Life Changing Mindset

why dont the republicans ever compliment hoover they have the same mindset?

why dont they run on his record . they are using the same tactics, ideas,views, platform and mindset as hoover. they will get the SAME RESULT AS HE DID. a great depression its on its way. only maybe bigger.

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1. And Yomama is running on the Marx doctrine.

2. Actually, Obama is running on the same record as Hoover.

Hoover, despite what has become the perception, was very interventionist. Most of the policies that FDR pursued were actually continuations of Hoover initiatives, as even Rex Tugwell, one of FDR's top men said.

But, what is truth to liberals?

3. True. Obama is more analogous to FDR, though less successful so far. WWII gave him a big boost.

4. :-)

What?
Hoover?
Wasn't it FDR's fault?
I mean, it had only been going on 2-3 years when Roosevelt was elected.

Edit: <<Obama had a super majority in Congress for a full year and one Senator short of one in the second.>>
So obviously there weren't any filibusters. OR NOT.

5. You have been misinformed. Hoover had nothing in common with the tactics, ideas, views, platform nor mindset of current Republicans.

Effects of recessions don't last more than 18--24 months unless government meddling is keeping recoveries from happening. At this point in the '81 recession under Reagan, the economy was growing at 6% and 250 thousand jobs were being created (by the private sector) each month. Tax cuts, reigning in the dollar (rolling back the quantitative easing of that time) and deregulation is what did it. After doing that, unemployment dropped though out the rest of his presidency and government revenues doubled from $500 billion to $1 trillion. It was a new, solid foundation for an economy that kept on getting better, even with a later S&L bailout and a recession that it shrugged off. The good times lasted for the next 17 years.

Bush also did tax cuts. After implementation of the Tax Relief and Reconciliation Act of 2003 (part 2 of the Bush Tax cuts), unemployment dropped and kept on dropping to a low of 4.4% in 2007. Bush's deficits were also coming down, on track with the projection of a balanced budget in 2010. All this got blown out of the water by the mortgage meltdown, a fiscally reckless, naive Progressive agenda fixated with creating "affordable" low-income housing......at any cost.

Obama had a super majority in Congress for a full year and one Senator short of one in the second. Two full years of card blanche (24 months) of being able to implement his tactics, ideas, views, platform and mindset. We are worse off. He is on the verge of pushing for a Stimulus Jr. The SAME stuff of Stimulus. Not only didn't it work, this one will only be half as big. Ironic that you are talking about "same results". The warranty on blaming Bush has run out!

Hoover didn't call for a cut in the corporate tax (currently the 2nd highest in the world). He didn't call for a cut in high end taxes (2/3 of all small business and their owners effected) and he didn't call for a roll back on stifling regulation that is crushing business (including Obamacare). This is what this crop of Republicans are calling for. Keep in mind, FDR's New Deal didn't get the US out of the depression. It lingered on for 7 years because of it. It was FDR's buying planes, tanks, ships, bombs, bullets and beans; trickle-down economics aimed straight at business, that did it. When he did that, the depression was over within a year.