The U.S. Economy: What Happens on November 7th, 2012?

[Strega Ribiera]

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article showing in very clear detail illustrating that the GOP campaigns going back over a generation have not changed. Moreover, both Republicans and Democrats are simply mired in the past. With shockingly little honest debate taking place about economics in a recession that is barely crawling to recovery, politics has transformed the debate into some kind of bizarre time machine. And the right-wing ideologues for small government fail to recognize that we simply cannot make the math work by cutting spending without sending hundreds of thousands of people to their graves.

We can certainly find areas to cut government spending, but the only serious economic answer to our problems is that we need new revenue sources that are FREE FROM POLITICAL MANIPULATION FOR VOTES.

If nothing else came out of the two parties’ national conventions, this struck me as the current condition of our two-party political system: the race became clearer but the actual policies became muddier.

Read more here: http://hg.scimth.net/2012/09/17/the-economy-what-happens-on-november-7th-2012/