Quote: (12-07-2011 11:14 AM)Pusscrook Wrote:
You're not a dumb hick, but you are quite partisan, and when one reads a majority of your post, it is quite evident, that your truth is based upon partiality. If you railed against the house/senate, and Republicans, as much as you did Obama, then you would be considered neutral, and, one who seeks a solution to what ails the country. The problem that you are having (when it comes to credibility), is that you have assigned majority of the blame to one man, and you are all too willing to display your knowledge based on one side of the story. As educated as you are, you are fully aware that it is systematic, yet, you lean to one side, more so than the other, as if the truth, is prejudice. Why don't you present your arguments with no partiality?
Since this post could arguably apply to me as well, here's my view, it has 3 main arguments, and it's pretty straightforward.
1. The United States of America is a fiscal train wreck waiting to happen. Big government Republicans made it bad, but Obama is on a path to make it much much worse (see chart above). The Democrats have absolutely zero interest and incentive to stop this mountain of debt. The Dimms are the party of false choices -- it's either bloated fiscally unsustainable Medicare, or grandma gets rolled off the cliff in her wheelchair. It brings new meaning to the word "demogoguery." The Republicans -- who have at least come to the rational conclusion that we are on a fiscal train wreck -- have a chance to get it under control. Will they? And will they solve this problem? As I said, even if they don't they at least are going to try. Frankly, I don't care if a Pentecostal Snake Charmer becomes President of the United States, if HE can get this debt picture under control.
2. Our federal government is too big, too intrusive, too inefficient. Why do we have a department of education when all education is done locally? It's a waste. The department of commerce should be eliminated except for its business statistics section. Vast swaths of the EPA can be ashcanned. Homeland Security? TSA? The other day I was in Logan airport and they were patting down a woman who looked 75; probably the worst thing she's done in her life is burn a pot roast. I am for regulation -- but sensible regulation. Dodd-Frank is silly stupid regulation. Obamacare is REALLY silly REALLY stupid, and frankly destructive regulation. Look, there are two ways that you drive down costs in a particular market: governmental price controls/centralized supply planning/governmental subsidies; or competition. Why are computers, cell phones, among many other examples, so much cheaper and such higher quality than they were as little as 5 years ago? Businesses COMPETING.
3. The United States and its model of being a democratic republic, with an economy that rewards innovation and hard work, should be a beacon to the world. We should have a muscular foreign policy that shouldn't bow down to others, suck up to extremists, or be apologetic about who we are. Folks can disagree about whether it was right or wrong to get into a war, but if we do get into one, let's make sure our legislature agrees with it (as it did with Iraq but not with Libya) and that if we're in it, we should be in it to WIN it.