If Obama learned anything from 2010, it’s that despite his efforts to do deals with the GOP, they had no interest in helping him. Instead of doing what was right for their country and at least offer alternative proposals, they went around the country and told people about death panels, socialism, bankruptcy and internment camps, which is wildly dishonest at best.
Politics is a rough game and those who publicly wish to see you fail, and I don’t mean Rush’s comments, I mean Mitch McConnel’s, will stop at nothing to ruin your chances, even at the expense of their own country. The best way to combat this strategy is to call them out and paint a vision of two countries.
This really is a choice about two futures. A nation that believes in investing in its future and in its present in the tradition of the past (the programs the Democrats created that helped build this nation into a super power). Roads, bridges, universities, schools, clean energy, mass transit are all being built in India and China as we speak, just as we once did. A Nation that believes in the quality of its people that doesn’t see them as consumers, yet partners in the American Dream.
Or a nation that thinks taxing rich people is a greater sin then taxing the middle class. That public schools are failing (underfunded schools do) so let them die. Roads are crumbling so turn them into toll roads. Privatized military, privatized social-security and medicare and cities left to the urban blight of Detroit. Where will the jobs go when US population is too ignorant to staff them, too unhealthy to work them and too poor to buy its products?
Somewhere that does invest in its people.
We do have a choice in this country and it doesn’t involve ideology. It involves whether or not we believe in our future enough to make a difference. If we paid for WWII, which was more then double the debt as percentage of GDP that we currently face, then we will be fine.
I know I’m tired of hearing about doomsday and Greece and I believe in the American system. Does anyone else here still believe that America still works?
Some see the American Dream as being that of Bill Gates or the Waltons, not me. I see a society where we all have a fair chance at earning a good living, at providing a good home for our children and enjoying a meaningful and productive life. Is that really so much to ask for?