Hmm, **adaher **has been pretty quiet for a few days.
Oh yeah, that’s right, school just started again.
I would remind adaher that if we go back to the last time we had “good times” the Democratic president ran a surplus, but the Republican who followed him decided to spend it on a big tax cut, saying “I believe the surplus is the people’s money and we ought to hand some of it back.”.
So it appears that the Democrats at least tried to do both, but were thwarted by the other side.
I’ll bite. How was the (presumably) 2008 financial crisis the fault of Deomocratic policies when the crisis was largely a result of lack of financial regulation and oversight (which is the Republican model)?
Democratic policies forced the banks to make tons of money from questionable loans/mortgages. Really, they had no choice, since the financial industry has virtually no power in Congress. If they had anyone to represent their interests, it would all have been different.
yeah!
Since no conservatives have yet appeared to 'splain it to you, allow me, as a public service, to attempt to step up:
Look, Moron, if something bad happened, you can be sure it was because of liberals, or democrats.
Anything positive belongs to conservatives, Republicans, and/or the Tea Party.
Example: remember the Roaring 20’s? Good times. All due to the implementation of policies reminiscent of the Tea Party.
Remember the Great Depression? Democrats! All due to the Democrats.
And this has been your Political History lesson for today.
Also, you are a Feminazi and maybe a lesbian. Because you are (apparently) a female who uses the salution “ms”. Also because you ask questions utilizing logic.
Oh, they’re definitely possible. I saw a big one on my drive to work this morning.
Are you talking about ITER? ITER - Wikipedia It’s an engineering proof-of-principle project. While it’s expected to produce more energy that it consumes, it will not be a commercial power producer. ITER is an international collaboration that includes the USA.
I’m pretty sure he’s talking about the Sol project.
In other words, the first whoosh I have seen of cosmic proportions… 
Despite the whoosh, that was very interesting. So, is the tokamak the wave of the future?
How much time do you have? ITER looks promising to produce a significant net excess of energy. It will be a testbed for addressing the “first wall problem” Plasma-facing material - Wikipedia Since we don’t yet know what to make the walls of a fusion reactor out of, this IMNAAHO will delay commercial nuclear fusion power production by at least 2 decades. 
And there’s [thread=692474]this thread on fusion reactors[/thread] 
That was not the Democrats’ fault. The fact that Democrats had spent every penny they could possibly squeeze out of their local economy for decade and then some, so that any adverse event would push them over a cliff, is their fault.
Recessions happen. Yet whenever blue states and cities have fiscal crises due to recessions, they always act as if it was a totally unforseen event, not their fault at all. Yet it only happens to them. Red states and cities just cut back and get through it.
Wrong also, it is true that their numbers are less that the Democrats, but once again, if what you say was the case then the top successful cities would **not **be controlled by democrats.
I’d bet anything those cities have very high median incomes.
And I bet that that moving of the goal posts will not be amusing to [del]the refs[/del] all the readers here.
In order to move the goalposts, I would have had to argue that all Democratic cities are badly run fiscally. The fact that a few rich states like Vermont are doing well does not change the fact that all of the states and cities in fiscally dire straits are dominated by Democrats. Rich states don’t place unreasonable demands on government, so even Democrats can’t screw them up.
“Yet it only happens to them”, it does not. Your goal post move was not only for the rich states, that you did not mention at all on your previous post BTW. The point stands, it was not a fact “that Democrats had spent every penny they could possibly squeeze out of their local economy for decade and then some” even your own words contradict what you are saying now, that did not take place in those locations then.
What’s your source for hard financial data for the various State & City governments? And the party affiliations of those various cities. Please supply a link or two.
Houston’s city govt is always juggling, but we’re actually doing rather well. Our mayor is a Democrat–as are most mayors of our larger cities. Here’s the election map of 2012, with more red/blue details than usual.
Please note the blue cities, surrounded by angry, inflamed red suburbs. Pale shades indicate low population density. Pink in North of the State, Purple in the East (more diverse–including most of the state’s African Americans). Of course the Border counties are Blue–guess who lives there?)
Brain glutton, i think i love you!