The Economy And Unemployment: Saying What Needs To Be Said

By Victor Hatley on September 5, 2010, 11:03 am

The Republican party is tearing up the Democrats at the polls, this is a fact. The Democrats keep attempting to highlight all their positive accomplishments and policies, but this method of campaigning doesn’t seem to be very effective for them at this time…peoples long term memories tend to block out the suffering and bad times. So, the public tends to focus on the problems at hand, but in this case, what their long term memories are neglecting, is the cause of this mess.

Democratic Campaigns Should Look Like This

Instead of touting accomplishments, (well…totally,) Democrats should point out the careless lending of the banking institutions, and then how they are fixing it; or that big business corporations used this recession to lay off hundreds of thousands, then sit on their mountain of cash, instead of hiring and expanding in the U.S. Big business is also opening factories overseas, and automating the jobs that were eliminated to start with. There’s also Wall Street, (Goldman Sachs,) mine worker safety, and health insurance cost increases (WellPoint’s double-digit increases,) I could go on and on, but you understand.

Addressing The Issues

Most of the previous issues listed in this article have been addressed, and this should be pointed out, to the best of the abilities of our government. But the ever deepening recession is on every voters mind, and the Democrats could put the Republicans on notice by pointing out the problems that lead up to the present state of the economy. Many of which were created and set to go during Republican administrations.

 

Once Was A Surplus

A few administrations ago it was announced that the government had a surplus of funds, and this was great. For the first time in decades the U.S. was bringing in more than they spent, yahoo! But, as with all things, policies change (at least they do in our government) and in the end (today) we owe trillions of dollars to China, and other governments around the globe. It took over ten years to get into the deep recession we are experiencing now…people need to be reminded of the policies, laws, and arrogance that got us here in the first place.

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