We do get irate tempers on political views don't we?
You have to admit that economic and politics are not exactly strange bedfellows.
As sure as you can say it is your salvation to pull out of Iraq to "fix" things.. a man can say it is not such a good idea. And it won't fix a bad economy one iota, or suddenly pacify Al Quaeda or make ME governments more stable and pro US. Is is sucker's ploy. Gangsters might opt for less police too, as the bribery load gets lighter. I don't see either more or less military action will solve your problem.
Here is what Robert Mitchum had to say about that:
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Perhaps an extreme position, but Bob and John Wayne have yet to be proved wrong in American politics and domestic policies.
Our version of the democrats in Canada have caused a political mess in our country for the last 30 years. Practically killed mining, caused an uproar in Quebec while pretending to be the federal solution to extreme separatiste opinions, and larded a very corrupt nest handsomely for decades. They also increased government by 100's of percent across the board. When the liberals started flat out to increase government in Canada in 1968, there were 100,000 civil servants. Now the federal civil service is 1.67% of the population. There are now 106,000 RCMP, 38,000 more than the CDN army. 1% of all adult males who are employable is a cop riding a horse. One in every 37 adults a federal civil servant. In Ontario all branches of the civil service amount to 8% of the total population. One in every 8 adults is a civil servant. Government couldn't get any bigger. That ideal of very large government is to a democratic solution based on a kind of drug induced paranoia about everything going to hell if good guys don't oversee the minutiae.
Much of the economic problems of today were handed to the present administration by the necessity of military action in the ME, to the necessity of a low interest rate to prop up an ailing non export economy where production rates have fallen to negative growth, and outsourcing is the main engine of competition. I don't think the republicans "created" this all on their own. It was set up by a vicious misallocation of funny money in the late 90's and an economic collapse. Most administrations are innocent inheritors of their success and failure. Economies seem to rise and fall on their own regardles of attempts to improve things. I doubt that Greenspan, curtailing ALL military expenditures, and cutting government in half could do anything with today's low interest and lack of growth in the US. It is an endemic situation to a too high cost labour force with falling output and competitiveness. Only an Adam Smith and a total restructuring of the American fabric could solve it.
I don't hate democrats. I don't ridicule their instincts. I don't believe all "democrat" governments have laid waste to the economy in an egregious manner. But I believe much election rhetoric is simplistic vote catching. Most governments differ little in action. The demos cannot raise taxes and remain in office two terms running unless they see a massive increase in economic growth coming. Where are the taxes going to come from? the relatively poor middle class, just managing to make ends meet pay 65% of the tax load. It is all income tax. Rob the rich taxes won't pay U of America's debt. It is 20 times bigger than the entire above the middle class could pay if they sent ALL their money in every year and ALL their deductions went to zero for any number of years. And all that would happen is the tax base would further shrink as it is the rich corporations and people who start business and create jobs, not the middle class or the poor.
Let me illustrate a point. If you took all the taxes that every resident and business pays in British Columbia. Income, property, business, corporate, and value added tax; altogether all that tax revenue will not pay for the cost of running one provincial service. BC Medicare. How do all our transfer payments get paid today so government can operate? Oil from Alberta. Without that industry Canada would be as bankrupt as Cuba. We have no more woods, mining or car industry. Ontario no longer supports Quebec and the provinces by being a net revenue exporter. That has been shrinking for ten years and now we are a net importer of transfer payments.
And Obama wants to raise taxes on the rich? It is a cheap vote getting political trick for morons. Only a moron would believe you can take money from people and make them better off by that process. There is no Peter and Paul. You are both Peter and Paul when it comes to taxes.
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