[Cringing Negativism Network]

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[TheLion]

I think the “Biggest threat to U.S. Economy” is allowing a Democrat into the Whitehouse.

[stylin19a]

The biggest threat to our economy is we stop buying...for whatever reason...

[Democrat_media]

“The economy,” simply put, is not manageable like a machine. It is dynamic, driven by the choices, actions, and desires of over 300 million Americans, and ultimately the billions of people around the world. However frustrating it is to think that our fortunes are hostage to the actions of people across the globe, there is almost nothing positive the government can do to change that fact. We all live on the same planet and are tapping into the same resources to better our lives. It is the inventiveness of individuals and firms that shape those resources into useful products and services that truly make up the economy.”

That’s very true. The economy is not manageable. But people think that evil, corrupt politicians and inept,corrupt, bureaucrat madmen can somehow manage the economy.

[Democrat_media]

“The economy,” simply put, is not manageable like a machine. It is dynamic, driven by the choices, actions, and desires of over 300 million Americans, and ultimately the billions of people around the world. However frustrating it is to think that our fortunes are hostage to the actions of people across the globe, there is almost nothing positive the government can do to change that fact. We all live on the same planet and are tapping into the same resources to better our lives. It is the inventiveness of individuals and firms that shape those resources into useful products and services that truly make up the economy.”

That’s very true. The economy is not manageable. But people think that a FEW evil, corrupt politicians and inept,corrupt, bureaucrat madmen can somehow manage the economy.

[secretagent]

I like the message because it makes sense to me intuitively, but I think others (Patrick Buchanan ?) have claimed that America has prospered most when it had high trade barriers.

Anyone here familiar with that argument?

[Cruz]

good post

[an amused spectator]

In fact, quite the opposite is the case. Government policies have proven time and again capable of slowing economic growth, but with few exceptions they have never proven capable of stimulating the economy in the long term.

Actually, for entertainment purposes, one should take bets on how one's local or state government is going to screw up any specific approach to an economic problem. This would also serve to educate the bettors.

For example, in many states a problem has arisen with people stealing copper and selling it for scrap.

The state governments are going to "solve" the problem, but it's certain they'll step all over people who are legitimately selling scrap copper.

Just pick the stupidest idea you can think of, and that's prolly the answer they'll arrive at...

[e-male]

The greatest prosperity our nation has experienced coincided with the accumulation of $9 trillion of debt. Deficit spending and perpetual debt must be good economic policy. The government controls all that.

[Graybeard58]

The economy is booming at my house.

[Captain Pike]

An article in Wired magazine around 10 years ago forcast the "Long Boom", that would be the result of increasing international trade and modernization of the third world, thus increasing their productivity and purchasing power. They thought the world would have 25 years of solid growth. So far, so good.

Those that would pull up the drawbridge and hunker down in fortress America (Buchannon) are idiots. Trade barriers and other isolationist ideas were some of the causes of the great depression.

[DB]

As long as Americans aren’t afraid to compete, we’ll do just fine.

It is the paranoid among us that feel they can’t compete with a destitute slave that are the biggest threat. If they gain enough control to enforce their world view on us we’ll have another depression.

[absalom01]

“...economic populism...”

Whatever that is. Sounds like an alternative definition of socialism to me. I’ll buy that: socialism has brought nothing but penury and misery wherever, and whenever it has been implemented.

Same old enemy. Shiny new name?

[driftless2]

As long as there is a Democrat Party, we will have millions of economically ignorant citizens. My Dem friends, family, co-workers truly believe among other things that the rich pay no taxes, Bush tells the oil companies when to raise and lower prices, and corporations are evil. I would bet that a majority of Democrat faithful believe at least one or all of the preceding statements.

[wayoverontheright]

The biggest threat to the economy is continuing to allow the word “rich” to describe our nation’s entrepreneurs, investors, and employers.