The Republicans want to lose this election - the economics

[TrogL]

The Republicans got elected by appealing to politically and economically naive voters. These voters voted Republican for simplistic reasons (eg. "the Democrats will teach homosexuality in kindergaten", or "I want a God-fearing man in the White House") because they did not understand or believe what the Republicans were planning on doing next:

• Implementing a hugely expensive war on the wrong country for reasons that have since been proven to be lies
  
• Sending their sons and daughters off to this war and keeping them there with "stop loss" regulations
  
• Allowing private companies to make huge profits off this war
  
• massive election fraud
  
• driving up the price of oil, triggering hyperinflation
  
• devaluing US currency (a whole post in itself - if the Chinese called in their markers, the US would be bankrupt tomorrow)
  
• Destroying the public school system (No Child Left Behind) in favour of private and/or religious schools (vouchers)
  
• Deregulating industry and banking with a series of bills with titles implying the exact opposite causing...
  
  
  
  • jobs and entire industries (eg. manufacturing, electronics, call centre, IT) to go offshore
    
  • infrastructure (eg. bridges) to crumble
    
  • the banking industry to promote sub-prime, zero-down and other questionable mortgages to people who had no business having them
    
  • worthless mortgages (buried inside groupings of better-looking paper) being dumped on the stock market and snapped up by unwary banks, pension and retirement funds and individual investors
    
  • builders creating whole neighbourhoods of McMansions, no affordable or low-income housing
    
  • a housing price bubble/mania resembling the Dutch Tulip Mania
    
  
  

It's all going to come crashing down. They're just timing it so it happens after Bush leaves office. Then everything will get blamed on Obama. That's right, he will have been in office for 30 seconds and an economic "perfect storm" that has been brewing all the way back to Raygun will be blamed on him.

Get ready for:

• people stuck with houses for which they cannot pay mortgage, heat, light, power, taxes
  
• personal bankruptsies as their credit finally runs out triggering...
  
• business bankruptsies as people can no longer afford to shop triggering...
  
• bank failures - already happening but few people are noticing
  
• rising interest rates
  
• rising inflation
  
• rising unemployment
  

The Republicans, with access to all the billions they were allowed to hide off-shore, will buy up all the failed businesses, deadbeat banks, empty houses, dirt-cheap stock and anything else they can lay their hands on.

Of course, Obama and the Democratic Congress will spend billions and years fixing it all up. They will revitalize socialize programs, fix up the schools, the roads and the rest of the infrastructure like the good little Keynesians they are (Republicans are Straussian supply-siders or outright Fascists). They'll put a health care plan in place, fix up the hospitals, revitalize Social Security, refit the military and do a hundred other things to get the United States back on its feet economically and socially. But they'll have to buy everything from all those businesses the Republicans just finished buying up.

That's why they're running the stupidest, most idiotic campaign you can possibly imagine.

They tried running Dubya and that didn't work - they couldn't believe the American public would let them get away with it for as long as they did. Now they're desperate - they don't want to get caught with their hand in the cookie jar. So they're going to let Obama take the blame for everything, then fix everything up.

Then in four years, or however long it takes things to get put back together, the Republicans will run on the platform "the Democrats want to teach homosexuality in kindergarten" and it all starts again.