No exageration here Spence, just mho as to the most simple way. :hihi:

The Democrats took control of Congress in the 2006 elections. At the time they took over, the economy was growing like crazy, and unemployment was so low my golden retriever could have walked into Burger King and walked out as assistant manager. The Democrats officially took over the legislature in January 2007. The legislature, in our republic, controls the legislative agenda. Are things better now, or worse? The market indices? Unemployment? GDP growth? Our national debt?

Take all the time you need responding to that one.

Zimmy, Bill Clinton saw the light in 1996 and turned to the right. He cut taxes, balanced the budget, and told millions of people on welfare to go get a job. Do you know what they did? They went out and got a job. When you threaten to remove the safety net, people have more incentive to keep both hands on the trapeeze.

anyway, when Clinton implemented what we now identify as conservative principles - you guessed it- the economy grew like crazy. Bush comntinued this, and - you guessed it - the economy grew like crazy.

What we need is precisely what you mocked - a return to those principles that appeared to work. However, we need to learn from our mistakes, and do it smarter this time...meaning, liberals can't force banks to give $400,000 mortgages to men's room attendants just because it serves their agenda, and conservatives can't let Wall Street run wild with fishy derivitives.

That's what we need to do, and we need to curtail reckless spending, and address social security and medicare shortfalls.

Someone tell me why that's not the best track. We get those that can, back to work. we'll have more tax revenue to help those who need it. That's the track to prosperity.