(12-07-2014 05:45 PM)toddjnsn Wrote: I have to ask far-right-tea people this: Would you rather have a pure-bread laissez faire system that resulted in a not-so-great economy but felt great as being a truly 'fair' system, or a mixed economy that would make socialists & tea-folk both pissy, that was significantly better over decades (but not completely 'fair')?
Most of the "far right" tea party (note to Todd: it's not even a party, there is no headquarters for the US Tea Party. It's a grass roots movement of people who simply want us to spend within our means and do away with heavy handed regulation). You know, like you do in your own household. Pay your bills on time, don't spend more than you take in, etc. If that qualifies as loony to you, well then........your a "far left nut."
We are so far removed from a pure-bread laissez faire system that only a complete nut would even suggest we will move to one. It will NEVER HAPPEN. That day passed with the deaths of Rockefeller and JP Morgan a hundred years ago. You have nothing to worry about in that regard. However, you are losing your freedoms incrementally by having rules and regulations imposed upon you wrapped in "compassion."
I feel bad for the under 40 crowd. They've been conditioned to believe that a crap economy is normal, and have fully bought into the narrative of the left, that only the rich benefited under Reagan. Newsflash. In my entire life I have never seen a recession go beyond a year and a half. This one is going on year 7.
My wife and I were making right around 30k a year during the end of the Carter administration. By the end of the Reagan administration (8 years) we were making triple that, were on our third house, and had sizable 401Ks. Those were great times. Real GDP growth (7% +), a strong belief in the country.
Seriously Todd, what you're seeing from this Debbie Downer president is not normal. You've gone to college and worked you azz off to make something of yourself.........not to fork it over to a bunch of elitist fools in Washington to spend your money as they see fit.