catwho the Pest wrote:
No, we're saying the economy is already in hell.
And who told you that? Does that make you more or less willing to let the folks in Washington try whatever crazy idea they have to try to fix the problem?
See. The reality is that the economy, while weak and headed in the wrong direction, is still right at this moment in better shape than it was for almost the entire 1970s. We don't
yet have double digit inflation, or double digit unemployment, or double digit interest rates. So we're not "in" hell, we're just on a course that might take us there. Which is why it's incredibly important that the right economic choices are made right now, instead of ones that scared people allow their politicians to make out of desperation.
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The question is, who's actually trying to get us out of the mess? Not Republicans. They want the economic stimulus and recovery to fail, so they can blame Obama and score political points in two years.
The Democrats just convinced the American public to allow them to pass a set of spending increases for social programs they've been wanting to pass for a couple decades but have never been able to get due to normal public opposition to socialistic spending. The people allowed this because they were told that this was the only way to prevent economic disaster.
Who do you think is benefiting by all of this? The Democrats are getting their wish list of social spending programs passed. They have no vested interest in fixing the problem. As long as it lasts, they can continue to milk it to get whatever they want. The America that comes out the other end of this will not be the same one that went in...
That's fear mongering.
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E.G, they want America to fail now for political popularity later on.
No. They don't want Americans to make the massive mistake of adopting social spending programs that our grandchildren will be paying for out of fear of a current economic problem. We don't want the economy to fail. We just know that what the Dems are doing won't help. They're just taking advantage of the situation.