Reading that last post I made I do kinda think it was uncharacteristically mean of me, but I guess I’ve gotten pretty bitter since the second Obama was elected all I hear the conservatives in my class do is sit there talking shit about Obama and about how Americans are so stupid–and even then I *still* don’t think it’s all conservatives who are out of their cotton picking minds I just think it’s the elected ones and the ones on the radio. This is even though my own conservative friends make passive aggressive comments about completely sugar-coated things I say. I still am hesitant just to write a whole lot of people off.
I did make a sarcastic comment in response to the person who responded to my last post, although thinking about it–I do believe giving money to education and infrastructure will create jobs which will help the economy a lot more than cutting everyone checks. I do think this is something that people could reasonably disagree about. Seeing how many university and school jobs have been cut and are likely to be cut in the future, and how many people in the construction industry are hurting, I think funding these things is important. I think people will stash money under their mattresses rather than spend it until the unemployment rate stops going up. I think taking control of the funding rather than throwing it at banks, using it directly in industries that can’t spend the money on jumbo jets, like universities and public infrastructure, is exactly the way to go. Despite this belief, I may disagree with the person who commented on that, but I don’t think my belief on this is the gospel. If something else will work better, then go for it.
I don’t think, though, that the GOP right now really is acting the way they are because they don’t think that bill is in the best interest of Americans. I really, really don’t. The fact that they seem to still be pushing policies predicated on the trickle-down economics principle is totally baffling to me. The person who commented might not agree with the stimulus as is but at least he or she wasn’t pushing [i]that[/i].
By the way, all of this “companies receiving stimulus money spending it on jumbo jets and spa packages” crap makes me think I’m living in the friggin’ Twilight Zone. It’s just surreal!
Anyway, time to do more school work.
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Anyone who pays attention to the news right now knows Rush Limbaugh has been particularly insane-o right now, and has even admitted that the American people don’t matter and this administration needs to fail so republicans can be back in power.
His cohorts in elected office pretty much have his back and have had his back in interviews.
Yet somehow Obama and other democrats have not realized that they could write a stimulus package which provided a gun for every American, that got rid of taxes completely for anyone making over 200k and raised them for all of the freeloading Americans making less than that, abolished welfare, forbade women from having jobs and forced them to be pregnant every time possible, made it legal to hang gay people, sent all minorities to an island somewhere, gave every CEO in the U.S. a $5,000,000 bonus–essentially a Republican wet dream–and they STILL wouldn’t vote for it, out of spite.
Good job excising the stuff about contraception for low income women and providing for fewer taxes for “fuck Americans in the assville” in order to concede to Republicans and then not getting one vote because of it. Good fucking job. I’m golfclapping as hard as I can for you dumbshits right now.
I guess I shouldn’t be so harsh. I mean, you look at another human being and assume he or she is capable of at least marginally logical and intelligent thought. I mean there’s got to at least be a couple of Republicans out there in Congress who care about getting the nation back on its feet, right? A couple? At least? Well, consider this an experiment, and the results came up with a big fat “no, there aren’t any” and we can go from there.
I’m sure since Obama doesn’t want to do what Republicans do, which is point and laugh at the party on the political outs and thumb their noses at them and start marginalizing them as soon as possible, that’s why this is happening.
You’d think, though, that politicians backing up a dude who says Republicans are only expected to support the president because he’s black, during said president’s first week in office, after Democrats were practically branded terrorists for not doing the same for Dumbo after he whipped out his political Tabasco bottle and dashed pepper into the eyes of the nation, this would HELP them to come to the realization that Republicans in elected office right now are just batshit insane hypocrites. Or maybe geniuses, I don’t know, since they seem to be able to convince people that dogs are cats and tacos are escargot.
I’m just annoyed that “Change” apparently entails still acting like beaten dogs and conceding to the demands of “we still think trickle down economics works, despite evidence to the contrary” Republicans.
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