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O'Neill, fired in a shakeup of Bush's economic team in December 2002, raised objections to a new round of tax cuts and said the president balked at his more aggressive plan to combat corporate crime after a string of accounting scandals because of opposition from "the corporate crowd," a key constituency.
O'Neill said he tried to warn Vice President Dick Cheney that growing budget deficits-expected to top $500 billion this fiscal year alone-posed a threat to the economy. Cheney cut him off. "You know, Paul, Reagan proved deficits don't matter," he said, according to excerpts. Cheney continued: "We won the midterms (congressional elections). This is our due."
Likewise, Obama didn't personally lay off workers, foreclose on anyone's mortgage, raise the price of your groceries or gas, accompany illegal immigrants across the border, kill an American citizen in Yemen with his own personal Predator drone, lead flash mob attacks in our cities, or any number of things that people have no problem blaming him for. Works both ways.
Whenever a Democrat has been president in my lifetime, somehow it always feels like a distraction or aberration of some kind. That's been the case with Carter, Clinton and Obama. Somehow, those presidencies didn't feel "normal" or "right".
Do you think that when a Republican gets elected, then America will once again return to its core values?
That's funny, because whenever we have a Republican in the White House, America ends up some waging unnecessary (vendetta) wars against random brown people in far away lands over "American interests" aka oil.
Not to mention that the Republicans give their blessings to corporations to outsource American jobs to India, China, Bangladesh and Abu Dhabi while worshipping at the altar of the Almighty Short Term Profits. And let's not forget the Republicans love of deregulation aka the Patron Saints of pesticide water, contaminated soil and two-headed toads...as long as its not in their neighborhood.
That's funny, because whenever we have a Republican in the White House, America ends up some waging unnecessary (vendetta) wars against random brown people in far away lands over "American interests" aka oil.
Not to mention that the Republicans give their blessings to corporations to outsource American jobs to India, China, Bangladesh and Abu Dhabi while worshipping at the altar of the Almighty Short Term Profits. And let's not forget the Republicans love of deregulation aka the Patron Saints of pesticide water, contaminated soil and two-headed toads...as long as its not in their neighborhood.
LMMFAO- absolutely pricless!!!!!
Does Libya ring a bell?
Outsourcing? What caused that? Could it possibly insanely inflated union wages?
You just don't like the GOP candidates because they're white. Admit it.
To me it’s the other way around. When a Republican is in the White House it feels like America didn’t put its best foot forward. And we’re easy outclassed by other nations.
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Originally Posted by BigCityDreamer
Whenever a Democrat has been president in my lifetime, somehow it always feels like a distraction or aberration of some kind. That's been the case with Carter, Clinton and Obama. Somehow, those presidencies didn't feel "normal" or "right".
Do you think that when a Republican gets elected, then America will once again return to its core values?
Outsourcing? What caused that? Could it possibly insanely inflated union wages?
You just don't like the GOP candidates because they're white. Admit it.
Seriously?
If President Obama was 100% Caucasian and the GOP candidates were 100% sub-Saharan African....I still would not like the Republican ideology. I particularly do not care for the "Do as I say, not as I do" attitude that the GOP follows regarding "family values"...their hypocrisy smells worse than the huge pile of elephant poo that they leave the country in each time they leave office.
If President Obama was 100% Caucasian and the GOP candidates were 100% sub-Saharan African....I still would not like the Republican ideology. I particularly do not care for the "Do as I say, not as I do" attitude that the GOP follows regarding "family values"...their hypocrisy smells worse than the huge pile of elephant poo that they leave the country in each time they leave office.
Even more priceless still. It just keeps getting better with you. "Do as I say, not as I do"? Which president stated that he wanted to tax executives for using jets shortly before his wife took a seperate jet to the same destination as he was travelling to in order to avoid waiting for four hours? Family values? Which candidate for VPOTUS cheated on his wife who was dying of cancer?
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