Why do Republicans talk about the Damage Democrats have Done when Democrats Have had to Clean up Republican Messes?

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Bill Clinton had to clean up a mess because of 3 terms of Reaganomics. Obama had to clean up a near Depression after Bush. Biden had to clean up a huge mess left by Trump and Republicans are talking about Democrats destroying America? WTF? It is apparent that being "conservative" is a mental disorder.

The White House is only telling you half of the sad story of what happened to American jobs​

  • The Trump administration's timeline on the decline of American workers starts in the late 1990s with the rise of China.
  • That thinking overlooks the impact of spending cuts, deregulation, and a shift to shareholder primacy at the expense of investment in innovation and workers.
  • That began in the 1980s when Ronald Reagan was president and led a push for more Laissez Faire economics.
  • Ignoring the US's hand in the demise of its own working class means this administration will never actually find ways to grow the economy for them.

William Lazonick, The Financialization of the U.S. Corporation: What Has Been Lost, and How It Can Be Regained

Since the beginning of the 1980s, employment relations in U.S. industrial corporations have undergone three major structural changes—which I summarize as “rationalization,” “marketization,” and “globalization”—that have permanently eliminated middle-class jobs.2 From the early 1980s, rationalization, characterized by plant closings, eliminated the jobs of unionized blue-collar workers. From the early 1990s, marketization, characterized by the end of a career with one company as an employment norm, placed the job security of middle-aged and older white-collar workers in jeopardy. From the early 2000s, globalization, characterized by the movement of employment offshore, left all members of the U.S. labor force, even those with advanced educational credentials and substantial work experience, vulnerable to displacement.


Economic Downturn and Legacy of Bush Policies Continue to Drive Large Deficits​

Federal deficits and debt have been sharply higher under President Obama, but the evidence continues to show that the Great Recession, President Bush’s tax cuts, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq explain most of the deficits that have occurred on Obama’s watch — based on the latest Congressional Budget Office projections as well as legislation enacted since we last issued this analysis of what lies behind current deficits and debt.


5 Ways the Trump Administration’s Policy Failures Compounded the Coronavirus-Induced Economic Crisis​

The weakness of the Trump administration’s economic response to the coronavirus crisis—much like the failure of its public health response—can be seen in comparison with the United States’ international peers. As demonstrated by the experiences of peer nations, a rapid and coordinated public health response could have contained the pandemic more effectively and reduced the mounting economic losses. Instead, it seems as though the United States is getting the worst of both: the highest death toll of any country and what will likely be the sharpest economic contraction in American history.

Cross-country comparisons of unemployment rates illuminate how effective strong worker protections and early testing measures could have been in the United States had they been promoted by the federal government. South Korea, which largely avoided shutting down its economy due to its early and aggressive actions, recorded an unemployment rate of 3.8 percent in April—only slightly above the 3.3 percent figure recorded in February. Australia, which implemented a wage subsidy program equivalent to 3.5 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP), has seen its unemployment rate increase from 5.1 percent to 6.2 percent over the same time period. Germany, too, only saw a modest increase in its unemployment rate, as it ticked up from 5.0 percent to 5.8 percent. The United States, on the other hand, recorded an unemployment rate of 14.7 percent in April—up dramatically from the 3.5 percent figure in February.

These differences in unemployment rates have massive consequences for the number of Americans currently without employment. Had the United States unemployment rate followed the same trajectory as those of its peers, millions more Americans would still be employed. Based on the percent changes in unemployment rates, between 17 and 18 million more Americans would still have their jobs if the United States had experienced changes in unemployment rate similar to those of Australia, Germany, or South Korea. And even if the United States had followed a slightly worse trajectory, like that of Canada, at least 11 million fewer people would be unemployed.

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The Trump administration failed to take the coronavirus outbreak seriously. In late February, while other high-income countries were ramping up testing and developing tracing procedures, President Donald Trump stated that “the Coronavirus [was] very much under control.” It was during these critical early weeks and months that the United States should have been stockpiling protective gear for frontline workers and making testing widely available. In contrast, South Korea, a country whose first confirmed case of COVID-19 coincided with that of the United States, bought 720,000 masks for employees of businesses considered at risk of exposure to the coronavirus. When asked if the U.S. federal government would supply personal protective equipment (PPE) to states, President Trump responded that it would not act as a “shipping clerk.”​


And this is what some peope want to return to?
 
