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I don?t know if they dismantle Social Security, Medicare, the Department of Education and so forth it is likely that none of those things will ever come back even though the dismantling of such programs would likely have catastrophic consequences. The bottom line is during the Bush years the American public were told that they could have it all: two wars that weren?t paid for, numerous tax cuts, the continued dismantling of consumer protections and even a prescription drug benefit for seniors that didn?t have to be paid for, and better yet the government wasn?t allowed to negotiate with the drug companies on price they just had to pay whatever price the drug companies said. The consequence of such horrific governance was a Democratic landside and the floor was mopped up with Republican carcasses.
Upon learning of such an overwhelming victory, the first thing Democrats did was immediately surrender to the Republicans and announce they were ready to agree to all of their terms. Just one example the Health Care bill we got was more like the one John McCain purposed during the election than the one Obama purposed. So Republicans end up calling their own proposal communism, demanding it be repealed and Obama ends up scratching his head trying to figure out why the Republicans still hate him when he gave them everything they wanted.
I talk to people I meet in everyday life and when they bring up not likening Obama I ask them why. Almost universally they say because he bailed out the banks, insurance companies, car companies and ran up a huge deficit. When collectively as a country we are this ignorant of recent history there is no hope for us.
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