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I’m starting a new category, Graphs. I’ve got a few that I like…
found on the Inteligent Guess blog.
So I just wrote up a blurb for this graph above, then decided I’d rather it be below because it was getting to ‘rich’ – so a little ctrl-x and ctrl-v – and no love, it pastes the link to the picture that I had previously had in the clip-board. So either wordpress (always to blame) or Opera screwed me royally! F#*k, I hate computers!
Anyway, long story shortened… The Republican party (more so than the Dems) is a sham. It uses code words that trigger an idea in the minds of voters when the actual intention is completely different. The party of small government my ass! Tax breaks, get real – you think a giant military and law enforcement apparatus is free? And privitizing something that still gets funding from the government doesn’t cut it. blah blah blah, you get the point.
The double speak is in full force and no one cares – too stuporfied by french fries and xbox.
I liken the republican party to the American automotive industry. They have an inferior product and rather than focussing on improving it, they put all of there effort into marketing and image presentation. Market with guilt, no problem… buy American. Of course, at the same time they are saying buy American, are they themselves bending over backwards to support their American labor? of course not. The Republican party for the last 30 years has been purely a marketing campaign with no product of substance. It’s just sad how successful marketing alone really can be.
Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation
Anyway … nice blog to visit.
cheers, Reconstitute
The point is simply that the Republican party bills (markets) itself as the party of small, fiscally conservative governmnet. If that were the truth, the logical expectation would be that spending would drop and savings would increase during their leadership periods, leading to a reduction of public debt. Here we see a steady post WWII drop in public debt (totally reasonable given the scale of the war) followed by a marginal plataue during the period of the Vietnam War and then two periods of increased public debt flanking a decreasing trend overlapping the presidential terms of certain parties… with the opposite result of what we’re told to expect.
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