Republicans Complain But Never Take Reponsibilty
Our media is flooded with stories about Benghazi, the deficit and apathy towards the care of veterans. The GOP seems to lay all the blame at the foot of the Obama Administration. The Right is quick to accuse the current administration for the very problems they caused, while the media parrots these GOP-talking points, as if they warrant any merit. The Republicans sabotage all facets of government, so they can be the eventual overlords of the rubble and the commanders of the aftermath.
Republicans are NEVER culpable for the debt.
The 112th Congress cared little to protect American diplomats who were out in the trenches, serving our international interests. House Republicans voted to cut nearly $300 million from the U.S. embassy security budget. But the confusion surrounding the circumstances of the attack became the cry of outrage and incompetence when, all along, the GOP was precisely at fault for leaving our diplomats vulnerable. One Utah Republican boasted that he “absolutely” voted to cut funding for embassy security. but hold the administration of President Obama accountable for the incident. No one seems to mention this aspect, but we do know that we are on the EIGHTH Benghazi Hearing, with no possibility of exposing the true culprits.
The deficit is always a red meat issue Republicans seem to remember only when a Democrat occupies The White House. Forty Republican Senators vetoed a $1 billion jobs bill that would have helped our unemployed veterans. Yet this same party, which dominates the 113th Congress, wants to ram a bill through the House, where $310 billion would be lost by extending more tax cuts to the rich. Of course, they have offered no way to pay for these superfluous gifts to the filthy rich.
The top of every newscast is laden with the incompetence of General Eric Shinseki, the Secretary of the VA, and the Veterans Administration’s failings. Back in February, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) sponsored a bill that would have allowed for COLA (Cost of Living Adjustments) and that would enrich health, education and job-training programs for the nation’s 22 million veterans. 56 Senators voted in favor of the measure, yet 41 pernicious Republicans vetoed, so the bill went down. Maybe the VA is operating without the proper funding needed to care for our wounded warriors, so the likelihood of mismanagement is much greater. These men and women, many of whom served in the Iraq War (a conflict based on lies of the Bush Administration), are treated like an afterthought when they should be treated like royalty.
We must look at who allocates the funds and what they deem important. Rarely do Republicans approve bills to help veterans, but instead favor religiously motivated legislation that hurts the poor, minorities, children, elderly and LGBT Americans. The latest grotesquely contorted marching order out of RNC headquarters is how government can’t run anything, like the single-payer VA, so how can it run Obamacare? They distort the truth like a fun-house mirror by pushing the idea that the ACA is government-run healthcare, not the regulation of private insurance companies which is the basis of Obamacare. They have contorted the President’s efforts to keep insurance companies from being unethical and dishonest to something as horrific as slavery.
Canada has a law preventing lying in broadcasting, while it seems America offers more protection for liars than truth-tellers. It’s disgraceful how Republicans abuse those with less power and influence while blaming the people who are fighting for the marginalized. The media is not liberal. The media is mostly run by conservative-owned sociopaths with an aversion to facts and honesty.
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By: VegasJessie
A resident of Las Vegas Nevada, a graduate of the University of Oklahoma as a Political Science major. Very motivated to get people to participate in the electoral process.
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Tom Ward May 20th, 2014 at 17:00
Both dems and repubs don’t want to take responsibility.
“We’ve all been repeatedly asked, “Don’t you want to leave a better world for your grandchildren?” and we’ve all collectively responded, “Ehh, f**k em”.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjuGCJJUGsg#t=0m40s
This mentality is prevalent in both parties.
Obama, 2008, “(Bush) added $4 trillion by his lonesome so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kuTG19Cu_Q#t=20
6 years later… Using Obama’s logic, Obama has added $8 trillion of debt “by his lonesome”, and there’s still 2.5 years to go.
You do have to give Obama credit for not increasing the amount of spending as badly as Bush.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/05/24/who-is-the-smallest-government-spender-since-eisenhower-would-you-believe-its-barack-obama/
But, our spending was already so out of control by the time Obama was
elected that not decreasing it was incredibly irresponsible.
SteveD May 20th, 2014 at 18:39
We’ve all heard the argument how the debt will be passed down to our grandchildren. What our grandchildren should really be afraid of, is being passed down rotting infrastructure, horrid schools, a weak military, deficient scientific research and development, bursting water and gas mains, crumbling bridges and broken roads, ad nauseum. And when our grandchildren are plummeting into the waters as bridges collapse, will the politicians remind everyone that we did not saddle them with government debt?
