It was, I believe, 7 times. This was done without a lot of hoopla. The fiscal conservatives must have been asleep.
After the economy crashed and President Obama took office, they suddenly awakened and started yelling hysterically. The Republican leadership of course has no credibility on this issue. Edit: The majority of the debt ceiling raises under Bush were done with a Republican Congress.
Even after the Democrats took over the Republicans supported raising the debt ceiling.
Also under Bush, the economy did not go bad until the democrats were the majority in the house in 2006." Really, cuz I remember standing on the floor of the stock exchange watching it die starting in the summer of '01. Bush did not a damn thing but cut taxes until the first bailout.
Our biggest problem with unemployment and job creation is the fact that we don't have the broad base of industry in our country anymore. That left in the wake of Reagan's deregulation, good call on that one Ron.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.