I'm not,his politics did setback my countries economy per years when his apprentice try to introduced it. . .
If you're talking about George W. Bush, he's an adult, I think we're got to blame him. And our fellow citizens, and I'm really sorry, but they have some glaring holes in their knowledge,
and/or their patience, or lack thereof,
And that's what might really hurt people as far as effective, practical, applicable intelligence. It's like a frustrated football fan yelling, "You've got to establish the run!!" When actually that went away with Bill Walsh and the West Coast Offense, and before him with Don Coryell.
With the 2008 financial institution near-meltdown, there was this big beefy guy who bellowed at a state legislative committee, "Quit spending!!" and then he kind of settled down and made his points. And even though it was called a "debt crisis," it was about repackaged subprimed mortgages, especially the repackaging and reselling part, and not about government spending (but that's the conservative playbook and that's what the big beefy fellow went with)
Keynesian economics is the big one the public misses,
It's not just deficit spending during downturns, although that's an important part. During overheated economies, it's also about higher taxes and/or less spending to cool off the overheated economy. In a word, Keynesian economics are "counter-cyclical" (okay, kind of two words!)
Going to pull a quote from economist Alan Blinder that during the recovery from the 2008 & 2009 recession, Republican House Speaker John Boehner got away with repeatedly using the phrase "job killing government spending," which by a mainstream economic viewpoint, is just crazy
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PS and fully plead guilty to being optimistic!
