How Democrats Should Talk About Economic Issues

Oh yes, here we go again-- blame the "liberal media". (over 85% of which is now owned by conservative corporations, BTW.)

All you "tax-cut and spend" republicans just crack me up. Obama will make things worse, McCain will make things better. What a crock.

McCain has admitted more than once that he knows very little about economics, and his judgment is obviously questionable... as amply proven by his bungling involvement in the infamous Keating-5 scandal. And Palin only knows how to grab government money and then lie about it later.

Recently, the republican congressional minorities have done everything they can to prevent ANY of the disastrous Bush policies from being reversed. And whenever they've had a majority, the republican congress has only taken steps to make things sweeter for all of their rich friends (and themselves), by handing out tax breaks and "exemptions", and deregulating everything to the point where "every man for himself" is the law of the land.

"Country First", my butt. "Fiscal conservatives"? What a joke.

Let's see now-- in the last few decades, who was the ONLY president who was able to actually balance the budget, reverse the deficit, and provide a thriving, healthy economy...? Oh yes, good old "liberal, socialist, tax and spend" Clinton. Who was the last full-term republican president who was able to even come CLOSE to these achievements…? Why, it was your old buddy, Nixon. Remember him?

Not even the fanatically revered Ronnie Reagan, with the support of republican majorities in BOTH houses of congress, could bring about the capitalist utopia that republicans are always promising.... In fact, it was during his mythical reign that the huge, skyrocketing deficits began-- and they have been topped by every republican administration, since.

The republicans talk an awful lot about cutting spending, but they NEVER deliver. All they ever do is change the direction of the spending-- toward themselves and their cronies. They have been "trickling down" on us for almost 30 years, and things are smelling pissier and pissier.

We are now engaged in the first major US war that was not accompanied by proportionate tax increases. Never mind that it was initiated for extremely dubious reasons, and justified with outright lies... It also happens to be the most expensive war, per capita and per diem, in history. Just where did all of you "conservatives" think the money was going to come from, when you voted for that dunderhead and his chickenhawk, big-oil buddies???

You can only blame welfare mothers and sex education and class warfare and "socialists" for so long. Your fat-cat ELITIST executive buddies are walking away with multi-million dollar bonuses and buyouts, whether their companies thrive or not (usually not). The rest of us are wondering whether we'll even have a house by the end of the decade.

How about Drill-drill-drilling this into your heads, already: Enough is Enough!

JesMe of AZ 4:27AM September 20, 2008