Democrat congressional "monopoly") which seriously began to seem possible about

18-24 months ago. (Evidence of this is that 18-24 months ago, the Dow was at an

all-time high, unemployment was at a near all-time low, interest rates were very

low, and there were little signs of any inflation. Though certainly not perfect,

everything was quite good, particularly the values of nearly everyone's biggest

asset and nest egg (i.e., their homes), and overall confidence going forward was

generally positive.)

It's very hard for me to believe that the adverse effects of this change to the

new Democrat "backdrop" is not more fully comprehended and vociferously espoused by more in-the-know people. The more this is kept from being made "front and center", the more the Democrats will have, once again, gotten away with something.

Our economy is massive, yet, at the same time, very fragile. Markets don't like uncertainty. They also find their own "equilibriums" by taking into account all sorts of intrinsic and extrinsic factors. One of those factors (in fact, THE most important one) is the philosophical environment within which they must operate. When the markets began to sense a shift from our long-standing

capitalistic paradigm to one which might become more proportionally socialistic, those "equilibrums" were upset, and the markets began to unravel. After the sub-prime mortgage housing crisis started it all, a ripple-effect began which became pervasive across all the other inter-connected financial markets. (It's my belief that the Democrats "tipped over that first domino" as their "October surprise" to win the elections and gain carte blanche powers because they foresaw a "perfect storm" and the rarified possibility of an ultra-liberal "trifecta" with the presidency, house, and senate. This was too good for them to leave to chance. The genesis of this MUST be investigated and exposed.)

Our markets will not come back (although there will be episodic bounces from time to time) until our philosophical environment shifts back to becoming higher proportionally capitalistic relative to where it is currently perceived to be

headed. This is because our markets are currently where they are SUPPOSED TO BE because they have found their correct "equilibriums" given this new, perceived philosophical "backdrop".

Realistically, only when this Democrat philosophy actually fails, and people actually COMPREHEND its failure, will our economy rebound. This will require an ouster of the stalwart Democrats and a return to a Republican/Conservative bias in the next elections because it is unrealistic to think the Democrats will ever admit to the failure of their philosophical beliefs. Their egos and hubris are much too large for that to ever occur. They would rather "go down with the ship". We can all only hope that our country has not been irreversibly harmed in the interim.

Bravo to the Heritage Foundation for getting this type of information out there and easily accessible for the average American. Our country needs things like this that allow people to become quickly informed about our political goings-on.