The most accurate way to predict results by anyone or group of people is to examine prior activities and results.
    In politics, Conservative, Republican, and Hypocrite (Greed Party) mean the same thing.  The "Conservative Tune (Agenda)", which included the double shipping freight rates against the South that caused the civil war, was being sung successfully from the time this country was formed until the Hoover Depression broke its back.  The Republican, including previous names, Agenda stranglehold in Washington for the first 156 years was keeping most people poor, illiterate, and not allowed to vote was necessary for their super rich super poor control.  Their current hidden agenda is very much the same.
    After the Hoover Depression temporarily exposed, disgraced the Republican Agenda, and broke the Republican stranglehold on Washington, the Democrats along with the unions started the Middle Class Citizenship in the United States, Canada, and later in Europe and Japan, providing economic opportunity for everyone instead of only the rich few.  Since the Hoover Depression, the Democratic presidents with Democratic Lawmakers and the help of some degree of Democratic control in Congress created the following programs which most people want to continue today.  Citizens in many countries are currently attempting to rid themselves of their super rich super poor income status similar to our Democratic accomplishments.  Brazil appears about to make a big step October 27, 2002, to elevate the standard of living and economic opportunity for all of their citizens instead of the rich few.
    Benefits by Democrats:

• FHA home loans so that "Unrich" people can buy homes.  (Opposed by Republicans)
• VA home loans so that "Unrich Veterans" can buy homes. (Opposed by Republicans)
• Social Security program  (Opposed by Republicans)
• Medicare program  (Opposed by Republicans)
• Medicaid program  (Opposed by Republicans)
• Bank Deposit Insurance  (Opposed by Republicans)
• Workers Compensation Mandatory Insurance  (Opposed by Republicans)
• Hot School Lunches For Children  (Opposed by Republicans)
• Food Coupons For Poor People  (Opposed by Republicans)
• Worker Safety Rules, OSHA  (Opposed by Republicans)
• Pre-Kindergarten Schooling  (Opposed by Republicans)
• Hope Scholarship in Georgia  (Opposed by Republicans)
• Veteran Benefits Including VA Hospitals  (Republicans Opposed every necessary increase)
• Minimum Wages to reduce the number of people on welfare  (Opposed by Republicans)
• REA, Rural Electrification Administration  (Opposed by Republicans)
• TVA, Tennessee Valley Authority for Electrification  (Opposed by Republicans)
• Free textbooks through high school  (Opposed by Republicans)
• Free schoolbus transportation for school children  (Opposed by Republicans)
• Free school buildings for children  (Opposed by Republicans)
• Free teaching for school children  (Opposed by Republicans)
• Equal opportunity and equality for everyone regardless of race, sex, color, or creed  (Opposed by Republicans)
• Right to vote by every adult American citizen, except convicted felons  (Opposed by Republicans)
• etc., all of which Republicans fought vigorously to prevent.  Schooling varied from state to state.
• Jeff Goolsby, Democrat, created the seed that started the states nationwide providing low interest rate home loans for low income people.  (Opposed by Republicans)
  Benefit outside of government creation:
• Jeff Goolsby, Democrat, created the 95% conventional loan.  (Opposed by Republicans)
  Benefits not yet adopted by government:
• Jeff Goolsby, Democrat, developed a proposal to convert Social Security from poverty level to rich retirement at no extra Social Security tax nor extra investments. (Delayed by public & political apathy)
• Jeff Goolsby, Democrat, developed a proposal to eliminate most judicial defects and corruption and the risks and harm caused thereof. (Delayed by public & political apathy)
• Jeff Goolsby, Democrat, designed and patented left and right hand exterior rearview mirrors for motor vehicles that provide without distortion the 1. Regular View, 2. Overtaking View, and 3. Blind Spot. Availability goal early 2003.  To prevent most of an  estimated nationwide annual 1,400 deaths from  an estimated 705,000 improper lane change crashes, increasing yearly.

    The Democratic Agenda is full employment with adequate income and economic opportunity for all American citizens instead of the rich few along with the benefits detailed above, which Republicans fought vigorously to prevent.  This is detailed in THE EMPLOYMENT ACT OF 1946 and its upgrade adding teeth in 1978, all of which has been totally ignored by Republican presidents and Republican lawmakers (treason?).
   There are many facts about "Real World Economics" that very few people understand.  However, Republican leaders are extremely familiar with real world economics because their con artist skills are based on knowing how to manipulate the public with economic tricks that are not in standard economic textbooks.
   1. Republican leaders believed for the first 176 years, and still believe, that if they can force production workers and all employees to work for extremely low pay, Republican businesses can make more money.  This is exactly backwards, when production workers, unskilled workers, and all employees make larger incomes, they will buy more products, and create more economic activity, then Republican and other businesses make considerably more "honest" money.  This correction is why and how Democrats created the greatest economy in the world here in the United States.
   2. When government subsidies and tax credits are correctly used to create and motivate more economic activity including more employment, the extra tax revenue from more employment can be much greater than the subsidy or tax credits.  Some Republicans claim this is "socialism", typical snow job con artistry, when in fact it is smart government business that can reduce the Federal debt, government cost, and reduce taxes when used correctly.  Socialism and communism is why the Soviet Union went bankrupt and has no similarity to our Democratic accomplishments..
   A reverse example is when President Nixon terminated our oil drilling subsidy for small drilling companies, falsely claiming to save taxpayers money, creating a depression, unemployment and bankruptcies in the oil drilling business.  At that time oil was $4 per barrel, regular gasoline in Georgia was about $.35 per gallon, skilled carpenter pay was $2.00 per hour, and we were buying 10% of our oil from the Mideast.  Soon thereafter, we had to begin buying 50% of our oil from the mideast, oil increased to $40 per barrel, gasoline increased to $1.35 per gallon, a carpenter's pay was devalued from buying 5.74 gallons of gas for one hour pay down to 1.48 gallons of gas for one hour pay.  This con artist trick cost Americans many billions more than the small cost of the oil drilling subsidy, a rip-off profit for our big oil companies and the mideast, what a Republican con artist farce.  The results were not accidental, they were carefully planned.
