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Why Do Democrats Wreck the Economy?
American Thinker ^ | 6 Aug, 2024 | Christopher Chantrill

Posted on 08/06/2024 4:07:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Remember the Sixties? Our Democratic friends gave us guns and butter: a war in Vietnam to stop a domino falling in the Cold War and LBJ’s Great Society eye-watering spending on welfare, Medicare, and Medicaid. In 1968 Americans had had enough and elected Richard Nixon as president. Nixon and Kissinger created an opening to China and ended the Vietnam war.

Remember the Seventies? After deep-sixing Richard Nixon, our Democratic friends gave us stagflation in the late 1970s: in other words, a stagnant economy plus eye-watering inflation. In 1980 Americans had had enough and elected Ronald Reagan as president. Reagan killed inflation with eye-watering interest rates, lowered marginal tax rates, and ignited a decade of eye-watering economic growth.

How about those 2020s? Our Democratic friends under the leadership of sharp-as-a-tack President Biden declared war on COVID and on climate with eye-watering spending, and now the economy is mired in stagflation again. In 2024 Americans have had enough and elected….

Stay tuned for the exciting election results on the evening of November 5, 2024.

But how do we understand all this? Why do our Democratic friends keep wrecking the economy?

It all comes down to the binary of gifting your supporters and going to war against the enemy. So every Democratic administration decides to throw more money at free health care and maybe start a war.

It’s odd how often our Democratic friends start a war right after a presidential election: Woodrow Wilson in 1917, FDR in 1941, Harry Truman in 1950. And LBJ waited until 1965 to really crank up the Vietnam war.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: marxism
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1 posted on 08/06/2024 4:07:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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It’s odd how often our Democratic friends start a war

They are angry and dishonest people. Malcontents.

2 posted on 08/06/2024 4:08:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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Because they’re immature sociopaths?


3 posted on 08/06/2024 4:08:43 AM PDT by LastDayz (A Blunt and Brazen Texan. I Will Not Be Assimilated.)
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To: MtnClimber

So they can blame it on Republicans?


4 posted on 08/06/2024 4:17:59 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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RATs wreck the economy because they're pimps. They get into office and start buying votes from leeches and then have to print currency to come up with the cash. Like clockwork. They always do that.

Increased currency then devalues the dollar and prices go up and we've got a RAT spiral. It's not rocket science. It's what they do.

5 posted on 08/06/2024 4:25:14 AM PDT by LouAvul (DEI = Didn't Earn It. )
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RATs wreck the economy because they’re pimps. They get into office and start buying votes from leeches and then have to print currency to come up with the cash. Like clockwork. They always do that.


Shut the replies down. We have our thread winner.


6 posted on 08/06/2024 4:26:48 AM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: MtnClimber

They can’t help themselves.

1. Need to BUY votes

2. Have to stuff their pockets ... and also stuff their friends’ pockets

No economy will stand up to that


7 posted on 08/06/2024 4:32:46 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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“It’s odd how often our Democratic friends start a war”

No, it’s because THEY TRICKED US back then by claiming to be the “Peace Party” (something they still claim, even considering their track record).

Back in 1993 or so, Rush pointed out something that was very astute. One Democrat leader said to another, during a fly-over, something like “Yuck, I hate those Weapons of War” - the other replied “You don’t understand, those are OUR WEAPONS now”.

The above didn’t make much sense to me at the time, but once they go hold of the weapons, they, the DEMOCRATS, felt empowered to go attacking whoever they felt attacking, as we saw a few years later in the former Yugoslavia when they sided with the Muslims, whenever they could, and are now using them in the Ukraine War to attack the same Russians that they openly supported during the Cold War.

However, as we’re seeing in Ukraine, the Democrats neglected the OTHER ASPECT of bombing White, conservative, people, which was that the world wasn’t static, and the US government never considered that their huge conventional advantage of 31 years ago might be challenged, as other countries were developing their own capabilities to fight us, and so we continued to think we could sit on our lead. Whoops!


8 posted on 08/06/2024 4:34:13 AM PDT by BobL
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Because they are fundamentally anti business. Democraacy is for allowing the “little man” control. The “little man” despises his betters, the Man.

the little man is little because he is inferior


9 posted on 08/06/2024 4:35:33 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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The Bolsheviks are really good at breaking eggs, but don’t have the omelette part down.


10 posted on 08/06/2024 4:37:07 AM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: nesnah

thnx


11 posted on 08/06/2024 4:40:07 AM PDT by LouAvul (DEI = Didn't Earn It. )
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"Why Do Democrats Wreck the Economy?"

Because Demonicrats are lying, murdering traitors to the United States of America.

12 posted on 08/06/2024 4:42:45 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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Why do our Democratic friends keep wrecking the economy?

It's simple to me. Dems want control. The economy does well when individuals exercise their enlightened self-interest to make their own lives better. Dems believe they are the voice of that enlightened self-interest, especially when it goes against the "self" part of the phrase.

It's the old communist trap - serve the state, so that we (the Dems in power) can reap the benefits and extend our own power. The economy doesn't bloom under such constraints.

13 posted on 08/06/2024 4:46:18 AM PDT by MortMan (Charter member of AAAAA - American Association Against Alliteration Abuse)
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The result of their corruption leads to a bad economy. Which is more like a criminal operation than represent government.
When they spend trillions of dollars of OPM ..billions get siphoned / laundered.
And suddenly a hunble government servant owns multiple mansions..private jets with multimillions in the bank.
The biden family are just one of many examples. BTW they couldn’t get away with it. if the system wasn’t as dirty as Hilary’s used underpants.


14 posted on 08/06/2024 4:57:34 AM PDT by Leep (She cackles in you general direction.)
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Cloward-Piven agenda


15 posted on 08/06/2024 5:10:49 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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Because they’re socialists?


16 posted on 08/06/2024 5:22:50 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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“ Woodrow Wilson in 1917, FDR in 1941…”

Bad examples. WW1, we got involved to put an end to the massive death and destruction that war had done to Europe and when it was over we left.

WW2? Really. We didn’t start it and there was no way the US could sit that one out.
17 posted on 08/06/2024 5:36:58 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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Central Ohio
Meadowview growers 40 years in business Closing
Wiley’s comedy club. 40 years in business Closing
Post cereal factory (200 employees). Closing

70% of small businesses surveyed will not last another Biden/Harris administration


18 posted on 08/06/2024 5:39:05 AM PDT by griswold3 ( Robespierre and Pol Pot were “unburdened by what has been” Harris the "Year Zero" candidate)
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To: LastDayz
All politicians are narcissistic sociopaths and a percentage of sociopaths are psychopaths.

Psychos star in their own personal movies in which they are the saviors.

19 posted on 08/06/2024 5:41:40 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (The yoke of government must be kept light if Freedom is to Prevail.)
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Why Do Democrats Wreck the Economy?


Easy. They wreak the economy as part of their plan to destroy America. Its one of the few things about America the Democrats have not succeeded in wreaking yet.


20 posted on 08/06/2024 5:42:34 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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