Posted on 08/11/2011 5:44:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
President Obama, the Democrat party and their members of Congress have spent years blaming former President George W. Bush for the nation's current economic woes, which is akin to blaming the bank's tellers for a bank robbery, or for the dishonesty of their bosses, the bank's executives who were looting the till.
Nobody in the left-dominated media bothers to note that in the last years of the Bush presidency Democrats controlled the Congress and thus had a death grip on the nation's economy, having complete control over the nation's purse strings. They spent and spent and spent the yet-uncollected taxes of future generations -- as well as our own -- as if there were no tomorrow.
It wasn't a Bush Congress that jammed the incredible costs of Obamacare down the throats of the American people and their children and grandchildren -- it was our spendthrift president and his allies on Capitol Hill doing their classic imitation of the legendary drunken sailors on shore leave.
It's simply common sense to understand that spending money one doesn't have in the hopes that the future will provide the needed funds is something like believing that some beneficent tooth fairy will come up with the money in the future.
Now the president and the national Democrat party have suddenly discovered a scapegoat for the latest economic mess they have thrust upon the American people. They insist that the credit-rating downgrade was the fault of the tea party trying to control the nation's purse strings. I'm not kidding. They really expect us to swallow this whopper as the gospel truth.
They expect us to ignore the fact that the millions of tea party members are simply Americans deeply and sincerely concerned about the nation's economy and the tendency of the government to spend their hard-earned tax money on whatever scam strikes its fancy.
It's time to place the blame for our economic malaise where it belongs -- on the shoulders of the Obama administration and the Democrats in Congress.
Tea party members have been the voice of reason, not the wild-eyed terrorists portrayed by the left's crazy spin doctors.
What would have averted the credit-rating downgrade and the subsequent turmoil in the markets? Precisely the spending cuts advocated by the tea party.
According to a statement by Jenny Beth Martin, a co-founder and national coordinator of Tea Party Patriots, the debt-ceiling compromise was full of "accounting tricks and minor 'cuts' to spending." She warns that these so-called cuts do not reduce our national debt. They are simply cuts to future deficit spending.
Rather than prevent a crisis, the debt deal has "already cost us our AAA credit rating," according to Martin.
In addition, she explains that the tea party was the only organization pushing for the passage of the Full Faith and Credit Act, which would remove the threat of a national default.
A couple of hundred years ago a band of American patriots demonstrated their contempt for a distant Parliament that imposed unjust taxation upon citizens, with no say in the matter, by dumping British-taxed tea in Boston Harbor. It was one of the acts of defiance that helped spark the American Revolution and created a new nation.
Unlike the Boston tea party, today's today's tea party membership is nationwide and composed of people from every nook and cranny in this vast nation, but they feel the same determination to display their anger at the depredations of an out-of-control national government that the Boston patriots showed toward a distant monarch who legend tells us could not speak a word of English, preferring instead his native German.
It's past time for a little tea dumping of our own -- the bitter tea brewed by Barack Obama
After years of being in denial, we are now smack in the middle of anger (usually blame).
We have to be very careful in the bargaining stage, that's where the fate of our Nation will be determined. If we're desperate to save what little is left of our lifestyles, we might just give away our future.
Mike Reagan makes too much sense for the clueless coolaid drinking leftists to understand. They will forever blame anyone and everyone other than their own flawed and corrupt socialist policies. Keynesian economics, the economic bastard son of Socialism; was, is, and always will be EPIC FAIL.
Didn’t W sign those huge spending bills?
To be fair, it wasn’t Democrats who crammed an unaffordable Medicare prescription drug benefit down our throats, was it? Today’s Democrats are Marxists, but the Republicans are acting like Democrats from 25 years ago. There’s a whole lot of ‘em, in both parties, that need to be run out of office...soon. I only hope enough Americans have the discipline and morality to do what is right. It means many of us will have to vote against our own immediate self interest, but for all the left’s talk about doing things “for the children” we’re the ones who actually have children and want to preserve what we had for them.
