Posted on 08/08/2011 10:54:23 AM PDT by lwd
The GOP’s conduct resembles a child whose parents refuse to grant his/her demands. The rejection of discipline is most onerous because of damage committed by the selfish desire to regulate and control. Self-centered children even refuse to accept the consequences of their actions and strike back regardless of the effects of their actions.
When Bush II initiated his Iraqi War for the benefit of the petroleum industry, he offered little consideration on how we would pay for the war. He provided a tax haven for his associates, which Speaker Boehner compelled the administration to extend. It is this spoiled child who decries the present budget dilemma, averring we must cut many safeguards for the American people: Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
Under Speaker Boehner, his GOP child/children had an expensive birthday party, an event central to Republican desires to pay less tax and demand more for its money. Imagine, how would the child react if the Bush tax cut had not been extended? These funds could have put people to work in areas in need of repair. But since the birthday party succeeded, the child’s appetite grows, its power increases and infrastructure continues to collapse.
The GOP parent is correct about the expenses for caring for other people’s children but caters to the pharmaceutical industry. They oppose the need to regulate the medical industries and have been able to prevent competitive bidding for medication since this matter means little to them. An example of the result of their concern is that a patient can receive a drop of Patanol and be charged $137.75. The cost at the pharmacy for a bottle is $ 118.29. The charge for one Magnesium pill is $66.45, while the pharmacy charges $6.73 for a bottle.
The Grand Old Party attacked the stimulus package because funds to stabilize the economy were lent to institutions throughout the country in order to keep them alive; many recipients have repaid the government. When GM and Chrysler, for example, resurrected themselves, many Americans remained on the job, employed. Individuals could retain their dignity and work instead of being unemployed and living on the public dole. The GOP could have then asserted too much money was being given to these folk who did not want to work anyway. We could reduce taxes and the funds could benefit the nation by allowing the wealthy to support America by investing in Reagan’s “trickle down” economics. Corporate profits are outsourced so Americans could find jobs at McDonalds for minimum wages.
The child has recently shown the parents who is the boss. In a frenzy of angst the infant threw caution to the wind. He suspended funds for some FAA operations to prove his strength, an action comparable to the child in the movie, “The Bad Seed.” While the air traffic controllers remain in their positions at present, airport support facilities and maintenance have been halted. Think of the number of unemployed caused by this and the reactions, physical and mental. But, after all, the child has to show the parents who is really in control.
Our spoiled child’s refusal to look beyond his/her selfish needs and do what is best for the family is symbolic of a total lack of maturity. Uncle Bush, his favorite, caused much of the malaise engulfing the nation: the Iraqi and the Afgan Wars, not funding our needs, outsourcing, and preferential tax policies for the rich, emasculating regulatory agencies, refusing to deal with the southern borders and allowing cheap labor to enter the United States, etc.
My personal favorite line from this rambling screed:
how would the child react if the Bush tax cut had not been extended? These funds could have put people to work in areas in need of repair.
Unreal...
Uh, Art, WHICH party is HUGE on regulations and control?
Krugman, is that you?
Time after time we see the same example from leftist:
THey are wholly INTOLERANT of any diversity of thought. THey simply must shut off any outside idea that they see as foriegn to them. Witness John Kerry saying the already corrupt MSM should not even whisper ideas from the Tea Party.
Honestly, I believe these people to be mentally unbalanced.
This analogy only works if the parents refuse to work but insist on living a lavish lifestyle by breaking into their child’s piggy bank and then writing IOUs against income their child has yet to earn (selling their child into slavery) then beating the child when it mentions that the parents are being irresponsible.
Dear Art,
If you want to talk about parents and children, then let us see how the fed budget would translate into a family budget. Assuming that the average family of 4 makes $47K a year, for the ease of math we will round that to $50K annual income.
Annual Income (revenues) = $50,000
Annual expenses (spending) = $90,000
Current credit card balance = $330,000
It looks like the children have been in control for way to long. BTW, your tax increases would be the same as this family getting an additional job and earning (revenues) another $80 per year. Yes, eighty.
What about the spoiled brat in the white house?
[ The GOP’s conduct resembles a child whose parents refuse to grant his/her demands. ]
Pardon my raised eyebrows... BUT is this idiot talking about the “FATHERLAND”.. implying a “Reich”..???
Well Sieg Heil and a Curly(howard) shuffle off stage.. and an eyepoke..
“When Bush II initiated his Iraqi War for the benefit of the petroleum industry” - hello...hello....hello....old Libtard....anyone home....CHINA is drilling in IRAQ...and the profits are staying in IRAQ...we are not even being repaid for deposing Saddam.
You moron.
LOL
Art Steinberg, an Alzheimers patient stuck in 2001 and 2008 Lefty news soundbites.
You need to understand this guy is clinically insane and stuck on issues that have proven false, but they continue to rant over. No blood for oil...the same garbage, year after year.
This asshat preaches that Bush and only Bush put in regulations and would not secure the Southern border? He is right that Bush is culpable, at least in the latter, but Obama’s DOJ and DHS effectively are allowing amnesty by inacation...
This guy needs a rubber room, straightjacket, meds and pacifier.
Steinberg, Eh?
These renegade Irishmen hate America almost as much as they hate Israel.
Liberals are the spoiled children. They would be God and have the universes of econonomics, human behavior, and, physics bow to their flawed comprehensions. but they are false gods. Neither have they morals, nor reason, nor truth.
I guess in the plastic reality of liberal-land can a person consistently spend more than they have in income and that is “sustainable”, a concept that liberals love to scold the rest of us about.
Or to cast it in a slightly different light, in what kind of reality are people who want to spend less than income considered “spoiled”? In a world where even facts, truth and logic are plastic and subject to change depending upon wants and needs.
I’m sure Comrade Art would be the first to raise issue with expelling illegals. He is just using that to appear more populist.
The spoiled children are stinking up the White House.
I find nothing wrong with referring to the down grade as the “Tea Party Down Grade” because it is exactly what the Tea Party predicted if debt and spending weren’t drastically cut.
The Democrats want to spend literally trillions of dollars we don’t have. The Tea Party wants us to live within our means. Explain to me how that is childish?
Where the hell are these people getting this garbage?
Progressives like to refer to other people as the spoiled, adolescent, psychotic punks they are.
IMHO
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