I've been a deficit hawk since Reagan doubled in 4 years what it had taken the previous 200 years to build up. I harped on the Bush deficit. For all the things I dislike about him, Bill Clinton actually eliminated the deficit and began to reduce the debt.
I was outraged by Bush Jr's ridiculous tax cut for the richest 2% way before I ever got angry with him about Iraq. Now I don't mean to let Obama and the Dems off the hook, but one of the main purposes of Health Care reform is actually deficit reduction.
I'm not crazy about TARP or the bailouts, but remember that it was the Bush policies and gross negligence in terms of financial regulation that got us into the mess we're in. Obama's not perfect and he's no savior, but how much worse would things be if it weren't for what action he did take (even as much as it's costing).
As an American and a Christian, I want a stronger America, broad prosperity, a better-future, effective government and mutual responsibility. Rush Limbaugh wants Obama to fail. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele seems to want to make money by taking donors to live sex clubs. Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin want to get attention by makine people angry or scared.
I suspect that some people hate Obama just because he won and they're sore losers. Unfortunately, some people probably hate him because he's black, but they claim that he's socialist or that he's muslim or that he's the antichrist because they either don't want to admit that it's really because he's black or because they don't want anyone to find out.
I didn't write the following but I agree with it. It's addressed to everyone excited about the tea party movement and Sarah Palin. You don't have to agree with it, but I hope you'll read it and I hope that it will make you think .Everyone who's so afraid of a government take over or the government violatinng their rights really ought to think about the previous 8 years. If you totally disagree, just ignore it. If you agree, or copy-and-paste it and forward it.
Here it is:
You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.
You didn't get mad when Dick Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate energy policy.
You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.
You didn't get mad when the Patriot Act got passed, violating the rights of private citizens.
You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.
You didn't get mad when we spent over $600 billion (and counting) on said illegal war. Putting our sons and daughters in harms way and for what?
You didn't get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in Iraq .
You didn't get mad when you found out we were torturing people.
You didn't get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.
You didn't get mad when we didn't catch Bin Laden.
You didn't get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.
You didn't get mad when we let a major US city drown.
You didn't get mad when we gave a $900 billion tax break to the rich.
You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court recently passed a law allowing fat cat corporations and unions to back electorial campaigns.
You didn't get mad when, using reconciliation; a trillion dollars of our tax dollars were redirected to insurance companies for Medicare Advantage which cost over 20 percent more for basically the same services that Medicare provides.
You didn't get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark, and our debt hit the thirteen trillion dollar mark.
You finally got mad when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick.
Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all okay with you... but helping other Americans... THAT makes you mad?
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