The GOP wants to turn back the clock

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Republicans seem to believe that simply rolling back Obama’s reforms and returning to former President George W. Bush’s economy will set us straight.


But those are the policies that drove us off the cliff.


They weren’t working for most Americans even when the economy was growing.


Worse, what little lift we had came from a massive housing bubble — some $8 trillion in exaggerated housing value — that has burst.


We can’t go back there and should not want to.


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The Gildled Age???

I'm not going back to the gilded age!

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Mark Twain called the late nineteenth century the "Gilded Age." By this, he meant that the period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath. In the popular view, the late nineteenth century was a period of greed and guile: of rapacious Robber Barons, unscrupulous speculators, and corporate buccaneers, of shady business practices, scandal-plagued politics, and vulgar display.

It is easy to caricature the Gilded Age as an era of corruption, conspicuous consumption, and unfettered capitalism. But it is more useful to think of this as modern America’s formative period, when an agrarian society of small producers was transformed into an urban society dominated by industrial corporations.
 
Let's make a deal. We can turn back the clock to Clinton's taxation level, if we also turn back the clock to the 1990s Congress' spending level.

Let's get'r'done...
 
Damocles said:
Let's make a deal. We can turn back the clock to Clinton's taxation level, if we also turn back the clock to the 1990s Congress' spending level.*Let's get'r'done...
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Do you know what those levels were?
 
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