Bye Bye GOP!

[Joanne98]

Listening these days to GOP leaders describing passionately the remedy to our economic woes is stunning exercise in illusion, amnesia and group madness. Their devised plan to address all our personal and national problems consists of two words “cutting taxes.”


While, the few well recognized -republican representatives- left in congress, show their frustration with the proposed stimulus package consisting of both tax cuts and government spending, they explain in unyielding voices that tax cuts are the sole engine behind growth, wealth, and job creation. They talk confidently about the role of small businesses, the entrepreneurial spirit of the unregulated economy, and the future negative impact of the spiral deficit. The representatives then explain to us their role as guardians of the taxpayers’ money, and their obligation to reject all government spending, because government spending is always waste.


As I listen to the same tried and failed proposals, argued by conservative leaders I ponder a simple question. What is the future of the Republican Party in our country?


Less than two weeks ago, we completed eight years of tax cuts and unregulated markets.


America lost over three million jobs in the last year alone; the GDP shrunk by annual rate of 3.8%, the largest loss in Growth Domestic Product in twenty-seven years. The credit seized to exist, the housing market collapsed, the stock market lost 40% of its value, and the budget surplus turned into a deficit, while the same representatives applauded the government idiotic moves that produced these catastrophic results.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Bye-Bye-GOP-by-sameh-abdelaziz-090201-815.html

[Moostache]

1. You think a Small thing like "FACTS" matters to them?

Ha!

These are the same people who believe Reagan should be on Rushmore, that GHWB was a fine and decent public servant and that GWB will be exonerated by history!

Delusional is not even enough to describe their collective psychosis!

[Joanne98]

4. NO! "Facts are subversive things" Ronald Raygun!

[Jim__]

2. "Less than two weeks ago, we completed eight years of tax cuts and unregulated markets. "

Don't you see? The reason they didn't work is that they weren't big enough. If we just make one more set of tax cuts peace and prosperity will break out all over. Liberals always see things from the static point of view. You need the dynamic point of view.

And, yes ... :sarcasm:

[Warpy]

3. The problem is that they always come back

because theirs is an emotionally based belief system, the belief that the economy runs from the top down, probably left over from the days of monarchy.

Opinion can always be changed by presenting new facts. There is not much you can do about a belief system except hope it's crushed by adverse events to the point that the adherents to it shut up and go away for a while.

That's why it's as impossible to kill bad ideas as it is to kill good ones.

It's why the conservatives will always be back when we've forgotten what they did to us the last time they gained power.

[MasonJar]

5. The PUGs must be the world's hardest heads!

[OwnedByFerrets]

6. They had EIGHT long years (one could argue many more) to

improve the economy with their "ideas". They failed more than miserably. Nothing they say should get a moment of respect.