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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neil H who wrote (77512)	6/6/2010 9:43:14 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Bush fought the wars with funds that were not included in the budgets for all of us to see. If the conservatives were unhappy with Bush's overspending then we did not hear them criticizing him. Instead they took the tax cuts he gave them. Furthermore, the Republicans did not make budget austerity a campaign issue. During the Republican primaies at least, you would expect that this would become a campaign issue. But it did not. Where were the Dick Armey's and other "tea party" folks then? Why were they quiet? So to say now that it has totally gotten out of hand, is merely political. The dollar is on an upward trend against other currencies. If the deficit was a problem then it would be so and we would be headed the Greece way. About taxes, they are needed. I am sure that folks like you who believe in lower taxes are the first ones who would step forward and readily take unemployment payments or other benefits that the US social system provides. The very folks who advocate lower taxes also support the idea of sending US troops overseas to fight or station them in foreign lands. Where will all this money come from? And lastly, to get to the heart of this matter. We have to pay for the mistakes of our forbears who built this nation on slave labor. America is paying reparation for those by way of welfare etc. The silver lining is that we have a generation of "children of slaves" who are seizing the opportunities provided to them e.g. Obama, Jesse Jackson Jr and many others. At this pace, the need for welfare as we see it now is going to go away. After all, it is a Democratic President who is credited with welfare reforms. And to continue that effort of bettering the social fabric of this country, it is again a Democartic President who pulled t his country out of the morass through "the stimulus". The Democrats have a record of bettering the nations social fabric. The Republicans have demonstrated their propensity to benefit th military-industrial complex only. It is not "talking points". It is facts, pure, plain and simple