A new documentary film, promoting the Tea Party movement:
A nice effort by director Ray Griggs to make a Michael Moore documentary, including funny newsclips, animations, “experts” and commentary by “normal people on the street” (in this case Tea Partiers), which is being coined “controversial” by the filmmaker, in the trailer, before the movie has even come out. Ofcourse Obama is freely associated with “socialism”. Weird that there’s not one reference to President George W. Bush, who pushed the national debt to a record height and who’s mess Obama is now desperately trying to clean up. Obviously Reagan is portrayed as the big prophet. Why Reagan is still known for phrases like “small government” and “government is the problem” is quite incomprehensible when you look at this chart:
Here‘s an interview with the director:
Reagan rebuilt a collapsing US military, defeated the USSR and freed all of Eastern Europe. It was worth every penny of deficit. As for Clinton, the 1994 Republican landslide neutered him — he literally was left muttering that he was “still relevant”. Deficit reduction during the 1990s was achieved by Republican blockage of the Clinton Liberal agenda, which, if it had been green lighted would have seen plenty more deficits but on wasteful programs.
That’s right, Republicans controlled Congress for 6 of 8 years of Clinton’s reign, and deadlocked government worked wonders for fiscal accounts.