Originally posted by Menelik II. Emperor of Ethiopia:

Taxes are a good thing. Especially HUGE ONES ON BUSINESSES.

Huge taxes on businesses is not a good thing. If you're a business in a struggling economy and you get huge tax burdens, then you may have to lay off workers, or even go bankrupt and close down. Let's be reasonable here, my friend.

I love how you guys get into a debate on whether calling Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia the Baltic States is grammatically and linguistically correct. x)

First off, I never said that it did not end in the 40s. Infact, I agree with you. But by 1948 we had a massive wartime economy.

Second, of course Bush was conservative. He did a few things that anger today's Republicans, and pretty much every Republicans wants to proudly say "I did not support Bush", but infact he was very much conservative in a lot of ways, so don't say that he wasn't.

I'm sure Hillary would have been just as good, but we will never know what she would have done. And saying that she would have done a better job is a ludicrous assumption. She supports pretty much everything Obama did, and everything she disagreed with him on in the campaign was later adopted by Obama (eg. government "mandate" for health insurance).

Lol I think that's an oxymoron. XD Jk

Of course. Whenever you can you try to blame the good things on Republicans and the bad things on Democrats.

You do realize that Democrats controlled the House every single year that Reagan was in office? Shouldn't the Democrats get credit for the 1981 recovery too? And indeed we did have debt, but it was decreasing fast due to the multiple yearly surpluses under Clinton, and yes, the Republican controlled Congress. But the CBO in 2001 projected that we would have a $5.6 trillion surplus for the 2002-2011 period. And look what happened. The debt was exploded by a REPUBLICAN President and a REPUBLICAN House and a REPUBLICAN Senate.

Also, every depression is technically a recession, just larger. But what you are referring to is very small "recessions", or economic slowdowns, in the period before the Great Depression. And how did we get out of the Great Depression? Through massive spending during peace and wartime, as well as a regained confidence in the market.

You're still completetly ignoring the shear size of the Great Recession. People call it the Great Recession for a reason. It was almost a second Great Depression, and it took more than four years to get out of that mess. Think realistically here, don't assume you can just snap your fingers, cut taxes, and everything will be alright. Because sometimes it won't. Don't be dogmatic, be pragmatic.

Well look, my family voted for Hillary Clinton because they didn't think Obama was experienced enough. But he was audacious. He had big ideas. And he turned out to be a good president in my family's opinion. So I suppose the level of experience doesn't always matter, but at least Obama didn't have a horrible governor record.

Obama was senator for four years, not six. But does that matter? He was previously a member of the Illinois Senate for five years.

JFK was a first time senator and he was very good. Dubya was a two term governor and he was the worst president in US history.