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I just watched President Obama's speech and what I heard was something that was very positive and I think should be given a chance to work.
Then the idiots on Fox and the GOP start shit-canning his message which is so frickin' frustrating, if the people dont start seeing how the Republicans are determined to wreck the country just to negate President Obama's presidency then Americans deserve what they get.
Here's how I see it, as an outsider looking in....and this is the general consensus around the world, not just mine.
What is wrong with a political party that does not care about the middle-class, the less fortunate, the people who have been struggling since THEIR party put America where it is in right now? (isnt this what it's like in countries that are ruled by dictators?)
Why do they continue to fight for the wealthy millionaires and billionaires and the corporations who are making obscene profits on the backs of the average persons? The Bush tax cuts that favor the rich has been in place for how many years now? And how exactly has it helped the average and the middle-class? How has it helped the unemployment situation? Wasnt it supposed to encourage the wealthy to expand their businesses to create more jobs? Where's all the jobs they've been encouraged to create since Bush gave them this windfall?
Do the millionaires and billionaires really care about the unemployed? Do they care about those people who have lost their homes and their jobs? Really?? Do they?? Do the millionaires and billionaires really care about what the Republicans continue to blather about...the debt the future generations will be burdened with?
Here's the deal, when you've got heaps of money in the bank (as millionaires and billionaires have), why would you worry about what happens two generations away when you're not going to be around anyway? Your children and grandchildren will inherit your wealth so what is there to worry about?
The Republicans are USING the ''debt'' thing as an effective scare-tactic that does not affect the wealthy, it's as simple as that.
If the President's jobs plan is put into action, and done effectively and efficiently, there is no reason why it will fail to put the economy back on the right track. Yes, you have to spend the money to put the infrastructure works into operation, but it will generate heaps of jobs for the unemployed, America's infrastructure will be improved, improvement of infrastructure will lead to efficiency in every single level and efficiency will lead to growth and growth will lead to wealth and wealth will lead to the great economy America enjoyed in the past.
How many super rich people agree with the notion that ''you have to spend money to make money"...that is just the way it is and any politician who thinks they can fix the economy without spending any money is either delusional or just think the people are too stupid to know better. Are these the politicians Americans want to be running their country?
I hope there are still a few reasonable Republicans in Congress who will use their common sense, a few who love their country more than they hate President Obama. In the end, it will be to their benefit if the people can see that they do care and will put the welfare and the country's best interest ahead of any political ambitions and aspirations. Otherwise, what's the difference between these selfish politician and the tyrants who are now being deposed everywhere in the middle-east?
It doesnt matter which party is running the country...Republican or Democrat. The fact of the matter is, America is in serious trouble and something needs to be done to turn it around. This is not the time to put politics ahead of the economic welfare of the whole country.
The argument about the debt is pure politics, scare-mongering tactics to generate votes from seriously concerned people who buy into all the rhetoric. Nobody has a crystal ball. Nobody can really see what the future holds. If the economy and unemployment situation is fixed TODAY, it will improve the prospect for the future. A good economy will generate growth and wealth and income which will reduce the debt and deficit further down the line. Any common-sense thinker would be able to see that.
Fix the problem and when the country is back on it's feet and the economy is growing and people are employed and infrastructure is once again fixed and effiicient, then you can afford to go back to running for office. America should stand out as a model for the rest of the world, to show that politics and self-interest falls very far behind what's good for the country and it's people. Otherwise it is no different to Libya, Syria, and other countries run by dictators who have raped and continue to rape their country's wealth and resources for their own benefit.
That's my two-cents worth anyway.
) that says...."the mighty will fall and the meek shall inherit the earth".....I think it's just plain karma.
