save us from Hillary.

Answer 10

Down the road, Dem or Republican, someone will have to raise taxes to pay for this war. So since we have been blaming Clinton for six years now for anything that has gone wrong, do we get to blame Bush for screwing up the economy for at least 6 years after he leaves office???