Republican Bums Vote them out

The Republican bums are responsible for our out of control deficit, they are lying about it.

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.

The Truth

Almost all nations including our own pay their own war bills. Only the Republicans deny this and they claim it's the Democrats and Obama who are looking for a free ride?

Never in our nation’s history did we go to war without funding it. For instance on January 10, 1967 President Lyndon Johnson asked for more funding for the Vietnam War which means during the 1960's Congress and most Americans believed it was ill-advised to go to war without having to pay for it http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/johnson-asks-for-more-funding-for-vietnam-war During World War II Americans paid a higher share of their income than any other time in our History. Americans also financed our war effort by buying billions of dollars of war bonds. In World War I such war bonds were called Liberty Bonds while our neighbors to the North bought Canadian war bonds called "Victory bonds". Only someone as short sighted as George Bush could go to war without having to pay for it.

Now Republicans would like for us all to think that it’s Mr. Obama who is the profligate spender while theirs is the voice of reason and moderation. On October 2^nd, 2002 Obama spoke out against the war in Iraq at a Chicago anti war rally while running for the U.S. Senate on the very day that President George Busch and the U.S. Congress agreed on a joint resolution authorizing the war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama#Iraq_War

Clearly had Obama been our president then instead of G.W. Bush there never would have been a war in Iraq. He was one of a select few of our policy makers who was smart and responsible enough to speak out against getting mired down into such a hopeless, costly foreign venture.

But let’s turn the clock back just a little further. In November 2000 G. W. Bush won the presidential election against Al Gore who was Vice President serving under President Bill Clinton. The election was so close that it had to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court which ruled in favor of Bush after the Florida votes had to be recounted under dubious circumstances in spite of the fact that over 500,000 more Americans had voted for the Democrat over the Republican. The decision would prove to be devastating to the U.S. and its economy.

The Propaganda Machine

Of course none of this never happened. Just listen to Fox News for example. It’s all Mr. Obama’s fault. But as we have seen recently Rupert Murdoch empire’s world wide media network’s integrity has taken a huge hit since July 2011 when its "News of the World" started facing accusations that it has hacked the telephones of private citizens in the U.K. which almost immediately spilled over to the U.S. where Murdock is currently being investigated by the F.B.I. for bribery and corruption.

Although Murdoch’s success at improving the ratings of his media companies cannot be faulted, his integrity not to mention the integrity of his employees certainly can. As for the Fox News slogan of being "Fair and Balanced" only one name, aside from Murdoch’s, needs to be mentioned, and that’s its president's, Roger Ailes. Roger Ailes was media consultant for presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush as well as Rudy Giuliani’s first mayoral campaign in 1989–all Republicans. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_AilesAlthough Fox News might be entertaining, there can be no question of where its political affiliations lie or of its lack of respect for the truth. To name just one example, I remember when Obama was debating John McCain on the eve of the 2008 presidential election. All the other television networks were claiming that their respondents had voted something like 80 percent in favor of Obama’s decisively winning one of the debates over McCain whereas Fox News claimed the exact opposite by claiming 80 percent for McCain versus only 20 percent for Obama.

Fox News seems to have one goal and one goal only and that is to advance the goals and candidates of the Republican Party at all costs and this means absolutely crushing President Obama at every opportunity. And if there’s any doubt of that, just remember all those billions of dollars the special interest groups have at their disposal to ensure the defeat of perhaps the most dangerous political candidate they have ever had to face–a man of supreme intellect, tremendous oratorical skill with the charisma to transcend racial and cultural boundaries who even worse for them seems to have his heart in the right place.

Don’t think that all those internet emails and web sites that claim Obama is a Muslim or a racist Christian are all mere accidents. There can be no doubt that a large percentage of them have been inspired and financed by all those special interest groups that see Obama as their greatest enemy so they tap into all that latent racism that still exists deep in the hard hearts of many Americans who will never admit they hate Obama because he’s half black because it's simply not politically correct to admit, "I hate blacks". But they certainly can admit to hating Obama because he’s a Muslim, or a Reverend Wright following Christian racist or because he never was born in the U.S., therefore cannot serve as our president and consequently not qualified to lead the nation. This is all part of a dirty tricks package that’s been created with one intent only and that’s to completely destroy a promising presidency so that the other side can take power at all costs.

So where are we now?

Well, for one thing before the last presidential election I wrote my U.S. Congressman, a man I personally knew and liked that if he didn’t stop voting "No" in lockstep with his fellow Republicans against anything and everything Obama was in favor of that I’d for the first time vote a straight Democratic ticket which meant my voting against him. Well, he’s still voting as part of a 100 % unified block against everything that our president is in favor of,

So what do all these Republicans want? They want one thing–power and if that means to hell with the country, so be it. They have pledged themselves to the defeat of our president in the next election. That means doing everything in their power to ensure the complete failure of his presidency and along with him the country as well. We are on the eve of a default of the United States to pay its obligations. This means as of August 2^nd if a deal is not made that will result in at least a temporary mandate to raise our debt ceiling that our government will stop working. This means no more social security checks will be sent out for example. It means the closing of the U.S. Post Office. It will lead to a rise in the interest rates our country which the rest of us must pay in order to borrow and that means even more national debt accompanied by U.S. businesses finding it even more difficult and more expensive to borrow all resulting in an additional loss of hundreds of thousands of more jobs.

If only we could turn back the clock to the 2000 presidential election and had elected Al Gore instead of George W. Bush and all his minions there would never have been a war in Iraq and we’d probably already have seen the entire U.S. National debt paid off in full as a result of a continuing round of annual surpluses created by our nation's being able to save more than it is spending. We’d already be experiencing a new era of green energy fostered by made in American green energy technologies. The country would have been made safe again for retired people and for those who had the pure bad luck of being born disadvantaged. As for the Republicans of today, they want to fool the rest of us into following their program that led us to this fiscal disaster in the first place. It did not work before and it will not work now. In the meantime they are selling out their country while lying that it’s the other side that’s at fault. Since all of them are in the same can of worms 100 percent united to a man towards toppling this administration at any costs, I urge all of you to pledge: "The only good Republican is one who’s out of office" and to throw the bums out on the street where they belong

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