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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
A big ol game of chicken..
I watched the President last night, watched him talk about the fight over the debt ceiling. I never really remember there being much of a fight over it before. It was raised many times over the last few administrations, and a total of over a hundred times in all, if I understand correctly. I do not, in any way, claim to be an expert on financing this countries debts, I can't show you graphs or crunch numbers about our failing economy. What I can do though, is use common sense to understand exactly why "they" are making this so difficult. Hmmmmmm.....
I heard John Boehner, with his perfectly sprayed tan and helmet-y hair bemoan the situation. I heard him express great misery at the fact that Obama would not take his deal (I guess he forgot to mention the other members of his own party who refused to take it also and the tea party terror he was experiencing because of it). I saw him screw up his face while talking about his two children that he would be leaving this mess to, and you know what? The whole time I was thinking, "you big old lying dog of a hypocrite". (Yup, that's what I was really thinking)
It amazes me that the Republicans take absolutely no responsibility for the state of this country's economy. They take the house in 2010, promising jobs. Jobs, jobs, jobs. When the jobs don't show, who do they blame? They speak of their concern for the American people, how they could never raise taxes, meanwhile they fail to mention taxes will not be raised on the middle class and that the tax rate is the lowest it has been in years. They worry about taxing the "job creators" (this is what they are calling raising taxes), but yet they blame Obama for not creating jobs. If these millionaires are creating jobs, where are they? They rail against entitlements and spending, make teachers the bad guys, cut education, BUT refuse to consider the wars we are currently in, continue to protect wall street, corporate welfare, and taxes on private jets???? huh?
I would love to have been a fly on the wall when Obama agreed to most of what the GOP wanted, put entitlements on the block and even agreed to more cuts in discretionary spending than they had even asked for. Ohh my gosh, they must have said, ohhhh no, what now? What do we do now?? Farcical comes to mind.
Sooooo...... the people defending medicare and social security are vilified and again the democrats cave, cave and cave some more BUT it still isn't enough because we really know what this is all about, now don't we? The good of the people, the welfare of the poor, the children who don't happen to be in the uterus, but still have no healthcare or food or education or chance.
My point is not whether we should raise it or not, it is WHY is it all the sudden such a big deal, when it never has been before?
This political game playing should disgust all of us.
I heard John Boehner, with his perfectly sprayed tan and helmet-y hair bemoan the situation. I heard him express great misery at the fact that Obama would not take his deal (I guess he forgot to mention the other members of his own party who refused to take it also and the tea party terror he was experiencing because of it). I saw him screw up his face while talking about his two children that he would be leaving this mess to, and you know what? The whole time I was thinking, "you big old lying dog of a hypocrite". (Yup, that's what I was really thinking)
It amazes me that the Republicans take absolutely no responsibility for the state of this country's economy. They take the house in 2010, promising jobs. Jobs, jobs, jobs. When the jobs don't show, who do they blame? They speak of their concern for the American people, how they could never raise taxes, meanwhile they fail to mention taxes will not be raised on the middle class and that the tax rate is the lowest it has been in years. They worry about taxing the "job creators" (this is what they are calling raising taxes), but yet they blame Obama for not creating jobs. If these millionaires are creating jobs, where are they? They rail against entitlements and spending, make teachers the bad guys, cut education, BUT refuse to consider the wars we are currently in, continue to protect wall street, corporate welfare, and taxes on private jets???? huh?
I would love to have been a fly on the wall when Obama agreed to most of what the GOP wanted, put entitlements on the block and even agreed to more cuts in discretionary spending than they had even asked for. Ohh my gosh, they must have said, ohhhh no, what now? What do we do now?? Farcical comes to mind.
Sooooo...... the people defending medicare and social security are vilified and again the democrats cave, cave and cave some more BUT it still isn't enough because we really know what this is all about, now don't we? The good of the people, the welfare of the poor, the children who don't happen to be in the uterus, but still have no healthcare or food or education or chance.
My point is not whether we should raise it or not, it is WHY is it all the sudden such a big deal, when it never has been before?
This political game playing should disgust all of us.
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