Would you like median income to grow $22,000 and 3.8% unemployment?

GreenRiverGatorz said:

RaceBannon said:

GreenRiverGatorz said:

RaceBannon said:

2001400ex said:

RaceBannon said:

Friedman, however, argues that Sanders' plan would be more stimulative because it is pouring money into the economy, as opposed to cutting taxes. Several of Sanders' proposals -- such as spending $1 trillion on infrastructure -- will happen in the first few years of his administration.


The thinking goes: This enhanced government spending would increase demand on businesses, who would then hire more workers to meet their needs. The increase in employment will prompt people to buy more, leading other businesses to hire.


"If there is more spending, people will have more to do," Friedman said, noting that the share of the population with jobs could be restored to its 1999 level of more than 64%, up from its current 59.6% rate.


Obama's shovel ready jobs and I got a good chuckle out of this

You are aware that our best economy is during war when government spending is out of control right? From a fundamental perspective, government spending reduces unemployment and increases corporate profits in the short term. Long-term effects of massive deficits or tax increases are another matter.

That being said, even if Bernie does get elected, none of the shit he's proposing will actually pass.

We already tried what Bernie is advocating which is the point that flew over your head.

And by the most conservative estimates, 600,000 jobs were gained by the stimulus package. Your head has to be firmly lodged into your ass to try to deny that that bill achieved what it set out to do.

Obama himself joked that the jobs weren't a shovel ready as he thought. Real funny

But if you would like to link to your stats in the face of a failing economy still under Obama we can take a look.

The economy still sucks and the money was used to prop up state government unions

By what metric does our economy "suck"? Unless your retirement portfolio consists of 90% oil and gas securities, I'm not sure how one would arrive at that conclusion.

A reasonable person might argue that our economy isn't as robust as it could be, and that our economy is merely average. Or they would make the argument that Obama and the dems' policies have done very little to help the economy, instead we're just seeing the result of the natural uptick of the business cycle. Or perhaps they'd instead credit the Fed's monetary policy and the quantitative easing from 2009-2014 as being far more instrumental in the economy's recovery than any of Obama's fiscal policies. Hell, you'd make a lot more sense if you tried to make the argument that had Congressional Republicans actually allowed a number of Obama's economic proposals to get passed (the American Jobs Act being the most significant example of Obama's economic defeats), our economy would be in much worse shape than it is.

But why try to make any of those arguments when you can just rest your case on "Obama sucks".

The bumper-sticker-politics generation can't die soon enough.