Post by Bret Walker on Mar 24, 2003 14:01:17 GMT -5
Reagan took a $1 trillion deficit and in 8 years turned it into a $4 trillion deficit.
Bush Sr. took a $4 trillion deficit and in 4 years turned it into a $5 trillion deficit.
Clinton took a deficit budget and turned it into a surplus budget, so that the deficit was actually being reduced.
Then Bush Jr. put a stop to that and turned it back into a $6 trillion deficit and counting.
Republicans love to pour more money than we have into a defense budget, while providing tax cuts to the rich (with the false hopes that the savings will be passed onto their employees, yet in 16 years this has never happened) and cutting education funding while increasing money for prisons. If you do a cross-section of the prison population you will find that the more violent crimes are perpetrated by the less educated inmates. Why can't the republican party figure that out? Bush is taking everything that Clinton made right during his presidency and turning it back around. Meanwhile, his antics in Iraq have set our foreign diplomacy back to the days when Reagan was the president, which would be a good thing if it weren't for all the Cold War intolerance and distrust of everything non-American. The Republicans love a fascist state. (Fascism, by the way, is defined as "militant nationalism," blind loyalty to the leadership or government of a country despite agreement or disagreement of views).
I did not vote for G-Dub, nor his father, and if I'd been of voting age I wouldn't have voted for Reagan either. And while you may be happy with every country in the world except Britain and Australia hating us, it makes me damn uncomfortable that we're fighting a war in which the UN has not given us sanction to do so. In fact, with this action, Bush has undercut the authority of the UN, and it may be decades before it's seen as a serious body of government again.
Thank you G-Dub, and thank you Republican party, for completely destroying every ideal I have ever held as an American. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and middle-class morality is cut off at the knees. Pretty soon we'll have a two-class structure in the US, and we'll be no better off than the serfdoms of the middle ages. Welcome to the new feudalism.
Bush Sr. took a $4 trillion deficit and in 4 years turned it into a $5 trillion deficit.
Clinton took a deficit budget and turned it into a surplus budget, so that the deficit was actually being reduced.
Then Bush Jr. put a stop to that and turned it back into a $6 trillion deficit and counting.
Republicans love to pour more money than we have into a defense budget, while providing tax cuts to the rich (with the false hopes that the savings will be passed onto their employees, yet in 16 years this has never happened) and cutting education funding while increasing money for prisons. If you do a cross-section of the prison population you will find that the more violent crimes are perpetrated by the less educated inmates. Why can't the republican party figure that out? Bush is taking everything that Clinton made right during his presidency and turning it back around. Meanwhile, his antics in Iraq have set our foreign diplomacy back to the days when Reagan was the president, which would be a good thing if it weren't for all the Cold War intolerance and distrust of everything non-American. The Republicans love a fascist state. (Fascism, by the way, is defined as "militant nationalism," blind loyalty to the leadership or government of a country despite agreement or disagreement of views).
I did not vote for G-Dub, nor his father, and if I'd been of voting age I wouldn't have voted for Reagan either. And while you may be happy with every country in the world except Britain and Australia hating us, it makes me damn uncomfortable that we're fighting a war in which the UN has not given us sanction to do so. In fact, with this action, Bush has undercut the authority of the UN, and it may be decades before it's seen as a serious body of government again.
Thank you G-Dub, and thank you Republican party, for completely destroying every ideal I have ever held as an American. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and middle-class morality is cut off at the knees. Pretty soon we'll have a two-class structure in the US, and we'll be no better off than the serfdoms of the middle ages. Welcome to the new feudalism.
