Quote Originally Posted by nynco View Post
Sorry don't agree with your premise at all. I believe in civilization. The way of thinking "No one has a Right to receive anything from anyone." thankfully went out with the dark ages. Honestly, if you extremists which you are an extremist if you believe that the gov should do nothing but military, want to secede, I am all for it. I am sick of fighting these never ending battles where we keep on repeating the mistakes of the past. 2 republican great depressions each preceded by deregulation and massive tax cuts for the wealthy. But nooo its all because of the welfare poor. We have over 100 years of data of what works and what does not. There is no debate, the right wing model for economics has failed and you guys still cling to it.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhart...vote-democrat/

  • Personal disposable income has grown nearly 6 times more under Democratic presidents
  • Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has grown 7 times more under Democratic presidents
  • Corporate profits have grown over 16% more per year under Democratic presidents (they actually declined under Republicans by an average of 4.53%/year)
  • Average annual compound return on the stock market has been 18 times greater under Democratic presidents (If you invested $100k for 40 years of Republican administrations you had $126k at the end, if you invested $100k for 40 years of Democrat administrations you had $3.9M at the end)
  • Republican presidents added 2.5 times more to the national debt than Democratic presidents
  • The two times the economy steered into the ditch (Great Depression and Great Recession) were during Republican, laissez faire administrations
So when the Dems inherit shit from their predecessor, it's Bush's fault, but when they inherit prosperity, they did it all on their own.

Brilliant.