Lerxst
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No, really. This isn't just directed towards Conservatives, but most people out there.
I don't see the logic in blaming one single Democratic president for our troubles when the past 50 years of our country's leadership has fallen mainly on the Republican party - in Congress and Executive branches. I feel sorry for the guy really.
If you look at some of the bills he's introduced and the attitude Congress has taken towards most of his policies, you can tell that he has the right idea in mind, the right goals, the right direction, etc. But once they get filtered out through all of the bureaucratic BS in Washington, we get half-measures and bastardizations of the original idea.
Take Universal Healthcare. This is pretty solid idea that's been practiced by most of the developed world for years now. As president, all he had to do was say Universal Healthcare and everyone would have known what he meant. Instead, trying to appeal to the Conservatives who were dead-set against it, we ended up with "Obamacare" which is a complete paradox of what Universal Healthcare should be. Yet the Republicans still complain about it being "Socialist".
What about bail-outs? The idea was sound - prevent the same crisis that caused the Great Depression and give banks and major corporations the funding they needed to stay afloat. Was Obama the one responsible for how those businesses spent that money? Now another one of those businesses is talking about manufacturing parts and giving jobs to China. Yep, the money our government gave them is going to China. How's that for patriotism? Again though, who was to blame, the President of the USA or the company?
Another issue - forget about constantly compromising!
If Republicans just stuck with the areas they're good at and the Democrats stuck with their areas of expertise we would all be much better off. Let the Democrats decide things like public policy and welfare programs. Let the Republicans decide things like budget and national defense. It's when the two try to meet in the middle like this that we get problems.
Instead of taking one single, simple idea and seeing it through to the end, they take one idea, dissect it, add to it and then reform it over and over again until it's mutated into an unrecognizable mess. I pity any person that ends up walking in on the middle of this chaos like Obama did in 2008/09.
If there's anything or anyone that should be blamed for the state of affairs we're in, it should be anyone who's help an office over the last 50+ years. Their short-sightedness, dependency on oil, crop subsidies, Free-Trade agreements and war mongering has created this mess we're in. It's not just one single person responsible for all of it.
For the 8 years Bush was in office, he pretty much built a house of cards with our entire country; everything was in place as long as he and like-minded people were there to manipulate it. Bring in a different mind-set and the whole thing topples over. So who's to blame? The people that intentionally or unintentionally created this mess, or the hapless people that walked in, in the middle of it?
I don't see the logic in blaming one single Democratic president for our troubles when the past 50 years of our country's leadership has fallen mainly on the Republican party - in Congress and Executive branches. I feel sorry for the guy really.
If you look at some of the bills he's introduced and the attitude Congress has taken towards most of his policies, you can tell that he has the right idea in mind, the right goals, the right direction, etc. But once they get filtered out through all of the bureaucratic BS in Washington, we get half-measures and bastardizations of the original idea.
Take Universal Healthcare. This is pretty solid idea that's been practiced by most of the developed world for years now. As president, all he had to do was say Universal Healthcare and everyone would have known what he meant. Instead, trying to appeal to the Conservatives who were dead-set against it, we ended up with "Obamacare" which is a complete paradox of what Universal Healthcare should be. Yet the Republicans still complain about it being "Socialist".
What about bail-outs? The idea was sound - prevent the same crisis that caused the Great Depression and give banks and major corporations the funding they needed to stay afloat. Was Obama the one responsible for how those businesses spent that money? Now another one of those businesses is talking about manufacturing parts and giving jobs to China. Yep, the money our government gave them is going to China. How's that for patriotism? Again though, who was to blame, the President of the USA or the company?
Another issue - forget about constantly compromising!
If Republicans just stuck with the areas they're good at and the Democrats stuck with their areas of expertise we would all be much better off. Let the Democrats decide things like public policy and welfare programs. Let the Republicans decide things like budget and national defense. It's when the two try to meet in the middle like this that we get problems.
Instead of taking one single, simple idea and seeing it through to the end, they take one idea, dissect it, add to it and then reform it over and over again until it's mutated into an unrecognizable mess. I pity any person that ends up walking in on the middle of this chaos like Obama did in 2008/09.
If there's anything or anyone that should be blamed for the state of affairs we're in, it should be anyone who's help an office over the last 50+ years. Their short-sightedness, dependency on oil, crop subsidies, Free-Trade agreements and war mongering has created this mess we're in. It's not just one single person responsible for all of it.
For the 8 years Bush was in office, he pretty much built a house of cards with our entire country; everything was in place as long as he and like-minded people were there to manipulate it. Bring in a different mind-set and the whole thing topples over. So who's to blame? The people that intentionally or unintentionally created this mess, or the hapless people that walked in, in the middle of it?
