The Dow is just an indicator of investor confidence in the future, not an actual measure of results. Focus on GDP and jobs (which admittedly are sucking) for real world results. While I'm usually a conservative on economic matters, the powers that be failed to prevent the wall street crisis from becoming a main street crisis. Now that the the chain reaction of GDP contraction and job losses has started, the only thing that can break the cycle is a major infusion of spending, and the only entity capable of doing what needs to be done on the scale required at this point is the government. Hopefully, once things turn around, the GOP will win some elections and some of the pork can be rolled back.
Except if it's the Dems who pull us out via the kind of plan they've been trying to institute for years, why would you want the monolithic, one-trick pony Repubs to take over again? You enjoy rollercoasters? And since when is spending on building infrastructure, education, supporting commerce, pork?
And, BTW, Bush- a Repub -is officially the biggest spender in the history of the Presidency. In fact, four of the top five spending presidents have been Repubs (with LBJ being the lone Dem). In fact, Bush nearly doubled the spending of Clinton in their comparable 8 years in office. So this notion that the Repubs are the miserly ones needs to end. It's rhetorical claptrap spewed by Limbaugh for impressionables like Coach.
BTW- Another falsehood is that WWII "ended" the Great Republican (Hoover) Depression. It was already well on it's way under Roosevelt. The war actually slowed down economic growth. We would have been in a much stronger place fiscally in 1946 had it not been for the war.
