Habenero

The problems America faces really are a result of stupidity.

Dumb people chose our president by voting for the guy they think is most like them. Just because Bush was the guy they’d most like to have a beer with, the fact that he bankrupted 2 oil companies in Texas (an oil rich state) due to his incompetence was overlooked. His goal from day one has always been about getting as much money for himself and his friends from the stupid tax payers as possible.

Lets look at how sports arenas are now built. The team owners threaten to leave a city unless the city builds them a new stadium. The city council members often cave into these jackals (I suspect they are bought off) and give them lucrative deals that make it impossible for the city itself to make any money from the stadium itself. The city pays for the stadium and its upkeep, lets the team owners have the concession, parking, and most of the ticket revenue and the stadium is rarely used for anything else without giving most of that revenue to the team owner as well. By the time the stadium is paid for, the team owners will demand a new one due to the age of the old one.

There are many that claim to want change but continue to vote for the incumbents. It is almost always a case of your incumbent is bad, but mine is OK that rules in the voting booth. Congress has a very low rating, but my Congressman is not part of the problem. Try thinking, if congress is bad, all congressmen should be replaced, including yours!

Single issue voters are the biggest idiots out there. If the person running is decent in most respects and has promoted good fiscal policies, but is pro choice, isn’t he a better choice to be given the purse strings than the antiabortion guy that has a reputation for reckless financial choices? Then again, many of the morons in the anti-abortion crowd are for the death penalty. What part of being pro life justifies this? Doesn’t your bible say “Thou shalt not kill.”? If so, I don’t see any loophole that says that you can kill if the other person has done bad things, it is only a 4 word commandment. No wiggle room seems to be included.

Think carefully, if the 95% of Americans earn less than $250,000 aren’t they going to have more money to spend if their taxes are cut? Is the country going to prosper if the majority of the residents has more money to spend? Consumer spending is the engine that built the economic engine of the country. We didn’t prosper because the rich people bought all the cars and houses. We prospered because the middle class had extra income and spent it.

Reaganomics, has been doomed from the outset. The rich do not spend enough to keep the country afloat. There are too few of them. For capitalism to work properly, you need a broad market. If too few people can buy your products or services, you can’t sell them. If more and more of the wealth goes into the hands of fewer and fewer people, there is not going to be enough demand to drive the economy.

Under liberal government policies, the rich bear a larger tax burden. This places more spendable income into the hands of more people. Many of them spend and the economy prospers. If you place more dollars into the hands of fewer people, you cut off the economic engine of the country, and throughout our history, liberal politics increased our prosperity.

If you are dumb enough to vote for the “Deregulator General” and his fundamentalist fool, you may as well plead for them to provide some lube before they ream you. You won’t be getting any mercy from them. The only option this country has for now is to elect Obama because at least then the economy can start to recover from the disaster Reagan’s policies has caused.