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Originally Posted by crockett
Look I'm a "realist" I don't subscribe to a all left mentality nor do I subscribe to a all right mentality. I look at what both sides have done and that leads me to have to side with the left just about all the time.
The right does NOT cut the overall spending. I don't know why people are still brainwashed into believing this bullshit. The right is like a broken record.. They are always for cutting social programs but then turn around and give that money to big business or military spending. They never reduce our deficit.
Reagan, Bush 1 & 2.. did not cut spending, they greatly increased it and put us further in the hole.
This is where realism keys in for me. I look at it as a very simple choice. I'm paying taxes no matter what.. I have a choice to vote for guys that spend like crazy and don't do shit for me.. or vote for guys that spend like crazy and I get something from my tax dollars rather than having it all redistributed to big business.
Seems like a easy choice to make to me.. Also I'm very much against the whole Religion thing being involved in our govt, which puts another strike against the right.
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you are correct. the repubs have sold off their core issue of budget restraint from their own conduct while they were in power.
& should the repubs get the power back, their cutting priorities would surely fall more squarely on the poor than the rich.
But thats why we need dems that are going to be pragmatic on spending. Dems can't forever behave like the federal budget has unlimited scale. there will be a day of reckoning where the govt is too debt ridden to pass the next bailout when the economy busts again. When that happens, the people will put ted cruz types in power, because its still only a 2 party option for voters.
So at what point do the dems get the budget under control so the government can remain the bulwark of the economy?