There are messes and then there are messes. For feminism alone it is costing us trillions of dollars. The advantages of stay-at-home moms kept costs down as many programs had to be started due to women in the workforce. So, we have a high divorce rate and a high percentage of single moms now with a million abortions a year. We have aging women who never even had children. Which is unnatural and goes against the Prog living earth of gaia principles. Progs bend those at every chance they get anyway. On this issue, women have incelled themselves and of course there is a healthy percentage privileged in employment and DEI is part of it. I am sure if you look at the beginning of feminism up to now you will see a huge increase of new programs and massive amounts of taxpayer resources to pay for this from federal, state, local, city and regional governments. Sucker taxpayers and the emasculation of males with some of it deserved. Truth.
 
The UniParty has racked up $35Trillion in debt. Debt service is now the single largest expenditure in the non existent budget

The Pentagon supposedly cannot account for $6 Trillion (likely Interstellar space program)

Congressman become multi millionaires through insider trading and contributions while 1 in 4 Americans are now skipping meals due to cost, but the other guy is the problem
 
1. The financial crisis that Obama had to deal with was caused by Clinton and his "Community Reinvestment Act" forcing banks to give loans to the unqualified.

2. The Covid pandemic was caused by Fau-Chi paying the Wuhan Lab, run by a Chinese general, to do gain-of-function research on bat viruses even after the Obama admin told him not to.

3. Reagan caused the collapse of the Soviet Union. You're welcome.
 
1. The financial crisis that Obama had to deal with was caused by Clinton and his "Community Reinvestment Act" forcing banks to give loans to the unqualified.
If Bush deserves any criticism, it’s that he didn’t fight hard enough or push back on Democrats for using Fannie Mae to relax mortgage lending standards. Bush and the Democrats had a noble vision of increasing homeownership for minorities, but the problem was that more people, regardless of color, were qualifying for mortgages they could not afford and that caused the financial collapse.

Democrats fought any and all attempts to correct the flaws in mortgage qualifying criteria until it was too late.
 
Bill Clinton had to clean up a mess because of 3 terms of Reaganomics. Obama had to clean up a near Depression after Bush. Biden had to clean up a huge mess left by Trump and Republicans are talking about Democrats destroying America? WTF? It is apparent that being "conservative" is a mental disorder.

The White House is only telling you half of the sad story of what happened to American jobs

  • The Trump administration's timeline on the decline of American workers starts in the late 1990s with the rise of China.
  • That thinking overlooks the impact of spending cuts, deregulation, and a shift to shareholder primacy at the expense of investment in innovation and workers.
  • That began in the 1980s when Ronald Reagan was president and led a push for more Laissez Faire economics.
  • Ignoring the US's hand in the demise of its own working class means this administration will never actually find ways to grow the economy for them.

William Lazonick, The Financialization of the U.S. Corporation: What Has Been Lost, and How It Can Be Regained

Since the beginning of the 1980s, employment relations in U.S. industrial corporations have undergone three major structural changes—which I summarize as “rationalization,” “marketization,” and “globalization”—that have permanently eliminated middle-class jobs.2 From the early 1980s, rationalization, characterized by plant closings, eliminated the jobs of unionized blue-collar workers. From the early 1990s, marketization, characterized by the end of a career with one company as an employment norm, placed the job security of middle-aged and older white-collar workers in jeopardy. From the early 2000s, globalization, characterized by the movement of employment offshore, left all members of the U.S. labor force, even those with advanced educational credentials and substantial work experience, vulnerable to displacement.


Economic Downturn and Legacy of Bush Policies Continue to Drive Large Deficits​

Federal deficits and debt have been sharply higher under President Obama, but the evidence continues to show that the Great Recession, President Bush’s tax cuts, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq explain most of the deficits that have occurred on Obama’s watch — based on the latest Congressional Budget Office projections as well as legislation enacted since we last issued this analysis of what lies behind current deficits and debt.


5 Ways the Trump Administration’s Policy Failures Compounded the Coronavirus-Induced Economic Crisis​

The weakness of the Trump administration’s economic response to the coronavirus crisis—much like the failure of its public health response—can be seen in comparison with the United States’ international peers. As demonstrated by the experiences of peer nations, a rapid and coordinated public health response could have contained the pandemic more effectively and reduced the mounting economic losses. Instead, it seems as though the United States is getting the worst of both: the highest death toll of any country and what will likely be the sharpest economic contraction in American history.

