Lots of conservatives and neo-conservatives (moderates on all sides) keep talking about “Entitlement Reform” to try and reduce the deficit. First off, I don't see why during an economic crisis we have to try and reduce the deficit. Sure, slowing down the increase of the deficit would be a good thing (smarter spending practices and re-negotiating government contracts and such) but trying to reduce it could only be accomplished with a healthy economy – that is, without screwing over the hard-working 95% of the United States that have to live on every penny they make!
But that seems to be the order of the year. From what I have come to understand about “entitlements” in the context of politics happens to be Social Security, Welfare, Unemployment Insurance, Medicare, and every other social program designed to help ease the lives of Americans who either get a “raw deal” in life (health issues, loss of job/company, natural disasters, inflation, investment losses, etc.) or who just don't have the skills (or luck) necessary to become independently wealthy to weather everything that life can throw at them.
Of course, what conservatives call “reform” is really “repeal” - as in getting rid of all those “Liberal/socialist laws that are crippling our country and our freedom!” in their minds. They would like nothing more than to see the end of Social Security, Welfare, unemployment insurance and every other social program that everyone contributes to so that Americans won't wind up begging on the streets, homeless, pennyless, hungry and sick due to circumstances either beyond their control or from simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time – or one of the other thousand ways people can lose everything in our Capitalist society!
These programs came about from the events that happened during The Great Depression – when our country realized that our great capitalist system could be quite vulnerable and that given the proper conditions, can leave many of the populous with nothing of what they've worked all their lives for. The New Deal addressed these issues – one of them being social security: a fund for senior citizen Americans or those stricken down with illness or injury and are unable to work anymore so that they can live their lives in dignity with food, shelter and some basic “creature comforts” (like electricity, telephone service, heat, air conditioning, etc.) Welfare for those that are either unemployable or underemployed so they're not wandering the streets begging for money, food, shelter, etc.
And don't forget Medicare and Medicaid for those that are too poor to afford health insurance (Medicaid) or are on fixed incomes but have ever-mounting medical bills and medicines needed to stay alive (Medicare).
But as far as conservatives are concerned, these are all waste of taxpayers money – that the elimination of these programs would put more money in the pockets of Americans so that they can take care of themselves.
What a crock of sh*t!! The reason WHY these programs came about was because no matter how much money the average citizen makes or gets to take home, Capitalism is volatile enough that you can lose everything at any time! These “catch nets” programs allow citizens to feel safe knowing that when the chips are down, when they lose betting on capitalism, that there is a place they can fall back on!
Conservatives just want to get rid of them because they want things the way they were back in the 1920's and earlier – when the average citizen in America was the serves, “the peasants”, of the wealthy of America – social programs allow Americans to live without needing to beg the rich for help because... it's the law!
And conservatives (most vocal of them being in the top 1% holding 90% of the country's wealth) hate that!
Don't like social programs, want to call them “entitlements”? Well, entitle THIS muthafaquar!!
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Friday, February 4, 2011
Monday, July 20, 2009
Obama polls down, Republican bashing up
Why am I not surprised!
Article link: Poll: Less faith in Obama's economic abilities - USAToday.com
It ain't the article, it's the comments posted to the article!
Wow! Show a negative article about Obama and all the right-wing Reboobicans come out in droves to bash him and give everyone the "See? We told you so!!" rhetoric that their unofficial party spokesperson, Rush Limbaugh, popularized.
Well, if your conservative/Republican position was so spot-on right, why'd you lose to Obama? Oh, that's right, the country on a whole had enough of Republican politics for EIGHT YEARS that did squat for helping avoid the situation we're in and absolutely wasted precious military resources fighting an unnecessary war with Iraq when the REAL enemy of the U.S. was being sheltered by the Taliban in Afghanistan (now hiding in Pakistan!) In fact, you're precious Reboobicans helped drive the deficit higher than the past 20 presidencies COMBINED!
You don't want "socialism", then show the average American (those that work HARD for a living - 2-3 jobs, no or inadequate healthcare, and barely able to keep up with bills while still living with their parents because they can't afford a home of their own!) that capitalism and the free-market system works for everyone - not just the top 1%! However, all America has seen is how the wealthy and powerful SCREW the average American any way they can: Enron, Worldcom, The Oil Industry (remember the $5/gallon gasoline and their "record profits" during that time?), Bernie Madoff, General Motors, etc. The conservative's only defense has been labeling Damnocrats as "socialists" and makers of "tax-and-spend" policy.
I will give that to them. Republicans didn't do "tax-and-spend" in their 8-years, it was "BORROW FROM CHINA-and spend"!
I myself who voted for Obama am not so crazy about everything he's doing, but it was better than the "business as usual" message from John McCain! The worst thing the Reboobicans did to McCain was to convince him to run under their banner! Once McCain stopped being "The Maverick" and became the party mouthpiece, he lost all credibility with the swing voters and a good number of moderate Republicans! If he ran as himself, he probably could have beaten Obama (the Reboobican Party ruined McCain in my book!)
So fine, if all these whining, über-capitalist conservatives feel they're right and everyone else is wrong, then get a candidate who can beat Obama in 2012 and overturn every law his administration puts in place (pretty much what Bush did after Clinton)!