   I made a motion at an HBAG Directors meeting for our Home Builders Association of Georgia to file a protest when Nixon announced his intention to terminate the subsidy , but every director voted against my motion mistakenly saying, it would save money for everyone.  Unfortunately, some, if not many, of our Democratic lawmakers do not understand these "Real World" economic facts of life and allow Republicans to dupe them into supporting Republican con artist tricks.  The Republicans even duped President Carter into adopting the Nixon/Ford economic disaster agenda then slaughtered him in the November election because he fell for their con artistry trap.  Most Republican promises sound great but the results almost never provide the promised results, ie, the Nixon oil drilling tax saver.
    The Republican Agenda is the party of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich, borrow and spend, through con artist deception, including job destruction to create shortages and scavenger profits from resulting foreclosures, bankruptcies, business failures, public corporation book cooking for fictitious stock values, theft by stock market insider trading (ie, Bush: Harken Energy Corp. insider stock sale and about $13,000,000 bonus [bribe?] for building the Texas Rangers ball stadium with $150,000,000 Texas taxpayers money) and short selling profits.  I wonder when Bush will prosecute himself for insider stock selling, stealing about $800,000 from stock buyers, and accepting a bribe while Governor of Texas.  "I'm Not A Crook" Nixon, "Stumbling Bumbling" Ford, "Voodoo Economics" Reagan, "Read My Lips" Bush, and "Education Boozer Snoozer Cheater" Bush along with the Bush Corporate Cronies have and are following the job destruction Republican Agenda to its fullest extent.
    Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Reagan shut down home building at times, Reagan's 17.5% home loan interest rate, September 13, 1981, to develop housing shortages and create inflation/dollar devaluation falsely claiming they were trying to prevent inflation.  The Federal debt was $360 billion dollars the day Nixon was elected.  When Bill Clinton, was elected 24 years later, the Federal debt had exploded to more than $4,000 billion dollars (4 Trillion). This Republican Federal debt explosion raised the interest cost on the Federal debt from around $14 billion dollars annually to around $240 billion dollars annually.  The exact interest cost varies due to rates in effect at the time the Federal government borrows money.  However, the U.S. government has borrowed (confiscated) more than $1 trillion dollars from the Social Security trust fund and may not be paying any interest to the trust fund.  This additional interest cost is a major portion of everyone's Federal income tax.  Anyone who believes this was accidental or unavoidable also believes that blue and red are the same color.
    Some of the Bush Corporate Cronies have shut down part of the economy by cooking their books claiming their losses were profits until they had to go bankrupt.  The phony stock prices caused by the book cooking has cost stock buyers about $7 trillion dollars.  If the Bush Enron Administration prosecutes all of the corporate book cookers, insider stock traders, and government bribe takers, Bush will have to prosecute himself.  Obviously, Republicans and Republican Groupies are proud of the economic destruction, inflation/dollar deflation, and Federal debt explosion they have caused and which Bush is making every effort to re-ignite.
   How did Republicans contribute to the current huge employee layoffs and $7 trillion dollar stock value loss disaster?  For many years Republicans have been, with varying degrees of success, pressing for deregulation of regulations that were put in place to protect American citizens from obsessive greed by some monopolistic businesses, plus business acquisitions and mergers that harm stockholders, employees, and American citizens.  While Republicans had complete control of Congress until Senator Jim Jeffords could no longer stomach their damage to American citizens, Congress changed the laws to allow the recent rampant acquisitions and mergers.  According to BusinessWeek, 61% of the recent acquisition and mergers destroyed shareholders wealth.
   These excessive mergers, acquisitions, and deregulations produced book cooking, mixing incompatible businesses, layoff of key people who were the backbone of the success of the companies that were being acquired.  Many executives were supervising activities about which they had no knowledge.  Energy deregulation was one of the deregulation disasters.  Energy deregulation caused a huge disaster for citizens of California.  The Enron Ralph Reed piggy-back natural gas deregulation caused a disaster for gas users in Georgia, plus energy disasters in many other states.
   Clearly, the Republican goal is to eliminate our middle class income status and return us to the super rich super poor status and eliminate the above listed accomplishments by Democrats. Additionally, a major part of their strategy is to brainwash independent voters to vote Republican through Republican Talk Show Spin-Doctors, ie, Boortz, Limbaugh, Hannity, etc., plus duping some Democratic lawmakers into supporting their scams who do not understand "Real World Economics".  I was having lunch and discussing economics with a Congressman in Washington once who had decided not to run for re-election.  He said, "Jeff, I do not understand real world economics".  I was shocked, but, obviously many lawmakers are elected who do not understand real world economics, but Republican leaders are highly skilled in it and use their skills to manipulate for their super rich super poor objectives.
    Government should never shut down any industry, however, this is typical Republican Agenda which they do by lying to the public with their con artist brainwashing, when in fact they are deliberately creating inflation/dollar devaluation.  Interest cost on excessive inventory will slow down production of any product, including houses, which then remedies any excess production.
    Anyone who does not need, use, benefit or want to benefit from, or does not want their relatives or friends to benefit from the aforesaid middle class living standards created and accomplished by Democrats should vote for Republicans.  Everyone who appreciates the accomplishments by Democrats, want these benefits, middle class income status, and economic opportunity for everyone instead of the rich few to continue should vote for Democratic candidates.