"recovering democrat"?
I'm a Libertarian Democrat, (Platform:
http://www.democraticfreedomcaucus.org/dfc-platform/)
You don't need to be a recovering democrat, just look harder into some of these issues... you seem smarter than 80% of the people on these boards... and you are correct, the 90s were that prosperous.
That prosperity is owed to several major things... the biggest is innovation. The move of the marketplace from the streets to the web was, in a sense, extremely beneficial to the US economy. We had a tremendous amount of debt to pay back from the "glorious" Reagan Years, and we did so with high taxes. In Keynesian economics, this is a successful strategy. Some complained, but all in all, it helped this country, the rich maintained their wealth, and America introduced a 400% increase in millionaires alone...
What Bush and the Republican Congress is criminal, disgusting, and without precedence. Borrowing money on a surplus is a recipe for a major depression, not a recession. The end of the Clinton era the national debt was paid off, and business and the market were relatively unregulated in financial matters, (it still blows my mind how some people think conservativism has anything to do with Free Market)...
ignore these people on here... there is no need to be a recovering Democrat... we just need to focus energies away from the "bread and butter" of the party... the unnecessary social programs that, ironically, are no different than the massive cost of military spending this administration has spent... a relevant question would be, considering your foundational base of support (social and military conservative for repubes, or poor workers for dems) which would you prefer, building up the economy, or building up a select corporate elite mostly around military infrastructure and oil? I'm not lying... because this is what we have... in other words, your choice for president is Military infrastructure or affordable health care...
Obviously, I would prefer a more limited government, but if I have to choose, I prefer an American economic fortress over a American military fortress... in the long run, economy=strong military anyway... Think of what we created in the years from 1940-1945.
There is no model for true conservative economy, perhaps Barry Goldwater... but that boat has sailed a long time ago.. .and don't get me started on Reagan and his massive spending.
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