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Old 03-15-2012, 08:31 AM
 
Location: New London County, CT
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Reduction and Elimination Abortion Rights?
Roll Back of Heathcare Reform?
Privatization of Medicare?
Reduction in Social Welfare Benefits?
Lower Tax Rates for the Wealthy?
Mandatory Christian School Prayer?

What do you think will happen? Will it be for the better or for the worse? Will they take unpopular elements of the agenda too far?
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Old 03-15-2012, 08:34 AM
 
Location: Georgia
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Won't happen so why worry about it? I am about 95% sure they won't get the presidency. They MIGHT get the senate.
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Old 03-15-2012, 08:37 AM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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Dems had all three branches ..did the world end ?

Sounds like a lot of irrational fear from the left.
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Old 03-15-2012, 08:37 AM
 
Location: Staten Island, NY
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Reduction and Elimination Abortion Rights?
Roll Back of Heathcare Reform?
Privatization of Medicare?
Reduction in Social Welfare Benefits?
Lower Tax Rates for the Wealthy?
Mandatory Christian School Prayer?

What do you think will happen? Will it be for the better or for the worse? Will they take unpopular elements of the agenda too far?
Elimination of abortion 'rights'? How? Abortion is legal. About the only thing that just might sqeak by is an pre-procedure ultrasound requirement.

Rollback of Healthcare Reform? If you mean ObamaCare ABSOLUTELY.

Reduction is Social Welfare benefits? Which ones? Anyway, with over $15 Trillion in debt I'd say it past time we made cuts.

Lower tax rates for EVERYONE who pays income tax.

The last one is just too, too silly to merit a response.
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Old 03-15-2012, 08:38 AM
 
Location: Staten Island, NY
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Dems had all three branches ..did the world end ?
No, but the American Dream almost did. It may yet.
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Old 03-15-2012, 08:39 AM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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No, but the American Dream almost did. It may yet.
Eventually your debts catch up to you. Just look at Europe.
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Old 03-15-2012, 08:41 AM
 
Location: it depends
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Default Unified control is bad news.

As much as I detest the current Dem preoccupation with eliminating any chance at a vibrant economy, both parties have wrought great troubles when given control of all the levers. History suggests that America does best when government is divided.

America, ultimately, can only be led to where it wants to go. It isn't heading for a Euro-style social welfare state, and it isn't headed for a theocracy or massive new limitations on abortion or birth control. The tea party was sent to Washington in 2010 to slow the rise in the size of government, and a similar (but opposite) response would arise in 2014 if the R's got ahold of all the levers in 2012 and proceeded to over-reach.

When parties share power, they spend more time fighting or negotiating and less time looting the treasury.
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Old 03-15-2012, 08:41 AM
 
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Reduction and Elimination Abortion Rights?
Roll Back of Heathcare Reform?
Privatization of Medicare?
Reduction in Social Welfare Benefits?
Lower Tax Rates for the Wealthy?
Mandatory Christian School Prayer?

What do you think will happen? Will it be for the better or for the worse? Will they take unpopular elements of the agenda too far?
LOL. This was the battle cry of the left when republicans had power before. Did we all have our healthcare taken away? Abortion banned? Forced to pray everywhere? Bla bla bla. Normal screeching from the lunatic left.

Obama was polling bad among women so the contraception/abortion issue was created to get the NOW cows squealing. Up next will be to get the seniors to think the evil republicans will take away soc security and leave em dying in the gutter. Same nonsense spewed every election.
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Old 03-15-2012, 08:46 AM
 
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Reduction and Elimination Abortion Rights?
Roll Back of Heathcare Reform?
Privatization of Medicare?
Reduction in Social Welfare Benefits?
Lower Tax Rates for the Wealthy?
Mandatory Christian School Prayer?

What do you think will happen? Will it be for the better or for the worse? Will they take unpopular elements of the agenda too far?
Let's these one at a time:
Reduction and Elimination Abortion Rights?
Worst case scenario, abortion would go back to the states to let the people decide, when or if the baby in all this has any rights.
Roll Back of Heathcare Reform?
Definitely!!! It would get rid of all the new taxes and eliminate a whole lot of the waivers-for-cronies.
Privatization of Medicare?
This too could be returned back to the states to run, since state government is required to look out for the welfare of its people.
Reduction in Social Welfare Benefits?
The poor and needy might actually be taken care of, instead of politicians buying votes by expanding these programs to cover people they were never intended for.
Lower Tax Rates for the Wealthy?
A complete overhaul of of our tax and regulatory system is way overdo. We will always have a progressive tax rate, the wealthy will always be called upon to pay a little more, and the very poor will always pay zero income tax.
Mandatory Christian School Prayer?
where the hell did this come from? Do you have Tourette's syndrome?
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Old 03-15-2012, 08:47 AM
 
Location: New London County, CT
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Lower tax rates for EVERYONE who pays income tax.
Anyone who is serious about reducing the deficit and debt-- versus as using it as an excuse only when Democrats are in power-- knows that this is not going to happen.
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