Republican or Democrat?

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bannedagain said:

badgenome said:

I don't really see how the first three were particularly detrimental to the economy in the short term, unless you believe that debt and deficits are what caused the recession. The sub-prime crisis seems a far likelier culpri

WARS ARE EXPENSIVE. YOU HAVE TO RAISE TAXES WHEN YOU GO TO WAR.  When you put money back into jobs it makes sense.

Okay? But what does that have to do with this specific recession? It seems like you're spouting slogans and blaming the recession on things you dislike, which may or may not be bad things but aren't generally thought to have had anything to do with why the economy crashed. The general consensus is that years of easy credit gave us too much debt at all levels of the economy, especially in the housing sector, and it eventually blew up in our faces. If you have an alternate theory, I'm interested to hear it, but please - no more GOERGE BUSH MAED A WAR AND IT WAS SAD AND BAD JOBS NOT BOMBS!!!! stuff.