Why do Democrats choose bad economic policies?

Question

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2007/08/01/economic_illiteracy

Read this artical and let us know what you think.

Answer 1

Just like Republicans, Democrats are only interested in their own pockets. If they can pass measures that hurt people, but line their own pockets, they are happy.

Answer 2

Radical spin of the truth of matters !!

Under Clinton, the USA had the best economic performance in well over 35 years !! Since then, the debt has almost tripled (in not quite seven years ) and the spending of the Republican administration (you remember that the Republicans HAD full control of the Congress AND the White House up until this past January) has literally gone through the roof -- AND, with all of this spending and debt -- the wealthiest Americans have been cut free of their taxes !!!!!!!

Sounds like really sound policy to ME (??? NOT) Run up record debt and cut the wealthiest from their responsiblity in paying it ----- So, the guy on the bottom Can't Pay --- the guy on the top Doesn't Have to pay --- so all of this debt falls on the people in the hardest working and most overburdened bracket that there is --- the Middle Class !!!
And, you call Democratic policies BAD ?? What the hell is wrong with you people ????????

Answer 3

Why do Reps continue to spend countless dollars on a lost war in Iraq?

As for economic policies, the current President and his administration has put this country into a quagmire that will take generations to get out of.

Answer 4

Your link froze my Explorer, reminding me of why I usually am more wary of following links, and prefer a summary in the question. So I'll be brief, and note that when Clinton left office, we had a surplus for the first time in a very long time... and Bush and his Republican congress have managed the opposite. It's not like the Democrats would spend more on social programs than the Republicans already spend on war.

Answer 5

the article was about the voting habits of democracies, not democrats.

But I thought the article had some good points, although I'd say it's pretty obvious considering the spin from various sources on TV, radio, and newspaper columns that most voters aren't going to vote along rational lines.

Answer 6

Hmm, i liked the part in there about people not really realizign what their vote does, basically because they vote partisan, which is what i do as well. Regardless of the flawed economic startegy, which is a matter of opinion as well if you ask me, i will vote straight party with democrat every time, because of the several factors which influence that. Household prefrence being the biggest one, and my parents. But back to your question, it's a matter of opinion.

Answer 7

I have read Caplan's book and visited with him at length during a seminar. It's not Democrats but Democracies (as it says in the article) who make poor choices, because most voters don't know the reality of the issues.

Answer 8

What can be a worse economic policy than giving away
83 billions dollars to Iraq. Then 35 billion of it " despaired "??
Who cant figure that out?

Answer 9

careful, now, previous poster, McCain is up in the polls 4 factors. and that i'm sorry, yet i think of that a minimum of 50% of people are secretly racist. yet I agree thoroughly, human beings ought to understand that McCain is precisely like Bush. "A Maverick"? "Reached for the time of occasion lines"? Yeah, ok... it form of sounds like Republicans are pretending that the final 8 years isn't their fault, and that that they had no longer something to do with all that. this is like the Bourne identity.

Answer 10

I have wondered that myself about Republicans voting themselves onto the wrong side of the financial divide.

Answer 11

oh like using tax$4 for education and medicine for our nation? while gop squanders billions on an unwinable campaign that lines coffers of thier pals in iraq and elsewhere......get real dude