Posted by
King Vinyl on Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:38:01 AM
Tell the truth is you really worse off than you were in 1999? If you are confused put down the joint put a bag of ice in your toilet stick you head in and flush it until you can have a coherent thought. I asked a very, very simple question. In late 1999 Algore was running on his "global warming" platform, we were entering an economic recession, and American interest were be attacked by terrorist once a year or so. A certain murdering football icon was loose on the streets of America because he bought a racism defense. Have you ever assessed you financial picture? I have, I was working for a company making just enough to juggle my bills, I am now self employed and actually took my first vacation ever in 2005. We now have a balance to the Dinosaur media in AM talk radio and Fox News, and the ratings for most Liberal rags and news broadcast are falling to the point of near irrelevance. We have high speed internet that provide the best fact checking ability when we want to see which of our politician lie to us so we can have the truth in print.
So what is so bad that has anything to do with where conservative influence has brought us? The price of your home may be down because you allowed liberals to write legislation back in the Carter, and Clinton administrations. Google it they call it the Community Reinvestment Act. They forced banks to make bad loans or face litigation through this act and subsequently over inflated the value of your home. I saw this back in 2000 when everyone ridiculed me for renting when a corpse could get a no money down loan. Many of my friends bought into this market above their means and now have home principle loans that are higher than the current market value and their adjustable rates are breaking them. But when banks loan money to unqualified and under qualified borrowers it is an economic time bomb. Now you add the fact that when Gore was running he advocated for $5/gallon gas and what the environmentally ill path to those ends have cost our nations financial picture. I can see why the general perception is that we are worse off.
However think about the fact that if all we had for news was CBS, ABC, NBC, and you liberal local rag of a news paper you can see why I say we would have never gotten to the root of the issue. We can only solve the problem by giving our leaders the power to solve the problems we face. Bush is the head of our government and as its head has allot of influence in the direction we take. Don't confuse that with the absolute power to change anything. Most of that power resides in the body our Senate and in the House which is currently controlled by those who are responsible for the problems I just described. Sure I know Republicans had a measured amount of control and majorities in both houses up until two years ago. Consider this fact when assessing that opinion, the Senate must have 60 votes to pass any legislation the republicans never had 60 members seated at any one time. On top of what the Republicans in the House minority did in rejecting the first bailout bill, or forcing the democrats to lift the offshore drilling ban, and what about how their minority status influenced the immigration debate? So put that into context when you try blaming the Republicans because the Democrats had those same abilities when they were in the minority.
My point is that we need to solve the problems not the way Obama wants to. He sticks his finger in the winds of public opinion then figures out how to spin his position to move things in the direction he wants with public support. John McCain said the bailout was only a tourniquet to the Americas financial future. If you were bleeding and stopped it with a tourniquet you have still got to fix the wound that caused your bleeding he knows that. Obama wants to blame the knife "wall street" instead of the hand that controlled it "the democrat" for obvious reasons.
But if you fall prey to their spin you won't be able to recall life in 1999 or even in 2008 and instead of listening to the words and the speeches look at the cause and effects of the actions of those you elect to represent you in the powers of government.
I am better off for just knowing the truth I don't need a hand out, I also have sole custody of my daugher which would have never happened if not for leadership and republican influence on custody laws. We live without health insurance, but we are happy and I know America provides us the opportunities that we would never get anywhere else in the world. We still rent, I have a better truck than I did 8 years ago by far. I am so thankful for our modest means and hope you will consider the gift America has to offer you instead signing on to the victim addiction mentallity. I finish drywall am in the lower class and I vote GOP!!!
Thanks for having a tough hide George W we don't all hate you because some of us know better.