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It doesn’t take a rocket scientist, or in this case, an economist, to plainly see that President Barack Obama’s economic policies have been a total failure..... Demand side economics has been one of the bedrock principles of Progressive economic though in America ever since Franklin Delano Roosevelt first tried it in the 1930s. Also known as Keynesianism, demand side economics asserts that recessions in the market economy can only be fixed by artificially increasing demand for goods and services..... According to Progressives, the "unethical" refusal of the private sector to spend as much money as it did during normal economic...

Posted on Tue, May. 20, 2003 Innovation fuels the supply sideBy E. THOMAS McCLANAHANThe Kansas City Star Most people consider taxes to be a dry subject, but last week's column on tax cuts -- the bigger the better, I argued -- drew numerous responses ranging from cheers to catcalls. As usual, the catcalls were the most interesting.Some readers were worried about the federal deficit, which would be larger if President Bush gets anything like the tax cuts he wants. Some dismissed the president's plan as another exercise in "trickle-down economics" aimed at benefiting the rich.That won't help the economy,...