Need for Change Quotes
He was responding to the Democratic Slogan, “You never had it so good.” Over 50 years later the Democrats would be lamenting the Republican administration of George W. Bush for the huge debt and the fighting of the war in Iraq. This quotation is an excellent illustration of the fact that the two American political parties “flip-flop” positions over time to accommodate whether they are governing or in opposition. By 2005, the Republicans were in support of high deficits as they had produced the largest debt in American History. In the 1950s, Republican doctrine was to condemn all government deficits. And Republicans were the party of peace and the democrats were more aggressive in foreign policy. 50 years later, it was the Democrats calling for an end to the fighting (Iraq) and the Republicans supporting the war. Over the same period, the other two issues, taxes and inflation are still republican issues.