Debalic wrote:
I find it disturbing that so many people consider recovering the economy as "actively harmful to America".
It's a conundrum that only reveals itself once you realize that many things which are actively harmful to America are mislabeled as "recovering the economy". Like, for example, a whole set of spending/stimulus related bills which appear to have done little if anything to help the economy recover from the economic problem we were in, yet have collectively contributed significantly to creating a second, arguably more serious economic problem. Or a health care reform bill, which was passed in response to rising health insurance costs, which appears to do nothing at all to actually decrease those costs, while instead simply foisting the same over-priced system on more people at taxpayer expense. Yeah. Those Dems are real problem solvers, aren't they?
The first thing you have to understand about liberal politics is that their goals are not to make things cheaper, or more efficient, or more equal. They use those arguments to get people to support them politically so they can pass new legislation, but their objective is simply to make more people dependent on the government. That's it. More people on food stamps. More people on welfare. More people on disability. More people reliant on government for their retirements, their health care, their housing, their transportation. Everything. That's the objective. That's the one overarching common factor that can be found in liberal political activities.
Everything else is window dressing and salesmanship used to get people to vote for them so they can do this. They don't care about gay rights, or womens rights, or minority rights. They don't care about the poor, or the hungry, or the homeless. They don't care about the working class either. The evidence of this can be seen when they have the power and the choice to actually do something about those things and they consistently choose to not fix the problems, but instead to treat the symptoms with yet more big government. They don't want people to not be poor. They want to make sure that poor people become dependent on government assistance. In nearly all cases, there are relatively straightforward solutions to the problems/causes the left takes up, yet they *always* choose the one which is more expensive, more time consuming, and less straightforward in terms of how it will "fix" the problem at hand. And in each case what do we find? Their "solution" just conveniently happens to involve large government entitlements.
They don't fix problems. They pay people for having them. Think about that. Just look at how many people in this thread alone didn't see a problem with food stamp numbers being so high. Instead of seeing that this means that there are more poor people in need today than there were just a few years ago, they see this as the government helping more people! Sorry, but that's an insane way to look at this. Totally, utterly, insane.