Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Progressive Attack Ad Done Right, Dems Take Notes" video.

So an Ebola vaccine would have just appeared out of nowhere if we would have just spent more money? We have been spending money on research for cures of different diseases including Ebola but we haven't found it yet. To say is that all we needed was more money is just asinine. The research was already being done. You can't say that more money would have lead to a vaccine. Also spending was increasing under Republicans. The cut happened under Democrats starting the 2011 fiscal year. I guess they failed to mentioned that fact.
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Ylze Tyr So you don't question any "expert" what so ever? No surprised with how ignorant you are. You find a person you deem to be an "expert" and follow their lead like a good little comrade.
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michael1618034 Look what happen in 2007 and beyond, democrats did some cutting as well (besides bailing out Wall Street).
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DAK4Blizzard Look throughout history, we have always had dips in the economy. The two times where it took the longest to get out were the two times where the Great Depression and now, both times correlated when we had increases in taxes and more government spending and more federal government involvement. The times where the economy recovered in 5 years or less were when we had almost no federal government involvement. You look at the last recession in the late 1970s and early 80s we had massive inflation and a drop in GDP, in a couple years we had a spike in GDP growth and inflation went down. We had little federal government involvement. What drives the economy is investment and creating capital. Jobs mean nothing. We can create jobs easily, it is wealth that is hard to create. People can work less and have less jobs but if a large amount of wealth is being created than we are fine, that is why jobs mean nothing. Government creating jobs is just government trying to prove they are worth something and trying to keep people busy. Creating jobs but not creating wealth is not progressive. So far under Obama and since 2007 we have not seen that spike in GDP growth to catch us up. Obama had a chance with his control of congress and he could have gotten us out in 2 years like Reagan did but instead he was concerned about healthcare and nothing else. Here we are 7 years after the recession and we are still stagnate.
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Randy Rogers The great depression was the first time we saw a recession last that long. Amazing how it correlated when a time when the federal government was highly involved in "fixing" it. What Reagan era recession? Seriously, we were out of it in 2 years with the spike in economic growth needed to catch us back up.
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DAK4Blizzard We have never recovered from the 2007 recession. For the first time ever we have had a recession but no spike in GDP growth to catch us up. While the recession stopped we are still behind. Funny how the two times were we saw the slowest recovery occurred when we had massive federal government involvement. You know, if free market ideas were tried in the 1929 recession and in 2007 people on the left will be all over the fact that we never got out of the great depression in over 10 years (where previous recessions took less than 5) and how we never recovered from the 2007 recession yet.
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DAK4Blizzard The market corrects itself. The federal government coming in with price control and higher taxes and spending ruins the value of the dollar and hinders the creation of capital. What we are seeing right now is poor leadership. We have a president that wants to push for more price control and spending and higher taxes (and got higher taxes) and refuses to work with the other side. It is still too risky to invest as long as Obama is in the white house. While the federal government can get little done right a lot of the states will follow the ideas of Obama which is just as bad. As we have seen in the state of Washington, that $15/hr min. wage has led to less pay, cut in benefits, jobs and increase in prices. Basically a worse economy. Capital did not come from government.
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DAK4Blizzard There are always dips in the economy, it happens. At the start of the recession we saw massive spending and eventually we saw an increase in taxes (with FICA taxes included). Obamacare was also a tax increase. While we are out of the recession we still haven't caught up. Median salary is down. The economy is still not good. The overall problem is that the federal government can't dictate or predict the market and the federal government is not there for the long term, they are there for the short term. So when the federal government tries to "fix" the economy it just places a band aid on it and it doesn't get better. Under FDR we ended up seeing another recession, under Obama now we haven't caught up, we are still behind. Throughout history it has shown that allowing the market to fix itself works. We have to let investors invest in what the market demands, not just move money around.
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DAK4Blizzard Real median income went from around $47,000 in 1985 to above $55,000 until 2007. It has since dropped to $51,000. Saying that median salary hasn't done well since Reagan is a lie. Obamacare is ruining the healthcare system. Doctors are going to retire early and we are going to see higher costs. Predicting the market is hard, that is true. Problem is that with government they think short term and are not held accountable. If their ideas fail all they have to do is raise the debt ceiling (or print more money, pretty much the same). With the private sector a business that doesn't do well fails and one that does well grows. The New Deal created another recession. Before 1929 we have seen other recessions and within 5 years or less we were out. 1929 was the first time were we saw a recession last longer than 5 years, it took over a decade to get out. The New Deal compounded our problems then and are making them worse now.
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DAK4Blizzard http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prin1.t02.htm If you look at that the only industry where wages dropped in comparison to productivity was retail by -0.1 which isn't much. Other areas increased thus wages are outpacing productivity. The New Deal expanded the powers of the federal giving them no limits and influence on the economy.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/10/15/the-absurd-claim-that-only-republicans-are-to-blame-for-cuts-to-ebola-research/
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