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2016 Postmortem

shraby

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1. Proper amounts of money geared to the infrastructure would be a great help, but the republicans

Reply to yallerdawg (Original post)

Thu Aug 11, 2016, 10:07 AM

Aug 2016

can't seem to make it happen.
Meanwhile, our streets, highways and bridges are still in very sad shape and getting worse by the day.
They don't care, they fly everyplace.

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Why is recovery taking so long—and who’s to blame? [View all] yallerdawg Aug 2016 OP

Proper amounts of money geared to the infrastructure would be a great help, but the republicans shraby Aug 2016 #1

They would rather hurt us... yallerdawg Aug 2016 #2

The big problem is How to get this information out to the Republican masses, who are Cal33 Aug 2016 #4

Keynesian explanation here........... socialist_n_TN Aug 2016 #3

Democrats simply hope to mitigate the excesses of capitalism. yallerdawg Aug 2016 #5

I think the key word in your title line is "hope"....... socialist_n_TN Aug 2016 #9

We have had "socialist revolution." yallerdawg Aug 2016 #10

Like Lenin and Trotsky failed in 1905?......... socialist_n_TN Aug 2016 #14

Started with RayGuns........... raven mad Aug 2016 #6

We get the kind of recovery we elect. Orsino Aug 2016 #7

Housing. New construction specifically ghostsinthemachine Aug 2016 #8

Here's what I've observed in this recovery. apnu Aug 2016 #11

You write: "Yes unemployment is down since 2008, but those "new" jobs suck." Liberal_Stalwart71 Aug 2016 #13

This needs to be pinned because there are DUers who continue to blame Obama for this. Liberal_Stalwart71 Aug 2016 #12

K&R Jamaal510 Aug 2016 #15