Mitt Romney: George Bush Saved Us From Another Depression - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;35239623]It's quite depressing that our country is controlled by two giant incompetent and corrupt political parties. Either way, we're doomed to fail. The only difference is that we get to pick whether there's a (D) or an (R) next to the name of the man who ultimately drives our nation into the ground.[/QUOTE] Not true, you also get to choose which brand of idiocy runs the country: lacking any backbone and hypocritical (D) or completely insane and hypocritical (R).

He saved you the depression by leaving office. All IQs of Americans went up 10 points.

[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;35239623]It's quite depressing that our country is controlled by two giant incompetent and corrupt political parties. Either way, we're doomed to fail. The only difference is that we get to pick whether there's a (D) or an (R) next to the name of the man who ultimately drives our nation into the ground.[/QUOTE] You're depressing [editline]21st March 2012[/editline] try being happy. try thinking about puppies

Typical Republican election tactics: Rewrite the history of your last president so your party doesn't look so shitty, and try to make everyone forget how Bush drove the country into the worst disaster since the Great Depression just in time for him to go back to his ranch and say "Whoops, your problem now."

[QUOTE=Lambeth;35239720]You're depressing [editline]21st March 2012[/editline] try being happy. try thinking about puppies[/QUOTE] I saw two puppies at an animal shelter today. They were adorable. Then I realized they were probably going to be put down eventually because no one around here has the money to raise a house pet.

[QUOTE=Native Hunter;35238969]im a republican so i agree with him:eng101: mitt romney that is[/QUOTE] Are you seriously blindly following someone because of their political party? You're even dumber than he is.

Well according to a film we watched in my critical thinking class, it was a lot of deregulation that happened under the Clinton administration that set off the chain of events that led to the shitstorm we're in now

Bush's biggest flaw is also his least talked about: within his first two years (before the war on terror) he drove our surplus to a deficit by giving the surplus to the corporations and rich via tax breaks. His campaign was based on the fact that he believed Clinton's surplus was falsely called such since it had been acquired via taxes (and some spending cuts) instead of [I]just[/I] spending cuts (The GOP believes that lowering taxes on the rich cause the rich to use that saved cash to hire more people). In other words, many conservatives believe the government should be small, but somehow still have big government things like a powerful army and foreign wars and laws that regulate morals so they favor Christians...small government conservatism is an oxymoron.

[QUOTE=The Baconator;35241021]Bush's biggest flaw is also his least talked about: within his first two years (before the war on terror) he drove our surplus to a deficit by giving the surplus to the corporations and rich via tax breaks. His campaign was based on the fact that he believed Clinton's surplus was falsely called such since it had been acquired via taxes (and some spending cuts) instead of [I]just[/I] spending cuts (The GOP believes that lowering taxes on the rich cause the rich to use that saved cash to hire more people). In other words, many conservatives believe the government should be small, but somehow still have big government things like a powerful army and foreign wars and laws that regulate morals so they favor Christians...small government [B]American[/B] conservatism is an oxymoron.[/QUOTE] FTFY.

[QUOTE=rinoaff33;35241034]FTFY.[/QUOTE] whoops. Yeah politics in America is so weird that you start acting like American-only terminology and events are the norm. Cause technically speaking true small government ideology is similar to anarchism which promotes a government that governs least.

Here's what happens when a bank fails: Absolutely nothing. Our funds are insured. If a bank fails, it is quickly replaced by the FDIC, sometimes so fast people don't even know the bank failed at all. It's like a financial version of that annoying Spy knife. [URL="http://www.bankrate.com/finance/checking/what-happens-when-a-bank-fails.aspx"]http://www.bankrate.com/finance/checking/what-happens-when-a-bank-fails.aspx[/URL] If anything, it's [B]GOOD[/B] that big banks fail. Local banks and credit unions have proved time and time again to be better than large banks that overstretch themselves across the country. [URL="http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2008/12/12/ask-the-readers-are-local-banks-better-than-big-banks/"]http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2008/12/12/ask-the-readers-are-local-banks-better-than-big-banks/[/URL]

[QUOTE=JustExtreme;35239057]Lots of people are so stupid that they will believe this and use it as a basis for voting along with something else fucking ignorant like "he's white" or "my daddy met him once" Democracy doesn't end well if the majority of the demos are fucking retarded cunts.[/QUOTE] The masses are good at deciding, as dumb as the individual can be. My dad begrudgingly compares the system to a jury that decided that my dad's client was on the wrong (he was) despite my dad doing everything to convince them otherwise. My dad said he could tell that every member of that jury was a "dumbshit", but they still came together and decided that what's true was true. Democracy basically works most of the time. [editline]21st March 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Hidole555;35241461]Here's what happens when a bank fails: Absolutely nothing. Our funds are insured. If a bank fails, it is quickly replaced by the FDIC, sometimes so fast people don't even know the bank failed at all. It's like a financial version of that annoying Spy knife. [URL="http://www.bankrate.com/finance/checking/what-happens-when-a-bank-fails.aspx"]http://www.bankrate.com/finance/checking/what-happens-when-a-bank-fails.aspx[/URL] If anything, it's [B]GOOD[/B] that big banks fail. Local banks and credit unions have proved time and time again to be better than large banks that overstretch themselves across the country. [URL="http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2008/12/12/ask-the-readers-are-local-banks-better-than-big-banks/"]http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2008/12/12/ask-the-readers-are-local-banks-better-than-big-banks/[/URL][/QUOTE] Major institutions failing usually cause panic. Panic is usually the spark that causes a particularly bad recession. Even though Lehman Brothers was just another huge bank, the fact that it was not bailed out and ended up bankrupt scared everyone and caused stocks to fall due to everyone pulling out of the market at once. Not only that, but people started trying to withdraw all their money from the rest of the banks, putting them on the verge of collapse as well.

America was heading into a recession, reguardless of what bush did or didn't do. Blaming the recession entirely on a single president is just a scapegoat move.

[QUOTE=SilverKnight;35241591]America was heading into a recession, reguardless of what bush did or didn't do. Blaming the recession entirely on a single president is just a scapegoat move.[/QUOTE] Yeah, Bush did not single handedly ruin the country or anything like that. He was given a terrible situation after 9/11 and he was not prepared to handle it. His Party and him also did not do anything about the warning signs of such a recession at all.

[QUOTE=Meller Yeller;35239128]Just like the people who blame things happening now on Obama, you can't blame everything that happened on Bush. There are a lot more people in Washington trying to make things happen other than just the president.[/QUOTE] No but you can blame a hell of a lot on Bush.

[QUOTE=person11;35241491]The masses are good at deciding, as dumb as the individual can be. My dad begrudgingly compares the system to a jury that decided that my dad's client was on the wrong (he was) despite my dad doing everything to convince them otherwise. My dad said he could tell that every member of that jury was a "dumbshit", but they still came together and decided that what's true was true. Democracy basically works most of the time. [/QUOTE] Yeah and if it doesn't they just remove the failed criteria from the "democracy definition checklist" I'm not sure whether the masses are "good" at deciding, what would be a "good" outcome? Even if they were good at deciding, they only get a vote for a pre-audited selection of candidates from the same parties as always...

[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;35239372]Bush saving us from a depression is about is likely as Obama saving us from a depression.[/QUOTE] Haha. Remember how almost every major business was going through shits in 08 and they're fine now?