Why? Unemployment is down to 4.7%, essentially full employment save for those transitioning between jobs. Interest rates and inflation rates are historically low still. Our income taxes have been lowered, as have our taxes on dividends as well as our estate taxes.
Saddam Hussein is in jail. North Korea has agreed to disarm and abandon its nukes. Libya has surrendered its entire WMD program. Syria has withdrawn from Lebanon. Russia has withdrawn from Georgia. Taylor has abdicated from Liberia. The Taliban now cowers in caves rather than executing little girls for going to school.
Our national missile defenses have been deployed, and nuclear monitors are now in place all along our entire land and sea borders (so much so that Free Republic has its own "stunned my beeber" joke for a FReeper being detected by this equipment after his radiation therapy treatment).
The Kyoto Global Warming nonsense is history, as is our involvement in the International Criminal Court.
Partial Birth Abortion has been banned, and 2 new conservatives sit today on the Supreme Court.
Our stock market is booming. Home ownership and stock ownership are at historic highs.
Yet you are pessimistic. You see only gloom and doom. You can readily find fault with all of the above, plus rail against spending.
In short, you are personally, emotionally invested in fear and failure. You are going to lash out at anything that even remotely resembles good news.
That's how you are wired.
But that's not rational debate. That's an emotional need...sort of like the "survivalists" in the 1980's who hoped for global nuclear war to justify their retreat from society, ditto again for the Y2K crowd that cowered in their bunkers on 1/1/2000.
You want to find fault...you **need** to find gloom and doom. If you see *any* good news, you are going to rain on that parade.
In short, you want others to be as miserable and depressed as yourself.
No thanks.