Don’t insult cowboy , Vanilla ICEBERG is much closer to a trailer park turd . 
I didn’t want to go there…
My college is far more selective than G. Tech.
How far did you get?
Awe, now…there’s nothing wrong with people that live in trailer parks. Besides, it’s not a trailer if you take the wheels off of it.
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Economists.
1One of the original architects of what we call free market economics:
Adam Smith, author of The Wealth Of Nations.
2David Ricardo, a proponent of Laissez Faire Capitalism.
3Used to exchange letters with gloom and doom author Robert Malthus, who once
suggested that rising population levels would soon outstrip the economy’s ability to produce
enough food.
4. Friedrich Hayek, Nobel Laureate in free market economics.
5. Ludwig von Mises, probably considered the most brilliant economist of all time: The Von Mises
Institute is named after him. He studied from free market economist
6. Carl Menger-Founder of the school of Austrian Economics.
7. Karl Marx-a mathematician who actually put mathematical numbers to earlier theories of
utopian Socialism. The Communist Manifesto is pretty much the playbook of the modern Democrat
Party
8.Ayn Rand-novelist, philosophy, creator of Objectivism, editor of a publication that featured some
of the greatest economists of the Sixties, including future Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan.
9. Dr.Milton Friedman, another Nobel Laureate who originally defined inflation in understandable terms
in the book “Free to Choose.”
And of course there was the genius team that helped craft the Reagan revolution, which repaired an economy that suffered under liberal presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter. These included Robert Mundell, Arthur Laffer, Charles Kadlec, Jude Wanniski, Larry Kudlow and Rep. Jack Kemp.
The genius Trump economy (which is the greatest economy in the history of America) was basically this brilliant businessman/President building on the theories of Reagan and his brilliant team.
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How does a Supply Side fanboy list Malthus and Marx but not Say and Bastiat?
I think it’s because Supply Side Fanboy learned everything he knows about econ from radio and television.
Ayn Rand was a crank and a nympho, but not an economist…Jude Wanniski declared with considerable pride that he had no economic training.
I don’t even want to ask how Ford and Nixon qualify as “liberals”, but I will tell you that Carter did better than Reagan with respect to GDP growth and employment - without quadrupling the debt.
But most inexplicable of all is the bullshitty about Grifty…
By what measures is “his” economy the “greatest ever”?
BTW, note that the remedy for what has befallen us was first proposed by J. M. Keynes…
Anybody who has to brag about their credentials on a Internet forum is usually a highly insecure person seeking validation! Just saying.
because he sucks.
Besides, that’s not my list.
How does Thomas Sowell not make your list?
geezer already announced his credentials.
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What have you got?
Cause a meme ain’t gonna cut it.
In other words, you really have no idea what you’re talking about. You blew ALL your credibility with that ignorant Carter remark.
Nixon signed food stamps and the EPA into law. He signed affirmative action (the only true institutional racism that somehow escaped the Civil Rights Act). And he signed the Budget and Impoundment Act of 1973, which created baseline budgeting. It’s the reason why today ENTITLEMENTS are 70 percent of the federal budget and their rate of increase cannot be cut except by an act of Congress. (“The Seven Fat Years”- Robert Bartley.) Nixon had a liberal achievement record that only the KENYAN VILLAGE IDIOT could equal.
Ford basically agreed with Nixon. In fact, the Nixon wage and price freeze pretty much inspired the formation of the Libertarian Party. (In a book by Dave Bergland.)
Just because you don’t like a person doesn’t mean that person is not an economist. Rand was one of the most brilliant American novelists of all time. But she was an embarrassment to people in her inner circle. She espoused many extremist left wing ideas today, including atheism and abortion. She had the morals of a mink and destroyed marriages right and left. Doesn’t mean there was anything wrong with her free market ideas. Some consider her the mother of modern libertarianism. One of her proteges (Alan Greenspan, who wrote for the Objectivist Newsletter) wound up becoming the Fed Chairman under Reagan. He authored brilliant pieces like this one.
https://www.constitution.org/mon/greenspan_gold.ht
(In some ways, the same could be said about Donald Trump. As great a president he is, he wasn’t the most moral man in the world in his former life. He kinda had the morals of a mink. Then again, he never raped anyone like KKKlinton did.)
The greatest economy of all time occurred due to the policies of President Trump and the Republicans in Congress. That economy is measured by (1) highest employment numbers of all time with personal incomes rising like never before, (2) GDP growth off the charts. (3) highest DOW in history, (4) America becoming the world’s number one oil exporter. While the KENYAN SHOESHINE BOY was very clear that the manufacturing jobs would never come back without a magic want, the Harry Potter President waved his wand with tax cuts and America is flush with good paying manufacturing jobs. While the KENYAN SHOESHINE BOY reigned over the worst unemployment numbers in history, HIGHEST food stamp use, and MILLIONS of workers plain giving up on ever finding a job, the Trump miracle put all those people to work. Before the Pelosi Virus, we had the LOWEST food stamp usage in a decade, all from families giving up the entitlement because they don’t need it. If you honestly believe America should go back to that misery just because you hate the Orange Man, then your alleged degree isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.
