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Originally Posted by raymor
Well said. No matter the outcome of the election, we're not likely to have a great president next year.
Obama's first two years, his party controlled the congress as well, both house and senate. It's pretty weak to blame the other side when you're in complete control.
How bad have the effects been? Unemployment nearly doubled, the deficit more than doubled. Pretty bad. The economy wasn't growing very fast for Bush's last couple of years, but it's really taken a nose dive under Obama.
On the republican side, nobody to get excited about. Ron Paul seems a bit nutty though he could hardly do worse, Gingrich is knowledgeable, but definitely an experienced politician.
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democrats controlled the house and senate and were about as organized as a heard of cats
The republicans just haven't had anyone stick out as a true leader. The press will attack anyone that sticks out early in the GOP, thats how they work. Gingrich worked pretty well under a democratic president and the result was a balanced budget, but having the internet bubble probably helped that along.
But republicans have been battling the press for decades, soon as some right wing broadcaster pops up, the left politicians send letters to their bosses to try and get them fired.
All a big game, the people in the middle are waking up, but what can they do, the deck is stacked and the politicians have proven they don't have to follow the rules as they were meant to be followed. They just say well they did it, so I can do it, my answer is, were does that make it right?
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Carbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants
think about that