No, you're correct. Those on the right better understand the principles of economic health and freedom.
In general, perhaps. But so far no one has demonstrated any understanding of the minimum wage issue beyond what they read in a book and heard in a class. So far it's been just a succession of rightwing rants.
I'll concede that. I wouldn't say that no one has demonstrated an understanding of it. If you know where to look, they're out there. There are plenty of folks out there who get it - but few, if any, have any air time at all.
The left has the gov't they're running printing money hand over fist and the fed buying it up and then they say republicans don't care that seven bucks an hour doesn't go as far as it used to. boo freakin hoo
Except that both the right and the left have been running the printing presses for a long, long time.
War and a resulting deficit .... and Odumbo has made Bush look like a frugal guy given our current deficit. Bush went from $5 trillion to $10 trillion in 8 years. Odumbo has gone from $10 to $17 trillion in 6 years.
Money is created in two ways. If the democrats can't get the gov't to do it, they pressure banks to lend it. (see barney frank videos)
Those figures are our debt, not the deficit. And most of "Obama's increase" has been non-discretionary spending, the counter-cyclical factors of rising social safety net spending, but coupled with falling tax receipts.