Republicans got the tax cuts they wanted. They got the financial deregulation they wanted. They got the wars they wanted. They got the unfunded spending increases they wanted. And the results were completely, unrelentingly disastrous. A decade of sluggish growth and near-zero wage increases. A massive housing bubble. Trillions of dollars in war spending and thousands of American lives lost. A financial collapse. A soaring long-term deficit. Sky-high unemployment. All on their watch and all due to policies they eagerly supported. And worse: ever since the predictable results of their recklessness came crashing down, they've rabidly and nearly unanimously opposed every single attempt to dig ourselves out of the hole they created for us. But despite the fact that this is all recent history, it's treated like some kind of dreamscape. No one talks about it. Republicans pretend it never happened. Fox News insists that what we need is an even bigger dose of the medicine we got in the aughts, and this is, inexplicably, treated seriously by the rest of the press corps instead of being laughed at.
Sunday, July 03, 2011
The mind reels [Bryan]
Watching the national debate has been immensely discouraging lately. I will leave Kevin Drum to sum up my feelings:
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It's this kind of ranting that triggers my gag reflex. I could just as easy come up with a paragraph of nonsense targeted at the left going on and on about how their policies are hurting America, the economy, etc... It doesn't get us anywhere in the debate of what is best for our country right now. Enough with the complaining and whining about the Bush era. Time to take responsibility for where we are headed right now. I actually agree with a lot of what was said in the paragraph, it just seems pointless.
I did, however, find it funny (almost laughed out loud) at the part where he says that the Republicans got the "unfunded spending increases they wanted". Seriously? Is the left really going after Republicans for unfunded spending increases with the kind of national debate that is happening right now? The Democrats whole budget they want to push through (and have pushed through the last two years) is unfunded spending increases. I thought that was funny he mentioned that. It is true, but not something I would think the left would want to complain about right now.
So let's talk specifically about where the Republicans have it wrong right now. Are they being too stubborn against tax increases? Are they being too ambitious in cutting spending and trying to balance a budget? The Dems didn't like cut, cap, and balance...but the only alternative I have heard is more of the same. While Obama has been president the national debt has gone from $10 trillion to $15 trillion. I know it's not all his fault (inherited the deficits and bad economy etc...). But that is $10 trillion in the history of the U.S. and $5 trillion in the past few years. We have a crisis, and it seems the Dems answer is to ride the debt wave for another couple decades.
Yours truly,
Kyle
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