Cammmpbell
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- Sep 13, 2011
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I'm guessing the OP is either young or hasn't seen much formal education.
He acts as if Obama is Stalin.
But Obama is actually Carter. He has failed to stand up to the filibustering obstructionists in congress. Reagan raised the debt limit 3 times without a peep from the right. Bush raised the debt limit every year he was in office and we didn't hear a fucking thing. Obama is allowing himself to be badgered and beaten by this movement of money-driven idiocy. The Left needs a fighter.
Here is what the OP doesn't know.
During his first term Obama signed into law a series of tax cuts that exceed the tax cuts passed by Bush in his first term.
Bush cut taxes by $574 billion in today’s dollars, or about 1.1 percent of gross domestic product. Obama cut taxes by $654 billion in 2011 and 2012 alone.
Ask the OP who spent more: Reagan or Cater?
Ask the OP who raised the debt more: Reagan or Carter?
The answers he gives will tell you something about his education.
(God help us. Half the country is being educated by Rush Limbaugh and FOX News. God help us.)
They don't want to hear it. The Republican majority gave George W. Bush the tax cuts he wanted in 2001 and 2003 and watched the debt soar while two wars raged 10,000 miles away. When those tax cuts were enacted using reconciliation to block Democrat opposition there were surpluses projected all the way to the outyears but the Republicans elected higher debt over considering raising the rates back to hold the debt at a reasonable level. Now they are prepared to refuse the grant of a higher debt ceiling to pay the interest on money THEY borrowed. The Republicans appear to prefer seeing the nation fail before they will pay their own debt. This whole thing is complicated but not to the T Party Right......their agenda is one thing......Screw Everybody and Every Thing to keep Corporations and the Wealthy from paying their share.
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