If you think Bush is the cause of this problem, you should really take a look at the bigger picture. It's funny to complain about socialism and nationalism when Obama is the candidate of that.
Where did I say that Bush alone was the cause of this problem??? I've never said that Bush is explicitly to blame for this. Although, his administration has been running the country for the last 8 years some of the responsibility must fall on whomever is president at the time. Otherwise no one could blame Carter for the state of the economy while he was in office.
Obama, McCain, democrats vs republicans blah blah blah. Please kindly throw all that trash out of your mind. That's all largely meaningless right now. What is meaningful is that the financial system of the U.S is in deep trouble and instead of petty jibes at the other party or candidate, what's needed is to fix the problem! I already stated in a previous thread posted today that NEITHER candidate has a solution for this. They're both clueless on this one.
Our economy is already somewhat socialist and has been since FDR. We don't call it that though, we call it 'mixed.' Its quite a stretch to start calling it 'communism' lol.
True, but what's happened in the last few weeks is unprecedented. Major corporations that are 'too big to fail' will be protected by socialist safety nets (paid for by you the taxpayers) while average joes will have to face the indifference of capitalism. Again, privatizing the profits while socializing the losses!! This has been done before, in fact the bailout of AIG was done with a clause invented in 1932 when the Feds tried to bailout companies then. It didn't work then and it won't work now, only this time the scope and depth of the nationalization and bailout is much more extensive!
How does OUR economy translate to YOUR government? Did you throw off one monarch for another?
Directly, it doesn't. Indirectly, it relates massively. Almost 50% of our foreign trade is with the U.S. You go down, we go down. Unless, of course we decide to switch our trade with China, in which case we'd probably be "liberated" by our good friends from the south!