You know, MS58, you teapartiers are partly right except for one major thing: The government is NOT the problem. The problem is the corruption of our government by corporations and the wealthy.
The Koch Brothers’ funded Tea Party will do their bidding and reduce taxes on the rich and screw the poor. Don’t pretend it is anything more than it is: it’s no new movement. It is the old, mostly white, mostly male, hard core of the old Republican Party with more marketing.
“He spent three years on healthcare reform legislation that two out of three Americans do not want…
I wonder if its because people don’t understand what it is (as is the case) or if its right wingers spreading misinformation (as is also the case).
”We are over-regulated, over-taxed, overwhelmed and under- represented as a people"
Taxes have been the lowest since the great depression, regulations have been so laxed that we had a housing crisis, a financial crisis, and a jobs crisis as a result, and we have privatized the way we set up our elections. Why is it that you guys can’t see what’s happening around you? These have been problems long before Obama took office, yet you guys can’t say anything other than its his fault.
The reason the government doesn’t work properly is that one of the parties doesn’t want it to work properly. I’ve never understood voting for someone who says they can’t do anything.
Who is holding up a continuing resolution and the budget over a single program and unwilling to negotiate any postion other than full funding…? Which party refuses to put Obamacare on hold for a year even after that same party handed out waivers to political supporters like party favors?
I don’t see this being a Republican problem but rather a Democrat one.
Let’s assume for a moment that the Tea Party sincerely believes that the ACA is a threat to the ‘rugged individualism’ that is part of our national DNA. I disagree, but I think of them as misinformed and mislead, not as traitors. I prefer to leave that kind of smear to the Ann Coulters of the world.
It’s just ‘way too easy to pin the blame for the dysfunction of our bloated government on the vague, nebulous an’ unnamed anonymous ‘corporations and the wealthy.’Get real. Although they prefer to remain anonymous by hiding behind 501( c)4 entities, it’s pretty obvious that there is a small group of people who have a much bigger voice than most. I’ll even admit that they’re not all conservatives.
He spent three years on healthcare reform legislation that two out of three Americans do not want…The polls were very clear on this: the majority wanted some kind of health care reform in 2009. http://www.gallup.com/poll/121664/majority-favors-healthcare-reform-this-year.aspxhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/health/policy/21poll.htmlhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/20/new-poll-77-percent-suppo_n_264375.html
“this is NOT our Founding Fathers’ America!” Absolutely correct. Their America was an agrarian, horse-powered nation of 4,000,000 people, more of whom were chattel slaves than were entitled to vote. Today we are an industrialized nation of 320,000,000, the vast majority of whom are freer, healthier, longer-lived, safer, and wealthier than we were in 1790. The big problem is that all those advances and improvements are unjustly distributed. Perhaps the voters are under-represented, compared to 1790, because there are 200 times as many voters as there were then. Do you think a House of Representatives with 10,000 members would be an improvement? You would not want to live with the social system or the medicine or even the diet of 1790. What makes you think you want anything like the government of 1790?
eepatt over 10 years ago
You know, MS58, you teapartiers are partly right except for one major thing: The government is NOT the problem. The problem is the corruption of our government by corporations and the wealthy.
Motivemagus over 10 years ago
The Koch Brothers’ funded Tea Party will do their bidding and reduce taxes on the rich and screw the poor. Don’t pretend it is anything more than it is: it’s no new movement. It is the old, mostly white, mostly male, hard core of the old Republican Party with more marketing.
d_legendary1 over 10 years ago
“He spent three years on healthcare reform legislation that two out of three Americans do not want…
I wonder if its because people don’t understand what it is (as is the case) or if its right wingers spreading misinformation (as is also the case).
”We are over-regulated, over-taxed, overwhelmed and under- represented as a people"
Taxes have been the lowest since the great depression, regulations have been so laxed that we had a housing crisis, a financial crisis, and a jobs crisis as a result, and we have privatized the way we set up our elections. Why is it that you guys can’t see what’s happening around you? These have been problems long before Obama took office, yet you guys can’t say anything other than its his fault.
jazzmoose over 10 years ago
The reason the government doesn’t work properly is that one of the parties doesn’t want it to work properly. I’ve never understood voting for someone who says they can’t do anything.
Enoki over 10 years ago
Who is holding up a continuing resolution and the budget over a single program and unwilling to negotiate any postion other than full funding…? Which party refuses to put Obamacare on hold for a year even after that same party handed out waivers to political supporters like party favors?
I don’t see this being a Republican problem but rather a Democrat one.
Uncle Joe Premium Member over 10 years ago
I know you can come up with better comments than 5th grade insults.
Uncle Joe Premium Member over 10 years ago
Let’s assume for a moment that the Tea Party sincerely believes that the ACA is a threat to the ‘rugged individualism’ that is part of our national DNA. I disagree, but I think of them as misinformed and mislead, not as traitors. I prefer to leave that kind of smear to the Ann Coulters of the world.
Uncle Joe Premium Member over 10 years ago
It’s just ‘way too easy to pin the blame for the dysfunction of our bloated government on the vague, nebulous an’ unnamed anonymous ‘corporations and the wealthy.’Get real. Although they prefer to remain anonymous by hiding behind 501( c)4 entities, it’s pretty obvious that there is a small group of people who have a much bigger voice than most. I’ll even admit that they’re not all conservatives.
ARodney over 10 years ago
You lie. The government has gotten a lot smaller since Obama took charge, and it’s been very, very bad for the economy.
Uncle Joe Premium Member over 10 years ago
He spent three years on healthcare reform legislation that two out of three Americans do not want…The polls were very clear on this: the majority wanted some kind of health care reform in 2009. http://www.gallup.com/poll/121664/majority-favors-healthcare-reform-this-year.aspxhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/health/policy/21poll.htmlhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/20/new-poll-77-percent-suppo_n_264375.html
Doughfoot over 10 years ago
“this is NOT our Founding Fathers’ America!” Absolutely correct. Their America was an agrarian, horse-powered nation of 4,000,000 people, more of whom were chattel slaves than were entitled to vote. Today we are an industrialized nation of 320,000,000, the vast majority of whom are freer, healthier, longer-lived, safer, and wealthier than we were in 1790. The big problem is that all those advances and improvements are unjustly distributed. Perhaps the voters are under-represented, compared to 1790, because there are 200 times as many voters as there were then. Do you think a House of Representatives with 10,000 members would be an improvement? You would not want to live with the social system or the medicine or even the diet of 1790. What makes you think you want anything like the government of 1790?
frodo1008 over 10 years ago
Oh, that was such an intellectual response!!