03-14-2013, 03:01 PM
brucet3 Wrote:Publius... seriously. The last administration put 2 wars, 2 giant tax cuts skewed toward the wealthy and Medicare part D on the credit card and republican cheered him on while he did it. Reagan did the same thing. Not to mention the 1st giant bailout and presiding over ship while deregulation (thanks Sen. Phil Graham now of UBS bank) almost took the US and World banking systems over the edge of the abyss.
If you look at the numbers, in the history of America, the year to year deficit (not the debt) has never been reduced as fast as it has been under Obama. All the while the stock market is booming and job numbers are finally going up consistently.
Seriously if he was a republican, you'd be cheering him. But since he's President BlackenStein everybody has their panties in a bunch. I not a blind Obama loyalist, in some respects he's as bad as Premiere Bush. I honestly don't know how either of them can sleep at night.
As for military cuts... America should not be Policing the world or building Helio's and warplanes that our military commanders don't need or ask for. This is not Team America. There is no reason for bases in Germany, Japan, Iraq, Afganistan... those last two places are a complete cluster fuck that should have been ended years ago. Every time I hear about a young soldier dying or getting his/her arms blown off because some Afghan army loser pulls a friendly fire kill infuriates me.
And that's why you should vote for me in the next, and last, King of America election.
I intended to say 2 things with my post.
There's plenty of other programs, that could and should, IMO, be eliminated entirely, let alone have cuts. And Secondly, Obama whined and complained about how Bush left him with debt, and he blamed him for it. I'm just wondering when we're going to here him blame himself.
I could start listing figures after figures of what Obama has and is doing, I'm not going to though. No need to derail this thread and start a political banter. I will say, that no, I wouldn't be cheering him on if he was a republican just as I didn't cheer Bush on. They're 2 sides of the same coin.