The Economy: Let's Get Ready to Tumble!

The Cartoon doesn't really tell it right, The Demo's Cant drive, they only know how to spend other peoples money, none of them have ever worked for a living they have been career politicians the cartoon should really Depict OBAMA's boot on the throat of the Taxpayor while the IRS Picks our pockets. The Demo's Cant drive they have limonsines and Airplanes that take them every where on our Money. and the fools that give all our money to them and they give us back $250.00 a year or 13.00 per week WOW makes me really happy!!!what a bout you.

The Trussells have it wrong...again! As usual, they ignore the fact that the Democrats have controlled Congress since 2006 and as a result have controlled fiscal policy, NOT the Republicans (see Barney Frank's "oversight" of Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac)as an example). I repeat my call for AOL to add another political cartoonist to this section to provide another viewpoint beyond the unremittingly-liberal and ill-informed product provided by the Trussells. The true answer to the cartoon is that the party responsible owns both choices offered: the Democrats!

Isw916, BOY have you got it WRONG! Recessions are the natural flow of any economy. How can you say it is a 'deeper hole' each time when (until now) nothing has compared to the Depression of the 1930s? or is that simply a talking point?? Government spending doesn't keep the middle class afloat, it keeps them dependent and subjected to an all powerful government. No taxes will get you everything if you want the economy to grow, but it will also destroy the government. If taxes are good, why not tax at 100%? Because people would suffer because business would not be as productive. But, then again, we need taxes to make the government work, so 0% is not right either. The correct number is between 100 and 0 percent, but the closer to zero, the better for business. When taxes are at 0, business thrive, there has to be a point closer to zero where there is minimal impact on businesses and maximum input to the tax coffers. The economy was destroyed by Barney Frank and the Democrats (and RINOs) who controlled Congress. The spending of FDR prolonged the Depression just as the Obama spending will prolong this recession. If you max out your credit cards, you don't go get new credit to solve your problem, you cut your expenses (decrease the size of government) and increase your income (by reducing taxes to a more tolerable amount). But you definitely don't increase spending and raise taxes - thus hurting businesses. A great example is the minimum wage. On the surface it sounds great until business don't hire as many people because they can't afford to pay them what the government forces. Because of the minimum wage, unemployment of teens and blacks is disproportionately high. The only thing wrong with the comic above is it should read, " ... or the party that set the car on fire?" Obama's policies have set the car on fire and they are pouring the gas of debt on the flames!

This not a fair assessment of economic reality. This is just one in a series of recessions the Republicants got us into. The truth is, each time a recession hits, it becomes harder to dig out of. Look at history. From Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagon, Bush 1 & 2, these supplyside, trickle-downners have put the middle class in a deeper hole each time they got power. No taxes will get you nothing. Government spending in recessions keep the middle class afloat. Effective government is essential. We never get it from the right. And now, the electorate wants to vote against their own best interests to vote for the same philosophy that got them into this economic mess. Go figure.