Wow, you left leaners will do anything to try and discredit the right.

First off, one correction.  Dot com crash is listed on Wiki as happening on March 10, 2000,  Who was president then?  Right, a Democrat.  Bill Clinton.  The dates you point to are the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.  Hey, but don't let facts cloud your idealism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stock_market_crashes_and_bear_markets

Secondly, it is probably people like you that make people like me wealthier.  At the bottom of the crash people like you are selling like crazy and running for the hills (if you have any money at all to invest), while people like me with long term visions of the stock market are backing up the truck and buying like crazy because great companies are on sale with yields in the 7-10% range.

Good companies pay dividends in up markets and down markets, and when the prices are down the income they provide is 'on sale' at fantastically low prices.

Continued next post..........