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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
However the tax cuts have very little to do with this crisis. Bush's biggest mistake and where there is no defense for him in that his deficit spending continued to rise in unrealistic levels. He simply allowed the govt to grow too large. Obama is spending like Bush on steroids. it will make things worse, not better. The spending is the problem, not the tax cuts. If spending is the answer than wouldnt the war have helped insulate the economy?
There is no debate to be had because the democrats clearly wouldnt listen anyway. I can speak as a regular citizen who has no political party to worry about offending or election to worry about winning. The reality is that a lot of really smart people are worried. The rest still love Obama. Take that as you may. You wont be any less liberal or less of a card carrying Democrat if you see what they are doing has very little chance of working. Remember dissent is patriotic! (special thanks to Hillary Clinton or some other Democrat from the last election cycle for that last quote)
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Well, the lack of debate is cyclical I guess. When you don't agree with the party in power, you don't get a voice....that rule became loud and clear in recent years. So it shouldn't really be surprising after years of being told that not agreeing was unpatriotic, that the concept is still stuck in folks' minds 40 days later.
I think my biggest problem, and sure, maybe I'm economically naive (likely), is that at least somebody is trying. The whole Repub attitude that we take good care of the best among us, and then hope that the goodness trickles down to everyone else just doesn't work. It doesn't work with money. It doesn't work with health. It just doesn't work. Maybe I'm a total socialist, but the self-first for the fortunate, then hope for the best for rest attitude seems like a pretty gigantic failure. So I'll take my chances on things, and pay the price if I'm wrong.