Cross-country comparisons of unemployment rates illuminate how effective strong worker protections and early testing measures could have been in the United States had they been promoted by the federal government. South Korea, which largely avoided shutting down its economy due to its early and aggressive actions, recorded an unemployment rate of 3.8 percent in April—only slightly above the 3.3 percent figure recorded in February. Australia, which implemented a wage subsidy program equivalent to 3.5 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP), has seen its unemployment rate increase from 5.1 percent to 6.2 percent over the same time period. Germany, too, only saw a modest increase in its unemployment rate, as it ticked up from 5.0 percent to 5.8 percent. The United States, on the other hand, recorded an unemployment rate of 14.7 percent in April—up dramatically from the 3.5 percent figure in February.

These differences in unemployment rates have massive consequences for the number of Americans currently without employment. Had the United States unemployment rate followed the same trajectory as those of its peers, millions more Americans would still be employed. Based on the percent changes in unemployment rates, between 17 and 18 million more Americans would still have their jobs if the United States had experienced changes in unemployment rate similar to those of Australia, Germany, or South Korea. And even if the United States had followed a slightly worse trajectory, like that of Canada, at least 11 million fewer people would be unemployed.

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The Trump administration failed to take the coronavirus outbreak seriously. In late February, while other high-income countries were ramping up testing and developing tracing procedures, President Donald Trump stated that “the Coronavirus [was] very much under control.” It was during these critical early weeks and months that the United States should have been stockpiling protective gear for frontline workers and making testing widely available. In contrast, South Korea, a country whose first confirmed case of COVID-19 coincided with that of the United States, bought 720,000 masks for employees of businesses considered at risk of exposure to the coronavirus. When asked if the U.S. federal government would supply personal protective equipment (PPE) to states, President Trump responded that it would not act as a “shipping clerk.”​


And this is what some peope want to return to?
When you leave the door open and millions of Illegal Aliens invade... no one wants to hear the rest of it.

When inflation rages unchecked for months and dramatically raises prices... no one wants to hear the rest of it.

When you shove the green agenda down the throats of the populace... no one wants to hear the rest of it.

When you shove LGBTQ dogma down the throats of the populace... no one wants to hear the rest of it.

When your prosecutors are incompetent and oftentimes blatantly corrupt... no one wants to hear the rest of it.

When you fail to enforce the laws of the United States... no one wants to hear the rest of it.

When you betray our friend and ally Israel and its Jews... no one wants to hear the rest of it.

When you tax people within an inch of their lives... no one wants to hear the rest of it.

When you push for Reparations for Blacks... no one wants to hear the rest of it.

When you anoint a Presidential candidate without letting people vote for her... no one wants to hear the rest of it.

Clean up your act... restore your (now lost) standing as the Party of the Working Man... and maybe people will listen again.
 
Bill Clinton had to clean up a mess because of 3 terms of Reaganomics. Obama had to clean up a near Depression after Bush. Biden had to clean up a huge mess left by Trump and Republicans are talking about Democrats destroying America? WTF? It is apparent that being "conservative" is a mental disorder.

The White House is only telling you half of the sad story of what happened to American jobs​

  • The Trump administration's timeline on the decline of American workers starts in the late 1990s with the rise of China.
  • That thinking overlooks the impact of spending cuts, deregulation, and a shift to shareholder primacy at the expense of investment in innovation and workers.
  • That began in the 1980s when Ronald Reagan was president and led a push for more Laissez Faire economics.
  • Ignoring the US's hand in the demise of its own working class means this administration will never actually find ways to grow the economy for them.

William Lazonick, The Financialization of the U.S. Corporation: What Has Been Lost, and How It Can Be Regained

Since the beginning of the 1980s, employment relations in U.S. industrial corporations have undergone three major structural changes—which I summarize as “rationalization,” “marketization,” and “globalization”—that have permanently eliminated middle-class jobs.2 From the early 1980s, rationalization, characterized by plant closings, eliminated the jobs of unionized blue-collar workers. From the early 1990s, marketization, characterized by the end of a career with one company as an employment norm, placed the job security of middle-aged and older white-collar workers in jeopardy. From the early 2000s, globalization, characterized by the movement of employment offshore, left all members of the U.S. labor force, even those with advanced educational credentials and substantial work experience, vulnerable to displacement.


Economic Downturn and Legacy of Bush Policies Continue to Drive Large Deficits​

Federal deficits and debt have been sharply higher under President Obama, but the evidence continues to show that the Great Recession, President Bush’s tax cuts, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq explain most of the deficits that have occurred on Obama’s watch — based on the latest Congressional Budget Office projections as well as legislation enacted since we last issued this analysis of what lies behind current deficits and debt.


