Are not Repub economics all about "me" while Dem economics are all about "us"?

Question

Comparing the 90s when everyone did exceedingly well versus the Reagan, Bush, Bush eras where the "I"s do well.

Comrade (below) No. Us means that CEOs don't make 100 million a year while thousands are loosing their jobs and pensions.

flushes (below) Exactly!!!! They seem to short sided to see the overall boon verus a phony tax cut overshadowed by inflation

Answer 1

It varies. Me Repubs "give to charity." Us Dems "give to the government." Taxes go up and charitable giving goes down. I guess we want to thank the Dem economics for taking care of the government.

Answer 2

Let a former Economics major, and the former Prime Minster of Great Britain enlighten you.

The economics of the 1990s were in great part a huge illusion of smoke and mirrors. There were internet corporations that had never made a dime, and yet their value in stock was higher than General Motors!

These corporations were absolute fiction. You had greedy investors pumping billions of dollars into high tech start ups that produced nothing. Finally, it all burst..... and your favorite man in the world, George W. Bush, had to clean up the mess.

Now our economy is actually founded on solid principles, not the phony "prosperity" of the 1990s. You think people did well in the 1990's? How about all the people who lost everything due to the high tech crash? Why do you seem to only have a long memory if it is something related to George W. Bush?

The very wise former Prime Minister of Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher once noted, "The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other peoples' money to spend".

Democrats know nothing about Economics. My friends and I used to joke that Democrats were like some kid who just read the first 20 pages of an economics chapter, and thought he knew it all, not realizing that the next ten pages were the most crucial. Come test time, you flunk!

What exactly do you consider "us" economics? Do you think Bill Gates worked so hard on Microsoft because he wanted people to be more informed? Do you think that corporations are charitible institutions? Businesses are in business to make money. If they make money, their employees can be well paid and have a stable job. Just look at Socialist France where employers don't even want to hire anyone anymore because they can't get rid of employees once they have signed on. France is well on its way toward severe economic decay. If we listened to people like you, the USA would be as economically pitiful as Mexico within a decade.

How about this suggestion: before you post anything more on Yahoo! Answer, you go read "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. Maybe I can't knock some sense into your George W. Bush-hating little mind, but maybe a great philospher like Ayn can.

Answer 3

Yes. Perhaps the Democrats' policies are too much about "us": consider, if you will, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal policies, which placed us all in a position of continual dependence on the government in the name of the greater good. I'm not saying I think that focusing solely on oneself is good; one needs to ensure he doesn't infringe on another's rights in doing so, and possibly be a little charitable from time to time.

Answer 4

Correction, democrat economics are about "us" while republican economics are about "them".

Republicans believe that the good of the few will benefit the many. Like communism, good in theory, abysmal in practice.

Democrats believe the good of the many will benefit the few as well. This is more realistic.

Or to look at it another way, Republicans are about capital preservation while Democrats are about capital growth.

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Answer 5

No, they're both about government interventionism to benefit the few to the detriment of the many. They just piss and moan over the degree, not the fact interventionism is the cause of the problems in the first place..

Answer 6

Yes. Reagan did not do a good job on the economy and I am sick of his getting enshrined as some sort of hero. The guy was a MIC builder thats it!!! Oh ya and giving aid and comfort to Iran!!

Answer 7

Agree

Answer 8

What's more, the people that voted for Bush II twice got far less with their "tax refunds" than they got overall under Clinton.

Think they'll ever figure it out?

Answer 9

It's the age old seesaw battle between the haves and the have nots.

Answer 10

I don't give a crap about "us". I'll worry about me, and you worry about you.

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery" -Winston S. Churchill