With a trillion dollars, could the Democrats have done a better job ..?

[kentuck]

with the economy and the unemployed? The huge taxcuts of Bush and the Repubs haven't made a dramatic difference on the economy or the unemployment rate yet. It has moved down a little the last couple of months, but shouldn't it be much better for the amount of money they have put us in debt?

If the Democrats had spent the same amount of money on the working people of this country, would it have stimulated the economy more than the Bush taxcut plan for the wealthy? Would we have 6% unemployment if the money had been spent for the good of the workers of this country, rather than the rich friends of George W Bush?

We need to ask these questions since all this money is being borrowed to make our economy look good. The idea is that if we spend enough money on a problem, we can make it look good, whether it is or not. Just like we have done in Iraq... we expect the $100 billion to improve the lot of Iraq tremendously. However, just like in America, the money is not spent on the people, it is given to the wealthy friends of Dubya and Cheney, like Halliburton and Brown and Root...

We should see some improvement in Iraq's economy for the amount of money we are spending but shouldn't we be doing much better? Just like America, for the massive amount of money we have borrowed and spent, shouldn't we be doing much better?

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. The Democratic plan ALWAYs did a better job. Here's why:

Our economy relies on consumer spending and the Democrats did a better job of disbersing that money out to people who would spend it on necessities and not save it. What I find ironic is that it was no secret that private corporations would rip the government off(including education) by over-charging on the same products they sold to private individuals for less. The level of these rip-offs was evenly spread out and not partisan, the way it is today. Yet, there were the Republicans crying foul because they claimed government spent too much money, when the truth of the matter is that the money was going to the very place where it did the economy the most good: their private corporations.

We are far worse off today under this Republican selective anarchy, than we ever were under the Democrats. It is the fact that Republicans just plainly don't like to give money to people in this society that they can't relate to that is the very reason that we're practically on our knees. Their greed and unchristianlike behavior is biting them in the butt.

In 1994, all we needed was an adjustment to the free spending days, and instead, the Republicans road helter-skelter into Washington D.C. and it has been going downhill ever since.