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Originally Posted by The Demon
Explain to me how the economy is growing? Our budget deficit is a record every month. Or trade deficit is ridiculous. We have not created a single job since 2002. And no, stimulus jobs aren't jobs. Temporary jobs aren't jobs. People are slowly starting to come around(thank god) and realize that the economy truly is in shambles, and that the Obama Administration and Bernanke have spent a shitload of time trying to convince the public of a lie. The stimulus was a complete failure, as any stimulus program is when you're running huge deficits. The only positive thing you can say is that with its last dying breath, Obama and Bernanke have thrown everything into the stock market. The spins they put on every single day are hilarious and it just shows how delusional people are. They know they truth but they want to believe we're ok. That's fine, but everything points to collapse. It's not a question of if but when, and what Bernanke and the keynesian morons have done is postpone the collapse now to make it exponentially worse later.
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I never said the economy was growing. I said IF the economy is growing. But I will go one step further and say this. It doesn't matter if the economy is growing or not. Here is what people do at election time: They look around and take inventory of their lives. If they have a decent house, a decent job and a decent car and they are living a pretty happy life, they are not in an all fired up hurry for change. All the democrats have to show is that were are starting to add jobs to the economy and that the outlook is looking up and they will convince many people to vote for them.
Most people can't pick Bernanke out of a lineup. Most people have no idea who Keynes or Keynesian economics are. Most people don't really care about the deficit or the debt. What they care about is will they have a job, will they keep their job and will their lives continue to get better. Elections have nothing to do with what will happen or what has happened, they have everything to do with what you can convince people will happen.
The republicans are a great example of this. Every time they are not in power they then run on the ticket of cutting taxes, shrinking government, spending money wisely and reducing debt. While they do sometimes cut taxes, most of those tax cuts are for the rich so the average person doesn't really get much of it. They never reduce the budget or reign in spending and they grow the government. This is the reality of the situation, yet time and again they run on the same promises, promises they have never delivered on, and still continue to win. this is because they convince people that they really mean it this time.
The same can go for the democrats in this election. If there are signs that things are improving they can convince people they are doing the right thing and that the republicans will only take us back down an ugly road and it will work on many people.