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While I can just see all the Rebuplicans here laying on the floor kicking and screaming in their usual tantrums this is our future if they gain control of congress this November.
Don't think so? Then remember the last 8 years under that moron G.W.Bush!
"Perhaps Americans should know what's really at stake if this batch of Republicans takes over Congress in November. Here are 10 terrible things the GOP might do:"
Talking about the future, we won't have one if the Dems keep rolling their destruction boulder across America and burdening future generations with massive debt, in effect putting them straight into the poor house.
The say drivel was said before Republicans took charge in the 90s, yet none of it came true. The deficit was turned into surplus under the Republican controlled Congress, economic performance was well above what it has been under the Democrats 2007-2010.
Talking about the future, we won't have one if the Dems keep rolling their destruction boulder across America and burdening future generations with massive debt, in effect putting them straight into the poor house.
Reagan = tax and deficits
Bush = tax and deficits
Clinton = biggest surplus in US history.
Bush 2 = spend and destroy the biggest surplus to the biggest deficit.
Anyone that can still support republicans either has mental problems, or is a downright fool.
3) Spend every waking hour investigating the Obama administration.
- - Outsource this. Only deal with hard concrete facts.
4) Repeal the 14th amendment -- divest immigrants' children of citizenship.
- - No. Enforce current immigration regulation and that will cut down the problem.
5) Cap and trade? Forget about it.
- - Great - please do this.
6) More disastrous economic policies like the practices that caused our financial crisis.
- - You mean like forcing banks to lending money to people who had no business taking out the loans? You mean like repealing Glass-Steagall? That was Democrats.
7) Kill or drastically slash Food Stamp program.
- - Not now. And when it's time for action, just slash it, don't kill it.
8) Roll back and repeal equal rights for gays.
- - Not a top priority right now.
9) Abandon the unemployed.
- - Get the economy moving with real tax cuts FIRST before cutting any unemployment benefits. 10) Paralyze one branch of our government.
- - When the one branch is like a virus, yes - you cut it off from the tree.
Gee, do you think the elephants are unaware of just how much of the Tea Party steem is generated by those unemployed or under-employed American voters? I doubt we'll see any attempts along those lines. The "gays in the military" under the present conditions have been working well enough, the military might not like it, in general, but the only thing that'll be quashed would be the removal of don't ask don't tell. Food Stamps could use a little more scrutiny, I doubt it'll be eliminated. #6 is my personal favorite, I know it's a favored Obama talking point, one which is never illustated, but which policies led to our current financial debacle and who were the driving forces that pushed them through our government. I do think the Bush administration's soft spoken warnings about Fannie and Freddie were lame enough to merit some outrage. It's great if every American can own a home, but they actually need to be responsible enough and a good credit risk to make that happen. Allowing banks to gain instant liquidity in their long term investment of a mortgage was the equivalant of handing them a bag of cocaine and a fifty pill bottle of viagra, almost none of them used the situation well.
Reagan = tax and deficits
Bush = tax and deficits
Clinton = biggest surplus in US history.
Bush 2 = spend and destroy the biggest surplus to the biggest deficit.
Anyone that can still support republicans either has mental problems, or is a downright fool.
I can't believe that you actually fell for that surplus gag during the Clinton administration:
The formatting is hard to read but the lowest the deficit was in the Clinton years was $17.91 billion ending 9/29/2000. What surplus?
As can clearly be seen, in no year did the national debt go down, nor did Clinton leave President Bush with a surplus that Bush subsequently turned into a deficit. Yes, the deficit was almost eliminated in FY2000 (ending in September 2000 with a deficit of "only" $17.9 billion), but it never reached zero--let alone a positive surplus number. And Clinton's last budget proposal for FY2001, which ended in September 2001, generated a $133.29 billion deficit. The growing deficits started in the year of the last Clinton budget, not in the first year of the Bush administration.
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