As for me being stupid, What’s your Masters in Strauss? Since you like splitting hairs, claiming I’m stupid because I posted a quote from a Libertarian for discussion that agree with, let’s try this:

You’re using a post on my blog to then generalize to all Republicans, what’s that called?

And why repeat points verbatim in my comments? Gaming Google? I wonder how many other sites I’ll find this exact quote? Oh look 27.

Ridiculous. I’m deleting your second comment, which for readers is paragraph five of his first post.

Here’s another question for you. If peoples incomes are going down why haven’t they curbed spending? Why aren’t more people, aside from well to do Whites who are spoiled and childlike, complaining about making “less money.”

Why not? Because, if you make such an argument, and your audience realizes that that is what you are saying, then it thinks that you consider it to be stupid.

“After therefore because of” arguments run along these lines: “Ever since we moved to Boston, the Red Socks have had winning seasons. We caused it.” Or, the classic: “We carried an umbrella today, so naturally it didn’t rain.”

Recognize the parallel to “These things have gone bad since the Democrats took office?”

In fact, Henry Paulson took over as Secretary of the US Treasury in June 2006, so you could equally date all the declines in the US economy from then. He took over in June 2006, oil prices increased since then, unemployment increased since then—etc. Or, you could date all the economic woes from the surge in Iraq, which also happened about two years ago.

The Republicans must be pretty desperate to resort to such “after therefore because of” arguments. Or perhaps they think we are stupid.

Or, perhaps they think we forget that the economy was already on the decline in late 2006, before the Democrats took control.

For example, by February 2007, less than one month after the new congress was sworn in, the rate of real income per family was calculated as having declined by $1,273 per family under Bush, meaning that each year an average family had $1,273 less to get along on after calculating rising inflation. Real per-family income had increased by $5,825 per family under Clinton.