Per capita Income by State

[Andy]

Nixon? A liberal? Gimme a break, before I die in shock. Nixon was acting like the authoritarian he was when he instituted price controls.

So you would claim that price controls are not a form of government control, and thus not socialism, and thus not a liberal policy?

That's as much BS as the ludicrous claim that sainted RWReagan 'won' the Cold War.

He did win the cold war.

The places with higher incomes are the places with jobs, which people flock to get to. When income rises, the cost of living rises. Historical example: Greece, after the Persian Wars. Gold and Silver flowed into Greece, and the cost of living rose rapidly.

That doesn't disprove my point, nor the examples I gave.

Building roads, and effective and timely public transportation, are two things urgently needed in urban areas. Any politician of any stripe, R or D, who supports those helps urban America function better.

Although I do support building roads, public transportation has never been shown to have a positive economic benefit. In fact, in nearly all cases, public tansportation is a massive drag on the system. Two of the hardest hit states by the recession, NY and CA, are also the ones that have invested the most into public transportation. California is nearly in a budget crisis over the debt it's rung up.

Economic conditions for working Americans have been deteriorating ever since Johnson, with the exception of the Clinton era, whom you Cons rejected because of his 'morals'. You even rejected your own guy, Bush II, because his economic policies failed so badly. Will your policies only work in conditions in which you have 102% control of everything? If so, then your policies are just pie in the sky theory, and are unworkable, because no one ever has nor every will have, total and complete control. Even the Emperors in the days of Rome could not totally control their economy. A policy has be viaable, even if you allow a lot of slack, otherwise it is unworkable theory made for an ideal world that does not and never will exist.

It would be a mistake to confuse Bush policies with that of conservative free market policies. Conservatism does not support mandated sub-prime loans for minorities. Nor does conservatism support bailing out banks that make bad loans. Bush, however, did.

I did not reject "my own guy". I have no "guy". I have an ideology of freedom and capitalism. I vote for the one which more closely follows that ideology. Bush was the lesser of two evils. Obama has proven that he is not for my ideology because he has done exactly what Bush did, only worse.