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To: Brumar89 who wrote (5274)	2/25/2009 8:58:30 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

They also have good ideas such as: * spending American money on American citizens instead of giving it all away to Iraqis and other countries * using diplomacy as a cheaper way to get what we want rather than fighting trillion dollar wars that bankrupt the country * recognizing that oil dependency is sinking this country and taking bold steps to diversify our energy sources by incubating renewables * recognizing that education, science, and technology are the lifeblood of our power and prosperity and making sizeable investments to bring those back to par * realizing that when the economy is in a downward spiral to rival that of the Great Depression, it takes massive government spending to break out of that spiral, but having the foresight to realize we'll need to get back to balanced budgets once the economy is on the path to recovery * having the only President (Clinton) who actually refused to sign a deficit budget passed by Congress, and as a result, shut the government down until Congress fixed the budget...having the only President who successfully achieved budget surpluses * having the common sense to realize that the middle class and the American dream are part of the secret sauce that makes our way of life possible and reversing the skew to the wealthy that Bush enacted with his tax cuts I could go on. I find it amazing that the Republicans shout about Dem socialism when in reality the greatest redistribution of wealth in the history of this country occurred over the last 8 years from from 99% of American citizens to the top 1%. Any Dem reversal of that will simply bring this country back to the center that it occupied in the 1990's. We're so far to the right now, that we need the Dems in power for awhile to bring this country back to center. We need balance. Extremism, whether it's to the right or to the left is a bad thing. For the last 8 years, we've been held hostage by rightwing extremists and those of us in the center are plain sick of it, because it has destroyed our country.