And the Stock Market performance is not based on economic growth but is just another massive bubble being inflated by massive no value cash infusions from the Fed and with Treasury borrowing. Econ 101 says a day of reckoning will arrive as happens with all market bubbles. You are just whistling past the grave yard.

No, the decline started with the passage of Social Security if not with the advent of the Federal Reserve 30 years before that. It took a giant step “Forward” with Johnson’s War on Poverty and all of its character crushing programs, and has trudged right on “Forward” without stop even when Republicans were in the white House compromising with those advancing the great movement “Forward” giving them only half of what they wanted calling it a victory even as the moral rot of the Left spread like a cancer through the body politic.

What Robert fails to understand is that the current economic situation was predestined, predictable, and predicted as we started down this big government socialist road a century ago and at each new step along the way. The slow rot of soul of this nation by big government and socialism, has been cumulative and has spread through the whole body politic, affecting everything in general. Most lefties see the current problem as a result of whatever is their latest demonized villain and ignore the bottom line root cause which is the moral rot and the unprincipled ethical rot necessary for, and fostered by their own big government/socialism. When your guiding princlipe is theft of other people's property, there is no long term up side.

Robert1260 suffers from the same delusion that most of the Left seem to suffer. His “special interest groups” are not special interest groups at all but are simply the voice of the only “legitimate” people. That while those people who disagree with him are aligned in nothing but “special interest groups” which cannot possibly be the voice of the people and must be demonized. He probably has no concept of how foolish he appears to rational folks.

Religious beliefs may not directly inform US Law, but religious beliefs do inform the voters of the nation and the nation's laws generally reflect the the moral code, beliefs, and the will of the people. You had best hope it continues that way since America's dominant Judeo/Christian religious belief in the sanctity of human life, even the imperfect life, is all that protects the lives of those living outside of, or on the extreme fringe of the mainstream belief system.

I have seen you post no facts. I have seen assertions and generalizations. I have seen references to unspecified SSI rules as if rules actually mean anything in your Leftist's world. The next thing we will see is you asking us who are we going to believe... your assertions and generalizations or our “lying” eyes?

I assume that you then stepped forward to close all doors for him as a caring and dutiful nephew would do.

Sounds a lot like Obama's admonition that sometimes the best thing to do is just give them painkillers (until they die). Cheap table wine would serve Obama's purpose don't you think?

So, rather than argue against Rand's economic brief’s, you chose to impeach her moral character? That my friend is what is called deflection... Something that the Left continuously and desperately attempts to do rather than rationally defend their own economic beliefs. BTW: That Soviet University Education must have fallen short, since her economic positions are 180 degrees out of sync with the world's, and our own Leftists' economic positions.

That type does not want to argue the evident effects of Economic Policies. It is much easier for them to take refuge in arguments over credentials.