This clearly reflects the liberal tax cuts for the rich, while steadily holding spending then an acceleration of rising expenditure on Bush Cheney Wars and occupation.
Not very pretty!
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
GWB & GOP Financing
While the graph speaks for itself I'd like to point out that focusing on the period after 2000 alone provides clear insights into government finances in the Bush presidency.
This clearly reflects the liberal tax cuts for the rich, while steadily holding spending then an acceleration of rising expenditure on Bush Cheney Wars and occupation.
All during a Republican Presidency beginning 6 of those 8 years with a GOP Congress.
Not very pretty!
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This clearly reflects the liberal tax cuts for the rich, while steadily holding spending then an acceleration of rising expenditure on Bush Cheney Wars and occupation.
Not very pretty!
.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
My Definition of #Conservative Means:
Does not allow the government to acquire large debts without a just and proportioned imposition upon the citizens at large. And this does not mean that each pays an equal burden, it means everyone pays, more appropriately each pays according to their means.
Does not eat live & breathe to Shut-down the Environmental Protection Agency; they support efforts to conserve natural resources and protect human and environmental health.
Does not mean government is bad; it means that government is good but needs only to be big enough to effectively do the job (government is therefore to be best when small & effective).
Does not mean Right Wing Authoritarianism; Republican political conservatives are witnessed by their intolerance of ambiguity and need for cognitive closure, true conservatives are open to change and not fearful of uncertainty. After all The theory of evolution demonstrates that those most likely to survive are those most able to adapt to change.
My definition of conservative does not mean one who is disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change. This is exactly where the GOP is today, trying to return places we were decades and/or a century ago. Oh shucks, as far as the Republican Party is concerned, this is exactly what conservative means.
Tired of these knuckle heads giving 21st century conservatism a bad name.
There are conservatives who are not associated with the Republican Party in any way shape or form that are good for our society. Together everybody achieves more; #TEAM
Does not eat live & breathe to Shut-down the Environmental Protection Agency; they support efforts to conserve natural resources and protect human and environmental health.
Does not mean government is bad; it means that government is good but needs only to be big enough to effectively do the job (government is therefore to be best when small & effective).
Does not mean Right Wing Authoritarianism; Republican political conservatives are witnessed by their intolerance of ambiguity and need for cognitive closure, true conservatives are open to change and not fearful of uncertainty. After all The theory of evolution demonstrates that those most likely to survive are those most able to adapt to change.
My definition of conservative does not mean one who is disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change. This is exactly where the GOP is today, trying to return places we were decades and/or a century ago. Oh shucks, as far as the Republican Party is concerned, this is exactly what conservative means.
Tired of these knuckle heads giving 21st century conservatism a bad name.
There are conservatives who are not associated with the Republican Party in any way shape or form that are good for our society. Together everybody achieves more; #TEAM
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Is it Groundhog Day? Again?
The Republican Party has settled into a comfortable pattern in their politics today.
It revolves around managing reality for those that can not or choose not to manage reality for themselves.
Does not say much for the intelligence and education of the grass roots party base.
The #GOP said cut taxes, to grow the economy and create jobs:
The #GOP says job crushing regulation is creating uncertainty for small business(s) and entrepreneurs:
Today we hear loud and clear, lower taxes and less government regulation create certainty in order that small business(s) entrepreneurs will create jobs.
Eyes wide open people, what nice things has this policy brought to us in the past 12 years? Do you really want to repeat it, again and again, and again?
GOP LEADERSHIP ACTIONS SEEK OUTCOMES BASED ON THEIR STRATEGIC PLAN FOR AMERICA
It revolves around managing reality for those that can not or choose not to manage reality for themselves.
Does not say much for the intelligence and education of the grass roots party base.
The #GOP said cut taxes, to grow the economy and create jobs:
- >10 years of George W. Bush tax cuts & extensions and no job creation!
The #GOP says job crushing regulation is creating uncertainty for small business(s) and entrepreneurs:
- All while congress fails to perform their constitutional role of legislative/regulatory oversight.
- Instead congress deregulates the financial services industry and allow Wall Street to cause the greatest recession since 1929.
- Rather than properly staff and fund remaining oversight agencies they withdraw support for oversight any oversight.
Today we hear loud and clear, lower taxes and less government regulation create certainty in order that small business(s) entrepreneurs will create jobs.
Eyes wide open people, what nice things has this policy brought to us in the past 12 years? Do you really want to repeat it, again and again, and again?
GOP LEADERSHIP ACTIONS SEEK OUTCOMES BASED ON THEIR STRATEGIC PLAN FOR AMERICA
Starve the Beast
"The Beast" (government spending) has been starved of government revenue since the 2001 and 2003 Bush Tax Cuts. And since those first of the cuts, "the Beast" has borrowed to spend as Congress raised the debt ceiling on the United States public debt from $5.95 trillion to $14.294 trillion - a 140% or $8.344 trillion increase.
Where would we be if we returned to Clinton Era Tax Rates, letting the Bush Era Tax Cuts and extensions expire?
American citizens know a carnival barker when they see one:
Rather than proposing unpopular spending cuts, the #GOP pushed through popular tax cuts, with the deliberate intention of worsening the government’s fiscal position.
They now sell citizens spending cuts as a necessity rather than a choice as the only way to eliminate an unsustainable budget deficit.
Republicans insist that the deficit must be eliminated, but they’re not willing either to raise taxes or to support cuts in any major government programs.
This means they’re unwilling to participate in serious bipartisan discussions, either, because that might force them to explain their plan — and there isn’t any plan, except to regain power!
Eyes wide open people, the #GOP says, we don't have a revenue problem we have a spending problem:
I say, we have a partisan ideology problem. And the cure requires elimination of #GOP control of State Houses, Legislatures and from government control in Washington DC
American citizens know a carnival barker when they see one:
Rather than proposing unpopular spending cuts, the #GOP pushed through popular tax cuts, with the deliberate intention of worsening the government’s fiscal position.
They now sell citizens spending cuts as a necessity rather than a choice as the only way to eliminate an unsustainable budget deficit.
Republicans insist that the deficit must be eliminated, but they’re not willing either to raise taxes or to support cuts in any major government programs.
This means they’re unwilling to participate in serious bipartisan discussions, either, because that might force them to explain their plan — and there isn’t any plan, except to regain power!
Eyes wide open people, the #GOP says, we don't have a revenue problem we have a spending problem:
I say, we have a partisan ideology problem. And the cure requires elimination of #GOP control of State Houses, Legislatures and from government control in Washington DC
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