Hartman is another leftist clown with nary a thought to call his own. He tries to be some big "speaking truth to power!" guy but ends up as just another liberal DNC talking point reading machine.
We've been through the numbers a thousand times on here.
800 billion dollar stimulus
U.E. Insurance to infinite
Historically high foodstamp enrollment.
3 years of 3.2+ trillion dollar budgets
3 years of 1+ trillion dollar budget deficits.
3 wars and a continued war economy
750 billion in defense spending.
ZERO % interest rates from the Fed from 2007-2013 (probably longer)
2 Rounds of QEII
Cash for Clunkers
The housing tax credit that duped so many Americans into bad housing deals
And fuck it, the Bush Tax Cut ext. didn't work and neither did the payroll tax cut (Which has got to be one of the dumbest thing to come down the pike from Obama yet) was a total failure too.
And the list goes on.....
All if it was stimulus in one way or another and all of it FAILED, FAILED, FAILED to produce anything resembling organic and sustainable economic growth. How many years has it been? How many more years does it have to be before some people realize it didn't work and never will? All of the standard Left-Right ideologue crap hasn't worked and won't work because it never addressed the root cause of what is killing us.
DEBT, an out of control and increasingly insolvent financial sector, wage growth and a tax code that doesn't punish the productive class and incentivise the off-shoring of our production capacity. There are other things, but these to me are the main reasons for our decline. This shouldn't be a surprise as it's been in the works for a loooong time right in front of us but we had easy credit and tons of access to debt to mask the fact that our real standard of living was declining.