The federal deficit = the net $ financial assets of the (global) economy, to the penny.
The fall off in the federal deficit represents an EQUAL REDUCTION in the addition to the stock of savings of $ net financial assets and income to the economy, and has been responsible for removing over 7% of real output from GDP over the past 2 years.
If deficit reduction exceeds the economy’s ‘borrowing to spend’ (that is, private sector borrowing beyond income-which is a not good in the long run!) it all goes into reverse. Automatic fiscal stabilizers work to reverse an expanding economy via their reduction of the federal deficit.
The entire federal debt is NOTHING MORE than a glorified ‘reserve drain’ that functions to support interest rates, and operationally has nothing to do with ‘funding’, and that ‘paying it off’ just means switching the same dollar balances at the Fed from what are called ‘securities accounts’ (treasury securities) to reserve accounts (like checking accounts), with NO GRANDCHILDREN OR TAXPAYERS IN SIGHT.
VegasJessie May 20th, 2014 at 22:43
My point was there only seems to be a “crisis of the deficit” when Democrats are in the White House, cleaning up GOP irresponsibility.
Tom Ward May 20th, 2014 at 17:00
Both dems and repubs don’t want to take responsibility.
“We’ve all been repeatedly asked, “Don’t you want to leave a better world for your grandchildren?” and we’ve all collectively responded, “Ehh, f**k em”.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjuGCJJUGsg#t=0m40s
When it comes to spending and the national debt, this mentality is prevalent in both parties.
Obama, 2008, “(Bush) added $4 trillion by his lonesome so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kuTG19Cu_Q#t=20
6 years later… Using Obama’s logic, Obama has added $8 trillion of debt “by his lonesome”, and there’s still 2.5 years to go.
You do have to give Obama credit for not increasing the amount of spending as badly as Bush.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/05/24/who-is-the-smallest-government-spender-since-eisenhower-would-you-believe-its-barack-obama/
But, our spending was already so out of control by the time Obama was
elected that not decreasing it was incredibly irresponsible.
SteveD May 20th, 2014 at 18:39
We’ve all heard the argument how the debt will be passed down to our grandchildren. What our grandchildren should really be afraid of, is being passed down rotting infrastructure, horrid schools, a weak military, deficient scientific research and development, bursting water and gas mains, crumbling bridges and broken roads, ad nauseum. And when our grandchildren are plummeting into the waters as bridges collapse, will the politicians remind everyone that we did not saddle them with government debt?
The federal deficit = the net $ financial assets of the (global) economy, to the penny.
The fall off in the federal deficit represents an EQUAL REDUCTION in the addition to the stock of savings of $ net financial assets and income to the economy, and has been responsible for removing over 7% of real output from GDP over the past 2 years.
If deficit reduction exceeds the economy’s ‘borrowing to spend’ (that is, private sector borrowing beyond income-which is a not good in the long run!) it all goes into reverse. Automatic fiscal stabilizers work to reverse an expanding economy via their reduction of the federal deficit.
The entire federal debt is NOTHING MORE than a glorified ‘reserve drain’ that functions to support interest rates, and operationally has nothing to do with ‘funding’, and that ‘paying it off’ just means switching the same dollar balances at the Fed from what are called ‘securities accounts’ (treasury securities) to reserve accounts (like checking accounts), with NO GRANDCHILDREN OR TAXPAYERS IN SIGHT.
Budda May 20th, 2014 at 17:24
Fortunately/unfortunately money or lack of money IS the answer to many of our problems.
Budda May 20th, 2014 at 17:24
Fortunately/unfortunately money or lack of money IS the answer to many of our problems.
William May 20th, 2014 at 23:16
Hey c’mon, Republicans are working feverishly on problem solving. Didn’t they already introduce legislation, (52 times) that would repeal the ACA?
William May 20th, 2014 at 23:16
Hey c’mon, Republicans are working feverishly on problem solving. Didn’t they already introduce legislation, (52 times) that would repeal the ACA?
fancypants May 21st, 2014 at 00:38
Its nice how we go around the truth & why wallstreet doesn’t want manufacturing jobs here anymore. They make more $$$$$ when a 3rd world nation makes the product.
around and around we go..
fancypants May 21st, 2014 at 00:38
Its nice how we go around the truth & why wallstreet doesn’t want manufacturing jobs here anymore. They make more $$$$$ when a 3rd world nation makes the product.
around and around we go..