GOP 2012: Let Us Get Rid Of Medicare, Social Security And Public Schools For You! (Part 2)
by Dave Bradley
Several years back while reading DailyKos, I came across this paragraph in a diary on the economy of the Bush regime. It was late 2005 and cracks were already beginning to appear in the façade of a well-run economy: (Sorry I have lost the source over years).
Consider this statement and then look back at economic policy since Reagan. Republicans have been burning through money like a drunken frat boy, Democrats trying to rebuild a sound, diverse economy. And since FDR we have seen Democrats building insurance-like programs to help all Americans when times may go bad. Think of things like unemployment insurance, various agricultural programs, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, disaster relief, bank failure and many more. Programs set up for the most part by Democratic congresses and administrations to smooth out the economy and the individual pain when things go wrong – which is inevitable.
The simple idea is that we tax ourselves when times are good and tuck it away to be used when times go bad. Geez, seems like a damned good idea for a family or a country.
On the other hand, we have a group that wants to spend every nickel they can, like a kid at college and away from his parents for the first time. And dad gave this kid the credit card, so if he doesn’t have money, he charges it on old dad. When he runs through the credit card, he raids the savings accounts and starts borrowing at high rates. One only need look at the debts run up by Reagan, Bush and Bush to see examples.
And they really, really want to burn through savings accounts, especially the big ones – Social Security and Medicare.
Just like any flim-flam man, the Republican Party has all sorts of ways of talking you and I out of our savings. But it is not just our savings, it is our children’s and grand-children’s. Yet they continue to wear their victims down with promises of getting rich quick if we just give them our money. Hopefully, we learned some lessons from the crash that created the Bush Depression.
They have already run us wildly into debt. We can’t let them burn through our savings also. And we definitely need to stop any Democrats from helping them in their theft.
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Dave Bradley is a self-described
retired observer of American politics “trying to figure out how we got
so screwed up.” An
Iowa City native currently living in West Liberty, Dave and his wife
Carol have two grown children who “sadly had to leave the state to find
decent paying jobs.“
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