This showed up on a friend’s feed, and the Cranky One just had to post it here. Because with all the Benghazi/IRS/NSA brouhahi, it’s a good bet you haven’t heard about it. In less than four years, Obama has cut the budget deficit he inherited from the Shrub in half. That’s right, a “tax and spend Democrat” is a better money manager than a “conservative Republican”. Don’t believe it? Tough rocks, pal, here are the numbers: http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_deficit_chart.html
Nor is it the first time. Clinton did the same thing to another Bush deficit, if you’ll bother to remember.
It is time for us to throw away the old labels and advertising slogans, and look at the facts. And the facts say, without equivocation, that modern Democrats spend less and tax less than do modern “Republicans”. Shocking, yes. But true. You want to pay less in taxes? Vote for Dems. Believe it or not.
Mr. Blunt and Cranky
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As the saying goes: if you want to live like a Republican, vote for a Democrat.
Well I voted for Obama because I didn’t trust Romney at all. The R’s could have picked any wino off the streets and gotten farther than they did with Romney! Obama is not up there on my list of good Presidents though by any stretch. He fails to realize that just because Wall Street is doing good don’t mean that the people are doing good. They always say how many jobs he created from month to month but they don’t equate those jobs to the amount of new people coming out of High School and College to fill those jobs. There are double the amount of new workers entering the work force and competing for jobs than there are jobs created. Then you have the 13 million people that WERE employed who no longer have jobs and can’t get them because the been out of work so long people think something is wrong with them because they haven’t worked in years. Then you have the elderly that normally take a part or full time job to augment their SSR. They can’t even get a job because of their age. Poverty is king in America because we have a Leader that can’t lead and set up conditions that encourage the manufacturing base to bring the jobs back to our shores!!
I´m afraid those jobs are gone forever- and not just in our country. People like Romney outsourced them a long time ago. The US doesn´t make enough tangible goods- technology is great- but it isn´t a tangible good. To recover from this we may have to do something most American would abhor- step back to the standard of living of a generation ago. When the housing crisis hit too many people were living above or marginally at their means. Didn´t work out well. I was in France and I needed a dustpan. It cost 2€ but there was a little sticker on it that said: Proudly made in France (in French, of course). When was the last time you saw any item like that in the US that did NOT say Made in China? A lot of little things add up. At the same time people who work for companies that make things like that are not going to live in 250K homes. The Swiss have one percent of the world´s population. Their products are so precision and so sought after that they control a considerable amount of the world´s wealth. Cutting costs to make more money (usually for CEOs and shareholders) has killed American manufacturing. And the reputation for doing that will haunt us for many years to come. Those jobs we lost aren´t coming back to our shores. We need an entirely new plan- and with all the corporate greed and control- sadly, I don´t see it happening- at least not anytime soon.
Well said.