The Republican bums are responsible for our out of control deficit, they are lying about it. And they aren’t doing anything about the mess they’ve created.
by Jack Corbett
Almost all countries pay taxes or buy bonds to wage war, including the U.S. And then came the Republicans led by George W. Bush and his minions who passed two tax decreases while leading the country into two wars.
Sure, many Democrats joined in the fiscal carnage that blew out of control during the George W. Bush years but since it became the party of No to anything either constructive or ill-conceived by our president with EVERY Republican Congressman joining in lockstep for the sole purpose of destroying Obama’s presidency I’m sure that it is completely fair to blame our present economic catastrophe entirely upon them.
Let’s get a few things perfectly clear from the get go. When he first ran for president it was not Obama’s goal to try to spend ourselves out of a recession. The recession was a gift from George W. Bush and his cronies. It hit in the final months of the Bush presidency and it was George Bush who signed the TARP (Troubled Assets Relief Program) agreement in October 2008, not President Obama so anyone (all Republicans) who accuses Obama of being the biggest spending president in our History is lying when he includes the TARP expenditures in Obama’s budget.
Americans elected Obama at a time when he proposed a budget that hinged on a tax plan that would make only the wealthiest 5 % of Americans pay a tax increase which when you think about it is more than fair, especially when you consider they can hire the best accountants and lawyers to get them out of paying their fair share of taxes in the first place. Obama also promised to initiate health care reform and a new era of green energy that would produce millions of jobs in the United States, and when you consider that the U.S. health care system is the highest priced, most out of control and most unaffordable system in the entire world one can certainly say that reform has been way overdue.
Obviously Obama’s well intended programs were destined to enrage a lot of big money special interests and when big money feels threatened it’s going to gather it’s forces to purchase millions if not billions of dollars of propaganda to completely destroy those very forces of change that threaten its obscene profits. Now just think about exactly which special interests are being threatened here. When you build green energy powered cars you are threatening big oil. When you propose changes to a health care industry whose costs are spinning out of control you are threatening not just the American Medical Association (AMA), you are also threatening an entire industry of insurance companies who are worried about losing billions of dollars of business. And when you propose winding down the war in Iraq which Obama was one of only a few never to support in the first place, you are threatening a bloated U.S. military and all those corporations building all that military hardware that is being used to wage unnecessary wars. Clearly, Obama, had to go. He was just too far ahead of his time, too much in tune with the middle class and the poor and too dedicated to what needs to be done at the expense of all these special interests.
So it was time to roll out the propaganda machine to turn truth onto
its head by blaming Obama for all the out of control spending that
is bankrupting the country.
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