Your comment is pretty good until you say catastrophe with the right. The most prominent and successful time this country has ever seen was the 1980's through 2000. Why? Because Ronald Reagon built a system that was based on small government and cut the red tape on business. The reason America is struggling and will continue to struggle is because King Barack 1st is the complete opposite. We're Greece in 5-10 years guaran-blam!-ingteed.

The DOW was at 800 during Reagan's recession. It was 7000 for Bush/Obama's. I think you are WAY off.

Wow! I hope you are a young kid in high school or middle school looking at this situation, because if you are basing the health of our economy off the stock market then you don't know a damn thing about economics, or what has been going on in our economy over the last four years. Do this for me. Look up the definition of "Quantitative Easing"....wait...your probably a Millennial and too lazy to do so so let me put the link for you up. It really is as simple as that on why the stock market is so high. The government has been inflating it to "make" it look like things are good but they really aren't. In fact investors right now are encouraging people to take their money out of the stock market and putting their investments in more conservative investments right now, because the very second the government lets go of this quantative easing, the bubble is going to burst and its going to happen fast. The real way you tell how the economy is doing is what is called "economic markets". These are products such as card board boxes and frozen pizzas. You probably laugh but frozen pizzas are one of the best ways to tell how an economy is doing. So, the Tatino Pizzas which are the cheapest crappy frozen pizzas you can buy normally sell for .90-$1.00 each. Your California Pizza Kitchen FP's are your premium brand, and they normally sell for around $6.50. The next time you go into your grocery store look at the prices. The Tatino's are around $1.40 a piece and the CPK ones are at around $5.00. Why? B/C people have less Discretionary spending right now. They opt for the cheaper pizza because they still want to eat pizza, but don't have enough money to buy the more expensive one. So the demand for the cheaper ones goes up and the demand for the expensive pizza's go down. Law of economics = supply and demand. Answer = If the economy was doing well Tatino's would be at .90 and not $1.40. It's really that simple.

I never said anything about the health of the economy. The health of the economy is based on wages and how evenly spread wealth is. This gives more individuals liquid capital to start innovative small businesses. Conservatives have told us that the economy depends on the "job creators" paying less taxes, and government cutting spending. Taxes have been lower in the last ten years than EVER in history. That combined with Republicans getting their "sequestration" will show us the stupidity of the GOP once and for all. Just like always they will fail after getting everything they ask for, then just deny it and spin it away.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!! Wow! Your stomach has to be hurting from all that Kool-Aid you have been drinking. First, King Barack the 1st's Sequestration is what you are referring too. He was the author of that. Second, your 1% mindset on the evenly spread wealth showing the health of America is absolutely retarded. That's like saying lets make minimum wage $100 and everything will be fine. Taxes being record low has nothing to do with the reason our economy is in the shitter either. It is Bill "Big Willie Style" Clinton's forcing of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac giving home loans to those that can't afford them in 1999 that started everything. Then add to the fact that the Bush Administration in 2004 approached congress saying that Clinton's mess may lead to future economic problems, and your boy Barney "I take it in the ass" Frank leading the pack to do nothing about it. ON TOP OF THAT your Lord and Savior (Jamie Foxx's words not mine) King Barack the 1st spending $7 TRILLION IN 4 YEARS hasn't helped much either!!! No sir you are wrong and so is your entire goddamn liberal commie democrat party!

Republicans are all morons. Go cry a river.

I never once called myself a Republican. You must have gone to high school in New York city where 80% of their graduates cannot read. You have to love the liberal influence over schools there huh?! With that said I am not a republican. I find their inability to come up with a precise message that can counter King Barack the 1st's rhetoric intolerable. I find our entire government a hindrance to freedom as a whole. Less government = freedom. Lincoln, I would encourage you to get un-indoctrinated and learn true American history.

When did I say you were a republican? Less government does not=freedom. Freedom=freedom. Unindoctrinate YOURSELF.

I am done wasting my time with you. As of this moment your comments are null and void. Just like the principles in which your party the liberal commie democrats believe in. Null and void.....null and void.

In his defense, you seemed to be insinuating that economic health and prosperity is reliant on the DOW, which isn't true. The DOW can temporarily spike for a number of reasons, including speculation (and we all know how that ends...) In any event, cutting corporate taxes is good for the economy in most cases, like during the 80s when Reagan was president. The conservatives made a mistake, though, by cutting taxes on both the corporate levels AND household levels in the middle of TWO wars.