Originally Posted by
relmor2003
The strength and measure of a country is based on their trade balance(or imbalance in our case) and the strength of your currency. Based on these two indicators, Republicans and Democrats are both equally worthless. Nixon(republican) took us off the gold standard. Clinton(democrat) repealled the glass(I forget the name but the law that prevented banks from making huge leveraged bets(needed after the great depression). Carter started alternative energy programs, Reagan axed them. Clinton cared less about the SEC, Obama seems to care. So many discrepancies between ideaologies amongst the two parties, it is no longer viable to debate politics with a conservative vs. liberal or democrat vs. repulican angles. We should be discussing politics based on right and wrong, what works, and what doesnt. Right now, the two party system doesnt work. Period. Look at the dollar chart, and go look at the trade imbalance. We needs solutions to these problems, and Obama will make it worse. Bush made it worse. Clinton made it worse. In fact the last president to do any real good with the economy was Reagan, and hes been victimized by liberal agendas, and his perception in history has been tainted. Did his adminstration do wrong, heck ya, but they got the money policy right. If your going to run a fiat currency, he understood how to run it the best.(since we left the gold standard.)