More of the Roots of US Economic Success

Keynesian and then some...  



We became the world's leading superpower when we invested heavily in what is, cumulatively, the largest of socialist institutions in the world, known as the US Military...  The conservatives love the superpower factor while often overlooking the socialist underpinnings, and trying to undermine (sell-off) parts in the rare moments when conservatives do express an awareness.



The USA became the center of the world of great innovators with a rather massive investment in public education (from pre-K – grade 12, technical/professional certificates, 2 and 4 year college degrees, right up through to post doctoral education and research, etc...). The NIH, CDC, NREL, NASA, DARPA, NSA, NRO, etc... (a list of government offices that support enormous quantities of research and development can be found on the Internet as the Federally Funded Research and Development Centers - FFRDC) keep the United States at the forefront of the development of the vast majority of all the, "next big things."



Government funding for all common carrier infrastructure (roads, bridges, highways, airports, seaports, railroads, electricity grids, telecommunications connectivity, water, sewerage, etc, etc, etc...) has literally paved the way for the US economy to thrive.



We have succeeded in efforts that we didn't fully understand when proposed (e.g., "Getting a man to the Moon, and safely back to Earth, in this decade...").



Ladies and Gentlemen, it is the original group activity (crowd sourced) and funding organization (crowd funded) known cumulatively as the taxpayers of these United States of America that made it possible for Americans, and many others through out the world, to stretch to that next goal... To reach for the next frontier and create the next big thing.



"What if...?" requires motivation and assistance at the most basic levels and we, in the USA, have been blessed with the will to provide it.  The government (cumulatively from the smallest town to the federal government) should be between 30 and 35% of all the spending in the US economy annually; more, when needed.



When attempting to gather the numbers to support the popular conception of the Republicans as the party that is somehow better for the American economy, two gentlemen (Bob Deitrick and Lew Goldfarb) researched the period between the run up to the Great Depression and the run up to the Great Recession, 80 years, and found the economic numbers contradicted the aforementioned popular concept.



These fellows wrote a book (Bulls, Bears and the Ballot Box) that uses economic and statistical data from the 40 years of Republican Presidential administrations and 40 years of Democratic Presidential administrations and found that the economy did the best during the 40 years of Democratic administrations!



I gave out multiple copies of this book to Democratic organizations (with snail-mail addresses) while asking why are we not hearing this information from everywhere, all the time. At a minimum read the Preface and chapters 14 though 15 to understand why this book is very important to Democrats. I also think we would, as Democrats, find it most uplifting to get these two gentlemen to present any data and conclusions they might have gathered since the Obama administration and etc...



Let's get our Keynesian enabled backsides in gear!!! We've got elections to win from the top to the bottom of this year's ballots... Then next year's elections, and the next year's elections, etc...

Vote! Remember: 1+1+1...+1=99%