Democrats Are Destroying America By Turning It Into Greece
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Roger L. Simon, another former Democrat, has an insightful look into what the Democrats in this country and doing to our future. Greece is what we have to look forward to. From Pajamas Media:
What is wrong with the Democratic Party?
I used to be a Democrat — for decades. Was it always this bad? Was I that blind?
Well, maybe. But the situation now is drastic. The United States of America has never been in worse shape — foreign or domestic — not since the Civil War anyway. We are en route to being a pathetic, powerless, overblown Greece, but unlike Greece there is no one who can bail us out. We’re too big. We’ll bring everyone else down with us — those left anyway — in an economic Samson Option.
Yet to the Democrats — and their bizarrely compliant media — it’s business as usual. According to such solons of big journalism as CNN’s John King, the Dems main aim is and should be retaking the Congress with the same methods they have used for years – blocking spending cuts, accusing Republicans of excessive greed, and catering to unions and reactionary race-based interests groups.
Hello, Planet Earth. I understand power politics up to a point. In some ways it may even be useful. But this is ridiculous.
Why can’t these people wake up? Don’t they have children, grandchildren? Don’t they realize we are going broke? The evidence is everywhere — from Michigan to Madrid. Keynesian economics — the welfare state itself — has become completely inoperative, morphed into a Ponzi scheme by an aging population.
You can pretend that’s not true. You can put your fingers in your ears and wait for it all to go away. You can recite the mantra about taxing the rich until you drop, blame Bush until he’s a figment of our memory more distant than William Henry Harrison, or pledge your allegiance to Gaia while circling the globe in a solar-powered Lear jet. But the reality remains.
(By the way, if you taxed the rich at a hundred percent, it would only push back our bankruptcy from entitlement programs a year, possibly two.)
So what exactly is wrong with the Democratic Party and its constituents? I know change is difficult, that breaking with old ideas — as the Maoists would say — can be painful, and that few of us like to admit we were wrong, but do we have to wait for bread lines?
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It's obvious this guy doesn't know what he's talking about. It would be very hard for the US to go broke, because, unlike Greece, we can print our own money. The downside to that is, of course, inflation. To compare what happened in Greece to what might happen in the US is like comparing apples to kiwi fruit. In other words, not helpful, unless your goal is to incite fear through half-baked innuendos and half-truths.
We can print our own money is your answer? Really…..
the answer to our problems are:
1. Give everyone a break by not paying the social security tax (who cares about seniors and social security anyway)
2. Extend unemployment benefits so that the privileged unemployeed will not look for jobs and will let the illegal immigrants get the jobs.
3. Spend money on the new age technology like wind mills, the smart grid, electric cars.
4. Shut down all of those power plants.
5. New idea – give everyone a tax credit to buy a bicycle and encourage everyone ride a bike to work.
6. Let's make all grocery store workers government employees. That way we make sure everyone gets a fair share
7. We can solve our oil and gas problems by giving out gas stamps like food stamps. Only the poor get the stamps and you can only buy gas with stamps. That way the poor can make a living selling stamps to the rest of us.
You see how easy it would be to solve our problems.
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