Oh, and for the record: Not everyone who voted for Obama was so näive as to believe he'd solve all our problems in the first 6-months of office. I'd like to know how a few ultra-left wingers become EVERYONE who voted for Obama as these Reboobicans paint us as?!
They question why the defense of those rebutting the FOX-News-style postings is to "bash Bush"? Who do you think LEAD us to this point? Obama inherited this crap, he didn't cause it! And don't bring up Obama being a US Senator before his run for President either because the majority of Bush's tenure in office the Reboobican party had majority control. Obama, being a Democrat, was in the minority party!
These anti-Democrat Obama-bashers are all just pissed that someone with liberal views got into office because THEIR OWN PARTY SCREWED UP!! If the Republican Party agenda was so great, then why'd they drive the deficit higher than it's been in our nation's history (hey, the Democrats are just continuing the downward spiral, they didn't start it) manage to piss off EVERY ally our country has, and missed getting the damn S.O.B. responsible for starting/leading the organization that sponsored the men who bombed the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 9/11/01, by dragging U.S. forces into a country that STILL, to this day, had NO involvement in the 9/11 attacks OR were involved with the group responsible for 9/11; Al Quaeda?!
Tell me how their f***ing up America royaly is Obama's fault?! As I've said to others before, I don't envy Obama his job as President. He's fighting not an uphill battle, but a scaling-Mount-kilimanjaro up-mountain battle to do, all while trying to appease everyone who is so willing to wait patiently to pounce on every little mishap that happens to him!
There isn't enough money in the UNIVERSE to pay me to take his job!
Article link: Poll: Less faith in Obama's economic abilities - USAToday.com
It ain't the article, it's the comments posted to the article!
Wow! Show a negative article about Obama and all the right-wing Reboobicans come out in droves to bash him and give everyone the "See? We told you so!!" rhetoric that their unofficial party spokesperson, Rush Limbaugh, popularized.
Well, if your conservative/Republican position was so spot-on right, why'd you lose to Obama? Oh, that's right, the country on a whole had enough of Republican politics for EIGHT YEARS that did squat for helping avoid the situation we're in and absolutely wasted precious military resources fighting an unnecessary war with Iraq when the REAL enemy of the U.S. was being sheltered by the Taliban in Afghanistan (now hiding in Pakistan!) In fact, you're precious Reboobicans helped drive the deficit higher than the past 20 presidencies COMBINED!
You don't want "socialism", then show the average American (those that work HARD for a living - 2-3 jobs, no or inadequate healthcare, and barely able to keep up with bills while still living with their parents because they can't afford a home of their own!) that capitalism and the free-market system works for everyone - not just the top 1%! However, all America has seen is how the wealthy and powerful SCREW the average American any way they can: Enron, Worldcom, The Oil Industry (remember the $5/gallon gasoline and their "record profits" during that time?), Bernie Madoff, General Motors, etc. The conservative's only defense has been labeling Damnocrats as "socialists" and makers of "tax-and-spend" policy.
I will give that to them. Republicans didn't do "tax-and-spend" in their 8-years, it was "BORROW FROM CHINA-and spend"!
I myself who voted for Obama am not so crazy about everything he's doing, but it was better than the "business as usual" message from John McCain! The worst thing the Reboobicans did to McCain was to convince him to run under their banner! Once McCain stopped being "The Maverick" and became the party mouthpiece, he lost all credibility with the swing voters and a good number of moderate Republicans! If he ran as himself, he probably could have beaten Obama (the Reboobican Party ruined McCain in my book!)
So fine, if all these whining, über-capitalist conservatives feel they're right and everyone else is wrong, then get a candidate who can beat Obama in 2012 and overturn every law his administration puts in place (pretty much what Bush did after Clinton)!
Oh, and for the record: Not everyone who voted for Obama was so näive as to believe he'd solve all our problems in the first 6-months of office. I'd like to know how a few ultra-left wingers become EVERYONE who voted for Obama as these Reboobicans paint us as?!
They question why the defense of those rebutting the FOX-News-style postings is to "bash Bush"? Who do you think LEAD us to this point? Obama inherited this crap, he didn't cause it! And don't bring up Obama being a US Senator before his run for President either because the majority of Bush's tenure in office the Reboobican party had majority control. Obama, being a Democrat, was in the minority party!
These anti-Democrat Obama-bashers are all just pissed that someone with liberal views got into office because THEIR OWN PARTY SCREWED UP!! If the Republican Party agenda was so great, then why'd they drive the deficit higher than it's been in our nation's history (hey, the Democrats are just continuing the downward spiral, they didn't start it) manage to piss off EVERY ally our country has, and missed getting the damn S.O.B. responsible for starting/leading the organization that sponsored the men who bombed the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 9/11/01, by dragging U.S. forces into a country that STILL, to this day, had NO involvement in the 9/11 attacks OR were involved with the group responsible for 9/11; Al Quaeda?!
Tell me how their f***ing up America royaly is Obama's fault?! As I've said to others before, I don't envy Obama his job as President. He's fighting not an uphill battle, but a scaling-Mount-kilimanjaro up-mountain battle to do, all while trying to appease everyone who is so willing to wait patiently to pounce on every little mishap that happens to him!
There isn't enough money in the UNIVERSE to pay me to take his job!
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