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For a sense of the validity of your Stream of Bullshit, why don’t we start here…
The easiest way is to ask you to post the real gdp numbers for q4 1980 and q1 1981…
But you have no idea where to look, so you will bluff and insist that I must do so…
Let’s get that done first…
Go ahead…bleat your line about not “doing your homework”…
Good.
The two quarters AVERAGED nearly 8%…
You had no idea, right?
It’s only just begun
Stop…you know neither economics, nor literature…
I think I’m gonna puke…
Here’s Alan Greenspan
In his autobiography, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World (Penguin Press), Greenspan, 81, makes clear that his patron Ronald Reagan, who appointed him to head the U.S. central bank board in 1987, was a reckless steward of the nation’s finances, eclipsed in economic irresponsibility by current president George W. Bush.
Clinton was in a fiscal bind when he came to power in 1993, and the record deficits of Reagan and George H.W. Bush put him there. “The hard truth was that Reagan had borrowed from Clinton, and Clinton was having to pay it back,” Greenspan writes. “I was impressed that he did not seem to be trying to fudge reality to the extent politicians ordinarily do. He was forcing himself to live in the real world.”
The 1993 deficit-fighting Clinton budget that kicked off the greatest economic boom in U.S. history, and passed the U.S. House of Representatives without a single G.O.P. vote in favour, was “an act of political courage,” says Greenspan, no doubt mindful it wasn’t popular with left-wing members of the Democratic Party, either.
Clintonomics, to recap, produced 22 million new jobs (against a 1992 campaign promise of eight million); reduced the federal payroll to Kennedy-era levels; brought about the first narrowing of the income gap between rich and poor since the 1950s; and generated the first surpluses in three decades, totalling $615 billion (U.S.) in Clinton’s last four budgets.
Clinton emerges as the hero of Greenspan’s 531-page memoir.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/columnists/2007/09/18/greenspan_is_clintons_unlikely_defender.html
Now why don’t you wrap your tiny slogan fricaseed mind around that while I get the GDP and jobs data.
The Reagan recovery began in 1984. It didn’t help that the Politiburo of the Welfare State (better known as Democrats) blocked most of his moves. So, you lose that point.
Stop. Just because someone says something you don’t like doesn’t mean that person doesn’t know anything. You need to grow up and learn to handle disagreement. This is not a safe space and you don’t want to look like this all the time.
I certainly understand why.
Probably because I know what I’m talking about and you don’t. The last time the budget was balanced was in 1969, during the VIETNAM WAR, and that was when Defense spending was at an all time high. It was also before Nixon signed baseline budgeting into law in the Seventies. Beginning in 1981, entitlement spending exploded and is SOLELY RESPONSIBLE for the major deficits.
KKKlinton basically did NOTHING but make things worse. It took the Newt Gingrich House to stop him and rescue the economy he and tax raising George Bush almost completely destroyed.
Those are the facts and
Here’s an original idea: Read more. Post less.
Use your brains and not your emotions.
This forum is not your safe space. There are people here who disagree with you.
And you don’t make much of a statement for your side of the aisle when all your responses
amount to
Stop with the filibustering and meme dropping…they are no substitute for actual argument or facts.
Sperry is a hack…now stop bluffing with the pap and let’s go to the primary sources…
Can you read a graph, “reason”…do you see the blue line breaching the x axis from below?
Do you know what that means?
(Cue the Steiner)
Paid operative that keeps posting the same bullshit. What does that tell ya? Holy crap! Cognitive dissonance is reaching new heights out of desperation. The managers forgot to fill the trolls batch bin so they have to recycle the same garbage! 
Since when is federal budget data “bullshit”?
Google “dispositive”, braindead yapping loser.
Just getting down to your gutter level. You don’t argue. You insult, like a child. I’m just putting you in your place.
Your opinion only. Intelligent people think otherwise.
Oh, and any idiot can throw up a graph. Means nothing.
[US Budget Deficit History](https://www.thoughtco.com
/history-of-us-federal-budget-deficit-3321439)
- 1969 - $3.2 billion budget surplus
I don’t go by those inflated KKKlinton surplus myths because a lot of items were off budget. It is safe to say that there was no such thing as a KKKlinton surplus.
http://www.craigsteiner.us/articles/16
While not defending the increase of the federal debt under President Bush, it’s curious to see Clinton’s record promoted as having generated a surplus. It never happened. There was never a surplus and the facts support that position. In fact, far from a $360 billion reduction in the national debt in FY1998-FY2000, there was an increase of $281 billion.
Just to give you some idea what’s coming…
Did you look at the stuff in the parentheses below the graph - the data for which is clearly indicated?