Quote Originally Posted by Devils Horse View Post
An interesting choice of words, "hired" as opposed to elected. If politicians were hired they could be fired, and our country could lay President Obama off like the millions of other workers in the last 6 months. No such luck, we get to stand by and watch the President and his liberal majority install the disaster known as cap and trade, destroy the nation's healthcare system, and hang trillions more debt on us.

The jobless rate is a full 1.5 points over Mr Obama's guaranteed 8%. You remember that promise, it was back when he rammed the oh-so-well-thought-out 900 billion dollar 'stimulus' bill through. You know the one nobody was given a chance to read before it's passage. Kinda like buying yourself a 500k home on credit and hanging the loan on your kids who aren't even born yet. Not to worry folks, trust us. We'll make the rich pay the tab. And the news media fawned, and the masses cheered...

No President and his party through their whole tenure in office has ever pissed away the mind numbing amounts of money the current administration has. Incredibly these folks have accomplished it in their first 6 months in power, and there's much more to come.

No President in our history will ever come even remotely close to the damage Mr. Obama and the Dimocracks will do over the next 3 1/2 years. The only question is will we manage to remain the proudly independent United States of America or be molded into a second rate European style social democracy.
So you were also on here slamming the last guy for his spend and borrowing for the 8 years too, right? After all, your kids and grand kids are paying for those blunders. I seem to recall the current economic mess starting under the last administration. So, remind me again what their plan was? Oh yeah, thats right, do nothing so the next guy can take the heat. Brillant plan! Last time we tried that was Hoover. You might remember reading about the great depression in history class.

Kind of early to be critizing for the damage done don't you think? It will be a while before we know the outcome of these desisions. Hell, it will be a while before we can fully know the outcome of desisions the last two administrations made. I do know that my 401K was tanking for 3 quarters straight. The last quarter, it reversed a lot of that. Job losses are slowing, housing market improving. Signs that we are pulling out of the recession?

Do I agree with everything that has been done over the last six months, no, but I am willing to give them the chance to fix things and head us in the right direction. Don't like how things are going, vote out the dems in the mid-term elections. In some respects, it might not be a bad idea anyway. Have a dem Pres and a repub congress. Make the crooks work together and keep each other in check.

You want real change? How about this. Change the tax laws to a flat percentage of income. No loop holes. Everyone pays the same percentage (10%, 15%, whatever). Having to spend several hours to figure out taxes, use a computer program or hire an accountant is ridiculous. Welfare, sure, but its only a fall back for short periods to get someone through a crisis or tough spot. Sure, society owes some folks (a parent dies in the military we as a society have an obiligation to assist in raising their kids, for example). Set it up so you pay into a fund. You can only take out what you put in. If you take none out by the time you retire, you have an extra retirement plan. Line item veto (yeah, I know, they fumbled something like that under Clinton). President can veto the pork out of a bill. Congress doesn't like it, they can over ride each pork project. Easier to keep them accountable that way. Term limits, NOW! I really doubt that our founding fathers intended people to spend 30-40 years in congress.

Andrew