Progressivism is economically toxic because all progressive love to intervene.  What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving.  No one likes these totalitarian progressives who intervene. Progressives intervene in everything!!! Progressives just love spending tax money taken from you, and calling it "humanitarian" (Bombing Libya) or "compassion" (Creating Obamacare).  How many new jobs have been created in this progressive era?  Years ago there were 130 million jobs in North America and there are about 130 million today.  Government intervention is at the root of this disaster.  Obama is a progressive who loves to intervene - ie. Obamacare & Libya.  Bush was a progressive who loved to intervene - ie. Medicare Drugs & Iraq.   You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity any more than government can intervene everywhere every time in North America, much less the world.  Government intervention creates economic stagnation.  The government cannot give anybody anything that government does not first take from somebody else.  Massive governmental interventions (Bush & Obama) have slowed economic growth.  Progressivism always leads to stagnation and more debt.  Total debt to GDP has exploded to over 350% with federal debt going from 57% of GDP to nearly 100% today.  Why focus on government interventions which create problems?  Why not constrain progressivism and expand economic growth?  Foreign and domestic progressivism creates stagnation because massive government interventions do not work.  You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.  Obama's economy "Dead Flat" according to Bill Clinton.  Average Americans are learning the huge economic differences between corporate democrats (Bill Clinton) and progressive democrats (Barack Obama).  Progressivism is economically toxic.  “I personally don’t believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground,” Bill Clinton told Newsmax in an interview. “This has been a dead flat economy.”

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