Which huge spending bills? peanuts compared to the congress of the past 4 years. With two large wars going on, the deficit ballooned, but the Republican congress brought the deficit down sharply when they were in majorities. The deficit is 10 to 15 times larger now than the last Republican year.
I can point to spending problems a plenty during the 2000s, so there is not a lack of blame, but it is apples and oranges. If we were still following that course of spending, we would be in a massively improved situation today. They were speeding 75 in a 60mph zone. Today, we’re at 120.
He signed the ones supporting the troops. The article is about after the rats took over not before and you know Michael Reagan is correct, because the economy was thriving when the Republicans were in the majority and unemployment was practically nonexistent. The recession started in December of 2007
Excellent point.
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Didn’t 0bama spend in the first year more then all presidents combined up to Ronald Reagan?
The D's and RINOs retain the 'give-me-everything’ status quo as if W was still in office. They're apoplectic the good ole days are gone.
I’m no fan of the medicare prescription drug benefit, but I will nonetheless say a couple things in its defense:
A) Costs actually did come in lower than CBO projections which given government programs, is close to a miracle.
B) In theory the program should save money on costs of the greater Medicare program because treating a lot of issues with preventative drugs is much cheaper than the surgery which would follow in the absence of the drug (ie. Lipitor now vs. a bypass later).
Mind you I don’t much buy into it either since broke is broke, and spending money to ‘save money’ generally is a bogus assumption. As most seniors had the sense to take those drugs on their own, and buy a form of insurance or some other plan to help with them, to make a federal program was a waste.
The simple truth is that it was a political ploy to court seniors. It was not exactly a high point of the GOP congress.
Your post highlights the root issue with government spending. Nearly everything the federal government does can be rationalized (not saying you believe the drug benefit was justified).
Congressmen and senators are probably inundated with requests for help. Take unemployment insurance for example. There are plenty of unemployed, and there’s no doubt many are helped by the insurance. Statists, you see, always have a list of reasons why the government needs to act.
Conservatism is more nuanced. Using the unemployment example again, I don’t know of many conservatives who aren’t also concerned about unemployment. It would be easy to hand out checks, but that only addresses the immediate problem and creates an array of problems later on, like how to pay for it.
So my point is there’s always a reason for expanding government, and both parties have done virtually nothing to reign in the constant expansion of government. For all those posters who claim Republicans are better, the Democrats don’t run as the party of small government. It’s the Republicans who claim that but never deliver.
Both parties are poisonous. The Republican dose is smaller, but the only difference is between killing the patient with a massive dose now versus killing him with a smaller dose later. That’s why I say a whole lot of politicians in both parties need to be retired, and that’s what irks me in particular about Republican Party apologists (not saying you’re one, but take a look at some of them on this thread).
Fundamentally, it is not all on the politicians. The people have serious issues in understanding. They want stuff for free, and they want it paid for by someone else. While campaigning, it’s a lot easier to cater to people’s base desires without educating as to why those desires can’t be.
Blaming the GOP for giving people what they ask for may well be correct, but isn’t necessary fair. At least the GOP periodically tries to educate people as to why they can’t have all the stuff they want. The Democrats make no such pretense and regularly lie about it, claiming that it can all be free while the rich pay for it.
Like I often say, I only have to cite examples at Tea Party rallies with people holding “Don’t Touch My Medicare” signs to explain the situation. It’s not the GOP’s fault that people don’t grasp the internal inconsistency which allows things like that to happen.
Until the voting populace decides to grow up, and actually accept that money doesn’t grow on a tree out back, we’re going to both have plenty of Democrats elected, and see the GOP pander to the freebie seekers because that is what is needed to get elected in some areas.
I will bring this back to blaming FDR who broke the dam on this. Before he and his supermajority in congress changed everything, the politicians at least understood the constitution limited their power. They also knew that the Supreme Court would stop them if they did get to big for their britches. When FDR managed to stare down the SC, it was all over.
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