The Economy

[Versac]

With the current economic roller coaster quickly becoming the centerpiece of the upcoming election, I thought I'd start a thread to throw around some thoughts. To start, in the words of Brian Clevinger: "Lady, I never heard of you before but you're ok in my book."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S27yitK32ds

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It becomes really interesting when one realizes the plan Ms. Kaptur outlines basically reverses Reganomics in all of its forms. Discuss.

 

[animaldude]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5tZc8oH--o

 

[ImprobabilityDrive]

While it's certainly not popular to say this, mostly because many conservatives have spent a generation deifying Reagan, the Reagan era policies of rampant, overzealous, deregulation have led to the crisis today.

 

[UltimaLink007]

I know, shocking that I make an appearance in the Politics area...

Today in Government/Politics class, my teacher had us watch this:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4502673n

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/05/60minutes/main4502454.shtml (Article, Typed form)

I found this quite insightful and something that everyone should watch.