“but trickle down economics doesn’t completely work either”
You assume that the government can and should order everybody’s life. Freedom will not produce a perfect world just the best possible world. There will always be people who in your infinite wisdom don’t have as much as you think they should. You say that if “trickle down” (leftist speak for free or freer economies), we would have had close to zero unemployment under Bush. The size and scope of government and its spending went up under Bush. Prosperity is inversely proportional to government’s share of the economy.
Government control of our lives and economy keeps expanding. No matter who is in control. Consider that there are NO (zero, nada) spending cuts in the budget/debt deal. All lies and fraud.
Benjamin Franklin was right. “I observed that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves.”
How about instead of telling me what I “assume” you tell me what you think should be done? Our country is in a pickle and that needs to change. If we can’t be rational thinkers and try to come up with a plan we are destined for failure. I agree that the debt deal does nothing, zero, nada to answer to this countries economical problems. It’s a friggen dog and pony show. Nobody wants to piss off their base because they are worried more about their jobs than this country.