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Originally Posted by built4fun
Neither one of these two parties gives a shit about the citizens who pay the bill for their ignorant decisions. Until people stand up, make informed decisions about government and demand limited power in spending nothing will change. People are too worried about left andright to see that 95% of our representatives in government are cut from the same Progressive mold. It is a vicious cycle that will not end until our country is bankrupt!
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Exactly! I wholeheartedly agree.
I remember in high school, long before I had any real interest in politics, I was walking into some building when a reporter came up to me and asked my opinion on who was more at fault for the recent budget that had been passed in deficit - President Bush Sr, or Congress. I looked at her like she was stupid and replied both. Congress passed an unbalanced budget, and the President signed it. Thus it was 20 years ago, thus it remains to this day. The blame for our addiction to debt lies in any politician who votes for a budget that is not in balance, but even more so with the apathetic, disengaged voters who keep sending thieves to Washington who rob our children blind.
I stopped giving a flying fuck about which party did what, or who spent what, a long time ago. Every single President since FDR has left behind more debt after leaving office than we carried when they entered office. Even Eisenhower, who is the last President who ever paid down any of our debt, still accumulated more debt during his 8 years than he paid down.
Since 1936, there have been only 4 years in which we paid down any of our debt, the last year being 1956. Nearly SIXTY YEARS ago. We have had sixty long years of accumulating debt - in that 60 years we have had both Republican and Democratic Presidents, and Republican and Democrat controlled Congresses. None of whom ever did anything more than pay lip service to balancing the budget. I have a hunch that if I did some research, I could go back and find a campaign promise by every last one of them to reduce the deficit and/or balance the budget.
We haven't just been lied to for the last 4 years. Nor have we been lied to for the last 12 years. We've had 60 years of bullshit promises. We've been promised that if we raise taxes just a little, we can balance the budget. Taxes go up, and so does spending and the budget never gets balanced. We've been told that if we cut taxes, Congress will make corresponding spending cuts. Taxes go down, but spending never follows. And through it all, our spending increases like a freight train with no brakes.
Now our politicians tell us that we can't cut spending at all. Not by one penny. To do so would wreak havoc beyond our ability to comprehend. So great is our peril, that to even reduce the amount by which our spending increases could do what the Mayan calender could not - end civilization as we know it. Talk about the ultimate white flag of surrender. It would be nice if they would just openly admit that we are so addicted to our current cash cow system, that we are utterly incapable of weaning ourselves off it.
This issue isn't about Republicans or Democrats anymore. We've had enough of both to know that they are all talk and no action. It is time for the American people to wake up, start realizing that they have already mortgaged their children and grandchildren's futures, and start paying back what we have stolen.
We could blame our own parents and grandparents if we want to, but what good will it do? When you find yourself in a hole, arguing about how you got there won't do you any good. The first priority is to get the hell out of the hole THEN worry about who put you there in the first place.
Every American should study this link, then ask themselves who is really responsible for our debt addiction. The answer isn't Democrats, and it isn't Republicans. It is US:
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/r...t/histdebt.htm