5 Ways the Trump Administration’s Policy Failures Compounded the Coronavirus-Induced Economic Crisis​

The weakness of the Trump administration’s economic response to the coronavirus crisis—much like the failure of its public health response—can be seen in comparison with the United States’ international peers. As demonstrated by the experiences of peer nations, a rapid and coordinated public health response could have contained the pandemic more effectively and reduced the mounting economic losses. Instead, it seems as though the United States is getting the worst of both: the highest death toll of any country and what will likely be the sharpest economic contraction in American history.

Cross-country comparisons of unemployment rates illuminate how effective strong worker protections and early testing measures could have been in the United States had they been promoted by the federal government. South Korea, which largely avoided shutting down its economy due to its early and aggressive actions, recorded an unemployment rate of 3.8 percent in April—only slightly above the 3.3 percent figure recorded in February. Australia, which implemented a wage subsidy program equivalent to 3.5 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP), has seen its unemployment rate increase from 5.1 percent to 6.2 percent over the same time period. Germany, too, only saw a modest increase in its unemployment rate, as it ticked up from 5.0 percent to 5.8 percent. The United States, on the other hand, recorded an unemployment rate of 14.7 percent in April—up dramatically from the 3.5 percent figure in February.

These differences in unemployment rates have massive consequences for the number of Americans currently without employment. Had the United States unemployment rate followed the same trajectory as those of its peers, millions more Americans would still be employed. Based on the percent changes in unemployment rates, between 17 and 18 million more Americans would still have their jobs if the United States had experienced changes in unemployment rate similar to those of Australia, Germany, or South Korea. And even if the United States had followed a slightly worse trajectory, like that of Canada, at least 11 million fewer people would be unemployed.

View attachment 990277

The Trump administration failed to take the coronavirus outbreak seriously. In late February, while other high-income countries were ramping up testing and developing tracing procedures, President Donald Trump stated that “the Coronavirus [was] very much under control.” It was during these critical early weeks and months that the United States should have been stockpiling protective gear for frontline workers and making testing widely available. In contrast, South Korea, a country whose first confirmed case of COVID-19 coincided with that of the United States, bought 720,000 masks for employees of businesses considered at risk of exposure to the coronavirus. When asked if the U.S. federal government would supply personal protective equipment (PPE) to states, President Trump responded that it would not act as a “shipping clerk.”​

Meanwhile, Australia, the UK, and Italy get a pass? I thought Trump’s COVID policy leading up to the outbreak was lagging far behind other nations.

The PPE deployment only goes so far when you had Democrats fighting Trump on blocking incoming flights from China upon the outbreak until
It was too late. The Democrats thought that was racist.
 
GFY asshole.
That statement was not made to insult women. It was a fact due to feminism at a higher percentage than if feminism did not exist or more importantly did not get out of control. This is not the world according to me. All you have to do is look at the facts from the Great Society of the 1960's and some things related before and the rise of the feminism that really took off in the early 1970's. The expansion of the federal, state, city, local and regional governments went up like climbing a cliff. And the resources are massive for all of it. Compassion and sympathy for people is fine. If much of it is artificial from the agendas in all ways, then we are eating ourselves. So, taxpayers foot the costs. And those who follow many semblances of rules and have a smaller footprint on receiving any help from government or private donations in anyway are the suckers. Just like the 2008 housing collapse. The politicians involved in that should burn in hell.
 
Bill Clinton had to clean up a mess because of 3 terms of Reaganomics. Obama had to clean up a near Depression after Bush. Biden had to clean up a huge mess left by Trump and Republicans are talking about Democrats destroying America? WTF? It is apparent that being "conservative" is a mental disorder.

The White House is only telling you half of the sad story of what happened to American jobs​

  • The Trump administration's timeline on the decline of American workers starts in the late 1990s with the rise of China.
  • That thinking overlooks the impact of spending cuts, deregulation, and a shift to shareholder primacy at the expense of investment in innovation and workers.
  • That began in the 1980s when Ronald Reagan was president and led a push for more Laissez Faire economics.
  • Ignoring the US's hand in the demise of its own working class means this administration will never actually find ways to grow the economy for them.

William Lazonick, The Financialization of the U.S. Corporation: What Has Been Lost, and How It Can Be Regained

Since the beginning of the 1980s, employment relations in U.S. industrial corporations have undergone three major structural changes—which I summarize as “rationalization,” “marketization,” and “globalization”—that have permanently eliminated middle-class jobs.2 From the early 1980s, rationalization, characterized by plant closings, eliminated the jobs of unionized blue-collar workers. From the early 1990s, marketization, characterized by the end of a career with one company as an employment norm, placed the job security of middle-aged and older white-collar workers in jeopardy. From the early 2000s, globalization, characterized by the movement of employment offshore, left all members of the U.S. labor force, even those with advanced educational credentials and substantial work experience, vulnerable to displacement.


