Posted by: ApostasyUSA | September 5, 2011, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm

Repub controlled congress budget deficits:
2002 – $317 Billion;
2003 – $538 Billion;
2004 – $568 Billion;
2005 – $494 Billion;
2006 – $434 Billion;
2007 – $342 Billion…
Dems take over BOTH Houses of congress:
Demo controlled congress budget deficits:
2008 – $420 Billion;
2009 – $1,850 Billion;
2010 – $1,500 Billion;
2011 – $1,280 Billion (projected) .

“Republicans don’t actually stand for anything, and funny thing is, no one asks them to.” – Apostasy

Demos apparently stand for large deficits, and the funny thing is, we are asking them to stop spending.

Bush could have cut spending and reduced the size of government. He could have balanced the budget. He could have spared us an expensive war in Iraq. He should have imposed a tax to pay for the war in Afghanistan. Had he done those things there would have been no need to raise the debt ceiling in 2006. But given the state of the economy Obama inherited high deficits were inevitable for several years. There was no way the budget could be balanced under those circumstances.

I am certainly not going to blame Obama for these problems.

President Bush and his supporters argued that high-income tax cuts would benefit everybody because they would unleash investment that would spark widespread economic prosperity.

There is no evidence of this. From 2000 to 2007, the United States lost one in five (3.5 million) middle-class jobs. A majority of the new jobs created in the United States under Bush pay extremely low wages at less than $18,000 a year, usually without benefits. This is with corporate profits at an all time high since 1960.

The 2005 CBO data show that changes in law enacted since January 2001 increased the deficit by $539 billion in 2005. In the absence of such legislation, the nation would have a surplus that year. In 2010, when all the Bush tax cuts were finally phased in, a staggering 52.5 percent of the benefits went to the richest 5 percent of taxpayers.

Republicans don’t negotiate, they are already “right”. After watching the Republicans have so called debates I’m left wondering what all these people will do fix our nation that, according to Republicans, has been destroyed by Democrats.

After watching Republicans hate on all the people who voted for Democrats I realized this: That in order for Republicans to even get elected, they need to exploit the emotions of people using anti-gay rhetoric along with some fear mongering like “death panels” mixed with a little contentious associations such as the anti ACORN and Planned Parenthood right-wing propaganda. Throw all that in with the “Obama is a Kenyan Muslim” stuff and you get a whole lot of ignorant people throwing away their votes on the worst possible candidate.

Michel Bachman for example actively fights the teaching of evolution in science classes. After all that science has created for humanity, Republicans will still deny any science that contradicts their, cursory but required to be elected, political beliefs. Take away these tools of fear from the Republican Party and you are left with nothing. Crickets.

Republicans don’t actually stand for anything, and funny thing is, no one asks them to.

Posted by: ApostasyUSA | September 5, 2011, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm

I agree with almost all of what you’ve posted.

We’ll wait with bated breath to see if President Obama denounces the rhetoric of his own warm-up act, a certain Mr. Jimmy Hoffa, or it will it be Solidarity Forever…

“We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party. And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about working people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They’ve got a war, they got a war with us and there’s only going to be one winner. It’s going to be the workers of Michigan, and America. We’re going to win that war,” Jimmy Hoffa Jr. said to a heavily union crowd.

“President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these sxn of bxxxxxs out and give America back to an America where we belong,” Hoffa added.

Good post talmag.

Bush could have cut spending and reduced the size of government. He could have balanced the budget. He could have spared us an expensive war in Iraq. He should have imposed a tax to pay for the war in Afghanistan. Had he done those things there would have been no need to raise the debt ceiling in 2006. But given the state of the economy Obama inherited high deficits were inevitable for several years. There was no way the budget could be balanced under those circumstances.

I am certainly not going to blame Obama for these problems.

President Bush and his supporters argued that high-income tax cuts would benefit everybody because they would unleash investment that would spark widespread economic prosperity.

There is no evidence of this. From 2000 to 2007, the United States lost one in five (3.5 million) middle-class jobs. A majority of the new jobs created in the United States under Bush pay extremely low wages at less than $18,000 a year, usually without benefits. This is with corporate profits at an all time high since 1960.

The 2005 CBO data show that changes in law enacted since January 2001 increased the deficit by $539 billion in 2005. In the absence of such legislation, the nation would have a surplus that year. In 2010, when all the Bush tax cuts were finally phased in, a staggering 52.5 percent of the benefits went to the richest 5 percent of taxpayers.

Republicans don’t negotiate, they are already “right”. After watching the Republicans have so called debates I’m left wondering what all these people will do fix our nation that, according to Republicans, has been destroyed by Democrats.

After watching Republicans hate on all the people who voted for Democrats I realized this: That in order for Republicans to even get elected, they need to exploit the emotions of people using anti-gay rhetoric along with some fear mongering like “death panels” mixed with a little contentious associations such as the anti ACORN and Planned Parenthood right-wing propaganda. Throw all that in with the “Obama is a Kenyan Muslim” stuff and you get a whole lot of ignorant people throwing away their votes on the worst possible candidate.

Michel Bachman for example actively fights the teaching of evolution in science classes. After all that science has created for humanity, Republicans will still deny any science that contradicts their, cursory but required to be elected, political beliefs. Take away these tools of fear from the Republican Party and you are left with nothing. Crickets.

Republicans don’t actually stand for anything, and funny thing is, no one asks them to.

Stockholm Syndrome

For teleprompter manufacturers? How else can a man who’s never worked in the private sector “create” jobs, other than by speculating with the taxpayer’s money on green start-ups. How’s that working out?

“…Friday’s worse-than-expected jobs report…”

Worse than WHO expected? Given this administration’s economic policies, and its Alinskyesque scapegoating of various private sector entities as enemies, it is actually any improvement that would be “unexpected” to many of us.

It had better be one razzle-dazzle speech Thursday night – it IS still on for Thursday, isn’t it?