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Originally Posted by brianwspencer
It's not that I believe that the rich are the root of all evil.
It's that when the ONLY real option that Repubs are giving is "tax cuts" & "tax cuts" & "tax cuts" while offering NOTHING of substance to the debate that could actually help, then yes, I prefer taking other chances.
There's what Obama's doing and there's just cutting taxes and crossing your fingers as our two apparent options. If nothing in the middle is offered, then I'll take an overreach rather than just cutting taxes. That certainly didn't help us steer clear of this mess in the first place.
If there's a substantive debate to be had, then the Republicans are failing pretty miserably right now, because there's an awful lot of badgering Obama on the plan he came up with to fix it, and not a whole lot other than "just cut some more taxes" as an alternate solution. That's not helpful, and it's not effective as a singular strategy.
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However the tax cuts have very little to do with this crisis. Bush's biggest mistake and where there is no defense for him in that his deficit spending continued to rise in unrealistic levels. He simply allowed the govt to grow too large. Obama is spending like Bush on steroids. it will make things worse, not better. The spending is the problem, not the tax cuts. If spending is the answer than wouldnt the war have helped insulate the economy?
There is no debate to be had because the democrats clearly wouldnt listen anyway. I can speak as a regular citizen who has no political party to worry about offending or election to worry about winning. The reality is that a lot of really smart people are worried. The rest still love Obama. Take that as you may. You wont be any less liberal or less of a card carrying Democrat if you see what they are doing has very little chance of working. Remember dissent is patriotic! (special thanks to Hillary Clinton or some other Democrat from the last election cycle for that last quote)