Economic Downturn and Legacy of Bush Policies Continue to Drive Large Deficits​

Federal deficits and debt have been sharply higher under President Obama, but the evidence continues to show that the Great Recession, President Bush’s tax cuts, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq explain most of the deficits that have occurred on Obama’s watch — based on the latest Congressional Budget Office projections as well as legislation enacted since we last issued this analysis of what lies behind current deficits and debt.


5 Ways the Trump Administration’s Policy Failures Compounded the Coronavirus-Induced Economic Crisis​

The weakness of the Trump administration’s economic response to the coronavirus crisis—much like the failure of its public health response—can be seen in comparison with the United States’ international peers. As demonstrated by the experiences of peer nations, a rapid and coordinated public health response could have contained the pandemic more effectively and reduced the mounting economic losses. Instead, it seems as though the United States is getting the worst of both: the highest death toll of any country and what will likely be the sharpest economic contraction in American history.

Cross-country comparisons of unemployment rates illuminate how effective strong worker protections and early testing measures could have been in the United States had they been promoted by the federal government. South Korea, which largely avoided shutting down its economy due to its early and aggressive actions, recorded an unemployment rate of 3.8 percent in April—only slightly above the 3.3 percent figure recorded in February. Australia, which implemented a wage subsidy program equivalent to 3.5 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP), has seen its unemployment rate increase from 5.1 percent to 6.2 percent over the same time period. Germany, too, only saw a modest increase in its unemployment rate, as it ticked up from 5.0 percent to 5.8 percent. The United States, on the other hand, recorded an unemployment rate of 14.7 percent in April—up dramatically from the 3.5 percent figure in February.

These differences in unemployment rates have massive consequences for the number of Americans currently without employment. Had the United States unemployment rate followed the same trajectory as those of its peers, millions more Americans would still be employed. Based on the percent changes in unemployment rates, between 17 and 18 million more Americans would still have their jobs if the United States had experienced changes in unemployment rate similar to those of Australia, Germany, or South Korea. And even if the United States had followed a slightly worse trajectory, like that of Canada, at least 11 million fewer people would be unemployed.

View attachment 990277

The Trump administration failed to take the coronavirus outbreak seriously. In late February, while other high-income countries were ramping up testing and developing tracing procedures, President Donald Trump stated that “the Coronavirus [was] very much under control.” It was during these critical early weeks and months that the United States should have been stockpiling protective gear for frontline workers and making testing widely available. In contrast, South Korea, a country whose first confirmed case of COVID-19 coincided with that of the United States, bought 720,000 masks for employees of businesses considered at risk of exposure to the coronavirus. When asked if the U.S. federal government would supply personal protective equipment (PPE) to states, President Trump responded that it would not act as a “shipping clerk.”​


And this is what some peope want to return to?
Because we have a grasp on reality
 
When you leave the door open and millions of Illegal Aliens invade... no one wants to hear the rest of it.

When inflation rages unchecked for months and dramatically raises prices... no one wants to hear the rest of it.

When you shove the green agenda down the throats of the populace... no one wants to hear the rest of it.

When you shove LGBTQ dogma down the throats of the populace... no one wants to hear the rest of it.

When your prosecutors are incompetent and oftentimes blatantly corrupt... no one wants to hear the rest of it.

When you fail to enforce the laws of the United States... no one wants to hear the rest of it.

When you betray our friend and ally Israel and its Jews... no one wants to hear the rest of it.

When you tax people within an inch of their lives... no one wants to hear the rest of it.

When you push for Reparations for Blacks... no one wants to hear the rest of it.

When you anoint a Presidential candidate without letting people vote for her... no one wants to hear the rest of it.

Clean up your act... restore your (now lost) standing as the Party of the Working Man... and maybe people will listen again.
The winner! And, this dude simply is guilty of revisionist history on what really happened. Clinton did have some good moves because if Gingrich and the Republican Congress. His mortgage fiasco hurt Obama and the country.
 
Oh we do, you just keep being a victim!
No you actualyl don't and the only people playing victim are right wing white males. That is why you worship trump. He plays the victim just like you.
 
No you actualy don't and theony people payingvictim are riht wing white males. That is why you worship trump. He plays the victim just like you.
Could you please type that in a somewhat coherent way?
 

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