I must respectfully disagree with your poster, Min, only because we have seen all this before.
Reagan/H W Bush tripled the debt with tax cuts for the wealthy that were supposed to pay for themselves through the economic activity they never generated.
Clinton had to give up all his plans that he ran on and focus on cutting the deficit. He created a surplus and my understanding is that we were projected to pay off the debt within a generation.
W Bush ran on the platform that the surplus was bad. "That's not the government's money!" He was going to give all that money back with a huge tax cut for the wealthy that would make Reagan look like Robin Hood. These tax cuts were supposed to generate massive economic activity and create jobs. W Bush doubled the debt and wrecked the economy.
Obama comes into office and we're right back to "OMG! Where did all this debt come from? Quick, slash and burn liberal programs now!"
As much as there is an undercurrent of racism in the GOP, particularly among the Birthers, what we're seeing is what's been called "The Clinton Playbook" which involves scare-mongering on deficits to slash only liberal programs (Defense spending, corporate welfare and tax cuts are off the table), scandal-mongering (trying to endlessly sniff out "even the appearance of impropriety" and looking for any excuse, however lame, to impeach) and rage-mongering (looking for the new Whitewater).
Although I will say that Clinton never had to produce a birth certificate.
Reagan/H W Bush tripled the debt with tax cuts for the wealthy that were supposed to pay for themselves through the economic activity they never generated.
Clinton had to give up all his plans that he ran on and focus on cutting the deficit. He created a surplus and my understanding is that we were projected to pay off the debt within a generation.
W Bush ran on the platform that the surplus was bad. "That's not the government's money!" He was going to give all that money back with a huge tax cut for the wealthy that would make Reagan look like Robin Hood. These tax cuts were supposed to generate massive economic activity and create jobs. W Bush doubled the debt and wrecked the economy.
Obama comes into office and we're right back to "OMG! Where did all this debt come from? Quick, slash and burn liberal programs now!"
As much as there is an undercurrent of racism in the GOP, particularly among the Birthers, what we're seeing is what's been called "The Clinton Playbook" which involves scare-mongering on deficits to slash only liberal programs (Defense spending, corporate welfare and tax cuts are off the table), scandal-mongering (trying to endlessly sniff out "even the appearance of impropriety" and looking for any excuse, however lame, to impeach) and rage-mongering (looking for the new Whitewater).
Although I will say that Clinton never had to produce a birth certificate.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
