The Rabbi
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Why does the reactionary right want the world economy to fail?
Given the rights protesting too much, it would seem the OP has hit a nerve.
Remember that such failure effects both public and private sectors. As unemployment rises, revenues fall forcing the elimination of government programs. Indeed, cutting jobs is a way to cut taxes, or more precisely, to decrease revenue to governments.
Conservatives for the most part will support any event that will reduce the number of public sector employees, eliminate government programs, and, they hope, make government small enough to drown it in a bathtub.
It is in essence evidence of the radical nature of conservative reactionaryism.
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It did hit a nerve. It hit the "I can't believe someone is so stupid" nerve.
What government programs have been eliminated as a result of the present recession and fall in revenues? What? None? Gee, I guess your theory is wrong.
In fact it is the opposite: higher unemployment stimulate demand for more government programs, and thus more deficit spending. Which is why Democrats actually like recession: they can hook up people to gov't programs and then take credit for them.
This is why Obama keeps pushing the stupid payroll tax cut, that hasn't helped anything except his political standing (and that not much). And why Democrats continue to vote for extensions to unemployment benefots, even though such benefits prolong unemployment.
So your post is the opposite of truth,from beginning to end.