I'm capable of making a mistake... but in reality all I'm doing is standing up for myself. It is YOU who said way back in the election campaign that if Obama won YOU were all ready to attack him because you felt Bush was unfairly attacked. I'm merely calling you out on things you said and showing a pattern of premeditation. And I'm sure it would be easier if everyone just laid down for you.
See it is you who post the snotty comments that I then must address.
I do see the debt as a problem. I'd like to see us get back to the economic conditions under President Clinton. And as we all know the Clinton administration was big on reducing debt.
Had we kept the Clinton tax brackets, used the surplus wisely and not wasted up to $12 BILLION DOLLARS per month in an Iraq war built on lies we would not only have been able to shore up Social Security & Medicare but also fund the initial investment on a broader less expensive Healthcare system.
The Republicans worked a plan with their astronomical spending. And that plan was called... Take money off the table. You can't very well shore up Social Security & Medicare if there's no money, right? Remember this is back at the beginning when Bush and cronies were pushing PRIVATIZE IT ALL!
Same thing with Healthcare. They knew support for major Healthcare reform was growing by leaps and bounds in popularity. I'm sure they felt their spending was a way to stop what they saw as a costly long term entitlement. But It's wrong headed just the same. It's the American people by their needs and their votes that should make that decision... not just who can take the money off the table.
Or in other words in your type of "Democracy" you just take your ball and go home bad mouthing the winning coach and his team. Do everything you can to see to it common ground is never found and just relentlessly complain about the process.
That's what we're trying to change.
First off... you don't dictate how people post. But I'll be glad to answer your questions just as I have several times.
Sometimes in severely bad economic times as in the Great Depression this time I guess to be known as the Great Bush Rescission you need a bump that only government has the economic capital and mechanism to perform... as in The New Deal.
You are trying to stop the rapid domino effect of mass unemployment compounding business failures. By investing in already needed public works (infrastructure) jobs that will have to be done and paid for at some point anyway you put people to work and paying taxes. These people then create jobs for all those that then are needed to service them.
The idea is to give the country a window of time without a spiraling in effect allowing the private sector time to bounce back as the works programs are phased out. This takes a year or so to really kick in but nothing starts if one won't even take the first step.
Add to that middle class tax cuts (as President Obama had already planned) and that also gives some immediate relief in peoples weekly paychecks while the other parts of the plan are ramping up.
What really are our options? Just keep saying things aren't bad as they continue to steadily worsen. Cut the military and military spending in half. Just say sorry, fend for yourselves, and cancel Social Security & Medicare to American senior citizens.
No, I don't think so I think we try and work out something that gets us through... and with people on both sides saying we need a stimulus package I think that's noteworthy.
We will do better and America will maintain it's services to it's people.
