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MrHodja
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Problem Is This
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3/13/2009 8:27:07 AM
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To this point there has been little offered in the way of logic, reason, or historical fact (or claim) to support the left-wing claims that their approach to running a country will actually be good for us.
I admire Hound for staying in the debate, but even she has said she just wanted a change - and that (to roughly paraphrase some things she has said on this forum) she is not terribly happy with the way things are going.
I hope you are sitting down, for the next statement might floor you. I, as a conservative who usually votes Republican, am not happy with either the Republican Party or George Bush and their performance over the past dozen years. They had a chance to walk the walk vis-a-vis smaller Government and less spending, but became giddy with their new-found power and didn't. I would have seriously considered NOT voting for George Bush in 04, but the alternative that the Democrats presented was simply unacceptable.
Now to the current crisis. The aforementioned Republican "sins" indeed contributed - but any level-headed person would have to admit that the Democratic push to put people into houses they couldn't afford was a major factor in the burst housing bubble - which was also a major factor, if not the primary factor, in the current economic mess.
What has Obama and the Democratic Party done? Just thrown good money after bad. There is no strategy, just a willingness to write massive checks they can't cash, with no real stimulus involved. Come on, $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts? I am willing to listen to an explanation of how that is going to stimulate the economy in any kind of healthy manner, but suspect such an explanation will be obtuse at best. The rest of the "porkulus" bill is just about as bad.
In my opinion, the Democrats are following Rahm Emanuel's statement to "not waste a good crisis" as a means to endear themselves to their constituent base, not do what is right for the country. The Republicans may have used 9/11 and the terrorist threat to advance their agenda as well, but it was nothing like this insane spending spree that rewards failure and punishes success.
Gotta go to work. Someone has to.
Nasreddin Hodja
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